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Notes : A time capsule celebrating the 1986 visit of Halley's comet was placed in position at Echo Point and sealed by Blue Mountains Mayor, Peter quirk, on 6th March, 1987 at 12.15 PM. To be raised by the people of the Blue Mountains in 2062, the year of the return of Comet Halley.
ISG zone 56/1 east 236 136.508 north 1265 909.841
Australian height datum level top capsule RL 961.75
Format: scan
Location: Echo Point, Katoomba
Date range: 1987
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection – Katoomba images
Provenance: BMCC
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Christmas Time Capsule
The latest video is at the link below!!
Today let's take a look at the upstairs, the basement and the outbuildings of this abandoned time capsule!!
Called the Christmas Time Capsule for very good reason, this home was left in an untouched state for years and remained so until after it was first discovered. The house was filled with furniture, personal belongings, photos covering the walls, oh and of course Christmas decorations, lots and lots of decorations. Unfortunately time has not been kind to this "time capsule", vandals had discovered the home since the first explorers visited and tossed belongings everywhere, stolen items, put holes and even wrote graffiti on the walls. Despite all the destruction it was still a very interesting explore!
Having done a little bit of research I found out that the woman who lived here died in 2001 and her husband had died 9 years earlier. Does this mean that the home has been sitting abandoned for 20 years? I don't think so, I also found two calendars in the home dating back to 2011 and 2012 and I would imagine that's how long this home has been sitting. This leaves a gap of about 11 years where someone else was living in the home, maybe it was one of the children or some other relative, we may never have the answer to this. One thing that we know for sure is that the last occupants definitely liked Christmas and it is likely that the home was abandoned around that time. A few years ago the property was sold for tax arears which leads one to believe that the last occupant may have been having financial problems.
The home is now starting to show signs of mold growing in the kitchen and the basement but there seems to be a relatively new roof and the outside of the home was also updated with vinyl siding, if the property continues to sit, it could be a very long time before the home begins to decay naturally. If it weren't for the overgrown and unkept yard passersby would have no idea that this house is even sitting abandoned, that's how good it looks from the road. Only time will tell what happens to this property from this point onward.
©James Hackland
Architect: Kisho Kurokawa (1970)
Location: Tokyo (Shimbashi), Japan
One of the best examples of Japanese metabolist architecture. Also threatened with demolition. The building's residents have already voted to have it demolished and replaced with another, modern tower. But that has not happened yet, because a developer has not yet been found. In th meantime, only a handful of the capsules are still occupied. The rest are used for storage, or have been abandoned. There's netting over the entire building, which doesn't do much for its physical appearance.
Notes : Mayor Peter Quirk and Council staff lower the time capsule, to commemorate the passing of Halley's Comet, into the ground at Echo Point, Katoomba. The capsule is to be raised in 2062.
Mostly council engineers, partly identified as L to R, Henry Kullas; Mayor Peter Quirk; David Emerson, Blue Mountains Town Artist; (unknown) (unknown); Graham Price at back; (unknown); Bill Mills, right front; (unknown) ; Reg McBey at right back; musician Nigel Foote in True Blue top.
Format: B&W photograph
Location: now somewhere under the redeveloped Echo Point, Katoomba
Date range: March 1987
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - VF Time Capsules, VF Halley's Comet
Provenance: John Falloon
Links:
Halley's comet - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet
David Emerson - digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6388
One of the best places I stayed at in Kyoto was 9 Hours. It's a boutique capsule hotel that feels like you're sleeping on a spaceship to Mars. ninehours.co.jp/en/
Having taken lots of flowers during dusk over the last few months, now trying out a little over-exposure.
Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo.
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A friend was ordering parts from a Polish BrickLink store and asked if there was anything I wanted while he was doing an international order. I noticed they had the a lot of the new (ish) 2x2 turntable pieces going cheap, so when the order arrived, I immediately set to work to build something with a few of them. Thus the Micropolis Capsule Hotel was born. Cheap and cheerful, it's a popular place to stay while visiting the tiny city. Ref: D1710-050
This Mercury capsule, No. 15B, is one of two left. It alone shows the complete one-man spacecraft in its orbital configuration. It includes the silver and black retrorocket package (left, above) used to slow the capsule for return to Earth, and the nose section containing the parachutes.
