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Topic: Wings of Dreams (Starke, Fla.): Shuttle artifacts
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 26658
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-24-2013 11:03 PM
   
collectSPACE Space shuttle external fuel tank, astronaut mover on barge for Florida museumThe last of the space shuttle's massive orange external fuel tanks located at NASA's Florida launch site left Kennedy Space Center by barge on Wednesday (April 24) — but it's not going very far. The 154-foot-long (47-meters) external tank, one of the shuttle program's original test articles that for years was displayed at Kennedy's visitor complex, departed the spaceport for the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum at the Keystone Heights Airport in Starke, Fla., about an hour southeast of Jacksonville. ...the tank, along with several other large shuttle artifacts including a nose cone and aft skirt of a solid rocket booster and the crew transport vehicle that astronauts rode in after landing the shuttle at Kennedy, were making the first leg of their journey to the Wings of Dreams by water, before embarking on a still-to-be-scheduled 55-mile (88.5-kilometer) road trip to the museum.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 26658
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-24-2013 11:06 PM
The Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum has been awarded more than 40 space shuttle artifacts, including: - Shuttle Guidance and Navigation Simulator (GNS)
- Space Shuttle External Tank
- Hubble Mock-Up
- External Tank Transporters (2)
- Payload Bay Door Trainer
- Crew Escape Pole Trainer
- Launch pad escape basket
- Apollo life support umbilical
- Apollo wrenches (23)
- Shuttle flight pallet
- Shuttle tire – nose & main
- Astronaut dehydrated food
- Main wheel assembly
- Fuel cell heat exchanger
- Crew transporter vehicle
- Scissor lift destow truck
- DC power supply assembly
- Solid Rocket Booster Aft Skirt
- Solid Rocket Booster Frustum
- Solid Rocket Booster Forward Skirt
- Solid Rocket Booster Main Parachute Canopy Assembly
- Shuttle Pilot Parachute Canopy Assembly
- Shuttle Drogue Parachute Canopy Assembly
- Thermal protection system inspection step stool
- Orbiter Processing Facility Clean Room with autographs
- Orbiter Horizontal Access Tunnel
- Triana Satellite Gyroscopic Upper Stage (GUS) Mockup
- Triana Satellite Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) Mockup
- Apollo horizon sensor system
- Shuttle chamber assembly OMS engine
- Orbiter main/nose landing gear wheel and brake assembly
- Orbiter crew hatch access vehicle
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RISPACE
Member Posts: 51
From: Warwick, RI USA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 04-25-2013 08:14 AM
Was the External Tank stored at the VAB since November? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 26658
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-25-2013 08:28 AM
No, it was held at the surplus yard on Ransom Road located near Space Commerce Way and State Road 3. |
p51
Member Posts: 684
From: Olympia, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 04-25-2013 03:19 PM
Geez, I'd never even heard of this place and I grew up in North Florida. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 26658
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-25-2013 03:23 PM
The museum is relatively new, having only been established in 2005. They do not yet have any exhibit buildings (they previously had a hangar at the airport but it was needed for other purposes). They have organized a few air shows though, and are gearing up quickly to start displaying the aviation and space artifacts in their collection. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 2008
From: Toms River, NJ,USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-26-2013 11:52 AM
Were there uncompleted ETs (for three shuttle missions) at the end of the shuttle program, or did I imagine/misread something? |
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