And Captain: It is the Enterprise!
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Whole Set:
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It was freakin’ awesome! Of course, I wish I had a bigger faster lens, but unless you are in a chase plane, you aren’t getting the REAL good shots.
So awesome. I’m envious. I hope to do nearly as well with my ventures in the next month or two. That 2nd shot needs to be submitted to space.com, spaceweather.com, and any newspaper site that you can think of. Go get some publicity!
so jealous. I didn’t hear about Discovery landing in DC until I was in the car on the way to work while it was going on. Even if I hadn’t had to work, I wouldn’t have gotten close enough to see it in time.
I missed it when it landed here a few years back (the local field was an alternate landing site for piggy-back stops when Edwards was used). I’ll never get a chance now! 😆
Nice shots! And hell yeah, pimp some of that! 😉
I’ll bet it was awesome. Nice shots.
And now to show my age a bit – I’ve got a shot (on the ground) of the Enterprise/747 combo from back when it was first built as a prototype for the other shuttles. I should dig that out sometime and scan it. I remember looking at it through the airport fence when I took the shot and thinking how cool it was, and now the whole program is retired.
^ citation needed 😆
ohpleasepleasepleaseplease scan and post…
^ citation needed 😆
ohpleasepleasepleaseplease scan and post…
I’ll see what I can do. Scanning and posting is the easy part – finding it is the trick.
Somewhere I have a photo of the Enterprise (fairly sure it was the Enterprise) landing after a non-orbital test flight. Had it hung in my bedroom at home for years before I moved out. I don’t think this is the exact frame, but looks very similar:
Man, I think I was 13 when that happened… look at that glorious late-70’s color LOL and the ever-present T-38 chase planes that were everywhere with the shuttle.
The drop tests off the 747 were big news back in the day. I never noticed before, but they rebuilt the nose…
^ citation needed 😆
ohpleasepleasepleaseplease scan and post…
I’ll see what I can do. Scanning and posting is the easy part – finding it is the trick.
Found it. It wasn’t in great shape, but I’m going retro and entering it tonight. Larger version here if anyone’s interested. Taken August 12, 1979 at the Tulsa airport.
Wow. I was just about to start 10th grade and had just seen the ‘Dacks for the first time. Skylab had just come home, as it were. We still had the original Battlestar Galactica on TV. That was pre- Raiders of the Lost Ark, even! 😆
Awesome CISS, how old were you and what camera were you using?
Thanks fluffy. I’m not so sure how awesome the photo itself is, but awesome/awestruck accurately describes my experience at the time for sure.
August 12 of ’79 would’ve been exactly 4 months after my 16th birthday; I was just about to start my senior year. I had received a Nikkormat (my first “big boy” camera) for Christmas the previous year and I believe that shot is taken with the 50mm F/1.4 lens that came with the camera.
At that point in time, I hadn’t yet found out that I had scoliosis, so as far as I knew, I was going to the Naval Academy to become a pilot after graduation and maybe even eventually get an up close and personal look at this new shuttle they were touting as the future of space travel.
These are so cool. I have a picture of me, 1974-5 I was maybe 5-6, at the (IIRC?) Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL. Me and my brothers are looking at a prototype shuttle model, complete with this humongous cone point, that eventually was removed from the design. I remember that January morning walking to school, senior year, and having KZZP actually break in from the middle of a song to announce that something terrible had happened; it was a quiet school day as we got updates.
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