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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 10, 2006
Description:
It just doesn't seem possible to capture the mass of this thing in a photograph. I sat on a bench beside the nose for quite a while, trying to take in how tall it is. The length seemed about right, but I hadn't been prepared for the height.
Date Taken:
May 10, 2006
Place Taken:
Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
SpaceShuttleEnterprise_0071.jpg - Photo HTML
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Category:
23, Max Pix
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Frank A. Carr - May 10,2006
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Don,<br />Your pix are great. While in NASA there was always the 'manned vs unmanned' tug of war (mostly for budget $$), and being of the 'unmanned' variety I was not a particular advocate of Shuttle. But have stood on the pad, underneath one mounted, vertical and ready for flight, my perspective changed a wee bit; what a behemouth! An engineering feat of colossal proportions! Then I was offered 20 minutes in the left seat of Atlantis (horizontally, in the VPF) which completed my transition. It's too bad our country doesn't have the stomach (or leadership?) to be flying them today. But you're right, the scale simply cannot conveyed by a camera. Have you been to the AIr & Space Museum proper yet?
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Don Maxwell - May 10,2006
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Frank, yes, I've been to the Museum proper, but not for about ten years.<br /><br />One thing about the U-H Center is that the admission is free, but it costs $12 to park your car. Why? One of the volunteers there told me that they were advised to charge at least as much to park there as the other local parking lots charge, so that commuters wouldn't fill up the museum lot and carpool into the city.
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