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Title: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 07/06/2011 05:28 pm
The full set from Chris Gebhardt's fleet overviews. All five space flown orbiters, and now Enterprise too - every single shuttle mission over the past 30 years. Nine articles - 59,000 words.

Take some time to read the amazing history of these vehicles.

Enterprise
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/04/space-shuttle-enterprise-the-orbiter-that-started-it-all/


Columbia:
Part I:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/space-shuttle-columbia-a-new-beginning-and-vision/

Part II:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/columbia-ov-102-a-pioneer-to-the-end/

Challenger:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/01/1983-1986-missions-history-space-shuttle-challenger/

Discovery:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/workhorse-discovery-stands-ready-for-final-mission/

Atlantis:
Part I:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/ov-104atlantis-international-vehicle-changing-world/

Part II:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/shuttle-atlantis-mir-realization-program-goal/

Part III:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/reaching-end-atlantis-fight-against-retirement/

Endeavour:
Part I: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/04/space-shuttle-endeavour-a-new-beginning-part-i/

Part II:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/04/ov-105-endeavour-a-long-standing-dream-realized/
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Longhorn John on 07/06/2011 06:51 pm
I've already read all of these, when I read through the new Atlantis ones, and they are all EXCELLENT!

No doubt, whiners and moaners will be too busy reading how much money it cost, but they could have spent 10 times as much and to get all this space flight out of it would have been very worthwhile.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: KEdward5 on 07/06/2011 07:20 pm
Hail the orbiters!!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: astrobrian on 07/07/2011 04:52 pm
This is that good book you haven't read yet, amazing work on all of them.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: KEdward5 on 07/07/2011 06:31 pm
Totally and utterly outstanding!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Terry Rocket on 07/08/2011 08:33 am
A totally must read if ever there was one. This should be made into a book.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 07/25/2011 02:35 am
Bump. This shouldn't be on page 3 of the section.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Ronsmytheiii on 08/02/2011 02:45 am
Bumping again, only missing Enterprise (yes she did not fly in space, but did much for the program)

Chris G, looks like you have started a book here.  Xerox it and sell it to HQ for a few hundred dollars a copy.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Andre_Berends on 08/03/2011 09:21 pm
Interesting reading material... thanks!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Skylab on 08/12/2011 11:16 pm
While I'm pretty impressed by all those articles, perhaps it's a good idea to tone down the statistics a bit? Nothing wrong with the latest article, but the others were slightly info-heavy! ;)
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Space Pete on 08/12/2011 11:29 pm
While I'm pretty impressed by all those articles, perhaps it's a good idea to tone down the statistics a bit? Nothing wrong with the latest article, but the others were slightly info-heavy! ;)

You can never be too info-heavy, IMO - that's one of the reasons why I love this site. ;)
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/13/2011 01:25 am
While I'm pretty impressed by all those articles, perhaps it's a good idea to tone down the statistics a bit? Nothing wrong with the latest article, but the others were slightly info-heavy! ;)

You missed the special twitter version:

"Atlantis - otherwise known as OV-104 - named after an old ship, went to MIR and ISS, now retired. THE END" ;D
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Lee Jay on 08/13/2011 02:18 am
While I'm pretty impressed by all those articles, perhaps it's a good idea to tone down the statistics a bit? Nothing wrong with the latest article, but the others were slightly info-heavy! ;)

You can never be too info-heavy, IMO - that's one of the reasons why I love this site. ;)

Sure you can.

One of the reasons I love this site is Chris' ability to turn 500MB of separate NASA presentations and documents into a cohesive, informative article that leaves out most of the less important information while highlighting the really important stuff.  It's a difficult skill that not everyone can master, but he's really quite good at it.  For those of us that have limited time to devour everything on L2, this is quite important, and we can always go back to L2 to dig in if we're interested in more.

You do that pretty well too, Pete.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Tim S on 10/16/2011 04:45 am
Going to have to go through all of these!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 04/27/2012 02:46 pm
Now we have the full set!

Space Shuttle Enterprise – The Orbiter that started it all - by Chris Gebhardt:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/04/space-shuttle-enterprise-the-orbiter-that-started-it-all/
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Jester on 04/27/2012 07:38 pm
Great stuff Chris G.

