posted 07-23-2011 07:59 AM            

Is it possible to see the entire presentation?

Do similar presentations have been presented for the Discovery and Endeavour orbiters? All info is welcome. Thank you for assistance.

By the way, here are from the Orlando Sentinel:

• Space Shuttle Atlantis missions patches,
  
• Space Shuttle Discovery missions patches
  
• Space Shuttle Endeavour missions patches

posted 07-23-2011 08:06 AM               

Foster posted a short video of some of the Atlantis presentation to his Facebook page (you need to be logged into Facebook to view).

posted 08-22-2011 10:29 AM               

After each successful Space Shuttle flight, the big screen at Mission Control in Houston displayed a "Welcome Home" graphic. They normally played in the background while the flight control team took a few moments to exchange congratulations after the days and weeks of intense work that each mission required. I supplied that graphic for many of the later flights of the shuttle program.

The final three flights were especially significant, as they were the final missions of Space Shuttles Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis. For those flights, I made "wallpaper" animation loops that displayed each of the mission patches for each orbiter's voyages.

These were fun to do, but those final three were especially poignant, as each marked the retirement of a storied spaceship that had carried men and women into the final frontier and returned them safely to mother Earth.