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N911NA - Boeing B-747SR-46 - NASA
at Marana Pinal Air Park (MZJ)
c/n 20.781 - built in 1973 for Japan Airlines -
to Boeing in 1988 for modification to Shuttle Carrier Aircraft -
operated by NASA between 1989 and 2012 -
on static display at Joe Davis Heritage Airpark, Palmdale CA.since 09/2014
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Waiting for the Rocket Lab HASTE launch admiring the view of the tracking facilities at Wallops Mainland base including the large S-Band radar.
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Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Saturn's rings taken by Cassini on August 20 2009. Not true color, I applied color channel balancing to show more variance in this version.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
N717NA - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 - NASA - National Aeronautics & Space Administration Edwards CA (Dryden Flight Research Center)
in Dec. 1989
c/n 46082 - built in 1969 as DC-8-62 for Alitalia -
to Braniff in 1979 -
to NASA in 1983 - converted to DC-8-72 in 1986 -
still operational in 2021
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
N712NA - Convair CV-990-30A-8 Coronado-990 - NASA
at Paris LeBourget (LBG) in June 1977
named "Galileo II"
c/n 301037 - built in 1963 for Garuda Indonesian -
operated by NASA from 1973 -
w/o 7/17/85 March AFB CA - destroyed by fire after aborted takeoff due to blown tire
last Convair CV-990 built
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
N905NA - Boeing B-747-123 - NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)
with shuttle "Enterprise"
at Paris LeBourget Airport (LBG) in 1983 during Aero Salon
c/n 20107 - built in 1970 for American Airlines -
modified as Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) by Boeing in 1976 -
entered service 1977 in ex American Airlines livery -
last flight with Space Shuttle (Discovery) 4/17/12 Kennedy Space Center - IAD -
In 2013, a decision was made to preserve N905NA and display it at Space Center Houston with the mockup shuttle "Independence" mounted on its back. N905NA was flown to Ellington Field where it was carefully dismantled, ferried to the Johnson Space Center in seven major pieces (a process called The Big Move), reassembled, and finally mated with the replica shuttle in August 2014
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
NASA 747SP Reg: N747NA another highlight from my US trip, airside at NASA hangar and ramp at Palmdale.
NASA image acquired October 14, 2011
The Solar Dynamics Observatory sends images of the Sun. This image taken by SDO's AIA instrument at 171 Angstrom shows the current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid.
Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary survey of the asteroid. The spacecraft will commence flyovers of Bennu’s north pole, equatorial region, and south pole, getting as close as nearly 4 miles (7 kilometers) above Bennu during each flyover.
The primary science goals of this survey are to refine estimates of Bennu’s mass and spin rate, and to generate a more precise model of its shape. The data will help determine potential sites for later sample collection.
This image of Bennu was taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km).
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
A winter storm that moved through the Mid-Atlantic on Feb. 16 and 17, 2015 extended the northeastern U.S. snowcover farther south. Until this storm hit, southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania appeared snow-free on satellite imagery from the previous week.
The overnight storm blanketed the entire states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as seen on this Feb. 16 image. The image was taken from the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite. The snow cover from the storm actually extended even farther south than the image. Snowfall also blanketed West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, while freezing rain and icy conditions affected the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia.
On Feb. 17, 2015, NOAA's National Weather Service noted "The winter storm that brought widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain to parts of the south-central U.S. and Mid-Atlantic will wind down as it moves offshore Tuesday. Lingering snow and freezing rain is possible early Tuesday for parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, with rain across parts of the Southeast."
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
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Originally a US Air Force RB-57, N927NA was converted to WB-57F for high altitude research. NASA brought the jet to California to observe the return of the Orion spacecraft from the Artemis mission (...and it MAY have taken part in a hypersonic missile test flight).
N817NA - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 - NASA - National Aeronautics & Space Administration Edwards CA (Dryden Flight Research Center)
c/n 46082 - built in 1969 for Alitalia as DC-8-62 -
to Braniff 1979 - 1983 -
conv. to DC-8-72 in 1986 and operated by NASA from 1986 - still active in 2021
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
N827NA - Douglas C-47B-15-DK - NASA
at Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ)
c/n 26787- built in 1943 for the USAF -
operated by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Edwards CA between 1972 and 1985 - retired
preserved and placed on display with Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA.
