Go Inside NASA’s Atlantis Cockpit Powered Up for One of the Last Times in These Photos
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Inside Atlantis' cockpit all powered up. (Photo: collectSPACE/Robert Z. Pearlman)
Since you won‘t be able to sit in the cockpit of NASA’s Atlantis space shuttle while its on display in the Kennedy Space Center till the end of 2012, here are some insider photos. Astronauts operated all these buttons and switches until the shuttle program ended earlier this year.
collectSpace.com had the opportunity to to photograph the cockpit while the power was on for one of the last times.
(Photo: collectSPACE/Robert Z. Pearlman)
The Daily Mail reports that Atlantis took the place of Explorer in the Florida space center, which was on display for almost 20 years and will be moved to Space Center Houston. The Daily Mail notes that the Atlantis exhibit itself cost $100 million.
(Photo: collectSPACE/Robert Z. Pearlman)
(Photo: collectSPACE/Robert Z. Pearlman)
Last Friday, NASA also shut down the space shuttle Discovery for the last time. This shuttle, which Space.com reports is the oldest of NASA’s remaining orbiters, will be put on display at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.
See more images from collectSpace.com here.
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Comments (44)
ronaldreaganthegreat
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:13pmObamamao hates America. Vote the marxist POS out in 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:12pmAll ready to donate to Obamas MUSLIMS IN S P A C E program.
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on December 25, 2011 at 10:42amI’d love to see Muslims in space: with no space suits.
Report Post »If Allah wants to protect them then he will keep the safe.
ranchoazulmt
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:33pmWe now have to wait on the Russians for a ride to our Space Station? Who’s idea was this for such an American Icon (NASA).
Report Post »ronaldreaganthegreat
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:11pmObamamao did it. Boot the marxist pos out in 2012!
Report Post »Mercy2011
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:23pmIf you want to know WHY Obama dumped the space program and made NASA a pr representative for the Muslims….read “The Roots of Obama’s Rage”….you will SEE the REAL OBAMA and his plans for the America he hates!!!!!
Report Post »EastCarowick
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 3:30pmI remember watching Al Shepard go up on Freedom 7 in May of 1961. I turned my life around and made me began to try harder. What will inspire the youth of today ,… OWS?
Report Post »Arshloch
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:12pmAfter all the sucessful trips into space it fell to a political FOOL.
Report Post »Pokerjoe
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:22pmHow sad canit get? We have people who can build anything, But we also have people who will not do anything but try and do us in. If we could only stop most of the giveaways and start building for the present and future. We can do it AMERICA we only need the ledership and the will. We have the will but when we have no real leaders and I do mean leaders the will goes away. I will not vote for anyone who is in office the next time around. They all talk a good game. But this talk can only take yoy so far. They all try and pit us aganst each other. Real AMERICANS work togather. God bless AMERICA and MARRY CHRISTMAS.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:45pmThis is representative of where two paths had merged in human existence for a very brief period 50-2001 then diverged forever more. We are going backward and downward, no longer reaching for the stars but for a free meal, a government pension, a bottle of booze to keep warm with. Maybe from there we can start up again? Maybe.
Report Post »markeng
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:21pmThe collective national achievement of sending a man safely to the moon was the peak of exploration and space achieve for the United States. It was so significant that it will take the next nation 50 years to accomplish the same. And now sadly, we have declined to the point that we do not even have a manned space program. By any measure, this nation has been in steady decline since the 1970s. It is time for us to once again select true leaders with the national’s best interest rather than their own as a priority and move this nation ahead.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:47pmSelect leaders from the very declining society. The lost need leaders but the lost themselves need to find the truth about the laws of God. Then maybe they can be led. I‘m afraid we’ve had our run, from this point onward we are headed not up but down.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 11:40amWhat’s that red button?
It’s the History Erasure Button, YOU FOOL!
Report Post »Guitar Master
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 11:12amzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
THE REPORTER’S Take
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This is a small example of “the fundamental change of America!”
