Sep 022010
I remember this painting from before the Shuttle first flew. Specifically, I remember it being printed across a full newspaper spread on the day the Columbia was to first launch. Yes, I kept that “poster,” and yes, I studied it intently, and yes, I believed that someday soon I’d fly it into space. Ah, to be that young and stupid again…
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I’d love to have the full size newspaper spread.
I remember this as well. Makes the shuttle look much more sleek and streamlined.
I remember seeing this all over the place around the time of the first launch. I was a kid then and it must’ve been in a lot of books about space targeted to young readers – and I think it was poster-sized in National Geographic (but I could be wrong about that). Brings back memories!
I myself was going to a local community college at the time of the
first launch. I remember a two-page spread in the Chicago Tribune
with the words “Congratulations,America”.
Yeah,those were the days too,was almost an aeronautical engineer myself
taking Pre-enginnering courses at that community college but never got
that degree.Nothing bad happened, but it was just one of those “And so it goes” situations.
Is that the Long Duration Exposure Facility it is hoisting out of the cargo bay?
Nice artwork – anyone know who the artist is?