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The 2nd starter image for the NASA Remix Project, challenge #9 - Sands Of Time.
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Gumpert Apollo Sport at MEILENWERK,Berlin.
The fastest road-legal car,at the Top Gear's Power Lap with a lap time of 1:17.1.
Our Apollo Motorhome in the lunar landscape above Queenstown, Tasmania. This section of road forms the Lyell Highway which runs from the west coast to Hobart. Mt Lyell can be seen in the distance (top left).
Over 3 million tonnes of timber were cut down between 1896 and 1923. Large copper smelters, fuelled by surrounding timber, polluted the area and left the landscape sparse, though the vegetation is now slowing regrowing. At its peak, the furnaces were consuming 2,040 tonnes of wood each week.
Did some spray painting--look at all these Service Module (SM) innards. The white unpainted cylinder is a fuel tank for the big SM engine. The disk painted 1/3 silver is the bottom of the SM. The silver thing with three big panels is the basic structure of the inside SM bays that will be revealed by a hinged door. And next to that are the shelves for the fuel cells, oxygen tanks, and hydrogen tank.
The Strait of Belle Isle Ferry named the Apollo links Newfoundland and the Labrador areas of the Province.
This ferry is the main transportation between Newfoundland and Labrador that is owned and operated by the Provincial Government of both Newfoundland and Labrador. The ferry is known as the Apollo and runs daily usually from May 1 to the middle of January depending on the Arctic ice and the temperatures around the area.
The Apollo only began operating in the year 2000 and replaced another ferry known as the Northern Princess. The Apollo can carry passengers and hold vehicles, tractor trailer trucks and RVs.
Some shots from today's dress rehearsal for the presentation startling next week.
As usual a fine job on the lighting by the crew there, making a bit easier.
More details:
xfm winter wonderland, manchester apollo 11.12.07. dj jason manford had the house lights go up and got the crowd to look to camera. i'd been taken from the pit and put on stage really quickly, and was shaking with nerves so much i could hardly adjust my settings or shoot!
it's to be printed up to cover a huge wall in xfm's office, real size of the image (5 hand stitched shots) is just over a meter.
Original photo is by NASA and is found online at Lunar Atlas site of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston Texas. Their description provided of sample 65326 is as follows:
Moderately coherent cataclastic anorthosite; has a "bronze colored" streak.
I enhanced the original poor quality photo to bring out the details of the specimen. the bronze streak is same as in my specimens.
Widely extinct in most parts of Europe, except a few alpine mountains, where I observe even increasing populations of these big butterflies. Parnassius apollo, 27. Juli 2009, Bavaria, Germany
35s videos might be available soon
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Apollo 15 selected photos of interesting specimen rocks on Moon's surface. I enhanced photos for clarity - some are rotated.
In Memory Of James Brown
January 2007
On December 28, 2006, the body of "Soul Brother #1," who had died a few days before, was displayed at the Apollo Theater as a memorial to his life and career. The memorial was covered heavily by both television and print media. This tribute to Brown once again brought the legendary Harlem theater back into the public spotlight.
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it terrified the United States. The nation had already been moving towards launching satellites, but it had been going slowly, and the fact that the USSR was ahead was a shock. Nor would it get any better: in 1961, the Soviets put Yuri Gagarin into orbit on Vostok 1. Even as the US struggled to catch up, it seemed like the Soviets owned space: a Russian orbited first, made the first rendezvous, put the first woman in space, made the first spacewalk. With the Cold War at one of its peaks, something had to be done. President John F. Kennedy put the challenge to both NASA and the American people: beat the Soviets to the Moon.
This task had to be done in steps. First came Project Mercury, which was to get single-man capsules into space at all. Then Gemini got two astronauts up at a time and practiced long duration flights and rendezvous in space. Apollo, with three-man spacecraft, would get men to the Moon. The technical challenges alone, just for Apollo, were staggering: how to get there, how to put astronauts on the Moon safely, and how to get them home. Eventually, NASA settled on a three-part spacecraft: the command module (CM) that would carry the three astronauts into orbit and home; the service module (SM) that held fuel and oxygen; and the lunar module (LM) that would take two of the three down to the Moon's surface and back. All three would be "stacked" atop a Saturn V rocket, the most powerful rocket ever constructed. Of the gigantic structure, only the CM would actually return home.
Before the Apollo program actually got to the Moon, however, there was going to be a lot of testing--especially after the Apollo 1 fire took the lives of three astronauts. NASA took each step at a time, sending up unmanned missions to test equipment (Apollo 4 through 6), then a manned mission (Apollo 7). Apollo 8 was originally supposed to be another test mission, but circumstances intervened: the LM was behind schedule, morale at NASA was declining because of the delays, and there was a real fear that the Soviets would still win the Space Race. In the end, Apollo 8 went to the Moon without the LM, in a successful effort to be the first men to reach it, if not land on it. As a result, the tests for Apollo 8 were moved to Apollo 9.
The Apollo 9 crew consisted of James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart; aside from the latter, the other two men had flown in space with Gemini. The crew was asked if they wanted to take Apollo 8, since they were next on the crew rotation and it would make them the first human beings to go to the Moon. However, the crew felt that their training was for testing the LM, so they would be better suited to Apollo 9.
Apollo 9 was launched on 3 March 1969, and though it would go no further than low Earth orbit, it would perform the vital tests of if the LM could function. Scott and Schweickart would separate the LM from the CM, fly alongside, and practice docking with the CM, both functions that would have to be performed at the Moon. Schweickart would also test the backpack life support system for Moon astronauts and perform a spacewalk. Finally, the LM's descent engine would be tested to see if it could propel the "stack" of the LM, CM, and SM.
The mission went nearly perfectly. All the tests were performed, and the LM proved it was ready for the Moon, with Scott and Schweickart flying it over 100 miles away from the CM before redocking. The only incident that marred Apollo 9 was Schweickart kept getting nauseated, which at the time worried NASA scientists (and likely led to Schweickart never going into space again); it is now known that spatial disorentation in space is a common and temporary phenomenon. Once the tests were complete, the LM was jettisoned and the three astronauts remained in space for another five days, conducting photographic experiments more or less at their leisure, returning to Earth on 13 March. The success of Apollo 9 meant that Apollo 10, the "dress rehearsal" at the Moon, could go forward, which in turn led to Apollo 11 making the successful landing in July 1969.
Once cleared for display, Apollo 9's CM--nicknamed "Gumdrop" for its shape (the LM had been nicknamed "Spider")--was placed on display at the Michigan Space and Science Center, but when that museum closed in 2004, it was moved to the San Diego Air and Space Museum.
Apollo 9 marked the fifth of six Apollo modules I've been able to see--Apollos 8, 9, 11, 13, and 15, plus Apollo-Soyuz the next day in Los Angeles. I was surprised to see how shiny Apollo 9 was to other Apollos I've seen, and thought maybe the museum had cleaned it up for display--but no, it really was this shiny when it splashed down.
The real Apollo 10 comand capsule in the Science Museum in London. The first manned vehicle to orbit the moon (1969).
Image taken during Apollo 15 mission
Credit : NASA/ASA/JSC/Arizona State University/Thomas Thomopoulos
How Apollo could have ended.
A proposal for a small space telescope lofted by the Apollo Command and Service modules mounted in its SIM bay.
Apollo 13 spacecraft being moved from integrated work stand #1 to transporter, prior to rollout. 12-09-1969. NASA Image No. 108-KSC-69-6751.
"This spacecraft was the second Apollo mission to orbit the Moon, and the first to travel to the Moon with the full Apollo spacecraft, consisting of the Command and Service Module (CSM-106, "Charlie Brown") and the Lunar Module (LM-4, "Snoopy")."
Pressure suit worn by astronaut Bill Anders on the Apollo 8 mission (photographed at London's Science Museum).
Michelangelo. Apollo-David. c. 1525-1550. Bargello Museum, Florence (photo from the exhibition in the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
Another component of the Apollo- Soyuz space module in the main lobby of the National Air and Space museum in Washington DC. (Washington DC, USA, Oct. 2006)
Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. eol.jsc.nasa.gov
Processed by Craig Jewell in Adobe Lightroom
ID: AS11-36-5407
The Former Apollo theater in a more modern rendition than the postcard I have, but taken from the same angle.