Bend over America !
But America is still half asleep – the other half of the time is spent eating Doritos, Ho Ho’s, hot dogs, pizza, grease soaked hamburgers and french fries, drinking beer, watching football, playing video games and generally getting fat.
Only a really stupid population would allow their country to degenerate into what it has become. In that category, Americans are the best !
Report Post »Lars Skipole
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 11:48amRight on!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:50pmI can still remember the days when we used to police our own actions and that of others. It died in 1980. Moral relativism caught on. Those anti God people declared God is dead and the age of man was now upon us. Our God given laws and scriptures were used against us to replace with human understanding. Thou shalt not judge was the rule of the day. Everyone shut up and those who did not got beat down by those who said, who are you to tell me how to live mylife. We’ve gotten more stupid from hence forth.
Report Post »TROONORTH
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 10:05amThat damned fool in the White House has surrendered the technological high ground to countries that couldn’t launch a hot air balloon when Armstrong walked on the moon. And now America must go, hat in hand, to the Russians to beg for a lift to the space station that America built. Disgusting.
A case could be built for retiring the shuttles programme. After all it was 40 year old technology and NASA was stuck in low earth orbit for far too long. The real crime is that stupid in the White House canceled the replacement programme too. He has doomed America to be a second rate ‘also ran’ in space as in so many other areas.
Let’s hope that the American people are smart enough to throw jug head and his huge wife, out onto the street where he can get back to organizing.
Report Post »jscottu
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 10:01amI love the idea of exploring space. BUT…BUT…we are BROKE, folks. And there is no, repeat, zero, constitutional authority for the federal government to explore space. Let the private sector do it.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 10:43amHistorically speaking, GOVERNMENTS have always started the exploration into new areas or ventures. Later on, entrepreneurs take over and greatly expand the access to and value of these new areas. We are seeing that now with the SpaceX launchers and the Dragon capsule which will not only provide less expensive cargo to the ISS but will be capable of carrying astronauts years sooner than NASA’s “Super Apollo” capsule. And in years to come, we’ll probably see commercial spaceplanes capable of taking visitors to orbit. Instead of killing the space program, Barry is a victim of unintended consequences and has unleashed the commercial market…..too bad, because he did truly want to kill off NASA too!
Report Post »Thomas Hargis
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:37amSad very sad. And the country was warned that OBAMA { A person that looks like a taxi cab going down the street with it’s doors open} LOL Would kill the american way and change our history and our way of thinking and look at this story. Our grandchildren will probably not even have a chapter about the space program in the history books. {When i get old enough to have grandchildren }
Report Post »All of that equipment and think of the brain power used to design it. All gone. GREAT JOB DUMBO (a.k.a Obama) YOU KILLED THE SPACE PROGRAM {IDIOT}
SouthSideLib
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:31pmBush ended the shuttle program, not Obama
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:00amBHO cancelled the replacement program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqVZUCRth0&t=7m14s
Report Post »Petri
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 8:40amIt’s just makes me sick that I was born at a point in time that included the Odevil
Report Post »GENE BLISTER
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:46pm“So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 2
I will not let The Mule or any of the evil he has created, unleashed or tolerated defeat us. His ilk has tainted us before – Wilson, The Roosevelts, Johnson, Nixon, Carter. Americans seem to always play things out to the absolute edge of the cliff, and a bit beyond – but this generation is awake now.
The Hollow Milk Chocolate Easter Bunny that is Obama has shown his hand and his heart enough that even the most sleepy, sedate and complacent can’t pretend anymore. This thing that is Obama too shall pass. Sic semper tyrannis.
Report Post »BlackAce41
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 7:35amIt is sad to think we use to build everything such is this Magnificent Flying machine. Now we don’t build anything at all.
