Space shuttle cockpit

space shuttle controls

Before it was decommissioned, we got to sit in the pilot’s seat and ask questions.

Here's a fisheye view of the interior of the cockpit in the mockup space shuttle, Adventure, at Space Center Houston in Texas. I've shot this before with other ultra-wide lenses but I had to try it with the fisheye on this trip, Just to be different, I also shot it vertically this time (though I have a horizontal version too).

Spaceflight Now | Shuttle Mission Report | PHOTOS: Inside Endeavour's crew cabin

Endeavour Space Shuttle Cockpit

Cockpit of the Shuttle Atlantis

Cockpit of Russian shuttle Buran.

https://flic.kr/p/ehrDcx | Space Shuttle Trainer | The trainer is roughly equivalent to a Shuttle from the mid-1980s - it never got the glass cockpit upgrade like the simulators or the real things.

Inside the space shutter orbiter cockpit at Space Center Houston. Have to admit the view of Earth was photoshop magic. Unplanned two shot stitch from two 17mm frames. Orbiter history from wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_orbiter): "Columbia was the first Orbiter to launch into space as a Space Shuttle, in 1981. The first launches of Challenger, Discovery, and finally Atlantis, followed in 1983, 1984 and 1985 respectively. In 1986, Challenger was destroyed in an accident after…

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click photo to enlarge, or full size. Glorious when powered up... something they won't be able to show when moved to the museum.

https://flic.kr/p/ehrDdD | Space Shuttle Trainer | Glommed together from two separate photos - one for the upper half and another for the much darker lower section.

These rare photos by Ben Cooper capture the Flight Deck (cockpit) of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, fully powered for one of the final times. ...