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Storm in the Sargasso Sea
Scientist aboard the R/V Endeavor in the Sargasso Sea put their research on hold on July 28, 2014, as a storm system brought high waves crashing onto the deck.
NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment is a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based capabilities for monitoring microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food chain.
Read more: 1.usa.gov/WWRVzj
Credit: NASA/SABOR/Chris Armanetti, University of Rhode Island
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This NASA visualization for the National Climate Assessment released on May 6 shows how average temperatures in the U.S. will increase 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century if carbon dioxide emissions continue current trends. It is based on a NOAA analysis of climate model data.
The National Climate Assessment is specifically focused on providing information about the impacts of climate change on the U.S. NASA supports this effort and contributes a global perspective through its satellite missions and science. NASA scientists study global and U.S. influences on temperature, including greenhouse gases, clouds, fine particle pollution and solar activity.
NASA scientists are also studying how rising temperatures in the U.S. and around the world will impact agriculture, extreme summer heat waves and public health.
Increasing carbon dioxide emissions from human activities remains the primary driver of Earth’s rising temperatures. This summer NASA will launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), to make continuous global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
To read the National Climate Assessment’s take on U.S. temperature trends, visit: nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/rece...
To learn more about the OCO-2 mission, visit: oco.jpl.nasa.gov
To learn more about other NASA missions that contribute to understanding global temperature, visit: climate.nasa.gov
To see a visualization of temperature changes projected by the National Climate Assessment, visit: go.nasa.gov/1on08V4
To learn more about NASA’s Earth science activities in 2014, visit: www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow
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NASA video release January 19, 2012
Global temperatures have warmed significantly since 1880, the beginning of what scientists call the "modern record." At this time, the coverage provided by weather stations allowed for essentially global temperature data. As greenhouse gas emissions from energy production, industry and vehicles have increased, temperatures have climbed, most notably since the late 1970s. In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average.
(Data source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Visualization credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html
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After a few goofy Rovers I felt like building a "serious" Rover. So here it is, and it is a companion build to my NASA Pathfinder 4 SHIP from September 2014.
This Rover owes a lot to _Tiler's phenomenal and perfect Apollo Lunar Rover.
Montebello, CA
A few months ago, Moises sent me some pictures of this place and I was shocked to see practically all of NASA's oldies sitting here. I completely forgot NASA had this second yard so a few weeks later, my brother and I went to check it out. Most of the trucks look to be in decent shape for just sitting so that's good. In fact, when we went to the main yard a few minutes later, we even saw one of the 310 Heils pulling in! Haven't been out here since April so not sure what's been moved around.
The Strait of Gibraltar. Can you imagine the enormous flood when this natural dam broke, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic?
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Die Strasse von Gibraltar. Koennt ihr euch die gewaltige Flut vorstellen, als dieser natuerliche Damm brach, und das Mittelmeer mit dem Atlantik verband?
Credits: ID: ESA/NASA–A.Gerst
ID: 401R5532
A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California was spotted by NOAA's GOES-West satellite on February 28. According to the National Weather Service, this storm system has the potential to bring heavy rainfall to the drought-stricken state.
The storm was captured using visible data from NOAA's GOES-West or GOES-15 satellite on Feb. 28 at 1915 UTC/11:15 a.m. PST was made into an image by NASA/NOAA's GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The storm's center appeared as a tight swirl, with bands of clouds and showers already sweeping over the state extending from northern California to Baja California, Mexico.
At 11:30 a.m. PST on February 28, Bill Patzert, climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. said, "Right now from northern to southern California we are being battered by very heavy rain, strong winds and our coastal communities are being battered by high surf. Through the weekend we are bracing for mud and rock slides in areas that recently burned [from wildfires]. Flooding is looming up and down the state."
