Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Flight Deck

8 responses to “Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Flight Deck”

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   jurvetson

   Apr 9, 2012 at 4:12 am

   

   And a frequent-flier astronaut friend saw this and reminisced….

   "My favorite place to eat dinner was sitting "upside down" on the
   flight deck facing backwards. Usually we flew the Shuttle
   upside down and backwards (to protect the front windows in case of a
   debris strike). From that position you are facing the aft windows
   with your feet down by the overhead windows.
   Out the aft windows it looks in the direction of flight towards the
   Earth’s horizon, and out the overhead windows looking "down" towards
   your feet you see the Earth below. So the effect is like being in a
   glass bottom boat drifting above the Earth with
   continents and oceans below you.
   It’s the best restaurant anywhere!
   (even if the food is just so-so)"

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2. 

   normal distance

   Apr 9, 2012 at 10:42 am

   where´s the recaro seats???

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3. 

   jurvetson

   Apr 9, 2012 at 4:05 pm

   Heh… for that luxury, you have to fly SpaceX

   

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4. 

   Ramones Karaoke

   Apr 9, 2012 at 9:48 pm

   Not the simplest vehicle to control by the looks of things.

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5. 

   jurvetson

   Apr 17, 2012 at 12:33 am

   yes, and here is the view on STS-132 out the back windows:

   

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6. 

   bike-R

   Apr 17, 2012 at 8:33 pm

   lookslike a Video Game console

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7. 

   jurvetson

   Apr 28, 2012 at 12:49 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 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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8. 

   jasonmaxham

   May 9, 2013 at 6:20 am

   Now THAT’s a control panel! I sincerely hope there’s a "restore default settings" switch. Speaking of which, I used this image for a blog post I wrote about default settings and reboots:

   http://www.artoftroubleshooting.com/2011/12/defaults-and-reboots...

   Thanks for posting this great photo with a Creative Commons license!

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