![]() After the National Air and Space Museum passed on its display, the trainer was reserved for Johnson's own visitor center, Space Center Houston. Astronauts used the CCT to train for entering and exiting the orbiter under normal and emergency conditions.Īs the shuttle program came to an end in 2011, NASA offered CCT-2 to the Smithsonian. The cabin could be tilted skyward, though, to give crew members the experience of working in the same orientation that the shuttle would be on the launchpad. ![]() A mockup rather than a simulator, the CCT's switches, dials and instruments were non-functional. ![]() Like the real crew compartments, the trainer has two levels: the upper flight deck, which served as the shuttle's cockpit, and the lower mid-deck living area. (LSFM)ĬCT-2 first went into use at Johnson Space Center in 1993, joining the first CCT that was installed in 1975. NASA's last space shuttle mockup moves to museum. "What we have now is a much more complete story of the space shuttle and the training opportunities that the astronauts experienced during their time with the shuttle." "The fact that we now have both of these artifacts, I think it is a tremendous opportunity for us to be able to tell that story in a much more complete way," said Owens. The addition of CCT-2 distinguishes the Lone Star as the only location to exhibit two shuttle-era astronaut trainers. "While I look at it from the benefit to the museum in terms of having an artifact like this, this truly represents decades of work by people from here in Houston working at Johnson Space Center training the astronauts and the astronauts themselves, who many of them now live here in the Houston area."ĭelivered by a semi truck towing a flatbed trailer, the 28.75-foot-long by 19-foot-wide by 23.5-foot-high (9 by 6.75 by 7 m) mockup was positioned alongside the Shuttle Mission Simulator-Motion Base, a one-of-a-kind, once-hydraulic-powered flight deck that arrived at the museum in April. Doug Owens, president and chief executive officer of the Lone Star Flight Museum, in an interview with collectSPACE. "The CCT is a true piece of history for all us," said Gen. The museum is located at Houston's Ellington Field, home to NASA's aircraft operations division. The last of NASA's space shuttle crew cabin mockups to leave the agency's training room floor has arrived at its new home, where it will be exhibited alongside an orbiter simulator.Ĭrew Compartment Trainer-2 (CCT-2), which for 18 years was one of two shuttle nose-section trainers in use at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, completed its trip from the center's Building 9 Space Vehicle Mockup Facility to the Lone Star Flight Museum on Friday (Nov.
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