On Friday, April 27 Enterprise, the first NASA space shuttle was transported atop a 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft from Dulles International Airport, near Washington, D.C. to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Enterprise eventually will be displayed at New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Though Enterprise, the first space shuttle orbiter never flew in space, it was crucial to the Space Shuttle Program because its series of approach and landing tests in 1977 proved the orbiter could fly in the atmosphere and land like an airplane, except without power — like a glider. Includes footage of Enterprise on the ground at Dulles and takeoff from Dulles.[jwplayer mediaid="12138"]
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Sci-tech Video: Space Shuttle Discovery: Final Flight Over Washington D.C.
April 17, 2012 — In its final journey to its permanent museum home, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery makes a flyover above the U.S. capital. NASA coordinated with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to navigate through the restricted air space over Washington, D.C.[jwplayer mediaid="11665"]
Caught On Video: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Spacecraft Captures Dramatic Solar Flare
A solar flare erupted along the sun’s left side on Monday. The flare was recorded by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, which is part of a 5-year mission focused on the sun. (April 16)
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Video: Space shuttle Discovery was lifted and placed atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at NASA
Space shuttle Discovery was lifted and placed atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility mate/demate device in the early morning hours of April 15 in preparation for its ride to Washington Dulles International Airport on April 17.
Discovery is set to depart just after sunrise and arrive in the Washington, D.C. area around 10 a.m. After arriving at Dulles, Discovery will be moved on April 19 to the nearby Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center for permanent public display.[jwplayer mediaid="11585"]
NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets from its Wallops Flight Facility
NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets on March 27 from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart.
Each of the rockets released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y.
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The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) mission will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth. More information on the ATREX mission is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex.html
