Clean-Room Manufacturing
I took this image in Huntsville, AL., during a tour in/from the US Space & Rocket Centre (I think - looking at the site on GoogleEarth I note there appears to be no connection between the Centre and the adjacent Redstone Arsenal where I would expect such activities to take place). Regrettably I did not make a note of what was being constructed! - but it looks like it might have been a module for the International Space Station.
What I find fascinating about this shot is that everyone seems to be working in clean-room conditions - and yet here were us space tourists in our ordinary outdoor clothing, standing in an overview position inside the room (I don't remember anything like a screen or plexiglas wall between us and what you can see above, although there may have been...).
From a different angle of a shot I posted earlier in the week. Scanned from a negative.
Clean-Room Manufacturing
I took this image in Huntsville, AL., during a tour in/from the US Space & Rocket Centre (I think - looking at the site on GoogleEarth I note there appears to be no connection between the Centre and the adjacent Redstone Arsenal where I would expect such activities to take place). Regrettably I did not make a note of what was being constructed! - but it looks like it might have been a module for the International Space Station.
What I find fascinating about this shot is that everyone seems to be working in clean-room conditions - and yet here were us space tourists in our ordinary outdoor clothing, standing in an overview position inside the room (I don't remember anything like a screen or plexiglas wall between us and what you can see above, although there may have been...).
From a different angle of a shot I posted earlier in the week. Scanned from a negative.