Smithsonian 3D scanned the NASA space shuttle discovery and made it open-source
All that scanning pays off: You can zoom in to see the tile serial numbers or look up into the wheel well. The scans and processing work is so detailed and well done that you can see the safety flags and read the warning labels on them in those wheel wells. 3D Scanning is intense and challenging work and it was generously supported by Meredith Siegfried Madden and Dr. Peter Madden who wanted to help make sure the public would see and be able to access this open data initiative.
Even better, if you are an educator, or citizen scientist, or 3D printer user, check out their huge file repository that is completely free and not copyrighted. You read that right. The Smithsonian has embarked on a Creative Commons Zero path for this collection, what they calland there are 2,000-plus models. I have seen a number of these models, from Abraham Lincoln’s head to whale bones, getting printed in classrooms and makerspaces around the USA.
When you are in the viewer , there is a little download icon in the lower right corner where you can choose 3D model filetypes. Also, in the upper left is a wrench/tool icon that opens up a variety of viewing options. In that section, you can do what’s known in 3D printing as “slicing” where you can see various layers of the model. Fun for users and students to see what it would like as it builds on a 3D printer.
By the way, the Smithsonian team has also 3D scanned the Discovery interior, but that dataset is still in progress, being processed and rendered. It is a big job. If you cannot get to the National Air and Space Museum Collection in person, then this is the next best thing. Thanks to the fine folks at Sketchfab you can rotate the Discovery in every direction and zoom in anywhere on the shuttle. This is not an easy task and they have created a new way to showcase super high resolution 3D imagery.
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