NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter [STS] B747 "Farewell" Limited Ed.1/200Scale Model SET

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Seller: space_and_aviation_firsts ✉️ (339) 100%, Location: Melbourne, AU, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 285360246465 NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter [STS] B747 "Farewell" Limited Ed.1/200Scale Model SET. NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter  [STS] AND  Boeing 747  [SCA]  "Farewell"  Limited Edition  1/200 Scale Models Shipping within Australia included and Worldwide for a nominal fee as my gift to you.

This is Two [2] Brilliant Models in One Purchase!  With Eight [8] choices  of Decal Finishes!  

This is a high quality plastic larger model set, to be constructed and detailed of the outstanding  Space Shuttle Orbiter atop its Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft  [SCA] Jet.    

The Space Shuttle alone is the same size as a B737 Jet Model!

The Boeing 747  Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)  was  two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle Orbiters. One is a 747-100 model, while the other is a short-range 747-100SR.

The SCAs  were used to ferry Space Shuttles  from landing sites back to the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center. The orbiters were placed on top of the SCAs by Mate-Demate Devices, large gantry-like structures that hoisted the orbiters off the ground for post-flight servicing then mated them with the SCAs for ferry flights.

In approach and landing test flights conducted in 1977, the test shuttle Enterprise  was released from an SCA during flight and glided to a landing under its own control.

Amazingly with this Limited Edition Model Set  you can complete the:

Boeing 747  -  In two [2] Finishing Options

Option one - as the original N905NA  with  beautiful American cheatlines while testing Enterprise in the 1970s or with its later NASA  livery, consisting of a white fuselage and a single blue cheatline OR 
Option two - as the later  N911NA  with its NASA livery. 

Space Shuttle - In six [6] Finishing Options

The Orbiter   model, with the decals provided,  may be finished as any  of the  Orbiters  Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis  and Endeavour   the choice is yours.

These Limited Edition  models illustrate the sheer excellence of Hasegawa Kits with their quality, attention to detail and excellent realism!  

It is one of the most beautiful and stunning Space Shuttle Orbiter and Boeing 747 SCA  model kits available to purchase in a terrific 'Larger Size Model'  1/200 scale

Space and Aviation Firsts  is an International Store having sold into more than 40  countries.  Shipping within Australia is included, and Worldwide for a small nominal fee as my gift to you.

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Description

NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA]  "Farewell" Limited Edition 1/200 Scale Models SET

THE FINAL FLIGHTs

At the end of the Space Shuttle program the SCA was used to deliver the retired orbiters from the Kennedy Space Center to their museums. Discovery  was delivered to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. on April 19, 2012. On April 17, 2012, Discovery  was flown atop a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft  escorted by a NASA T-38 Talon chase aircraft in a final farewell flight. The 747 and Discovery flew over Washington, D.C. and the metropolitan area around 10 a.m. and arrived at Dulles around 11 a.m. The flyover and landing were widely covered on national news media.

The last ferry flight took Endeavour  from Kennedy Space Center to Los Angeles between September 19 and 21, 2012 via Ellington Field and Edwards Air Force Base. After leaving Edwards the SCA with Endeavour  performed low level flyovers above various landmarks across California, from Sacramento to the San Francisco Bay Area, and finally to Los Angeles. Endeavour  was delivered to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). From there the orbiter was transported through the streets of Los Angeles and Inglewood to its final destination in the California Science Center in Exposition Park.

The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft [SCA]

The first orbiter,  Enterprise ,  made its maiden flight in 1977. An unpowered glider, it was carried by a modified Boeing 747 airliner called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft [SCA]  and released for a series of atmospheric test flights and landings. Enterprise   was partially disassembled and retired after completion of critical testing. The remaining orbiters were fully operational spacecraft, and were launched vertically as part of the Space Shuttle stack.

The first aircraft, a Boeing 747-123  registered N905NA , was originally manufactured for American Airlines and still carried visible American cheatlines while testing Enterprise in the 1970s. It was acquired in 1974 and initially used for trailing wake vortex research as part of a broader study by NASA Dryden, as well as Shuttle tests involving an F-104 flying in close formation and simulating a release from the 747.

By 1983, SCA N905NA  no longer carried the distinct American Airlines tricolor cheatline. NASA replaced it with its own livery, consisting of a white fuselage and a single blue cheatline. That year, this aircraft was also used to fly Enterprise on a tour in Europe, with refuelling stops in Goose Bay, Canada; Keflavik, Iceland; England; and West Germany. It then went to the Paris Air Show.

