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BELL AH-1S COBRA
The AH-1 Cobra traces its history to 1965 when Bell Helicopter began development of the design as a private venture. The Cobra is based on the famous UH-1 Huey transport helicopter, and despite the great differences in their appearance they actually have over 80 percent of their parts in common. Production began in 1966 and the Cobra was soon in combat over Vietnam. Modernized versions of the Cobra continue in use in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps as well as with several foreign militaries.
This aircraft was built as an AH-1G by Bell Helicopter and delivered to the United States Army February, 1972.
It's flight career spanned six US Army assignments in Germany, one to NASA, and three with the Arizona National Guard. In August of 1976, it was upgraded to AH-1S standards.
It remains in the markings it had while assigned to the Western Army National Guard Aviation Training Site circa 1996.
Technical Specifications
Diameter of Main Rotor: 44 ft (13.4 m)
Length: 53 ft (16.15 m)
Height: 13 ft 2-in (4.01 m)
Weight: 10,000 lbs (4,536 kg) (loaded)
Maximum level speed: 123 knots (227 km/h)
Maximum altitude: 12,200 ft
Range: 274 miles (507 km)
Engine: One T53-L-13 turbine, 1,800 horse power
Crew: 2
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is revealed after its protective cover is removed inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, on May 21, 2016. OSIRIS-REx, targeted for a Sept. 8 launch, will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. via NASA ift.tt/1OWSkLu
Solar Eclipse viewing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md on August 21, 2017...Credit: NASA/Goddard/Tabatha Luskey
Believed to have been the very first NASA structure installed at what is now Stennis Space Center, this 30 foot tall, 12 by 12 foot wide acoustical horn was brought to the facility from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1962, where it had been in use for two years. It was installed at a former residence two miles northeast of Gainesville.
The horn was used to study sound propagation in the vicinity of the center, and marked the beginning of what was to become a sophisticated atmospheric sounding station. Acoustic readings were taken during the horn’s operational life using trucks with microphones, and between 1962 and 1965 there were 2,575 observations taken using the horn.
This work was undertaken in order to ensure that the sound levels which were expected to be generated by static firing of rocket engines would not be harmful or inconvenient to surrounding residents, and it was based on the findings that the buffer zone has been maintained at its original size
On Oct. 7, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (pictured here) and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst completed the first of three spacewalks for the Expedition 41 crew aboard the International Space Station. The spacewalkers worked outside the space station's Quest airlock for 6 hours and 13 minutes, relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment. Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA operated the Canadian robotic arm, maneuvered Gerst during the course of the spacewalk and served as the spacewalk coordinator. A second U.S. spacewalk is set for Oct. 15. Wilmore will don a U.S. spacesuit and follow Wiseman outside the Quest airlock for a 6-1/2 hour excursion. Gerst will serve as the spacewalk choreographer. The goal of the excursion is to replace a failed voltage regulator component on the starboard truss of the station. They will also move external camera equipment in advance of a major reconfiguration of station modules next year for the arrival of new docking adapters for commercial crew vehicles. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst via NASA ift.tt/1sePzrB
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JSC2014-E-035272 (14 April 2014) --- NASA invited the public to vote on three cover layer designs for the Z-2 prototype suit, the next step in NASA's advanced suit development program. The winning design will be used for the design of the Z-2's cover layer which will protect the suit throughout testing expected to begin in the Fall of 2014. The "Biomimicry" design draws from an environment with many parallels to the harshness of space: the world's oceans. Mirroring the bioluminescent qualities of aquatic creatures found at incredible depths, and the scaly skin of fish and reptiles found across the globe, this design reflects the qualities that protect some of Earth's toughest creatures. Photo credit: NASA
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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
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20.05.2014
SOFIA is the largest airborne observatory in the world, and makes observations that are impossible for even the largest and highest of ground-based telescopes. NASA and the German space agency, DLR, are working together to operate SOFIA - a Boeing 747-SP aircraft modified to accommodate a 2.5 meter gyro-stabilized telescope. SOFIA officially began its operational phase in May 2014.
SOFIA is based at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in southern California. SOFIA's science operations center is at NASA's Ames Research Center in northern California.
SOFIA is studying many different kinds of astronomical objects and phenomena, but some of the most interesting are:
Star birth and death
Formation of new solar systems
Identification of complex molecules in space
Planets, comets and asteroids in our solar system
Nebulae and dust in galaxies (or, Ecosystems of galaxies)
Black holes at the center of galaxies
There are six first generation instruments, four U.S. made and two German made. All six of the instruments have now flown on SOFIA. The instruments — cameras, spectrometers, and a photometer — operate across a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from the optical to the far infrared. Two second generation instruments, one U.S. made and one German made, will be added by early 2016. Some of the instruments are special purpose instruments designed to study a particular phenomenon, while others are general purpose instruments capable of acquiring data from a broad range of astronomical objects.
