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#440
by
shuttlefanatic
on 04 Jun, 2009 18:24
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Does anyone know which Orbiter holds the record for the most ferry flights? I assume that it's Discovery but without looking back through the records I don't know what percentage of her landings have been at Edwards, as compared to Atlantis.
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions# I counted:
Columbia: 13 (inc. one at White Sands)
Challenger: 7
Discovery: 14
Atlantis: 12
Endeavour: 6
The DFRC press release claimed STS-125 was the 53rd landing at Edwards. The wiki page lists 51. I haven't tried to reconcile where the error is yet.
I'm looking at this and realizing I've been to over half the 33 post-Challenger Edwards landings.
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#441
by
Chandonn
on 04 Jun, 2009 22:16
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Does anyone know which Orbiter holds the record for the most ferry flights? I assume that it's Discovery but without looking back through the records I don't know what percentage of her landings have been at Edwards, as compared to Atlantis.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions# I counted:
Columbia: 13 (inc. one at White Sands)
Challenger: 7
Discovery: 14
Atlantis: 12
Endeavour: 6
The DFRC press release claimed STS-125 was the 53rd landing at Edwards. The wiki page lists 51. I haven't tried to reconcile where the error is yet.
I'm looking at this and realizing I've been to over half the 33 post-Challenger Edwards landings.
Weren't there 2 ALT flights?
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#442
by
psloss
on 04 Jun, 2009 22:39
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Weren't there 2 ALT flights?
Five free flights.
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#443
by
shuttlefanatic
on 05 Jun, 2009 04:07
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Does anyone know which Orbiter holds the record for the most ferry flights? I assume that it's Discovery but without looking back through the records I don't know what percentage of her landings have been at Edwards, as compared to Atlantis.
Here's the corrected count of post-mission ferries (i.e. Edwards landing count):
Columbia: 13 (inc. one at White Sands)
Challenger: 7
Discovery: 14
Atlantis: 13
Endeavour: 7
Presumably, each orbiter has at least one additional ferry for initial delivery from Palmdale to KSC. If you count the Enterprise, however, I think she'd win. From
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/entprise.htm, I tallied 17 ALT flights (captive + free) plus at least 10 other ferry flights.
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#444
by
collectSPACE
on 05 Jun, 2009 13:29
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#445
by
rdale
on 05 Jun, 2009 14:19
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#446
by
Ronsmytheiii
on 05 Jun, 2009 15:27
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#447
by
voyager
on 05 Jun, 2009 15:47
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SCA headed back home... http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA911
Well, its first stop is Ellington Field right now, but the eventual destination is probably Edwards
Going to be turbulent flight. Some of those thunderstorm cloud tops are 30,000ft.
Looks like they are taking the looooong way around! Heading north to Houston?
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#448
by
rdale
on 05 Jun, 2009 16:23
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#449
by
aurora899
on 05 Jun, 2009 16:59
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SCA headed back home... http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA911
Well, its first stop is Ellington Field right now, but the eventual destination is probably Edwards
Right - they can't make that flight nonstop.
I was going to ask about that. Presumably, the SCA can fly much higher and faster without the beast on its back, or do the various modifications to the plane mean that it still has to operate under tighter constraints than a normal 747?
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#450
by
Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2009 17:36
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I was always baffled as to how the SCA got Enterprise over to England on the 1980s tour.
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#451
by
David AF
on 05 Jun, 2009 17:39
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I was always baffled as to how the SCA got Enterprise over to England on the 1980s tour.
Via Canada, Greenland, northern Scotland.
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#452
by
Danny Dot
on 05 Jun, 2009 17:54
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I was always baffled as to how the SCA got Enterprise over to England on the 1980s tour.
I think any small airplane with 600 miles range can make it to Europe.
If I put some gas cans in the back with a hand pump, I could bring my little Taylorcraft over to see you.
Danny Deger
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#453
by
Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2009 18:06
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Fast response (on the thread) from the air force again!
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#454
by
Jason Davies
on 05 Jun, 2009 19:04
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So are both SCAs based at Edwards?
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#455
by
Lee Jay
on 05 Jun, 2009 19:32
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I was always baffled as to how the SCA got Enterprise over to England on the 1980s tour.
Via Canada, Greenland, northern Scotland.
It seems to be a long way from Greenland to Scotland. Are you sure it didn't have to stop along the way in Iceland as well?
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#456
by
Ronsmytheiii
on 05 Jun, 2009 20:05
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NASA 911 is now at Ellington Field
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#457
by
SpaceNutz SA
on 05 Jun, 2009 21:31
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SCA headed back home... http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA911
Well, its first stop is Ellington Field right now, but the eventual destination is probably Edwards
Right - they can't make that flight nonstop.
I was going to ask about that. Presumably, the SCA can fly much higher and faster without the beast on its back, or do the various modifications to the plane mean that it still has to operate under tighter constraints than a normal 747?
Last Ferry back the SCA returned directly to KEDW.
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#458
by
psloss
on 05 Jun, 2009 21:33
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I was going to ask about that. Presumably, the SCA can fly much higher and faster without the beast on its back, or do the various modifications to the plane mean that it still has to operate under tighter constraints than a normal 747?
FWIW, FlightAware had NASA 911 at 28800 feet altitude the one time I checked today while it was en route.
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#459
by
CS24
on 06 Jun, 2009 01:49
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