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David Carey
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posted 04-30-2016 02:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for David Carey   Click Here to Email David Carey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
C'mon, who doesn't like pictures of spacecraft cockpits?!

Still a 'switches and meters' guy myself but a nice comparison and chronology.

space1
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posted 04-30-2016 03:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for space1   Click Here to Email space1     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very cool.

One critique: the fish-eye Gemini control panel photo is reversed. But then there is another interior photo, a post-recovery photo of Gemini 3, which I had never seen before.

BA002
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posted 04-30-2016 04:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BA002   Click Here to Email BA002     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The picture of the Dream Chaser's cockpit is obviously taken in a Boeing aircraft or sim. I suspect a 767, with some modifications.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-30-2016 04:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is the Dream Chaser simulator.

What Gizmodo pictures is a simulator in the Cockpit Motion Facility at NASA's Langley Research Center that can be reconfigured for any number of vehicles, including the Dream Chaser.

SpaceAholic
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posted 04-30-2016 05:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceAholic   Click Here to Email SpaceAholic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
None of the newer cockpits have "Service Engine Soon" idiot lights yet so there is still a bit of evolution remaining.

bklyn55
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posted 04-30-2016 05:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bklyn55   Click Here to Email bklyn55     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Why do the antenna on early Russian spacecraft look like big bent paperclips?

David Carey
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posted 05-01-2016 08:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for David Carey   Click Here to Email David Carey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I suspect the paper-clippish things are "trombone antennas," discussed further here.

As I understand it they provide a folded structure which can be tuned (adjusted along the "slide" for a length change) for best radio performance (receive sensitivity, transmit-efficiency, RF impedance-match, etc.).

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