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Photos: Space Shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer Opening Day

The space shuttle trainer payload bay prior to opening up to the public. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • The space shuttle trainer payload bay prior to opening up to the public. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Space tourist and philanthropist Charles Simonyi (right) and Nasa Deputy Administrator Lori Garver (L) listen to former shuttle astronaut Nicholas Patrick (off frame) speak about his time on the shuttle. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • An astronaut (Layne Benofsky of the MOF) walks up the stairway into the payload bay with a group of VIPs. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Former shuttle astronauts Nicholas Patrick (L) and Wendy Lawrence (R) speak to kids in the payload bay, explaing about the lights on astronaut helmets. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Former NASA shuttle astronauts Wendy Lawrence (L) and Nicholas Patrick (R) show Julianna (8) & Emily Heiland (11) the airlock of the shuttle trainer. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Nicholas (10) and Sarah Chesemore of Bellevue Washington look at pictures of a wall depicting history of the shuttle program. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • The airlock of the space shuttle full fuselage trainer. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Nicholas Chesmore, 10, from Bellevue Washington climb into the crew compartment of the space shuttle trainer. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Nicholas and Sarah Chesemore of Bellevue Washington along with a Museum of Flight staff member tour the flight deck of the trainer. The two won a tour of the crew compartment via lottery. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • The flight deck of space shuttle simulator at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. The trainer opened to the public on November 10, 2012 to a crowd of thousands. Access to the payload bay is open to the public. The crew compartment is available by special paid tour only. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • A local high school band plays outside the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery before festivities begin. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Llloyd Yates, 86, a volunteer at the Museum of Flight, peers around the entrance to the payload bay to get a lok at the growing crowd before speakers assemble. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Barbara Yates, 81, a Museum of Flight volunteer, talks with children in the front rows before the trainer opens to the public. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • Outgoing US Congressional Representative Norm Dicks (D, WA) points out a few features of the payload bay to Washington governor Christine Gregoire (D). (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)
  • A child watches the stand-alone space shuttle potty exhibit, manned by Museum of Flight webmaster Layne Benofsky thumbing through a magazine in a spacesuit. (Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/NYCAviation)



 
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