04 / CREDITS
Built on the
public record.
The explorer combines NASA geometry and archives, a credited community model, and newly reconstructed details. These are the sources behind the spacecraft and its story.
Models, textures & software
- NASA / HAER — Space Shuttle Main Engine drawings: overall dimensions, component arrangement, propellant schematic and upgrade history. New inspection geometry is a visual reconstruction.
- Cabin photographic textures: NASA/Johnson Space Center. Discovery Flight Deck Panels (S103E0163, S103E0169, S103E0172); STS-103 forward instruments; STS-70 middeck. Original images are sampled through surface mapping; positions and proportions are reconstructed.
- Fabric surface relief: Fabric Pattern 07 — Rob Tuytel / Poly Haven, CC0. Generic material reference, not a scan of shuttle upholstery.
- NASA — Crew module layout · Flight deck arrangement · Middeck arrangement
- NASA — Shuttle Carrier Aircraft dimensions and modifications
- NASA — STS-26 history and October 8 return ferry
- “Sca Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Nasa 747 Boeing” by zairiq-zairiq-123-pixar-cars-bfdi, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Adapted: carrier rescaled, bundled orbiter removed, supports and auxiliary fins added, tail markings revised; Discovery and ferry cover added separately.
- Canadian Space Agency — Canadarm construction and operation
- STS-26 mission account — voice-control experiment and arm cameras
- NASA S88-41541 — Discovery nose during STS-26 preparation
- NASA S26-S-120 — STS-26 landing profile
- NASA / HAER — Discovery recordation drawings (later configuration)
- NASA — Space Shuttle (D) model
- NASA — Space Shuttle Parts
- NASA — The Space Shuttle
- NASA logotype: Danne & Blackburn; vector reproduction via Wikimedia Commons
- Three.js · MIT license
Mission history & investigations
- Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident ↗ — the Rogers Commission, 1986. Volume I supplied in the research bundle; NASA hosts the full report.
- Investigation of the Challenger Accident · House Report 99-1016 ↗ — Committee on Science and Technology, October 29, 1986. The separate congressional investigation.
- STS-26: The Return to Flight · NASA press kit ↗ — September 1988. Mission objectives, experiments, crew and vehicle modifications. Preflight plans are distinguished from the completed mission.
- NASA STS-26 mission record ↗ — launch, landing, payloads and flight duration.
- NASA: 35 Years Ago, STS-26 Returns the Space Shuttle to Flight ↗ — mission narrative and return ferry.
- NASA implementation of the Commission’s recommendations ↗ — safety organization and return-to-flight work.
- NASA astronaut biographies are linked beside each crew member on The Crew.
Photography
- STS-26 liftoff · NASA / MSFC, 9022272 ↗ — September 29, 1988.
- STS-26 crew portrait · NASA / JSC, S88-47522 ↗ — crew identification follows NASA’s caption. Images credited to NASA.
Research acknowledgments
The creator’s Failure is Not an Option research collection supplied the Rogers Commission and congressional reports, together with Shuttle Flight Data and In-Flight Anomaly List (JSC-19413) and research finding aids. The site’s historical account uses the primary records and NASA mission sources; game scenarios are not presented as historical events.
The personal connection on Why STS-26? comes from the creator’s own account and collection of 1988 NASA publications.
Licenses & reuse
Original code is MIT-licensed. Original art and writing are available under CC BY 4.0 only to the extent Dan Lee-Odinson holds the applicable rights. NASA and archival material, the 747 artist’s work and dependencies retain their own terms. These grants do not supply permissions owned by other rights holders or imply endorsement.