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From Total Annihilation. A pair of ARM Hovertanks Anacondas.
Both equipped with Plasma Cannon and LovGrav Hoverdrives.
This is the result of my latest experiment with water drop macro photography using my 90mm macro lens. I really enjoyed the arm-like effect of the water drop, so I wanted to share this picture. To achieve this effect, I took advantage of the drop's spherical lens properties, placing a copy of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago behind it.
North American AT-6 Harvard III trainer EX976 in Royal Navy markings at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton. The aircraft was originally with the United States Army Air Force with serial number 41-33949 and later allocated to the Royal Air Force as EX976.
Owned by Kennet Aviation, this Supermarine Seafire was flown by John Beattie at the RNAS Culdrose Air Day, showcasing the Fleet Air Arm's heritage.
Canon 7D
Canon 100-400 L
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On a Sunny Monday while leaving Stade Roland Garros, I ran across this officer, who was nice enough to excuse my not so terrific French, but when he said bonjour, his dimpled chin caught this photographer's eye and I had to capture this moment!
My Nikon D90 didn't do him justice, because nothing could capture his beauty except for one's own eye. I'm so glad I decided to stroll the grounds that day!
Oui, il est un home! An Officer and a Gentleman!
From the Kennedy Space Center via the Charlie Bell estate, a vintage S-1C, S-II & S-IVB Control/Display Firing Room No.1 panel with the panel face measuring 19"x 9" and with the wiring housing behind it measuring 14" deep. Complete with all its Saturn V stage S-1C, S-II & S-IVB lights intact. A KSC tag from GE with no date, but a modification tag that bears the year as 1968.
Jonathan Ward, an expert on mission control panels, did some research and wrote to me:
"With your panel, congratulations - you're the first person who has a panel that I can definitely tie to a given Firing Room! (since it's labeled Firing Room 1) That would mean that it was "decommissioned" after Apollo 17. GE was tasked with modifying the FR equipment to support Skylab (and later ASTP). The Skylab Orbital Workshop was launched using Firing Room 2, and the manned flights and ASTP were commanded from FR 3. You would think that since the Skylab manned flights used a Saturn IB rocket, which didn't have an S-IC or S-II stage, that there would be different control panels for the S-IB stage and the launch vehicle as a whole. However, I have seen some panels that were for a Saturn V (like yours, they had sections for all three of the Saturn V stages), but they just blanked out the S-II indicators and put a piece of metal tape saying "S-IB" over top of the S-IC label.
I'm checking with a fellow who used to sit in the Firing Rooms, to see if he has any ideas as to where it might have been. It could have been in the range safety section of Area A of the Firing Room, or it might have been in a support room somewhere. As far as I can tell, it was used for monitoring the Range Safety signals, i.e., are the explosive systems on the various stages of the Saturn V showing that their redundant systems are both working, and to monitor the major range safety events (has an engine cutoff and explosive arming command been sent and received, has the propellant dispersion command been sent and received (to blow up the fuel tanks if the missile goes off course), or are the systems "safed".
I asked a friend who is an expert on the KSC Firing Room what he thought about your panel, and this is what he had to say:
The "Control/Display" panel was a range safety panel. Note its references to "rcvr" 1 and 2. These 2 receivers were part of the "DRSCS"-- the Digital Range Safety Command System. Note also the "audio select" switches. The DRSCS signal was de-modulated into a series of audio tones, and the actual vehicle receivers were acoustic-like devices.
The range safety command was sent in 2 steps. The first "armed" the explosive trains, and commanded engine shutdown. The 2nd function set off the Propellant Dispersion system ordnance trains. Note on the indicator lights that there are 3 states of the system-- "Safe", "Arm and Engine Cutoff" and "Propellant Dispersion".
The "Control/Display" panel was part of the "Measurement/RF Networks" row. This one looks like an early version--note that the 3rd stage is referred to as "SIV" in the upper right corner.
The Launch Control Center for Launch Complex 39 is attached to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). It originally was designed with four Firing Rooms, one for each High Bay in the VAB. Up to four Saturn rockets could be stacked in the VAB at the same time, and each would have a dedicated Firing Room for test, checkout, and launch. The FR’s were designed for flexibility, without interior columns, and with raised flooring, to enable reconfiguration as needs changed.
Ultimately, only three Firing Rooms were built out during the Apollo program. Firing Room 4 was used as the project management room for construction of LC-39 and the Apollo systems integration.
Post-Apollo, Firing Room 1 was refitted to support the Space Shuttle and Ares Programs. It was re-named “The Young/Crippen FIring Room” in 2008, honoring the crew of the first Space Shuttle mission.
Even though the LCC is 3 miles from the Complex 39 launch pads, it needs to be hardened from potential launch catastrophes. The exterior windows are 2 inches thick, and are protected by shutters that can be rapidly closed in the event of an explosion."
Put on display today in our new SF office.
The tour guide said this glacier goes 300 feet underwater and stretches several miles to the Canadian border. It was a wonderful experience to see!
The Little Trip Boat backing out for its one and a half hour trip on the Aylesbury Arm of The Grand Union.
Interesting faint arm or tidal stream feature encircling this one like a halo. Looking at DSS data to see the surrounding sky, I don't see any obvious interaction partners. I suppose this is a late stage of some kind of interaction, and all galaxies involved have now merged. I wonder if some kind of small, diffuse galaxy could interact in such a way that it got pulled around nearly into a circle like this. If that were the case, then this would be more of a middle stage than an end stage. Anyway, that's just a lot of speculation.
I was interrupted in the middle of processing this by a rather large earthquake.
Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems
All Channels: ACS/WFC F606W
North is 6.4° counter-clockwise from up.
...da hat er echt zu langeauf das Bild seines Lebens gewartet und man hat ihn mit seinem Tele glatt eingemauert. Ich hätte gern das Foto von ihm gesehen? Mario wünscht gute Laune und nen guten Start in die neue Woche lg :-)
Working with Commander Swanson on our robotic arm onboard training simulator to stay current.
Swanson und ich am Trainingscomputer fuer den ISS Roboterarm, um unsere Qualifikation nicht zu verlieren.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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