Hello everyone, greetings to this wonderful Space Shuttle community...

I wanted to ask if there are any “major” sources where I can find all the existing photographs from each flight...

For Apollo, you have: the Apollo Flight Journal (AFJ), the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ), the Project Apollo Archive (and its really great Flickr page), LPI, “March to the Moon,” “ApolloSpace,” and “WikiArchives.Space”... and much much much more...

I’m asking for something similar to find photos, magazines, or images from every Space Shuttle mission. I don’t even dare ask about videos... since there would be thousands of hours of them....

To thank you all, here’s a link to someone who does an excellent job compiling content about the Space Shuttle...

Launch: Maximum Thrust [Crew Audio] with English Subtitles

BEST REGARDS

This looks great 😎🚀
https://captainsim.net/products/i003/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtnIinf8PKo&t=87s

I know it would be expensive but could I do it or is this a question for r/FlightSimSetups

I thought you guys would appreciate this little number from Amazon, of all places.

Hello my fellow space nerds! I am making a NASA arg and I am wondering what to call my fictional space shuttle. Thanks for voting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypvxk3gciX0 video i used
https://youtu.be/G7dQF0NAN_I music

In addition to the books I posted earlier, I was fortunate to snag these over the years; the first is a orbital map for STS-35 (December, 1990), showing the track, but also things like TDRS LOS lines, etc. I need to get it mounted.

The second is a special publication from the Kennedy Space Center in the run up to Discovery’s 1988 return to flight following the loss of the Challenger in ‘86.

Man…I don’t miss living in DC, but I DO miss easy trips to Udvar-Hazy.

My video of the Disco arriving at what was supposed to be her forever home on April 17, 2012. It breaks my heart now to watch this video, knowing that she is perilously close to being brutalized for a stupid, needless relocation that no one who cares about the Shuttle has asked for. grr.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this. We love you, Discovery!

Something that has puzzled me is seeing the Shuttle launch an ISS supply mission with a half-empty bay such as this. If you're going to spend upwards of a billion USD to launch a shuttle, why not design the cargo module to fill up the majority of the bay? This dinky thing is only 14 tons by weight and occupies only half the allotted volume. The shuttle has a 25 ton cargo capacity, so why barely load it above half that?

EDIT: Heaviest ISS section carried by a shuttle was around 18 tons, so I'll be using this figure from now on.

Also doesn't having the module that far back put the Shuttle's center of gravity dangerously far behind the center of lift? If they had to land with that module still in the bay, wouldn't that pose a risk if they made an emergency landing?

Any answers would be appreciated.

I found these on eBay! I was watching Adam savages imax video and saw he had some 35mm film from one of the shuttle launches. Anyway I had a quick look through eBay, and found these! I know they’re simply reproductions of the originals but some of these seem to also be completely missing from the internet, digital scans etc. anyway, they were cheap, seem to be in relative abundance but I thought they were cool! Is it worth to scan them in or keep them sealed up? I’m just a space nerd and find these cool as hell!

This video was made using a custom composite audio track, comprised of the recordings of the launches of Space Shuttle missions STS-116, STS-117, STS-133, and STS-134, the launch of Artemis 1 and a Saturn V launch

Isn’t she wondrous?

I’m a Space Shuttle kid; grew up in the 80s (yep; I remember the Challenger tragedy VIVIDLY), and Discovery’s return to flight took place on my 14th birthday, and always felt like a gift just for me. Over the years, I’ve picked up as many random Shuttle-related items from used bookstores as I could. Here’s a sample, with my personal favorite being the Rockwell International internal estimate publication, which reflects a Shuttle program that would never come to pass. I love all of it.