In 1988, in the wake of the Challenger accident, NASA  procured  the 2nd SCA, a  surplus Boeing 747SR-46 from Japan Airlines,  registered as N911NA.  It entered service with NASA in 1990 after undergoing modifications similar to N905NA. It was first used in 1991 to ferry the new shuttle Endeavour from the manufacturers in Palmdale, California to Kennedy Space Center.

Based at the Dryden Flight Research Center within Edwards Air Force Base in California the two aircraft were functionally identical, although N911NA  has five upper-deck windows on each side, while N905NA  has only two.  The rear mounting points on both aircraft were labeled with humorous instructions to "attach orbiter here" or "place orbiter here", clarified by the precautionary note "black side down".

The  Orbiters: 

Six orbiters were built for flight.  The  Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis  and Endeavour.     All were built in Palmdale, California, by the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -based Rockwell International company. 

The Space Shuttle Orbiter   was the reusable space plane  component of the Space Shuttle Program. Operated by NASA  the U.S. space agency, this vehicle could carry astronauts and payloads into low Earth orbit, perform in-space operations, then re-enter the atmosphere and land as a glider, returning its crew and any on-board payload to the Earth.

Shuttle Carriers were capable of operating from alternative shuttle landing sites such as those in the  United Kingdom, Spain, and France.  Due to the reduced range of the Shuttle Carrier while mated to an orbiter, additional preparations for removal of the payload from the orbiter may have been necessary to reduce its weight should this have happened.

Please order now so that you do not miss out on a stunningly detailed and qua lity "Limited Edition" Large r Size Hasegawa 1/200 plastic model kit. 

Mission Profiles

Ferry flights by the SCA  generally transported the orbiters from Edwards Air Force Base,  the shuttle's secondary landing site, to the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at the Kennedy Space Center  where the orbiter was processed. This was common in the early days of the space shuttle program. 

1] Space Shuttle Atlantis  (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104): is a Space Shuttle orbiter belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the space flight and space exploration agency of the United States. Constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985, Atlantis  is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J from 3 to 7 October 1985.

STS-134 by Endeavor  was expected to be the final flight before STS-135 was authorized in October 2010.  Atlantis   embarked on its 33rd and final mission, also the final mission of a  space shuttle, STS-135, on 8 July 2011. 

By the end of its final mission, Atlantis  had orbited the Earth a total of 4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 mi (203,000,000 km) or more than 525 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

Atlantis  is named after RV Atlantis , a two-masted sailing ship that operated as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic  Institution from 1930 to 1966.

Atlantis  flew 33 missions and was the last Space Shuttle to fly.

2] Space Shuttle Discovery   (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103)  is one of the orbiters from ASA’s NASA's Space Shuttle Program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D,  flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more space flights than any other spacecraft to date.

Discovery  became the third operational orbiter to enter service, preceded by Columbia  and Challenger . It embarked on its last mission, STS-133 , on February 24, 2011 and touched down for the final time at Kennedy Space Center on March 9, having spent a cumulative total of almost a full year in space. Discovery  performed both research  and International Space Station (ISS)  assembly missions. It also carried  the Hubble Space Telescope   into orbit. Discovery   was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by  Endeavour  and then Atlantis.

By its last mission, Discovery  had flown 149 million miles (238 million km) in 39 missions, completed 5,830 orbits, and spent 365 days in orbit over 27 years.[27] Discovery flew more flights than any other Orbiter Shuttle, including four in 1985 alone. Discovery  flew all three "return to flight" missions after the Challenger  and Columbia  disasters: STS-26 in 1988, STS-114 in 2005, and STS-121 in 2006. Discovery  flew the ante-penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle program, STS-133, having launched on February 24, 2011. Endeavour  flew STS-134 and Atlantis performed STS-135, NASA's last Space Shuttle mission. On February 24, 2011, Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39-A to begin its final orbital flight.

Discovery  flew 39 missions.

3] Space Shuttle Endeavour  (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011. STS-134 was expected to be the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, but with the authorization of STS-135, Atlantis  became the last shuttle to fly.

Endeavour  flew its final mission, STS-134, to the International Space Station (ISS)  in May 2011. After the conclusion of STS-134, Endeavour  was formally decommissioned.

