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Space Shuttle Tribute Poster: Endeavour

Explanation: They are some of the most complex machines ever built. From a standing start they can launch a school- bus sized object up so high and moving so fast that it won't fall back down. They have launched numerous revolutionary satellites that enable humans to communicate across the globe, to better understand Earth's atmosphere, and to peer into the distance universe. They are NASA's Space Shuttles, and NASA has recently released large digital posters to honor them. While the inaugural flight was in 1981, the shuttle fleet is aging and is now nearing retirement. Pictured above, the space shuttle Endeavour is shown rising to orbit, with patches for each of its missions shown in a spiral. Endeavour was named for the HMS Endeavour, a British research ship that explored the south Pacific Ocean in the 1700s, depicted on the lower right. On the upper right are panoramic windows delivered by Endeavour to the International Space Station earlier this year. In the background near the top is the NGC 602 nebula as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, which was serviced by Endeavour in 1993. Posters for all of the shuttles, including Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour are available.

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I see here 25 missions, only of the ship Endeavour.
It is to wonder, though I have no clear awareness of the specific topic of each mission.
You know a link to detail every NASA mission?
Regards
César

EDIT:
I found it very easy, and for convenience, in alphabetical order:
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html

APOD Robot wrote: Space Shuttle Tribute Poster: Endeavour

[Space Shuttles] have launched numerous revolutionary satellites
that enable humans to communicate across the globe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westar wrote:
<<Westar 6 was launched on February 3, 1984, but the perigee kick motor (also known as the Payload Assist Module, or PAM) on the satellite failed during its approach to geosynchronous orbit, placing it at an improper and inoperable low Earth orbit. It was retrieved on November 16, 1984, by the STS-51A mission of NASA's Space Shuttle, where it was brought back to earth and refurbished. Westar 6 was then resold to China, and relaunched on April 7, 1990, as AsiaSat 1 with a Chinese Long March 3 booster from Launch Complex 1 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#Censorship wrote:
<<Until March 2010, Google adhered to the Internet censorship policies of China, enforced by filters colloquially known as "The Great Firewall of China". Google.cn search results were filtered so as not to bring up any results concerning the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989, sites supporting the independence movements of Tibet and Taiwan, the Falun Gong movement, and other information perceived to be harmful to the People's Republic of China. Google claimed that some censorship is necessary in order to keep the Chinese government from blocking Google entirely, as occurred in 2002.>>

These posters are way cool.

FS

Well, isnt this a pretty little disply
its just ever so swell
it realy make one think of men, flying into space
it akes me wanna ride a rocket
do a rocket rife

ya
mr. rodgers wants to come too
wait for him
he needs his angora sweater

Neat! And a tribute to the lost astronauts also! I saved the posters for my wallpaper file.

Very nice poster, but there is a problem with the sailing ship: It is sunlit from the left side, but the sun is in the sky behind it. The artist wasn't paying much attention.

Bugwriter wrote:Very nice poster, but there is a problem with the sailing ship: It is sunlit from the left side, but the sun is in the sky behind it. The artist wasn't paying much attention.

Maybe that's the Moon? There are stars to the left of it. Doesn't the full Moon come up just before the sun goes down?

beyond wrote:Maybe that's the Moon? There are stars to the left of it. Doesn't the full Moon come up just before the sun goes down?

Yes (or just after), but not while the sun is still as high in the sky as the shadows on the sails indicate. Once the moon rises the 5-or-so degrees above the horizon it is shown at here, the sun will be similarly below the horizon, and unable to cast any shadows.

(I think all of this is well within artistic license for the creator of the collage, however).

There are several poster of the shuttle history how may I obtain them?

wrphillipsjr wrote:There are several poster of the shuttle history how may I obtain them?

In the topic here, the title for each poster image is a link to the download, just right-click and save.