Space Shuttle Orbiter for Vue by RPublishing
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Space Shuttle Orbiter for Vue
Space Shuttle Orbiter
From Wikipedia:
NASA`s Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government`s current manned launch vehicle. The winged shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although eight have been carried) and up to 50,000 lb (22 700 kg) of payload into low earth orbit. When its mission is complete, it fires its maneuvering thrusters to drop out of orbit and re-enters the earth`s atmosphere. During the descent and landing, the shuttle orbiter acts as a glider and makes a completely unpowered landing. The Shuttle is the only winged manned spacecraft to achieve orbit and land. It carries large payloads to various orbits, provides crew rotation for the International Space Station (ISS), and performs servicing missions. The orbiter can also recover satellites and other payloads from orbit and return them to Earth, but this capacity has not been used often. However, it has been used to return large payloads from the ISS to earth, as the Russian Soyuz spacecraft has limited capacity for return payloads. Each Shuttle was designed for a projected lifespan of 100 launches or 10 years` operational life.
The program started in the late 1960s and has dominated NASA`s manned operations since the mid-1970s. According to the Vision for Space Exploration, use of the Space Shuttle will be focused on completing assembly of the ISS in 2010 (more specifically, the construction completion of the ISS), after which it will be replaced by the Orion Spacecraft.
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.: Orbiter :.
The "space shuttle" vehicle, which includes the following:
Poser figure (cr2) and obj file.
Approx. 35,200 polygons; all of which are 3 and 4 point polygons.
Opening and closing bay doors (ERC dial on body).
Raising and lowering landing gear (ERC dial on body).
Opening and closing landing gear doors (ERC dial on body).
Moving left and wight wing flaps: TWO on the right and TWO on the left.
Rotating rear tail fin rudder.
Rotating rear flap. .: Textures (and MAT poses) :.
Accurate textures for all SIX (6) shuttle names. And, yes, the paint jobs/ textures for each shuttle are slightly different: some paint jobs include the US flag while some simply have the NASA logo.
Enterprise (named for the starship from the Star Trek TV series; only used for liftoff and landing tests and did not actually fly into space)
Atlantis
Challenger (this shuttle, and all aboard, were lost on January 28, 1986)
Discovery (the "return to flight" shuttle was the first to launch after the Challenger disaster)
Columbia (this shuttle, and all aboard, were lost on February 2, 2003)
Endeavour
Explorer **This is a the full-sized replica at Kennedy Space Center and was never flown.**
Texture templates included in file... use them to make your own textures.
.: Launch and Recovery System :.
Includes the following props (with obj files and textures):
Center, orange fuel tank (parented to Orbiter).
Right and left white solid rocket boosters (parented to the center tank).
Engine cover: to protect engines when the shuttle is transported back to the launch site on top of a 747 aircraft (parented to Orbiter).
.: Position Poses :.
Orbiter landed (nose down, all wheels on ground; landing gear lowered, landing gear doors opened)
Orbiter in flight (level flight; landing gear up, laanding gear doors closed)
Ready for Launch (vertical; landing gear up, landing gear doors closed, bay doors closed)
On JumboJet: (moved into position on top of 747 (JumboJet); landing gear up, landing gear doors closed, bay doors closed)
.: 747 (JumboJet) Add-ons :.
Note the 747 (JumboJet) is available as a separate product.
New, rear tail wings
TWO (2) textures:
--NASA 1 (red, white, blue)
--NASA 2 (blue and silver)
Model created for RPublishing by Vanishing Point
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