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HUGE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA MOBILE GROUND CONTROL BUS MODEL
20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$3,000 - US$5,000
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HUGE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA MOBILE GROUND CONTROL BUS MODEL
5 feet long, 1 foot 4 inches tall, and 1½ foot wide detailed hand-built engineer's model in metal and composite materials, large plexiglass viewing window on roof and at rear giving unobstructed view of the interior which includes various computer systems, electrical panels, power boxes, as well as a model of a man sitting at the controls. The various control panels fitted with highly detailed decals, the whole supported with 6 rubber tires reading "Firestone Transteel Radial. Protector Ply XR4," decal below passenger and driver side windows read: "US AIR FORCE. 81C 940. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY," decals on rear viewing window read: "US AIR FORCE 81C 940, and "AFMPC RAFB," front license plate reads AFMPC RAFD." General Electric, c.1989.
HUGE DETAILED ENGINEER'S MODEL, THE ONLY ONE BUILT, of a mobile command center bus used during the space Shuttle Columbia landing at Robins Air Force Base, on August 20, 1989. Ferried atop a special NASA Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the Columbia was forced to divert its planned landing at the Kennedy Space Center to Robins Air Force Base due to poor weather conditions.
HUGE DETAILED ENGINEER'S MODEL, THE ONLY ONE BUILT, of a mobile command center bus used during the space Shuttle Columbia landing at Robins Air Force Base, on August 20, 1989. Ferried atop a special NASA Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the Columbia was forced to divert its planned landing at the Kennedy Space Center to Robins Air Force Base due to poor weather conditions.