The first American in space, Alan B Shepard, Jr., hoped to fly this Mercury capsule on a long-duration orbital mission in late 1963 called Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10). After the success of MA-9, flown by astronaut Gordon Cooper in May 1963, NASA decided to cancel MA-10 to concentrate on its next human spaceflight project, Gemini. Reflecting Shepard's hope of flying in space again, he had the name Freedom 7 II painted on the spacecraft in tribute to his historic 1961 capsule, Freedom 7,
Mercury capsule 15 originally was sent to Cape Canaveral in 1961 for a manned sub-orbital mission, Mercury-Redstone 5 (MR-5) that was cancelled. It was then modified for an orbital mission and renumbered 15A, and then modified again as a back-up to the MA-9 spacecraft, No. 20, and as the prime spacecraft for MA-10, and dubbed 15B. In September 1967 NASA transferred the capsule to the Smithsonian Institution.
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight programme for the USA, running from 1958 to 1963. An early highlight of the space race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union, in a new element of the Cold War.
Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly-created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted 20 unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The programme, which took its name from Roman mythology, cost $1.8 billion adjusted for inflation. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The film "The Right Stuff" tells a version of those astronauts' selection and flights.
When Project Mercury ended in May 1963, both nations had sent six people into space, but the Soviets led the US in total time spent in space.
The Mercury space capsule was produced by McDonnell Aircraft, and carried supplies of water, food and oxygen for about one day in a pressurised cabin. Mercury flights were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on launch vehicles modified from the Redstone and Atlas D missiles. The capsule was fitted with a launch escape rocket to carry it safely away from the launch vehicle in case of a failure. The flight was designed to be controlled from the ground via the Manned Space Flight Network, a system of tracking and communications stations; back-up controls were outfitted on board. Small retrorockets were used to bring the spacecraft out of its orbit, after which an ablative heat shield protected it from the heat of atmospheric reentry. Finally, a parachute slowed the craft for a water landing. Both astronaut and capsule were recovered by helicopters operating from US Navy ships.
The Mercury project missions were followed by millions on radio and TV around the world. Its success laid the groundwork for Project Gemini, which carried two astronauts in each capsule and perfected space docking manoeuvres essential for manned lunar landings in the subsequent Apollo programme announced a few weeks after the first manned Mercury flight.
Hotham Park Nature area froze over and the kids had hauled out blocks that had trapped leaves and other artefacts.
More shuttle photos, and more LACMA photos to come.
But, first, all aspects of NASA's achievements are on display at the California Science Center. This is the command module for the Apollo moon missions. The museum didn't specify which Apollo mission this capsule was for, but they all served the same purpose: they were first of two important vehicles used for the lunar landing mission. The other one was the LEM itself, the Lunar Excursion Module. But it was the command module that did the bulk of the work in space, and in both earth and lunar orbit. The only time the lunar lander was more important was on Apollo 13, when a tank ruptured on the booster rocket located directly behind the command module. Power and oxygen were gone, and if it hadn't been for the lunar module the three crewmen would have perished in space. Fortunately, this happened on the way to the moon and not the return. The lunar module served as a "lifeboat" until they were close enough to earth where they could jettison the lunar module and then re-enter the earth's atmosphere, using the command module's heat shield to protect them.
You can Google the information about Apollo 13, and I also recommend Ron Howard's excellent film, named, simply, "Apollo 13," starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise and Bill Paxton.
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crew tower for Docking Test Capsule has been erected, w/ it hooked up we will finish launch system checks today
Another of Michael's finds was this probably early forties bike by an unknown French builder with details that perfectly capture a particular moment in a time and place.
EN - The capsule of Eranthis is drying and therefore opening. That brings the seed outside so they fall to the ground where they can grow into new plants.
NL - Een Eranthis (winteraconiet) zaaddoos droogt en scheurt open. Daarbij komen de zaadjes vrij die op de grond vallen en daar weer kunnen uitgroeien tot nieuwe planten.
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