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A new exhibit opens today at The Museum of Flight in Seattle that features Blue Origin's first flying vehicle, Charon. Built as an early development project in 2005, Blue Origin has loaned the vertical take-off, vertical-landing jet-...
The delivery of what has become one of the Northwest’s most eagerly anticipated new residents - the NASA Space Shuttle Trainer - has begun. The first parts of the Trainer to be delivered - the engine bells - arrived via truck April 16 and the crew compartment is due for delivery on June 16.
The three engine bells, each one weighing more than 800 pounds and 9 feet in diameter, will be reunited with the rest of the Trainer over the...
Today the Museum took delivery of the first large artifact for its new Space Gallery today—a Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft. The three-person vehicle arrived in a large wooden crate on flatbed truck, and was met by Museum officials, representatives of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, and the spacecraft’s owner—and loaner—Charles Simonyi. Simonyi was onboard the Soyuz when it was flown to the International Space Station in 2009. Simonyi...
The Museum of Flight President, Doug King, was officially given the 'keys' to the space shuttle Full Fuselage Trailer during a January 19 ceremony at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. JSC Director Michael L. Coats, Mission Operations Director Paul Hill, and Seattle shuttle astronaut Greg C. Johnson were speakers at the event, with the FFT towering behind them. Following remarks, Hill and King signed the Space Act Agreement that will...
Famous Jumbo Jet Pilots Meet at Museum
Qantas Capt. Richard De Crespigny and retired Boeing test pilot (and Museum of Flight Trustee) Brien Wygle pose before De Crespigny’s lecture on the evening of Jan. 11. De Crespigny delivered a riveting presentation about his unprecedented in-flight emergency while flying a super jumbo Airbus 380 from Singapore in 2010. The story of Qantas Flight 32 and how De Crespigny and the...