OFSS II - Mission Screen Shots

screenshots from OFSS2 Mission 11.
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STS-146

Fish bowl operational!

I'll get the complete set up tomorrow.
 
STS-146 story in pictures:

Tires too difficult to kick, but we're ready to light some huge fires.

Max-Q

Good SRB-Sep, should be smooth from now on.

Ehrm... it looks OK, doesn't it?

And there goes ET, and hold the "phone home" jokes.

The first sunrise of many.

OMS-2 burn.

Closing in veeeeeeeeery slowly.

Due to lack of space(????) Cupola installation was moved up to FD4.

Handoff complete. Let's plug that hole.

Cupola installed, and SSRMS walk-off completed.

MMPLM intsallation in progres. (Due to the swap there was little time for photos because crew was busy transfering cargo)
 
15 images limit. :)


Removing the launch locks from the Cupola.

Looks great! (Note to self: Remember to bring some nice curtains on the next flight)

Night shot of the completed work. (Those payload bay cameras sure have excellent picture quality!)

Time to leave. :cry:

No way back now.

Enjoying the last bit of Zero-G. (I really look like a pumpkin!)

TAEM! (Well, at least the weather is nice)

On @ the 90°

Fairly well lined up.

Hope the gear deploys all right. The go-around will be very short.

That hill is very close! No wonder I touch down left of center every time.

"Thank you for flying OFSSII airlines, hope you enjoyed the plasma show"
 
SpaceX Dragon 11 ready for takeoff:

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Cleared the launch tower, the Moon is on the bottom left and Jupiter is on the bottom right:

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Approach to docking with the OFSSII, i had to wait another orbit because it was getting dark:

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Hard Dock! The Dragon is one with OFSSII:

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Fantastic shots, all around!
I have to ask though, what addon/s give the updated KSC launchpad and the smoke from the boosters shown below?
I'm assuming the launchpad spotlights are included?

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Fantastic shots, all around!
I have to ask though, what addon/s give the updated KSC launchpad and the smoke from the boosters shown below?
I'm assuming the launchpad spotlights are included?

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Here:
[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3737"]International Space Station v.3.2[/ame]
 
Mission 15

The PTV-1 mission photos are in.

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Tower cleared, commencing roll program.

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High altitude view of the launch.

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1'st stage separation.

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Clean 2'nd stage separation, and 3'rd stage ignition.

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Space craft separation! Pollux PTV-1 is in a 360x25 km orbit, and needs an orbit insertion burn to achieve safe orbit. The crew took manual control of the beta angle to minimize RInc. 0.02° isn't all that bad for first attempt.

The next generation Castor 3'rd stage is going to be restartable, and will put Pollux in a stable orbit.

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Insertion burn almost complete. We need to get the solar panels ready to charge the batteries, or we'll have a short mission this time.
(Warning! The following section contains mostly results of the orbital test, and "spectacular views" wasn't anywhere in the check-lists. Feel free to scroll down to the more exiting stuff.)

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Oh! That was close. We better get the restartable 3'rd stage to avoid some pretty hefty fines for littering.

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Checkout operations underway. RCS and OMS showed flawless performance, and the navigation accuracy is excellent.

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PTV-1 has reached the initial holding point ~500 km behind the station,and radar contact had been established. Orbital checkout tests continuing.

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Visual Contact! "I spy" games are getting quite repetitive by now.

Distance is 96 km, and everything looks good for tomorrow's proximity operation test.

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PTV-1 has reached the 400 foot mark, and is holding the relative position. Time to initiate the approach abort sequence.

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A view of the PTV-1 from the cupola. It will retreat to a holding point 20 km behind the station while technicians on the ground evaluate the test results.

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PTV-1 has arrived once again at the 400 feet mark. Orbital sunrise and we have a "Go" for docking.

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Funny how the final few meters seems to take much longer then the thousands of miles it took to get here.

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Contact and capture! The first part of the maiden flight of Pollux PTV has been successfully completed.

Initial results indicate that the next PTV crew will not have to spend a week+ in orbit before docking. Although it's more spacious then the Dragon, it's not really designed for long duration space flight.

Edit: Complete coverage is available at: http://s1130.photobucket.com/albums/m523/C3POrbiter/OFSS II/PTV1/
 
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OFSS2 Flight 17 - PTV-2

PTV-2 on the pad:
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Liftoff!
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Solid rocket boosters burnout:
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First stage separation:
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Fairing jettison:
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Second stage separation:
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PTV-2 is in orbit!
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Solar panels unfolding:
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Slowly closing in on the station:
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Orbital sunrise on the station:
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Final approach:
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Almost...
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Docking complete!
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For some reason I'm having trouble loading screenshots from the member gallery. Too tired to figure it out fight now.
 
STS-150

And here are the screenshots for the STS-150 Endeavour mission.
I didn't snap any of the landing since I made the video, but the launch pics are there because I snapped them before I decided to make the launch video.


The launch.

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External tank flies by at the OMS burn to circularize the orbit.

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Payload bay doors opening.

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OBSS inspection on Flight Day 2

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Approaching the station.

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A shot of Endeavour from the cupola as it moves into position to dock at PMA-2.

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From the docking camera as Endeavour pitches up to align with the docking port.

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Right before docking on Flight Day 4.

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The crew starts off Flight Day 5 by installing the HabMod2 using the Orbiter RMS.

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Success! The module is installed on the main habitat core module below one of the sets of solar panels.

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Undocking and thrusting away from the station.

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A look at the instruments as the shuttle reenters the atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico and quickly approaching Florida's west coastline.

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STS-152

Atlantis on pad

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Liftoff!

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View from the ET

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SRB sep

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Heading towards sunrise

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Payload Bay Doors opening

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View of the Payload Bay

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Atlantis performing RPM maneuver (1) viewed from the Cupola

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Atlantis performing RPM maneuver (2) viewed from the Cupola

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Docking

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Shuttle arm grappling the P3P4

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Arm transfer

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P3P4 attached

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Crew working inside OFSS2 (actualy taken inside the Kibo, thanks to Orbiter Forum Italia for the wonderful Eridanus)

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EVA

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S4 solar arrays retracting

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P3P4 deploying (from Cupola)

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P3P4 deployed

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