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General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris Bergin on 07/06/2011 05:28 pm
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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/
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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.
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Hail the orbiters!!
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This is that good book you haven't read yet, amazing work on all of them.
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Totally and utterly outstanding!
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A totally must read if ever there was one. This should be made into a book.
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Bump. This shouldn't be on page 3 of the section.
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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.
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Interesting reading material... thanks!
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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! ;)
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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. ;)
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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
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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.
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Going to have to go through all of these!
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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/
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Great stuff Chris G.
Thanks !
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This needs bumping today.
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Brilliant set of articles. Popped in to say thank you!
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Welcome to the site's forum, Gary!
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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.
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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.
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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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Agreed! Though they can never be as horrible as the stupidity and profanity-laced 'comments' sections below many YouTube videos. Uuggh!!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bump for Chris Gebhardt's - and NSF's - closing article on Endeavour:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/10/remembering-endeavour-final-journey-california-center/
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Another anniversary, this time for Columbia.
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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!
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Bump for good reason today.
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Wow, after all these years, I just learned the beanie cap was added after the Enterprise tests.......
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Bump for the Hubble anniversary.
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Amazing reads! Hard at times as I miss these orbiters, but great tributes!
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I love the passion for the orbiters in these features. That makes the technical side so easy to read.