Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Control Panels

15 responses to “Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Control Panels”

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   jurvetson

   Apr 9, 2012 at 2:41 am

   Pilot’s Seat
   

   Commander’s Seat
   

   Looking up
   

   Looking down
   

   And compared to the latest A380-800
   

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2. 

   Rafe

   Apr 9, 2012 at 3:15 am

   Wow. Thanks for posting these.

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3. 

   scleroplex

   Apr 9, 2012 at 3:28 am

   myriad is the word

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4. 

   solerena

   Apr 9, 2012 at 3:30 am

   Incredible:) "We must make this last endeavour
   Holding hands and thoughts together"…

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5. 

   BillS49

   Apr 9, 2012 at 3:43 am

   Magic machine – thanks for sharing all of this

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6. 

   solerena

   Apr 9, 2012 at 3:53 am

   Beutiful poem by Boris Pasternak about human endeavours and passion (sorry in Russian):
   ‎"Во всем мне хочется дойти
   До самой сути.
   В работе, в поисках пути,
   В сердечной смуте.

   … До сущности протекших дней,
   До их причины,
   До оснований, до корней,
   До сердцевины.

   Всё время схватывая нить
   Судеб, событий,
   Жить, думать, чувствовать, любить,
   Свершать открытья.

   О, если бы я только мог
   Хотя отчасти,
   Я написал бы восемь строк
   О свойствах страсти.

   О беззаконьях, о грехах,
   Бегах, погонях,
   Нечаянностях впопыхах,
   Локтях, ладонях.

   Я вывел бы ее закон,
   Ее начало,
   И повторял ее имен
   Инициалы.

   Я б разбивал стихи, как сад.
   Всей дрожью жилок
   Цвели бы липы в них подряд,
   Гуськом, в затылок.

   В стихи б я внес дыханье роз,
   Дыханье мяты,
   Луга, осоку, сенокос,
   Грозы раскаты.

   Так некогда Шопен вложил
   Живое чудо
   Фольварков, парков, рощ, могил
   В свои этюды.

   Достигнутого торжества
   Игра и мука —
   Натянутая тетива
   Тугого лука." X X X
   slova.org.ru/pasternak/vovsemmnekhochetsja/

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7. 

   witty top

   Apr 9, 2012 at 3:59 am

   Beatiful Steve!!!!! WOOOWWWW!!!

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8. 

   jurvetson

   Apr 9, 2012 at 4:24 am

   thanks y’all

   Rafe – so many more to come! I have gone through about 5% of the day!

   When Astronaut Ed Lu visited, he saw this early Apollo panel in the collection:

   

   He immediately recognized the bottom left DC INDICATORS dial: "It’s the same switch on the Shuttle!" They just keep reusing functionality, often with remnant switch positions that only made sense for Apollo.

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9. 

   Madbuster75

   Apr 9, 2012 at 5:18 am

   Wonderful shots, thanks for sharing!

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10. 

    Jigsaw Explorer

    Apr 14, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Wow, that’s a lot of controls! Your photo will be featured on April 30, with attribution, at Jigsaw Explorer. Thank you for making the photo available via Creative Commons licensing!

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11. 

    bike-R

    Apr 17, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    aw, so pretty, hope someone at least took some vids of the glass cokpit fired up with all it’s numbers crunching

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12. 

    jurvetson

    Apr 21, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    Oh, yes, and better yet, it was filmed in 3D by my colleagues

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13. 

    bike-R

    Apr 23, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    And who will get all the SHUTTLE ELECTRONICS tech support equipment? Probably left to languish in a NASA wharehouse and sold as scrap in a few years, somebody ought to keep track of these and grab ’em when they go on sale, and what of the simulators too?

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14. 

    scleroplex

    Apr 23, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/4/23/nations_first_hispanic...

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15. 

    jurvetson

    Apr 28, 2012 at 12:51 am

    EveryScape has finished the stitching of my fisheye shots into a virtual tour. Before you start, remember to click the full screen button in the bottom right corner of the main image. Then you can click on the image and drag to look up down and all around. When you see an orange arrow, you can zoom to the neighboring room. OK, so here is the VR tour of Endeavour, starting with this Flight Deck.

    And here’s a flickr post showing what the input images looked like for the flight deck and links to the other areas.

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