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NASA Advanced Space Academy 2011


1) Detail view of one of the five rocket motors that lifted the first stage of the Apollo rocket series that put us on the Moon in 1969.
2) The infamous Door, this one on Apollo 14, which has been cleaned up after reentry. See the latching system all around the perimiter of the inside. One pull from the inside, or one twist from the outside will open it, instead of having to unbolt it as had to be done during the fatal Apollo One fire.
3) Looking up inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, where the Orbiter, liquid fuel/oxidiser tank, and solid fuel rocket motors were assembled.
4) The place you don't want to be standing when it's T minus five seconds; superheated steam will be coming at you way faster than you can run! Atlantis on the pad, nineteen days before the STS-135 launch.
5) Standing in front of the now empty six million pound Crawler-transporter, built in 1965, used to carry the assembled shuttle to the launch pad. Each "shoe" on the tread you see behind me weighs about 1990 pounds. Directly in front of me is the gate and ramp to Pad 39A.
6) Standing inside the fence, looking up the incline of the crawler way to STS 135 on its launcher platform, with the Rotating Service Structure covering the payload bay.
7) The Space Shuttle Memorial Wall, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, where crews of each spacecraft have signed before launch. A very emotional thing to see....
8) Inside Hi-Bay one, as shuttle Endeavour's engines are being removed. The engines will be purged, cleaned, and stored for possible future use. The Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where you will be able to see it in a few months. The engines you will see on Endeavour will be replicas.
9) The orbiter hydrogen intake connection point on the port side aft, leading directly to the high velocity pumps that feed the engines. Once this door is shut, this view will never be seen again.
10) The entryway to the Orbiter Processing Facility where decomissioning procedures for Endeavor and Discovery were underway to remove fuel, hazardous materials, and explosives.
11) Entrance to High Bay 2. There is no mission number: the blank spaces mean Discovery will never launch again.
12) Inside the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville Alabama, with a Saturn Five rocket suspended from the overhead.
13) Close-up of the five F-1 Saturn Five rocket engines that burned kerosene and liquid oxygen at the rate of 3,360 gallons per second, which would empty a very large swimming pool in about nine seconds.
14) What do you get when you send twenty eight educators on a road trip for fourteen hours? This is Jacqui, an elementary teacher from Minnesota.
15) In the mission simulator, with Corey on the science bay monitor.
16) Educators from eight states and Australia, India, Canada, Romania. Mr. Miko on the bottom right teaches in Manhattan Beach, CA.
17) The international NXT Lego robot building team: India, Romania, USA
18) Other friends at Pad 39A, in front of the Crawler-transporter. A big thank-you to the Honeywell Corporation's employee charitible foundation for making this trip possible!

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