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Photographs by Jonathan Wilson
One/Day Project, Year 6
Shuttle Nose
2013-06-23 Shuttle Nose Today we paid a visit to the California Science Center to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour. It's been the photo of the day twice before - first when it flew over for the last time and landed at LAX (on my birthday, no less), and again when I joined half the city in watching it travel through the streets. It was fun to see it today because you could really take it all in and look closely at all the details. There are some great exhibits, although this whole area is temporary while they build a new permanent building for it. The coolest things I learned today were about the SSMEs - Space Shuttle Main Engines: - There are three on each shuttle when it was prepped to fly, and they were swapped between the shuttles - there weren't enough for all of them. - The fuel is hydrogen and oxygen, so the only exhaust is water. - When it's going, the nozzle of the engine is cool to the touch (not that you'd be standing there to find out) because of 2 miles of tubing with coolant, while the inside is 6k degrees F (3.3k C) which is enough to boil iron. - Like, whoa. [last year] not fun, we've come a long way...
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on June 25, 2013What a neat exhibit for you to have close by. Great photo. Thanks for including the interesting details and links.
Jaime Gonzalez
on June 25, 2013Great shot!
worldofwonder
on June 24, 2013A super POV, and perfectly composed. Also, thanks for the info to go with it.
Byron Fair Photography
on June 24, 2013Very nice. Always love going to Houston space Center. Need to get to California to see this.
nelli
on June 24, 2013so very exceptional!
Ed Murray
on June 24, 2013Awesome POV
Rick Willis
on June 24, 2013That thing is BIG...
jmannimages
on June 24, 2013wow - super perspective!
keyphoto
on June 24, 2013Great perspective.
DreamCatcherPhotography
on June 24, 2013Very cool perspective! I'd love to see this in person.
People in Houston were very disappointed when everyone got a space shuttle but us.