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- AIRS_160819_01.JPG: Canadarm
Remote Manipulator System
- AIRS_160819_05.JPG: Features of the Space Shuttle Orbiter
Reaction Control System:
Small thrusters (fore and aft) for roll, pitch, yaw, and lateral maneuvers in space.
Star Trackers:
Celestial navigation instruments for determining the orbiter's position.
Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC):
Protective covering for areas exposed to the highest reentry temperatures: the nose cap and wing leading edges.
Crew Compartment:
Pressurized flight deck and middeck cabin where crews lived and worked.
Crew Hatch:
Entry exit scaled for spaceflight. Spacewalkers used an internal airlock for trips outside the cabin.
Payload Bay:
Held communication satellites, the Hubble Space Telescope, Spacelab, or International Space Station elements.
Thermal Blankets and Tiles:
Reusable surface insulation protecting the orbiter from the fierce hear of reentry.
Landing Gear:
Dropped just 15 seconds before touchdown, after the orbiter slowed from 28,200 to 350 kilometers per hour (17,500 to 250 miles per hour).
Vertical Stabilizer:
With a two-part rudder that swung side to side or spread open as a speed brake.
Main Engines:
Reusable rocket engines fired only for launch, draining the huge external propellant tank to reach orbit in just eight minutes.
OMS Pods:
Two mid-size Orbital Maneuvering System engines for the shuttle's final push into orbit, changing altitude or velocity in space, and starting its descent home.
Elevons:
Trailing edge flaps on the triangular delta wings, used for flight control in the atmosphere during descent to landing.
- AIRS_160819_23.JPG: Canadarm
Remote Manipulator System
The Canadarm is a jointed robotic arm used to move payloads and position astronauts working outside the Space Shuttle or International Space Station. Remotely operated by an astronaut at a control station inside the spacecraft, the arm has shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints plus an end effector that serves as a hand. Television cameras mounted on the arm assist the operator in precisely controlling its movements. Although it can lift large masses in space, the arm cannot support its own weight on Earth.
This Canadarm flew on 15 missions and four orbiters from 1994 through 2011, including Discovery's last six missions, all to the International Space Station. The Canadian Space Agency supplied robotic arms for the shuttle and space station programs.
- AIRS_160819_29.JPG: Spacelab Subsystems Igloo
Spacelab could be configured with an enclosed laboratory module, exposed platforms called pallets, or a module-pallet combination. The igloo canister was used on pallet-only missions. Mounted beside a pallet, it held subsystems that supplied power and other utilities to instruments and experiments on the pallet. Missions using an igloo included Spacelab 2, Astro-1, ATLAS-1, ATLAS-2, ATLAS-3, and Astro-2.
Two igloo units were manufactured by the Belgian firm SABCA, and both were used in space. This one has intact exterior thermal insulation, but its internal hardware has been removed for reuse. NASA transferred it to the Museum when the Spacelab program ended in 1999.
- AIRS_160819_33.JPG: IUE Control and Display System
This is an engineering control and display unit for the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite, which operated from 1978 to 1996. The unit was the first of five engineering control consoles designed and built by the Bendix Corporation for NASA and the European Space Agency. It is nearly identical to the scientific control consoles used in the IUE control center in Building 21 of Goddard Space Flight Center. This particular console, however, came from the Engineering unit in Building 4. The center section contains two CRTs, a keyboard, and a joystick. Facades simulating a minicomputer and disk drive are attached at the right. The unit was refurbished at the Garber facility in 1982 for display in the National Air and Space Museum's "Stars" gallery. The instrument facades, a keyboard, a teleprinter, and a working CRT were added at that time to simulate a working IUE console. The unit was transferred to NASM by NASA in 1982; it was on display in the Stars gallery from then until the exhibit closed in 1997. Preserved with the console are paper notes, memoranda, and other ephemera typical of an operating environment.
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