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6.2. Space Shuttle Part2
6.2. Space Shuttle Part2
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Shuttle – Cutaway
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Shuttle – Overall view of habitable compartments
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Shuttle – Flight deck
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Jon Brack
Space Mission Design and Operations
Shuttle – Cockpit
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Shuttle – Food preparation
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Shuttle – Waste Collection System
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Shuttle – Airlock
Inhabited area when spacewalk in order to go out and come back in the Space
Shuttle.
There are two stations for the two space suits.
The pressure in the airlock could be evacuated using a control system,
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Space Mission Design and Operations
6.2.4 Space Shuttle: From countdown to orbit
Space Mission Design and Operations
Prof. Claude Nicollier
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Before launch
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In the White Room
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In the Flight Deck
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In the Mid Deck
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Launch sequence
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In orbit
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In orbit
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Space Mission Design and Operations
6.2.5 Space Shuttle: From orbit to post landing
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In orbit
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In orbit
STS-46, in 1992.
Switches are guarded to
prevent position change by
inadvertent actuation.
Velcro patches to fix
objects
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In orbit
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Crew getting ready for reentry
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Reentry
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Shuttle reentry seen from ISS
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Space Mission Design and Operations
On the steep glide slope
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Landing
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Houston MCC during the landing phase
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)
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Space Mission Design and Operations
In the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)
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Space Mission Design and Operations
Last landing of the Space Shuttle (Atlantis) – July 21, 2011