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Topic: Distant views of space shuttles in orbit
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LM-12
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posted 05-27-2017 12:37 PM
  
The space shuttle Challenger can be see at a distance in this STS-7 photo taken in 1983. There have been several similar photos of Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour taken on later flights.Has a similar photo of the shuttle Columbia ever been taken? |
LM-12
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posted 05-27-2017 08:04 PM
There are these two STS-87 Columbia video clips of and from the AERCam Sprint released during the second EVA. |
LM-12
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posted 05-30-2017 12:43 AM
IMAX view from ORFEUS-SPAS of STS-51 Discovery in orbit.There is also some footage of Discovery at 5:15 and an orbiter maneuver at 5:50 into this STS-51 Post Flight Presentation film. The film "Destiny in Space" has IMAX footage of Discovery in orbit on STS-51. |
OV-105
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posted 05-30-2017 12:54 AM
There was also photos of Atlantis during undocking from Mir durring STS-71. |
LM-12
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posted 05-30-2017 02:10 AM
STS071-S-072 is one of them: This view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia's Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 Commander and Flight Engineer, respectively, temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around. They took pictures while the STS-71 crew, with Mir-18's three crew members aboard, undocked Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities. Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS-71 ascent trip of Atlantis. |
LM-12
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posted 05-30-2017 02:31 AM
There is some film footage of the Soyuz fly-around, Atlantis undocking from Mir and then Soyuz docking to Mir.
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LM-12
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posted 05-30-2017 12:45 PM
Here are photos 71h074 and 71h075 showing STS-71 Atlantis just after the orbiter undocked from Mir.
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LM-12
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posted 06-01-2017 02:42 AM
On STS-7, the distant views of Challenger in orbit were taken from the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS-01) released and later retrieved using the RMS.On STS-41B, the satellite was carried back into space (as SPAS-01A) but was not released because of a problem. The distant views of Challenger in orbit on STS-41B were taken on EVA-1 with cameras mounted on the MMU backpacks tested by Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart. |
mmcmurrey
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posted 06-01-2017 02:48 PM
Did NASA label the STS-7 distant view you refer too as S81 35801? |
LM-12
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posted 06-01-2017 09:05 PM
I have the NASA number as S83-35801, which shows Challenger above the Earth limb. S83-35802 shows Challenger below the Earth limb.I think 35802 was actually taken before 35801. |
LM-12
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posted 06-01-2017 09:57 PM
The STS-7 Challenger photo in the first post is 32-1702, according to the caption. I think it is actually photo 32-1701. |
mmcmurrey
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posted 06-02-2017 10:48 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
The STS-7 Challenger photo in the first post is 32-1702, according to the caption. I think it is actually photo 32-1701.
I'm sorry I posted S81-35801. Should have been S83-------. Whose numbering is 32-1701 and 32-1702? |
LM-12
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posted 06-02-2017 11:00 AM
Those are film magazine and frame numbers. You can often see those numbers on the border of raw, uncropped images.
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ELinder
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posted 06-03-2017 11:40 AM
Here is that first Challenger photo cleaned up as a 16x9 wallpaper. |
LM-12
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posted 06-03-2017 08:29 PM
Photo STS-41B-20-766 (taken during EVA-1) looks very similar.
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LM-12
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posted 06-05-2017 08:21 AM
This is a view of the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft from STS-71: View of the free-flying Soyuz spacecraft taken from the space shuttle Atlantis before its undocking with the Mir space station. |
ELinder
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posted 06-05-2017 09:11 AM
I can't find that image STS-41B-20-766. Where did you see it? |
LM-12
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posted 06-05-2017 09:28 AM
Here is photo STS-41B-20-766 which was taken by Bruce McCandless. Robert Stewart is in the payload bay on the starboard side near the EVA hatch. |
LM-12
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posted 06-06-2017 08:28 AM
STS-7 photo 32-1650 was on the cover of "Aviation Week & Space Technology" magazine on July 11, 1983. |
LM-12
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posted 06-07-2017 09:54 AM
Both the Soyuz and the shuttle Atlantis can be seen flying near the Mir space station in the STS-71 Flight Day 8 video file. |
LM-12
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posted 06-11-2017 12:48 PM
High-res photos of the shuttle Discovery flying near Mir on the STS-63 rendezvous mission are harder to find. |
LM-12
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posted 06-12-2017 10:35 AM
This nose down view of STS-76 Atlantis from Mir is a bit different.
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OV-105
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posted 06-12-2017 12:43 PM
The STS-76 looks almost like a orbiter pitch maneuver at the ISS. Nice to see the original markings in space like that. Too bad there was no shots of Columbia in orbit. |
LM-12
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posted 06-12-2017 01:05 PM
The SPACEHAB module can be seen in the payload bay. The shuttle was docked to the Mir space station during the STS-76 EVA. From the STS-76 press kit: All of the shuttle crew members will be in Atlantis' crew cabin for the duration of the spacewalk, and all Mir crew members, including Mir-21 crewmember astronaut Shannon Lucid, will be aboard the Mir. |
LM-12
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posted 06-13-2017 12:23 PM
All of the shuttle missions to Mir (except STS-84) did a flyaround of the space station after undocking. The STS-76 photo was taken after undocking. |
LM-12
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posted 06-13-2017 11:07 PM
There is AMOS (Air Force Maui Optical Site) imagery taken from the ground of STS-107 Columbia in orbit. The AMOS tests involved other shuttle missions also. |
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