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Mercury capsule #14 was one of twenty spacecraft built for the first American human spaceflight program. It was launched twice by Little Joe rockets to simulate escapes from failed boosters. On the first launch (LJ-5A) from Wallops Island, VA, on March 18, 1961, the launch escape tower fired prematurely and failed to carry the craft away from the rocket. A backup system using the retrorockets separated the craft from the booster. A second attempt (LJ-5B) was conducted on April 28, 1961, and the launch escape system functioned as planned even though the trajectory was too low and the aerodynamic pressures were higher than planned.
The spacecraft was subsequently used for explosive-hatch and parachute-system tests from 1961 to 1963. Beginning around 1968 it was exhibited on a Little Joe booster near the NASA Langley Research Center for many years. In 1971 NASA transferred title to the Smithsonian.
NASAs SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), the world's largest airborne telescope, landing at moffett field (http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1317245)
A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soars skyward into an aurora over Alaska following a 5:13 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017 launch from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The rocket carried an Ionospheric Structuring: In Situ and Groundbased Low Altitude StudieS (ISINGLASS) instrumented payload examining the structure of an aurora. via NASA ift.tt/2lp4hz6
Engineers Successfully Test the Parachutes for NASA's Orion Spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground via NASA ift.tt/2lHA9jX
It's huge!
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981 and continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions. Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station. The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, ended July 21, 2011 when Atlantis rolled to a stop at its home port, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Saturn V is too big to fit in one photo. I took a 2 minute video clip walking the length of it - maybe I'll post it to YouTube. This was the site of the evening reception for the NASA STS-118 Education Conference I'm attending in Orlando.
Victoria O'Leary (Virginia Wesleyan College), Sponsored by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)
This near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. While Cassini has captured, separately, views of the polar seas (see PIA17470) and the sun glinting off of them (see PIA12481 and PIA18433) in the past, this is the first time both have been seen together in the same view. The sunglint, also called a specular reflection, is the bright area near the 11 o'clock position at upper left. This mirror-like reflection, known as the specular point, is in the south of Titan's largest sea, Kraken Mare, just north of an island archipelago separating two separate parts of the sea. This particular sunglint was so bright as to saturate the detector of Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument, which captures the view. It is also the sunglint seen with the highest observation elevation so far -- the sun was a full 40 degrees above the horizon as seen from Kraken Mare at this time -- much higher than the 22 degrees seen in PIA18433. Because it was so bright, this glint was visible through the haze at much lower wavelengths than before, down to 1.3 microns. The southern portion of Kraken Mare (the area surrounding the specular feature toward upper left) displays a "bathtub ring" -- a bright margin of evaporate deposits -- which indicates that the sea was larger at some point in the past and has become smaller due to evaporation. The deposits are material left behind after the methane & ethane liquid evaporates, somewhat akin to the saline crust on a salt flat. The highest resolution data from this flyby -- the area seen immediately to the right of the sunglint -- cover the labyrinth of channels that connect Kraken Mare to another large sea, Ligeia Mare. Ligeia Mare itself is partially covered in its northern reaches by a bright, arrow-shaped complex of clouds. The clouds are made of liquid methane droplets, and could be actively refilling the lakes with rainfall. The view was acquired during Cassini's August 21, 2014, flyby of Titan, also referred to as "T104" by the Cassini team. The view contains real color information, although it is not the natural color the human eye would see. Here, red in the image corresponds to 5.0 microns, green to 2.0 microns, and blue to 1.3 microns. These wavelengths correspond to atmospheric windows through which Titan's surface is visible. The unaided human eye would see nothing but haze, as in PIA12528. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The VIMS team is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson. More information about Cassini is available at ift.tt/ZjpQgB and ift.tt/Jcddhk. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho via NASA ift.tt/1s0kCnh
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NASA's Planetary Science Director, Dr. Jim Greene using one of my Jupiter photos in his talk for a current Jupiter exploration probe, Juno. This was at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Astronomy Days event in 2013.
Protected by the Mobile Service Tower, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready for the launch of NASA's Landsat on Monday morning at 10:02am Pacific.
Neil Armstrong trained for the Apollo 11 mission at NASA Langley's Lunar Landing Research Facility on equipment that cancelled all but one-sixth of Earth's gravitational force. Armstrong offered perhaps the greatest tribute to the importance of his training when asked what it was like to land on the moon, replying, "Like Langley." via NASA ift.tt/2tjeylH
--This photo has been uploaded as part of the NASA Remix Project--
The goal of this group is to encourage people to re-interpret and remix the great photo libarary NASA has released into the public domain. Please take this photo Remix It, make a Mashup by combing this photos with other images or textures and reinvent it into a new piece of art. Go ahead give it a try, its fun! Then post your artwork to the group pool. To view some of the best images in the group you can view our stream on flickr river. If your up for a challenge we host remix competitions every month on our discussion forum.
The GSFC Veterans Advisory Committee sorts and packs donations to be sent to the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq on December 7, 2011 at the Building 1 Learning Center. Many volunteers made short work and over 75 boxes were sent.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk
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