Shuttles docked to space station picture thread

[Geonovast]

I just love the look of a space shuttle docked to a space station.   Stations are always cool to begin with, but there's just something about the realisticish shuttles docked.  Might have something to do with spending too much time this past weekend watching STS mission launches and summaries.  Some of my favorites:

 

Whatcha got?

[SnailsAttack]

An image of a space station I made today docked with a fuel transport shuttle from my minar refinery station. The station features a few solar panels, the primary thrusters I used to get it up there in the first place, and space for 4 crew, plus 4 escape pods that can undock from the station and land safely on Kerbin. There are also a large number of docking ports on the sides that I can use to expand the station. The large tank is almost completely full of liquid fuel.

[invision]

due to extreme budget cuts and lack of government funding we had to sell our docking rocket

 

[KerikBalm]

Its not much like the space shuttle, but

Others, all done in a 3x rescaled system, so the SSTOs had to be much larger.

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Ok that last one may not count, and this next one is just a rendevous with the shuttle carrying more station modules as payload

 

[Rocket In My Pocket]

Here's one of my latest shuttle designs, docked at a very old; early game fueling depot.

Wish I had taken a better picture of it actually docked. It's hard to see the Klaw gripping it's belly in any of these.

The depot was so old in fact I had to send up a special adapter module so the shuttle could even dock. Here's me assembling it with the stations "orbital fork truck."

Leaving dock to go on it's double Munar Kerbal rescue mission. (You'll notice the Shuttle has no RCS. This was a manual belly dock...very hair raising lol. Once you are committed, there is no making adjustments.)

[53miner53]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0eMT8zRijNmYlBzbHNycEJrUTg

My versions of Challenger and Space Station Freedom. Odd that the shuttle is bigger than the station... may need to add to it.

[Sylith]

Here is my spacestation "Bob One" with a support shuttle docked. Wow, this picture is really old...this station was build march 2014

[XB-70A]

I tend to be totally crazy of this some time ago.

My oldest shuttle ever, Arethuse:

 

 

Kolibri Mk IB with Columbia

 

 

Kolibri Mk. II

 

 

Demeter

 

 

Eos, which is still my little favorite

 

 

Kolibri Mk IV

 

 

Nephthys, my tiniest ever.

 

 

Diane

 

 

Adikia

 

 

 

Edited February 7, 2018 by XB-70A

[Vanamonde]

These works of fans have been moved to Fan Works. 

[Geonovast]

On 2/7/2018 at 2:28 PM, XB-70A said:

Adikia

It's so cute!  Are you sure these are yours though?  I mean, I'm not seeing any fairings...

 

On 2/7/2018 at 1:55 PM, Sylith said:

Here is my spacestation "Bob One" with a support shuttle docked. Wow, this picture is really old...this station was build march 2014

Looks great though!  Shuttle an SSTO plane?  Looks too complex to get strapped to a rocket.

Edited February 9, 2018 by Geonovast

[Sylith]

On 9.2.2018 at 7:26 PM, Geonovast said:

Looks great though!  Shuttle an SSTO plane?  Looks too complex to get strapped to a rocket.

Yes, it's a SStO shuttle.

In those days you can use stacked air intakes to reach high altitudes with airpowered engines .

And no heat damage allowed you to reach nearly orbital velocity

[Geonovast]

1 hour ago, Sylith said:

And no heat damage allowed you to reach nearly orbital velocity

I came in at 1.3, so I constantly forget that there used to be no heat damage.

[qzgy]

On 2/9/2018 at 1:26 PM, Geonovast said:

It's so cute!  Are you sure these are yours though?  I mean, I'm not seeing any fairings...

Ayy, I get it!

Does look his style though.

[XB-70A]

On 2/9/2018 at 1:26 PM, Geonovast said:

It's so cute!  Are you sure these are yours though?  I mean, I'm not seeing any fairings...

I didn't post any screenshot with, but...

GLORY TO THE FAIRINGS.

 

Or, it's also working as an E.T. too...

This, actually, is the reason why I love the Eos shuttle so much.

 

 

I tried to make a pure fairing fuselage on another shuttle also, but it failed miserably following the re-enter. The air resistance was so low that the elevons were not even able to correct the Y-angle... on another hand, the fairing belly was giving a total protection against the heat. Too bad it didn't worth the price to keep on testing.