Space Shuttle Mockup. The mockup is approximately the same size and shape as an actual orbiter. Full size space shuttle mockup opening to public in seattle november 9 2012 it is not every day you get to stand inside the payload bay of a space shuttle but that is the experience now awaiting visitors at the museum of flight in seattle.
After sitting in storage for many years the america japan society inc. Ryan began building a full scale mock up of the shuttle s crew compartment some 15 years ago when he was still an engineering student at the california polytechnic state university cal poly. Obtained the wood and steel mockup at a cost of us 1 million and hired teledyne brown engineering to refurbish it to more closely resemble an actual.
Originally it was used to win approval of the space shuttle program.
Known then by the name explorer it was designed and built by. Full size space shuttle mockup opening to public in seattle november 9 2012 it is not every day you get to stand inside the payload bay of a space shuttle but that is the experience now awaiting visitors at the museum of flight in seattle. The space shuttle orbiter mockup was constructed by north american rockwell in 1972. Ryan began building a full scale mock up of the shuttle s crew compartment some 15 years ago when he was still an engineering student at the california polytechnic state university cal poly.
