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| Answers to Quiz #378 - December 9, 2012 |
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| 1. What is the official name of this room? 2. What is it used for? 3. When was the last time it was used? |
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| Congratulations to Our Winners! Jackie McCarty Tom Collins Tony Knapp Gus Marsh Rebecca Bare Tim Bailey Marcelle Comeau Arthur Hartwell Carol Farrant Daniel Jolley Margaret Paxton Jean Callum Judy Pfaff Talea Jurrens Mike Dalton Angel Esparza |
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| When I first looked carefully at the detail in the photo, my first guess was that it had something to do with the space program. So I did all kinds of crazy keyword searches "space program room with lots of signatures" and all kinds of combinations along those lines. Nothing that fit. Then I got out my magnifying glass and tried to read the dates on some of the signatures to get some idea of the time frame. Resolution no better than on the screen. Then I noticed the tiny red lettering in the upper right hand corner "Ben Cooper ???" couldn't make out the rest of the words. So did a search on Ben Cooper photographer (a guess that it was the photographer's name) and, presto, up came a number of websites with his whole series of absolutely gorgeous photos from all the launches, as well as a lot of landscape photos. Spent some time exploring his photographs. Did not find anything similar to your photo at this first pass. In the meantime, John was also looking at the photo on his laptop and we both noticed (at the same time!) the backwards (reflection) lettering in the window (ENDEAVOUR). That of course was all we needed to find the solution and the appropriate websites. Once we saw the original photo on a website, we noticed how you had cleverly blanked out the ENDEAVOUR sign over the door but not the reflection in the window. Cool! Your quizzes always offer "lagniappe" - a little bit extra. This time it was the wonderful work of the photographer. Did you ever meet him personally? From what I read he no longer works for NASA and is freelancing. Thanks for another great quiz. It took me a couple of hours to solve it (spent some of that time surfing Cooper's photographs!). I've developed a pattern for your quizzes: I try to do all the research and solve it the morning after you post it. Then I wait a few days to compose my answer - just to make sure I am comfortable I have a reasonable solution and maybe do a bit of extra research and let it rattle around in my head. I've enjoyed them all. Marcelle Comeau |
| Space Shuttle Endeavour Making Lots Of Stops On The Way To California Science Center In LA www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/space-shuttle-endeavour-la_n_1888287.html |
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 16 -
The space shuttle Endeavour, built to
replace NASA's lost ship Challenger,
prepared for a final flight this week,
heading not into orbit but west to a Los
Angeles museum.
Riding piggyback on top of a specially
modified 747 jet, Endeavour will be the
second of NASA's three surviving
shuttles to leave the Kennedy Space
Center and begin new roles as space
The space shuttle Endeavour, built to
replace NASA's lost ship Challenger,
prepared for a final flight this week,
heading not into orbit but west to a Los
Angeles museum.
Riding piggyback on top of a specially
modified 747 jet, Endeavour will be the
second of NASA's three surviving
shuttles to leave the Kennedy Space
Center and begin new roles as space
ambassadors.
"We finally get to really show her off," NASA astronaut Kay Hire, who flew aboard
Endeavour in 2010, told reporters on Sunday on the shuttle's runway. "It's a great
vehicle, but it was designed in the '70s. We've modified it along the way and it's
certainly served us well, but it is time to move on."
Endeavour was built as a replacement for Challenger, which was destroyed in an
accident that killed seven astronauts in 1986. NASA lost a second shuttle, Columbia,
and seven more crew members in 2003. That ship was not replaced.
Endeavour's lifespan was relatively short by shuttle standards - 25 missions over 20
years, totaling 299 days in space.
But those flights ran the gamut of orbital odysseys, including the sheer moxie of its
May 1992 debut when three astronauts made an impromptu and unprecedented
spacewalk to rescue a stranded Intelsat communications satellite.
Eighteen months later, Endeavour flew a high-stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space
Telescope, which, to NASA's horror, had been launched in 1990 with a misshapen
primary mirror.
A dozen of Endeavour's missions were devoted to building and outfitting the
International Space Station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 250 miles
above Earth.
