Students' Familiarity With Shuttles?
Hi - new person here. :-)
Are your students already familiar with space exploration and/or human spaceflight?
I've made a few Shuttle presentations to students. To pique their interest and to act as an ice-breaker (for all of us!), I asked their teacher...
Yes!! A5214!!
Oh, man - it's all coming back now!! :-)
A5214 was indeed the Pad rollout procedure, and so many times I stopped at an appropriate distance from the Shuttle stack just to watch these magnificent machines make their way slowly from the VAB to the ocean-side launch site.
I believe...
Wow! :-)
As the title says -- 'Wow!' and thanks for all the greetings! :-)
I knew at least one 'DaveS' at Kennedy - a Mid-body Planner and an LA Dodgers fan! - and he's right on the Shuttle procedure nomenclature.
The "S" prefix was for "Shuttle" [the combined Orbiter, External Tank and...
Hello from Colorado's San Luis Valley!
I spent twenty-some years at Kennedy Space Center and was fortunate to work with some great people on a great program!
I found this website by doing a Google search for 'S0014 (Flight Readiness Firing)'. ("S0004", "V1017", "V1184" anybody? :-) )
I look...
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