STS-134 was intended to launch in late 2010, but on July 1 NASA released a statement saying the Endeavour mission was rescheduled for February 27, 2011.

Endeavour  landed at the Kennedy Space Center at 06:34 UTC on June 1, 2011, completing its final mission. It was the 25th night landing of a shuttle. Over its flight career, Endeavour  flew 122,883,151 miles and spent 299 days in space. During Endeavour's  last mission, the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-20 departed from the ISS  and paused at a distance of 200 meters. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli took a series of photographs and videos of the ISS  with Endeavour  docked. This was the second time a shuttle was photographed docked and the first time since 1996. Commander Mark Kelly was the last astronaut off Endeavour  after the landing, and the crew stayed on the landing strip to sign autographs and pose for pictures.

STS-134 was the penultimate space shuttle mission; STS-135 was added to the schedule in January 2011, and in July Atlantis  flew for the final time.

Endeavour  flew 25 missions.  

Size

This is a beautiful Larger Size , 1/200 Scale Hasegawa detailed Plastic Model Set of the NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA]  "Farewell" Limited Edition 1/200 Scale Models SET

NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter sizing:

Model Length approx 185 mm, 7.1/2 inches and Wingspan approx 118 mm, 4.3/4 inches.

No. of Parts 22

NASA  Boeing 747  sizing:

Model Length approx 350 mm, 13.3/4 inches and Wingspan approx 298 mm, 11.3/4 inches. No. of Parts 70

Make this Fantastic Limited Edition Set yours!

Shipping

Shipping within Australia is included and Worldwide for a nominal fee as my gift to you.

This is a great buy and offering for International, UK, US, European and Asia Pacific Collectors. 

Conclusion

The  NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA]  "Farewell" Limited Edition 1/200 Scale Models SET  - A must have beautiful high quality Model of World, NASA U.S. Space Agency Space Plane History.

Please order now so that you do not miss out!

Collectors' Hint - What are my choices with Plastic Model purchasing and collecting ?

It is the nature of the Space and Aviation market that Space and Aircraft Model Kits of important space or aviation vehicles tend to be limited in production or alternatively sell very quickly.  Two different examples are the premier Apollo 11 kits or the P-51 Mustang. 

Many model kits are 're-launched' on significant anniversaries.

Typically, the two key choices when purchasing plastic model kits are:

i)  Make the Plastic Model or 

ii) Preserve the Plastic Model 'pristine' in its box and with all original plans and parts for the future.

The former choice i) provides the enjoyment and satisfaction of model making, more so when they are rare or unusual models.

The latter choice ii) can sometimes result in a purchase worth thousands of dollars in later years or decades.  There are hundreds of examples.

Of course a 3rd choice is to benefit from both and purchase two models! 

Limited Editions  like this are exceptional examples!

Notes:   This is  serious and enjoyable premium quality Art Space and Aviation Collecting .   If an offer is to be made, please understand the offer needs to be  very seriously 'close'!

Photograph Credits:

Photo 1  An example of how beautiful the completed  NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA] Hasegawa Model  can be in one of its eight decal choices [courtesy Pinterest not included]

Photo 2 Image of the stunning NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA]  "Farewell" Limited Edition 1/200 Scale Models SET   box

Photo 3  A real image view of another choice of decal finish - Perhaps the prettiest of the Boeing 747 SCA liveries N905NA , was originally manufactured for American Airlines and carried the beautiful American Airline cheatlines and colours from 1974 until 1983.   [courtesy NASA not included]

Photo 4 The associated parts of the NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA] Hasegawa Model

Photo 5 The STUNNING ARAY of all the associated DECALs of the NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA] Hasegawa Models

Photo 6   An example of how beautiful the completed  NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA] Hasegawa Model  [courtesy Pinterest not included]

Photo 7 The brilliant DECAL PLAN from the Kits for the NASA Space Shuttle  Orbiter [STS] Boeing 747  [SCA] Hasegawa Models

Photo 8 By 1988 both the first NASA  Boeing 747 SCA N 905NA  and second  NASA  Boeing 747SR-46 SCA N911NA  sported the 'clean' blue and white liveries of NASA aircraft  [courtesy NASA not included]

Photo 9 The moment in Test Flights viewed Worldwide as Enterprise  pulls up and the first NASA  Boeing 747 SCA N 905NA  angles slightly nose down for a clean separation   [courtesy NASA not included]

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