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Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:49 pm

I've made some wallpapers using images from the latest STS-128 Discovery mission, which has Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang aboard.

Pretty cool, huh? 8)

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Postby panyasan » Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:53 pm

They look great. BTW, does Fuglesang means "Birdsong" in Swedish?
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Postby Alelou » Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:03 am

I've often wondered why they locate the launchpad in a state so plagued by stormy weather and lightning in particular. (Though not enough to find out why, obviously.) Maybe it's the closest the US gets to the equator and a handy site for dumping used rockets in the water without launching outside the continental US?
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Re: Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:41 am

panyasan wrote:They look great. BTW, does Fuglesang means "Birdsong" in Swedish?

Norwegian actually. His father is from Norway.
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Postby Reanok » Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:16 am

The reason Nasa likes to use Florida to launch shuttle missions has to do with the fact it's the right place to launch vehicles into space and has something to do with the equator and cape kennedy was picked for the Apollo missions. to being picked for the perfect place with the spaceshuttle being able to catch up to the international space station so they end up in the same orbit..I was just reading about it in a book about the Apollo missions.

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Postby Aquarius » Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:44 am

OOOH, I love that lighthouse one! That's now my wallpaper on my new computer. :D
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Re: Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:28 pm

Reanok wrote:The reason Nasa likes to use Florida to launch shuttle missions has to do with the fact it's the right place to launch vehicles into space and has something to do with the equator and cape kennedy was picked for the Apollo missions.

Well, even before Launch Complex 39 was built for the Apollo missions (later modified for the Shuttle), NASA used the so called "missile row" at the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to launch its earlier Mercury and Gemini missions, since they used Air Force missiles (Redstone, Atlas, Titan) as launch vehicles

But yeah, the relative proximity of the equator probably was the reason why the Air Force originally used it to launch ballistic missiles. And once they were there it was natural to expand the Cape as the main launch site for all space flights.
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Re: Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby JadziaKathryn » Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:48 pm

Ooooh, I really like that last one especially.
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Re: Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:31 pm

And some additional STS-128 wallpapers:

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Re: Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby Reanok » Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:04 pm

:thumbsup: Kevin I really like the new wallpapers you posted that one of the Earth and Moon is gorgeous.

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Re: Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:37 am

The mission is already finished, but I wanted to complete the set so here are the last STS-128 wallpapers:

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Re: Space Shuttle wallpapers

Postby Linda » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:57 pm

Lovely wallpapers! The seventh from last one was kind of an illusion for me. Since you only see the blue of earth in the background and no black of space, it looked like I was looking up at the station in the sky from the ground. 8)
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