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New Photos Added

Spacelab components at Udvar Hazy

Added images of a Spacelab Pressurized Module to the Space Shuttle page. The laboratory module, along with a subsystems igloo, and transfer tunnel, are on display at the Udvar Hazy Center - National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

Aleksei Leonov Space Suit

The Spacesuits page has been expanded. Several new photosets have been added. Including images of Aleksei Leonov's Berkut training suit, Yuri Gagarin's SK-1 training suit, and Alan Bean's Apollo 12 space suit.

Posted December 28, 2009

New Space Exploration T-shirts and Gifts Available

I've created several new space t-shirt designs. Revenue from these products pays for HistoricSpacecraft.com's server and bandwidth expenses. Check out the products page to see these and other designs.

Space Exploration Ringer T-shirt Space Exploration Womens T-shirt Space Exploration Sweatshirt Space Exploration T-shirt

Posted October 28, 2009

Soyuz Photos Added

Soyuz at National Air and Space Museum

Added images of the Soyuz spacecraft from the Apollo-Soyuz display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

Lunokhod 2 Illustration

The Robotic Probes page has been expanded. A data table has been added for the Soviet Luna series of probes. Several illustration I created in the late 1990's have been added.

Posted September 12, 2009

Space Probes Page Updated

Pioneer 6

The Robotic Probes page has been expanded. I now have photographed engineering models or mockups for nearly all the Pioneer probes. I have also added photos for Mariner 2, Mariner 10, New Horizons, Mars 96, and Voyager.

More photos on the way!

Posted August 26, 2009

New Photos Added

Kevin Barrett has contributed photos from a recent Space Center Houston visit.

Mercury Faith-7

Mercury Capsule - Faith-7

Gemini V

Gemini V Capsule

Apollo 17

Apollo 17 Capsule

Saturn 5 at Houston

Saturn 5

Thanks to Kevin for contributing these great photos!

Posted August 16, 2009

WhightKnightTwo in flight at Oshkosh

WhightKnightTwo on Runway at Oshkosh

WhiteKnightTwo Demonstration Flight at EAA Airventure 2009

I visited EAA Airventure on Monday and Tuesday of last week. Organized by the Experimental Aircraft Association, EAA Airventure is a week long aviation event held annually in Oshkosh Wisconsin.

As with past visits, we were witness to an impressive display of aerial demonstrations, forums, and aircraft static displays.

A highlight of the event was the arrival of WhiteKnightTwo. Build by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, the twin fuselage, four engine, all carbon composite aircraft was designed to lift SpaceShipTwo to its launch altitude. SpaceShipTwo, scheduled to start flight testing later this year, will conduct passenger flights into space.

WhiteKnightTwo, along with SpaceShipTwo, will be operated by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism company.

Check out the Commercial Spacecraft page for more WhiteKnightTwo Photos.

Posted August 3, 2009

Space shuttle External Tank and Solid Rocket Booster Photos

I've uploaded some photos of the space shuttle external tanks and solid rocket booster motors on display at Kennedy Space Center and the United States Space and Rocket Center.

Space Shuttle SRBs and ET

Shuttle SRBs and ET.

I have also added a cronological list of completed shuttle missions. This list includes launch and landing dates, duration, crew size, payload and mission for each flight.

Posted July 20, 2009

More photos from Kennedy Space Center and the Astronaut Hall of Fame

I've uploaded some spacesuit photos from my Florida trip.

Gus Grissom's Mercury Space Suit

Gus Grissom's Mercury Space Suit

David Scott's Space Suit

David Scott's Gemini 8 Space suit (G4C-27)

G5-c Space Suit

Gemini G5C Space suit

Norm Thagard Flight Suit

Norman Thagard's Mir Flight Suit

Garriott Flight Suit

Owen Garriott's Skylab Flight Suit

More photos on the way!

Posted July 8, 2009

Visit to Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral

Last week, I visited Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. I took hundreds of new photos. I’ll be uploading sets of these photos over the next few weeks. To start things off, I’ve updated the rocket pages with some of the new photos.

I have also started adding original illustrations to many pages. Most of the rocket pages now include a drawing Illustrating the development of the rocket over the years. I have included a human figure in most of the drawings to show the relative scale of the rockets.

Delta-IV CBC

Check out the Thor-Delta page to see new photos of a Thor-Able, Delta-B, and a Delta-IV Common Booster Core.

Titan-I ICBM

Photos of the Titan I ICBM on display at the Air Force Space and Missile Museum have been added to the Titan page.

Atlas-F Booster

The rocket garden at the KSC visitor center displays two Atlas rockets. Photos of both the Atlas-F and Atlas-D are now included on the Atlas page.

Saturn-IB Rocket

On the Saturn Rockets page, I have added photos of the Saturn-IB from the rocket garden.

I expect to add many photosets in the coming days. Including spacecraft, spacesuits, and launch pads.

Posted July 6, 2009

New Photos Added

I've added several new photosets. Included are photos of the space shuttle Enterprise on the Space Shuttle page. Also find photos of a Pegasus-XL, a Minuteman III, and a V-2 rocket on the Other Rockets page.

Posted on June 17, 2009

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This document last modified Tuesday, 29-Dec-2009 13:16:51 EST .


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February 3, 2010
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Scheduled launch date.

June, 2010
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Returns to Earth with samples of asteroid Itokawa.

2010
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Launch of Venus Climate Orbiter.

February 14, 2011
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March 2011
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Enters orbit around Mercury.

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