The National Weather Service (NWS) serving Los Angeles posted a Flood Watch for the region on Friday, February 28. The Flood Watch notes the "potential for flash flooding and debris flows for some 2013 and 2014 burn areas in Los Angeles County from this morning through Saturday evening (March 1).”
The NWS Flood Watch also noted "a very strong and dynamic storm will bring a significant amount of rain to much of southwestern California through Saturday evening. A flash flood watch has been issued for several recent burn areas in Los Angeles County due to the abundant rainfall expected. Rain rates at times are expected to range from a half inch to one inch per hour which could cause significant mud and debris flows. There will be a chance of thunderstorms with locally higher rainfall rates."
"Californians haven't seen rain and wind this powerful in 3 years," Patzert said. "By early next week, as this system moves east, this powerful system will wreak havoc causing snow and ice storms through the Midwest into the Northeast."
GOES satellites provide the kind of continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis. Geostationary describes an orbit in which a satellite is always in the same position with respect to the rotating Earth. This allows GOES to hover continuously over one position on Earth's surface, appearing stationary. As a result, GOES provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes.
On a positive note, Patzert noted, "This is a nice down payment on drought recovery in the parched Western U.S."
For updated information about the storm system, visit NOAA's National Weather Service website: www.weather.gov
For more information about GOES satellites, visit: www.goes.noaa.gov/ or goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Pico Rivera, CA
We stopped by NASA today and thanks to some very, very nice employees, we got a quick little tour around their yard. Thanks to Louie especially for the walk around.
Ex-LA truck that NASA got recently. They also got an ex-ESD truck (NASA AD1)
N429NA - Lockheed L-188C Electra - NASA
at Miami International Airport (MIA) in Feb. 1988
c/n 1103 - built in 1959 for the Hughes Tool Company, but ntu -
delivered to the FAA as N111 in 1961 -
to NASA National Aeronautics & Space Admin Wallops Island VA in 1979 - wfu DMA in 1995
to Neptune Aviation Services Inc. in 2004 - conv. to tanker -
to Air Spray in 2006 as C-FLJO/Tanker 88
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
The Space Shuttle Discovery heads for Earth orbit on the first post-Challenger nocturnal launch.This picture shows a side view of Discovery, one of its two solid rocket boosters (SRB) and the external tank. It represents a good example of the "diamond shock" effect, in the plume from the main engine, associated with Shuttle launches.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: s33-s-002
Date: November 22, 1989
Montebello, CA
A few months ago, Moises sent me some pictures of this place and I was shocked to see practically all of NASA's oldies sitting here. I completely forgot NASA had this second yard so a few weeks later, my brother and I went to check it out. Most of the trucks look to be in decent shape for just sitting so that's good. In fact, when we went to the main yard a few minutes later, we even saw one of the 310 Heils pulling in! Haven't been out here since April so not sure what's been moved around.
NASA release date June 21, 2011
The terminator of Mercury, shown here in color, is the line between light and dark, or day and night. On Mercury, three days are equivalent to two years, or in other words, the planet spins around its axis three times for every two orbits around the Sun. The first Mercury year of the MESSENGER mission ended on Monday, June 13, 2011.
This image was acquired as part of MDIS's color base map. The color base map is composed of WAC images taken through eight different narrow-band color filters and will cover more than 90% of Mercury's surface with an average resolution of 1 kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel). The highest-quality color images are obtained for Mercury's surface when both the spacecraft and the Sun are overhead, so these images typically are taken with viewing conditions of low incidence and emission angles.
The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MDIS is scheduled to acquire more than 75,000 images in support of MESSENGER's science goals.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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February 17, 2012: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling HLX-1, one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers believe the black hole may once have been at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. The discovery of the black hole and the possible star cluster has important implications for understanding the evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/shredded-relic....
Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney)
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Pico Rivera, CA
We stopped by NASA today and thanks to some very, very nice employees, we got a quick little tour around their yard. Thanks to Louie especially for the walk around.
