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Slaughter
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 09:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Pics from my cell phone camera:



And this from my friend Albion Bowers from the parking lot of his dentist (root canal that day) - I know the shuttle/transporter rig is slow - but a balloon chase??
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Two_seasons
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 09:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Great shots. Shame that this program is at it's end.

I knew an Al Bowers from Unidyne in Virginia Beach. We worked on ionaspheric recorders, converting them from analog to digital, back in the day. I wonder if it's the same Al? Would be about 54 years old.
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Slaughter
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 10:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Al is now Deputy Director, Advanced Programs at NASA/Dryden.

Age is about right.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/Biographie s/Management/bowers.html
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Two_seasons
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Steve,
I was excited to read the link above and see if we were referring to the same "Al". Sad to say, it isn't him. Thanks.

EDIT:
My wife noted in the third pic from Al above, that we have went from the balloon era, to sub-orbital flight, and on to space flight, all in one great shot from Albion Bowers...excellent

(Message edited by two_seasons on September 22, 2012)
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Mr_grumpy
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 01:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I remember seeing the shuttle Enterprise on it's piggyback transporter flying steadily up the Thames through London in 1983.
I was up on Blackheath that day looking down on it.

Incredible to think those 747s are still flying nearly 30 years on.

Thanks for the pics.
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Just_ziptab
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 11:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Why the jet escorts? Somebody might hijack a "end of life" shuttle? And it's not like they can stop and help if the piggy back gets in trouble. Other than that,I am totally fascinated with the depth of the whole space program and how they make any of it work. Been watching Apollo 11(and others) on youtube......................riveting!
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Psykick_machanik
Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 11:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"Moonraker" Just_zip, im just sayin....
The escort is there to make sure pieces are not coming off the shuttle during flight, and to provide a birds eye view (literally) in case trouble pops up. What a cool job.
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