The more than 600 items on display in the newly opened James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, in Chantilly, Va., include the first Space Shuttle, artifacts from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs and Soviet spaceship parts.
The elements should be familiar enough to any reader of Burroughs: drugs, federal agents, international conspiracies, guns, murder, the Mafia, the Old West, spaceships, aliens and the witness protection program.
But a group of rebels, led by conspirators within the government's space program, plans to hijack the transport spaceship and replace the government's hand-picked colonists with 100 leading dissidents and their families.
The two spaceships are reportedly products of the Soviet Union's Buran program, which ran from 1974 to 1993.
"It felt more like a ride than a computer program, something between an observation-deck and a glass-walled spaceship.
The orbiter hangs just feet from your touch, and visitors will be in awe of the spaceship's size while spending hours interacting with exhibits dedicated to the shuttle program.
Pilots have skills that would be valuable to the program, he said, but "they're not going to be flying the spaceships" for many years to come.
For this scenario, we have programmed a game) in which the patient controls the position of a spaceship, along the horizontal axis of the screen, by performing 1-DOF movements with the wrist, elbow, or GH joint.
If successful, it will be the first non-governmental spaceship to rendezvous and berth at the station during a mission sponsored by NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program.