In December 1998, Endeavour carried the first U.S.-made piece of the fledgling station,
a connecting hub named Unity that astronauts attached to the Russian-launched Zarya
base module.
Twelve years later, Endeavour carried the last U.S. connecting node, Tranquility, as
well as the station's gemstone - a dome-shaped room of windows for outside viewing.
Its final mission in May 2011 was to deliver and install a $2 billion particle detector that
is searching the cosmos for signs of dark matter and other exotic phenomena.
The shuttle, named after the ship that 18th century British explorer James Cook sailed
during his first voyage of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, will spend its retirement at the
California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Sister ship Discovery, NASA's oldest surviving shuttle, is on display at the Smithsonian
Institution's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington.
Atlantis, which flew NASA's 135th and final shuttle mission in July 2011, will not need
a plane ride to reach its retirement home. In November, it will be towed down the road
to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
"We finally get to really show her off," NASA astronaut Kay Hire, who flew aboard
Endeavour in 2010, told reporters on Sunday on the shuttle's runway. "It's a great
vehicle, but it was designed in the '70s. We've modified it along the way and it's
certainly served us well, but it is time to move on."
Endeavour was built as a replacement for Challenger, which was destroyed in an
accident that killed seven astronauts in 1986. NASA lost a second shuttle, Columbia,
and seven more crew members in 2003. That ship was not replaced.
Endeavour's lifespan was relatively short by shuttle standards - 25 missions over 20
years, totaling 299 days in space.
But those flights ran the gamut of orbital odysseys, including the sheer moxie of its
May 1992 debut when three astronauts made an impromptu and unprecedented
spacewalk to rescue a stranded Intelsat communications satellite.
Eighteen months later, Endeavour flew a high-stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space
Telescope, which, to NASA's horror, had been launched in 1990 with a misshapen
primary mirror.
A dozen of Endeavour's missions were devoted to building and outfitting the
International Space Station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 250 miles
above Earth.
In December 1998, Endeavour carried the first U.S.-made piece of the fledgling station,
a connecting hub named Unity that astronauts attached to the Russian-launched Zarya
base module.
Twelve years later, Endeavour carried the last U.S. connecting node, Tranquility, as
well as the station's gemstone - a dome-shaped room of windows for outside viewing.
Its final mission in May 2011 was to deliver and install a $2 billion particle detector that
is searching the cosmos for signs of dark matter and other exotic phenomena.
The shuttle, named after the ship that 18th century British explorer James Cook sailed
during his first voyage of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, will spend its retirement at the
California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Sister ship Discovery, NASA's oldest surviving shuttle, is on display at the Smithsonian
Institution's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington.
Atlantis, which flew NASA's 135th and final shuttle mission in July 2011, will not need
a plane ride to reach its retirement home. In November, it will be towed down the road
to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
| For more stunning space program photos by Dan Cooper, please see his website at LaunchPhotography.com |
| Clues from the Picture |
| Reflection of the word "Endeavor" in the window to the right. |
| Photographer's name and website in the far upper right. BenCooper/LaunchPhotography.com |
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| Other Potential Quiz Photos Had Too Many Clues! |
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| Space Shuttle Sticker |
| NASA Decal on Wall |
Note: In preparing the photo, I would have blocked out the word Endeavor above
the entranceway to the Shuttle.
the entranceway to the Shuttle.
| Various NASA mission stickers on the wall |
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| Ben Cooper Photographs of the Flight Deck during Endeavor's Last Power-up www.launchphotography.com/Endeavour_Flight_Deck.html |
| Swing Arms and The White Room en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39#Pad_Terminal_Connection_Room |
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| Swing arms were retractable mechanical systems that extended from the launch tower to the Space Shuttle. They provided access to the vehicle for people, wiring and plumbing while the vehicle was on the launch pad. They retracted by swinging away before launch.[15] People (technicians, engineers, and astronauts) used the Orbiter Access Arm to access the crew module. At the end of the arm, the white room provided an environmentally controlled and protected area for astronauts and their equipment to enter the orbiter. Left top: The doors to the White Room, which provided entry to the space shuttle crew compartment, are seen here at the end of the access arm walkway. Left bottom: Apollo era walkway and white room, on display at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex |
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