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Ground crews tow Columbia from the runway to the Orbiter Processing Facility at KSC to begin preparing it for its next flight.

Date: April 7, 1982

NASA ID: link

NX-02 Columbia 

Launched:

November 30th, 2154. 

Captain:

Erika Hernandez

Class:

NX

Colombian Air Force, Lockheed C-130H Hercules FAC 1004 in Rionegro, recently returned from it’s fifth antarctic mission, hence the 5 penguins painted on it’s side.

The same aircraft during its fourth antarctic mission.

I found it funny how it makes it look like the plane is somehow claiming 5 penguins as aerial kills, a transport aircraft shooting down flightless birds!

Space shuttle Atlantis (right), slated for mission STS-38, is parked in front of bay three of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following its rollback from Pad 39A for repairs to the liquid hydrogen lines.

Space shuttle Columbia (left), scheduled for mission STS-35, is rolled past space shuttle Atlantis on its way to Pad 39A. Photo credit: NASA/KSC August 9, 1990

The Space Shuttle Columbia roars through pre-down clouds on March 1, 2002. (NASA)

NASA 905, a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departs White Sands Space Harbor with Columbia (OV-102), 2 April 1982.

Columbia STS-1 landing at Edwards AFB

STS-1 was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981 and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 36 times. Columbia carried a crew of two – mission commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen.

NX-02 Columbia, under construction.

Yeah sure is something.

CG model of the under-construction Columbia NX-02, from ENT: “The Expanse”.  From the defunct Drexfiles site.

1931. Columbia dirigible over the top of Empire State Building

NX-02 Columbia 

Launched: November 30th, 2154.  Captain: Erika Hernandez Class: NX