![]() "That was done because we needed people to be able to actively be working upstairs and downstairs on things that maybe wouldn't make sense to work on upstairs and downstairs. The mid deck, on the other hand, was built for "Quantum Leap." The flight deck set, which was previously used on other TV and film productions, was modeled after the real vehicle's cockpit, but is much more spacious to accommodate the action planned for the episode and the cameras filming it. But the mid deck looks totally different and functions totally different." "For instance, the flight deck is actually very close to the actual flight deck of the space shuttle. "Like any sci-fi show, you start to fray the edges a bit," said Gero. History aside, the orbiter in "Atlantis" differs in appearance from its namesake - and all of the other winged shuttles in NASA's fleet. The work also included the removal of the extended duration orbiter package, which allowed Atlantis to remain longer in space with added cryogenics on board. It spent the first eight months of that year at its assembly plant in California, receiving glass cockpit displays, a GPS navigation system and a new docking port to enable future missions to the International Space Station. The STS-88 mission brought up the "Unity" node to berth with Russia's Zarya functional cargo block, which was already in orbit.Ītlantis, as history records, did not fly in 1998. The first shuttle mission to deliver a component of the International Space Station did, in fact, fly in 1998, but on Endeavour and on Dec. (The launch footage shown in the episode is from STS-122, an Atlantis mission from a decade later in 2008.) The closest mission was STS-90, the 25th mission by orbiter Columbia, which began on April 17, 1998. To begin, there was no launch on that date. From just those few details, it would be clear to those familiar with space shuttle history that this is a fictional flight. In the show, it is established that Song lifted off on Atlantis on March 7, 1998, on the mission delivering the first piece of the International Space Station to orbit. "But we were going a lot out of our way to be grounded in the real 1990s and realized that our audience didn't really care that much one way or the other." "One of the ways we thought we could skirt around it not being a known mission was to have it be a classified flight, something about launching a military satellite, so that's why it was off the books and no one knew about it," said Gero. "It was simply enough to say we are going to be on the space shuttle." "It didn't make sense in an episode like this to base it on a real shuttle mission," Martin Gero, executive producer and showrunner for " Quantum Leap," said in an interview with collectSPACE. ![]() Warning: the following article contains spoilers for "Atlantis," the second episode of the new "Quantum Leap" series. 26) on NBC and now streaming on Peacock, the episode "Atlantis" had Ben Song (Raymond Lee) join the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis, leaping into the body of an astronaut as the mission launched. ![]() It could probably go without saying, but just for the record, the space shuttle mission shown on 'Quantum Leap" did not happen.Īs first aired on Monday (Sept. ![]()
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