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Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft in December. At the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF), at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, the three primary core elements of the ULA Delta IV Heavy rocket recently were integrated, forming the first stage of the launch vehicle that will send Orion far from Earth to allow NASA to evaluate the spacecraft’s performance in space. The three common booster cores are 134 feet in length and 17 feet in diameter. Each has an RS-68 engine that uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant producing 656,000 pounds of thrust. All totaled, the three Delta IV boosters collectively generate 1.96 million pounds of thrust. The upcoming flight test will use the Delta IV Heavy to launch the Orion and send it 3,600 miles in altitude beyond the Earth's surface. During the two-orbit, four-hour mission, engineers will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. The data gathered during the mission will influence design decisions and validate existing computer models. The flight also will reduce overall mission risks and costs for later Orion flights. > Delta IV Booster Integration Another Step Toward First Orion Flight Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky via NASA ift.tt/1xu3GMN
Lt. Governor Miller Tours the NASA Goddard Campus by Patrick Siebert at 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771
During an engineering flight test of the Cloud-Aerosol Multi-Angle Lidar (CAMAL) instrument, a view from NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft shows smoke plumes, from roughly 65,000 feet, produced by the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, California, around 1 p.m. PST on Dec. 5th, 2017. via NASA ift.tt/2j3XCf5
NASA engineers inspect a new piece of technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope, the micro shutter array, with a low light test at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Developed at Goddard to allow Webb's Near Infrared Spectrograph to obtain spectra of more than 100 objects in the universe simultaneously, the micro shutter array uses thousands of tiny shutters to capture spectra from selected objects of interest in space and block out light from all other sources. The James Webb Space Telescope is a large space telescope, optimized for infrared wavelengths. It is scheduled for launch later in this decade. Webb will find the first galaxies that formed in the early universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way galaxy. Webb will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own solar system. Caption Credit: Laura Betz, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland Image Credit: NASA Goddard/Chris Gunn via NASA ift.tt/1oHU0oA
If you ever get the chance to go to a NASA tweetup, do it. Even besides the amazing access and the people we got to meet, we were also laden with swag. Handouts, sure, but also a mission pin, mission patch, mission sticker, mission info book, mission info CD, a picture of the STS-129 crew, plus more pics and infopacks and an Ares mission pin and stickers and a chunk of insulation that's been on a flight and a "Celebrate Apollo" DVD with 4 hours of footage and features from 40 years of spaceflight. I mean, geez. Added to the bus tour we received, which went closer than the paid tour goes, we received well over $100 worth of loot.
Images from NASA Tweetup for STS-129 Atlantis Shuttle Launch.
This was before the Saturn V got enclosed in its own building, and probably taken around 2003. I was reminded of this picture from this new one at Kennedy www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1899.html
Here's the afterburner of a NASA F-104. The F-104 Starfighter was designed to intercept Russian bombers at speeds past Mach 2, and was nicknamed "missile with a man in it".
NASA Commumity College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) teams in Building 152 during building of lego rovers.
Washington : There NASA Expedition 42 crew members returned safely to the Earth on Thursday after a 167-day mission at the International Space Station (ISS) that included several scientific experiments and spacewalks to prepare the ISS for future arrivals by the US commercial space taxis.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering students Kristin Nevels (left), Ben Loh, Chad Harland, Shea Fehrenbach and Bryan Todd make up the OSU team "Space Cowboys". The team is one of the only three finalists for a NASA and National Space Grant Foundation competition to create an inflatable loft for future space explorers to live in.
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image of Florida to Louisiana just before dawn, taken from the International Space Station, and posted it to social media on Friday, Sept. 12. Wiseman, Commander Max Suraev and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst began their first full workweek Monday as a three-person crew aboard the space station, while the three additional flight engineers who will round out the Expedition 41 crew spent the day training for next week’s launch to the orbiting complex. Image Credit: NASA via NASA 1.usa.gov/1u2sxlu
'NASA 926' is one of two highly modified WB-57F Canberras usually operated by NASA for high altitude sampling and testing. One of the aircraft has infrequently deployed to RAF Miidenhall in previous years for this task. This is the first time I have seen 926, most recent visits have been conducted by 928.
NASA image acquired November 9, 2012
In early November 2012, a wintery nor’easter followed on the heels of Hurricane Sandy. When that second storm cleared out of the region, it left behind snow stretching from New Jersey to Massachusetts. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color view of the region on November 9, 2012.
The National Weather Service’s Philadelphia / Mt. Holly (N.J.) forecast office reported that snowfall from the storm was “considerably worse than forecast for portions of northern and central New Jersey,” but less than forecast in other areas.
From the vantage point of MODIS, snowfall was the visible impact of the storm. But the areas blanketed in white were not the only ones affected by the storm. The National Weather Service also observed wind gusts up to 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour; high waves and minor coastal flooding in New Jersey and Delaware; and 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) of rain along the New Jersey coast. Similar conditions were reported in coastal New England.
The nor’easter hit areas already struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, including those suffering through ongoing power outages. The Associated Press reported that tens of thousands of customers in New York and New Jersey remained without electricity two weeks after Sandy’s landfall.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michon Scott.
Instrument:
Aqua - MODIS
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
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