Ultra Cool 360 Panoramic Of The Shuttle Discovery Cockpit
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 07:44AM 
Click the pic to go to the 360 panoramic of Discovery's cockpit (tilt, pan and zoom)
So here we are living in the vacuum of no active NASA manned spacecraft program for the first time since Alan Shepard was the first American in space over 50 years ago. The private ventures that have the goal of manned spaceflight may well succeed, in time, but the lack of a direct NASA manned program says a lot of about the state of America. You can point to NASA mismanagement as part of the issue, but I believe ultimately it's a result of the massive and overriding weakening of the financial condition of the nation... and that's not NASA management's fault, that's the fault of the politicians in Washington who spend more than they take in and seem to have no real understanding of how wealth is generated. They seem to think our individuals pockets are a bottomless pit rather than realizing that it's 'productivity' that generates the wealth that can in turn be taxed. Until we put productivity ahead of spending, it's only going to get worse. I'm hopin' for real some serious change in Washington in November 2012, if you get my drift.
Ok, enough with the frustrating stuff... the point of this post is an excellent 360 panoramic experience that you can have in the cockpit of Shuttle Discovery. Click the pic above or click here to open a new window with the panoramic image that can be tilted, panned and zoomed (controls are centered at the bottom of the image in the panoramic) - it's an amazing look at the complex front office of the Shuttle.
Discovery's last flight (STS-133) landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on March 9, 2011. This panoramic image was captured during the decommission process in the months that followed, which means it's a pretty recent look at Discovery's cockpit. So take a few minutes and poke around inside one of the most amazing cockpits on Earth... or in space!
Reader Comments (5)
Is it just me, or the screens look like mockups printed on paper?
zbyhu- You might have a point there... when you zoom in and look closely, it does look like they're paper overlays. I guess that might be since they were not likely to power up all the systems just to get a good picture. Maybe we'll find out for sure from someone who knows
I like your posts much more when they don't include regurgitated, Republican, FOX NOISE, party-line trickle-down economics cr_p. When was the last time the U.S. economy was thriving? I'll answer for you...Clinton administration. When was the last balanced budget? I'll let you guess. For some interesting reading, try out the Rolling Stones Magazine article about how the Republican party became the party of the rich...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-the-rich-20111109
My unsolicited advice...stick to airplanes.
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