Report Post »morecoffeeplease
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 8:14amI’m with you, God willing we will get some adult leadership in the Senate, and the White House and make gains in the Congress so we can turn this ship back on course and return to the energy based, manufacturing economy we had when I was a little guy, 35-40 years ago. New airplanes, rockets and driving for cross country vacations. The post Carter years were exciting and I think we all felt a little bit better.
To The Republic…
Report Post »dinokr
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:09amThe only good thing to come of this is that the private sector is stepping up in space vehicle exploration. But the direction we had as a nation is gone. We can’t ignore that Bush canceled the shuttle too early…before a replacement. And in my view it did not need canceling. The shuttles still worked and had many many missions left in them.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:18pmMORECOFFEEPLEASE, don’t you see, if we go back to driving across country than the airport Nazi‘s won’t be able to poke and prod and molest us anymore, think of all the money they would lose from selling our enhanced x-ray pics on the internet?
Report Post »NewLife56
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 6:55amIf it’s Obama in 2012…”To bodly never go, where no man will ever get to go”
But you can bet they will continue the new discoveries and research into abortions
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 6:35amYes they’ve had a hundred year plan to destroy this nation from within but they have kicked it into high gear. With this action they’ve forced us to fund the Russian Communist regime. Once again our liberals finding a way to funneling money to our enemies.
They’ve disassembled our manufacturing instinctually, as to prevent us from gearing up to another world war. Spreading us through out the world with these small wars weakening to the point we could not fare off a global attack. As we know China is gearing up, Russia has reinvigorated its Marxist Nationalism. We’ve seen the spread of Communist protest throughout Europe as they have allied with the Islamist revolutions as well as South American Marxist. It a perfect storm of Marxist and Fascist. Our fearless leader is dismanteling the weapons that could stay them off while sitting by Iran’s proliferation of nuclear elements. While they may not have the bomb yet, they are preparing for mass production.
Worst of all we’re probably funding much of this with our global aid
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:40amAsk not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you….. SIGN UP FOR FOOD STAMPS AND WELFARE CHECKS….
Report Post »MeMadMax
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:33amDon’t give me that crap about these things needing to be “retired”…
Report Post »Each of the shuttles were designed to go 100 spaceflight cycles(100 launch and recoveries)….
Guess what?
We only did a TOTAL of 135 missions….
And don’t give me that crap that Bush retired it either, the (democratic controlled) congress wanted it bad. They wanted the extra $450 million a mission to throw onto the DEBT FIRE….
Pro-Palin
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:17amYou know bro , I know Exactly what your thinking, when this idiot was elected into Office.
Report Post »Why Oh Why didnt I take the Blue Pill?
BOMUSTGO
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:53amHow’s that Muslim outreach going for ya NASA?
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:37amWell, Obama has killed yet another proud symbol of America…..but at least we can turn to the private sector for hope……Scaled Composites and Burt Rutan, along with many other companies out there are currently applying American ingenuity to getting us back to orbit and beyond.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:36amtxpilot.. I agree. Been watching that too. Burt Rutan is a genius.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 7:44am@TX
Right on. I’ve never been a big fan of the government space industry. Don’t get me wrong, going to the moon was super cool and a great display of our will to accomplish greatness. That said, the space shuttle was a huge waste of money in my opinion, you could get men up there much less expensively than using the shuttle.
The only problem with private space is that I see the government standing there at every corner with a “STOP!” sign trying to impede them as much as possible. Not right now, not as long as they’re not sending up lots of active missions, but rather once they start succeeding in a huge publicly visible way.
Report Post »THE EQUALIZER
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:52amThere is the hope and change the Kenyan was pushing for. What a disgrace!
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:07amRest easy Atlantis, you’ve earned it.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:05amOur first step backwards towards De-evolution. First give up on space, next we will give up on internal combustion engine, next we will give up on eating meat, and soon we will need to grow our tails back so we can hang from the trees and eat leaves and bananas. Great going Obummer.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:07amYou can add power plants & refineries to your list.
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