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The flight deck aboard the space shuttle Independence at Space Center Houston has been outfitted with a new "glass cockpit," as first revealed here. The flight deck aboard the space shuttle ...
The actual space shuttle cockpit stands 32 feet above the ground. So the simulated landing in the training aircraft comes 20 feet above the ground, giving Boe precisely the view he will have from ...
Who doesn't enjoy a little rocket ship pr0n? Gigantic pic of the Space Shuttle cockpit after the break. It's huge!
On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA ...
The new shuttle orbiter Atlantis glass cockpit has nine Honeywell Multifunctional Electronic Subsystems (MEDS) liquid crystal displays (see page 54). Atlantis is set for launch with the new system ...
DIAGNOSE THYSELF: One of the advancements in the space shuttle's Cockpit Avionics Upgrade Program, or "smart cockpit" (DAILY, Aug. 24), will be an enhanced caution and warning system capable of ...
Every NASA astronaut who ever rode aboard the space shuttle, more than 350 of them, first sat in its full-motion simulator. And even though the simulator was firmly on the ground, anchored inside ...
On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA ...