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Shop floor of a garment making factory where top of the line international brands are manufactured and exported. This is one of the few factories where stringent safety and social compliance norms are met. This sector is one of the largest employer of skilled manpower in India.
I found this picture just now and I honestly don't remember even taking it. I'm always amazed at how much I can dislike my pictures when I take them and then months later looking at them again I feel completely different about them.
The crane operate looks on as riggers work to make adjustments to a newly arrived crane at this site in Richmond, Texas, near Houston. Big cranes need small parts and one is tossed up to to the guy so he does not have to hop down to get it. A more perfect throw and catch couldn't made by the Houston Astros team.
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown speaks at student assembly to raise awareness about bullying . by Brian K. Slack at Annapolis
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown speaks at student assembly to raise awareness about bullying . by Brian K. Slack at Annapolis
The Vehicle (originally Vertical) Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) was used to assemble American manned launch vehicles from 1968-2011. At 129,428,000 cubic feet it is one of the largest buildings in the world by volume. It is the largest single-story building in the world, was the tallest building in Florida until 1974, and is still the tallest building in the U.S.A. outside an urban area.
The VAB, which was completed in 1966, was originally built to allow for the vertical assembly of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program and referred to as the "Vertical Assembly Building". When the Space Shuttle program began, it was renamed to the "Vehicle Assembly Building" and used for the shuttle's external fuel tanks and flight hardware, and to mate the Space Shuttle orbiters to their solid rocket boosters and external fuel tanks. Once assembled, the complete Space Shuttle was moved on the Mobile Launcher Platform and Crawler-Transporter to LC-39 Pad A or B.
The VAB is 526 feet tall, 716 feet long and 518 feet wide. It covers 8 acres, and encloses 129,428,000 cubic feet of space. The building has at least 10,000 tons of air conditioning equipment, including 125 ventilators on the roof supported by four large air handlers (four cylindrical structures west of the building) to keep moisture under control. Air in the building can be completely replaced every hour. The interior volume of the building is so vast that it has its own weather, including "rain clouds forming below the ceiling on very humid days", which the moisture reduction systems are designed to minimize.
Located on Florida's Atlantic coast, the building was constructed to withstand hurricanes and tropical storms with a foundation consisting of 30,000 cubic yards of concrete and 4,225 steel rods driven 160 feet into limestone bedrock.
The American flag painted on the building was the largest in the world when added in 1976 as part of United States Bicentennial celebrations, along with the star logo of the anniversary, later replaced by the NASA insignia in 1998. It is 209 feet high, and 110 feet wide. Each of the stars on the flag is 6 feet across, the blue field is the size of a regulation basketball court, and each of the stripes is 9 feet wide, the width of a standard road lane.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center
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