Thanks !
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: DavisSTS on 05/19/2012 08:28 am
This needs bumping today.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: GaryLA on 05/21/2012 10:03 pm
Brilliant set of articles. Popped in to say thank you!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 05/22/2012 04:51 am
Welcome to the site's forum, Gary!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 06/20/2012 10:37 am
Bump for the NROL references in the NROL-38 overview article.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/06/live-ula-atlas-v-50th-eelv-launch-nrol-38/

Got to say, I've seen members of this site fall over themselves to link up and post high praise for articles on other sites that are about 100 words in length and look like they took 10 minutes to write, yet these massive Chris G feature articles - while they have six figure readership figures - have frak all comments on this thread?

WTF is going on with that? I'm not even being funny, some people need to have a word with themselves.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: vulture4 on 06/24/2012 06:22 pm
Bump for the NROL references in the NROL-38 overview article.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/06/live-ula-atlas-v-50th-eelv-launch-nrol-38/

Got to say, I've seen members of this site fall over themselves to link up and post high praise for articles on other sites that are about 100 words in length and look like they took 10 minutes to write, yet these massive Chris G feature articles - while they have six figure readership figures - have frak all comments on this thread?

WTF is going on with that? I'm not even being funny, some people need to have a word with themselves.

Am I missing something? It doesn't appear the article you link to has any way to add comments. It is a good article, as you say.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 06/28/2012 11:43 am
The forum is. There's always a thread, in the section linked by the article, specific to the article.

We'll never have those horrendous "Facebook" comment areas in the articles themselves.
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Post by: MATTBLAK on 06/28/2012 11:57 am
Agreed! Though they can never be as horrible as the stupidity and profanity-laced 'comments' sections below many YouTube videos. Uuggh!!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: QuantumG on 06/28/2012 12:11 pm
The forum is. There's always a thread, in the section linked by the article, specific to the article.

We'll never have those horrendous "Facebook" comment areas in the articles themselves.

You really do need a "Read what people are saying about this story..." link at the bottom of every article that directs to the appropriate thread of the forum.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Jason1701 on 06/28/2012 12:21 pm
The forum is. There's always a thread, in the section linked by the article, specific to the article.

We'll never have those horrendous "Facebook" comment areas in the articles themselves.

You really do need a "Read what people are saying about this story..." link at the bottom of every article that directs to the appropriate thread of the forum.

Seconded.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Overflow on 07/01/2012 06:15 pm
Thank you Chris for writing this. I really enjoyed reading all these articles. These articles have brought back memories as well as taught me new things.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: ChrisGebhardt on 07/02/2012 03:59 am
Thank you Chris for writing this. I really enjoyed reading all these articles. These articles have brought back memories as well as taught me new things.

You're welcome. That was the half the point of my writing them. :)

Cheers,
Chris G.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 10/12/2012 03:09 pm
Bump for Chris Gebhardt's - and NSF's - closing article on Endeavour:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/10/remembering-endeavour-final-journey-california-center/
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Martin FL on 04/12/2013 05:08 pm
Another anniversary, this time for Columbia.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: SalemHanna on 04/15/2013 12:58 pm
Excellent articles!

I found a great Facebook community page over the weekend called Space Shuttle Programme; only has around 530 likes so far but they post some magnificent photos every day from across the 30 years of the programme. Their visuals are a nice accompaniment to the text in these articles - I can see them getting quite a following over time. Check it out!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 05/13/2014 01:25 pm
Bump for good reason today.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Ronpur50 on 05/14/2014 01:18 am
Wow, after all these years, I just learned the beanie cap was added after the Enterprise tests.......
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Chris Bergin on 04/24/2015 11:55 am
Bump for the Hubble anniversary.
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: PaulUtah on 04/29/2015 04:19 pm
Amazing reads! Hard at times as I miss these orbiters, but great tributes!
Title: Re: The Entire Shuttle Orbiter Fleet Feature Review Articles
Post by: Jose Martinez on 05/01/2015 09:39 pm
I love the passion for the orbiters in these features. That makes the technical side so easy to read.