{"id":38171,"date":"2011-08-14T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/two-shuttles-nose-to-nose-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:21","slug":"two-shuttles-nose-to-nose-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/two-shuttles-nose-to-nose-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Two Shuttles, nose to nose | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s something you don&rsquo;t see every day.. or will ever again: two Space Shuttle Orbiters, nose to nose:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yfrog.com\/z\/hsm8kufj\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ed3a7_NASA_twoshuttles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35778\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>[Click to enspaceplanate.]<\/p><p>The two Orbiters, <em>Discovery<\/em> and <em>Endeavour<\/em>, are seen here outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&rsquo;s Kennedy Space Center. Both are being cleaned up and prepped <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/04\/13\/where-the-shuttles-will-come-to-rest\/\">to be shipped<\/a> (or, more properly, flown) to museums; <em>Discovery<\/em> to the Smithsonian&rsquo;s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and <em>Endeavour<\/em> to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.<\/p><p><em>[UPDATE: Here's a shot of the two Orbiters seen from the air!<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/180842main_nosetonose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ed3a7_twoshuttles_air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35819\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><em>Very, very cool.]<\/em><\/p><p>I expect at some point I&rsquo;ll pay these ladies a visit. <em>Discovery<\/em> and I have a connection &mdash; it took a camera <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/05\/17\/why-im-watching-the-hubble-repairs-so-intently\/\">I worked on<\/a> up to Hubble back in 1997 &mdash; and it&rsquo;ll be interesting, if also a touch melancholy, to see them up close. <\/p><p><em>Image credit: NASA<\/em><\/p><p> <em><\/em><\/p><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/04\/13\/where-the-shuttles-will-come-to-rest\/\">Where the Shuttles will come to rest<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/04\/11\/deconstructing-discovery\/\">Deconstructing Discovery<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/22\/the-fiery-descent-of-atlantis-in-3d\/\">The fiery descent of Atlantis&hellip; in 3D!<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/22\/atlantis-one-last-time-in-the-sun\/\">Atlantis, one last time in the Sun<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CvrM_jjh22Xrak_lsI5jBNUKS1c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ed3a7_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CvrM_jjh22Xrak_lsI5jBNUKS1c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ed3a7_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ed3a7_uXpISsnj_yA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ed3a7_Tq0gfxPIMiU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s something you don&rsquo;t see every day.. or will ever again: two Space Shuttle Orbiters, nose to nose:[Click to enspaceplanate.]The two Orbiters, Discovery and Endeavour, are seen here outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&rsquo;s Kennedy Space Center. Both are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/two-shuttles-nose-to-nose-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}