Because of the ease with which SOFIA instruments can be changed as well as the hands-on nature of observing with SOFIA, the observatory provides a unique platform for the demonstration of new observational techniques, the development of new instruments, and the education of young scientists and teachers in the discipline of infrared astronomy.
Hollywood actors Seth Green and Clare Grant visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ( www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html ) enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter ( twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix ) Join us on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/39501384... ) Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ( www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html ) enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter ( twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix ) Join us on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/39501384... )
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Sept. 28, 2014, writing, "The Milky Way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange." Aboard the space station, the six-person Expedition 41 crew is currently preparing for two spacewalks set for Oct. 7 and 15. During the first six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk, slated to begin on Oct. 7 around 8:10 a.m. EDT, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst will transfer a previously uninstalled pump module from its temporary stowage location to the External Stowage Platform-2. The two spacewalkers also will install the Mobile Transporter Relay Assembly that adds the capability to provide “keep-alive” power to the system that moves the station’s robotic arm between worksites. NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore will join Wiseman for the second Expedition 41 spacewalk on Oct. 15. Image Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman via NASA ift.tt/1xBGsV8
On June 8, 2017, the UC Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab was visited by the Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk of the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate. Dr. Alice Agogino gave a summary of our research, followed by Space Technology Research Fellow graduate students Drew Sabelhaus and Mallory Daly. Demos of all of our tensegrity robot prototypes were successful.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with Goddard Space Flight Center interns at the 51st Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium. The Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium is an annual event the brings together leaders in government, industry, and academia to discuss the space program in general and NASA’s strategic plan. The symposium was held at the Greenbelt Marriott, located in Greenbelt, MD.
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Fifty years ago, Surveyor 1 reached the Moon. Launched on May 30, 1966 and landed on June 2, 1966 with the Moon at full phase it became the first US spacecraft to make a soft landing on another world. The first of seven Surveyor missions intended to test the lunar terrain for the planned Apollo landings it sent back over 10,000 images before lunar nightfall on June 14. The total rose to over 11,000 images returned before its second lunar night began on July 13. Surveyor 1 continued to respond from the lunar surface until January 7, 1967. Captured in this 2009 image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the first Surveyor still stands at its landing site, a speck in the Oceanus Procellarum (the Ocean of Storms). With the Sun low on the western horizon the lonely, 3.3 meter tall spacecraft casts a shadow almost 15 meters long in the late lunar afternoon. via NASA ift.tt/1U4F5J7
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s next Mars bound spacecraft sits atop Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN's
(MAVEN) prime mission is to study the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet. Launch is set for November 18 at 1:28pm.
What could cause a nebula to appear square? No one is quite sure. The hot star system known as MWC 922, however, appears to be embedded in a nebula with just such a shape. The featured image combines infrared exposures from the Hale Telescope on Mt. Palomar in California, and the Keck-2 Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A leading progenitor hypothesis for the square nebula is that the central star or stars somehow expelled cones of gas during a late developmental stage. For MWC 922, these cones happen to incorporate nearly right angles and be visible from the sides. Supporting evidence for the cone hypothesis includes radial spokes in the image that might run along the cone walls. Researchers speculate that the cones viewed from another angle would appear similar to the gigantic rings of supernova 1987A, possibly indicating that a star in MWC 922 might one day itself explode in a similar supernova. via NASA ift.tt/1TuXUo7
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with students from the University of Illinois at the 51st Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium. The Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium is an annual event the brings together leaders in government, industry, and academia to discuss the space program in general and NASA’s strategic plan. The symposium was held at the Greenbelt Marriott, located in Greenbelt, MD.
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Questa vista a colori di Rea è stata ottenuta con le immagini scattate il 3 giugno 2016 dalla Narrow Angle Camera della sonda della NASA Cassini.
Rea, che è la seconda luna più grande di Saturno dopo Titano, appare luminosa illuminata in pieno dal Sole. Questa è la firma del ghiaccio d'acqua.
Sulla superficie si notano anche diverse variazioni cromatiche e di albedo, chiaro segno di un'attività geologica passata.
Questa immagine composita ottenuta con i filtri infrarosso, rosso, verde, blu ed ultravioletto, riprende il lato opposto a Saturno.
Il frame in ultravioletto è stato pubblicato ieri nel Photojournal della NASA.
Crediti: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Processing: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin / aliveuniverse.today
NB: questa immagine è presente anche nell'album di 2di7 & titanio44