Ex-LA truck that NASA got recently. They also got an ex-ESD truck (NASA AD1)
Montebello, CA
A few months ago, Moises sent me some pictures of this place and I was shocked to see practically all of NASA's oldies sitting here. I completely forgot NASA had this second yard so a few weeks later, my brother and I went to check it out. Most of the trucks look to be in decent shape for just sitting so that's good. In fact, when we went to the main yard a few minutes later, we even saw one of the 310 Heils pulling in! Haven't been out here since April so not sure what's been moved around.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, played a critical role in the test flight of the #Orion spacecraft on Dec. 5, 2014. Goddard's Networks Integration Center, pictured here, coordinated the communications support for both the Orion vehicle and the Delta IV rocket, ensuring complete communications coverage through NASA's Space Network and Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.
The Orion spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 in Florida at 7:05 a.m. EST. The Orion capsule splashed down about four and a half hours later, at 11:29 a.m. EST, about 600 miles off the coast of San Diego, California. While no humans were aboard Orion for this test flight, in the future, Orion will allow humans to travel deeper into space than ever before, including an asteroid and Mars.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Amber Jacobson
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For Earth Day, here is this spectacular image showing the Moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface, which was acquired during a 20-second period starting at 2:59 p.m. EDT (18:59:19 UTC) on April 8, 2024, by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Though taken by the LRO, Earth is our home and NASA studies it more than any other planet. NASA powers Earth and climate science!
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
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NASA Unfiltered – Our First Photo NASA Social
Are you instantly on Instagram? A Flickr fanatic? If you know the difference between shutter speed and an f-stop, this NASA Social is for you. NASA is hosting an event for its photo-fanatic social media followers on the morning of Feb. 27, 2014, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
This NASA Social will bring 15 social media photo-gurus together at NASA Goddard to snap and share photos of where NASA's next great Earth science satellite was developed, built and tested. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission Core Observatory is the largest satellite ever built and tested at NASA Goddard.
NASA Social participants and their friends and family are also invited to attend the GPM launch party at NASA Goddard's Visitor Center. We will watch a live NASA Television broadcast of the launch of GPM from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The Visitor Center will be open from 12:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. EST, with expert presentations and family-friendly hands-on demonstrations. The launch of the GPM Core Observatory is scheduled for no earlier than 1:07 p.m. EST, Feb. 27, 2014.
More details and registration: 1.usa.gov/1fs1sRr
Credit: NASA
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iss073e0880792 (Oct. 15, 2025) --- The clear blue waters off the coast of the Bahamian island of Eleuthera—part of which is visible at lower right—reveal sandbars and submerged dunes rippling across the seafloor shaped by currents and waves in the western Atlantic. The International Space Station was orbiting 260 miles above Earth when this photograph was taken.
Pico Rivera, CA
We stopped by NASA today and thanks to some very, very nice employees, we got a quick little tour around their yard. Thanks to Louie especially for the walk around.
1 of 3 ex-Ontario trucks. Kevin was at the same auction that these were bought from. NASA refurbished them completely all in house, from engine rebuilding to painting.
NASA image captured October 5, 2011
The Antarctic Peninsula seen from space.
Satellite: Aqua/MODIS
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
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Taken by a crewmember aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 20, this image shows a gleaming half moon high above Earth's atmosphere.
Image and caption credit: NASA
More Expedition 20 images:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-20/ndxpa...
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Description Astronaut N. Jan Davis, payload commander, is pictured at the work station for the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-85. Davis controlled and oversaw operations with the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (CRISTA-SPAS-2) during the 12-day mission in Earth-orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS085-312-027
Date: August 19, 1997
A general purpose two-person EVA unit, commonly used to construct, inspect or repair sections of the ISS-B.
Work boats sported second-generation manipulator arms, tentacles more precisely; the biomechanical design was found to be superior to the older jointed boom arms as the tentacle's algorithms would find the best route to the grasp point and also be capable of reaching through complex station beamwork. In effect, the workers could remain stationary with the arms found it's own way to it's target point.
Landing with a tailwind on runway 12 after reportedly running low on fuel...Prestwick 10/07/14
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Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. To the right, east of Sputnik, rougher terrain is cut by apparent glaciers. The backlighting highlights over a dozen layers of haze in Pluto’s tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 780 miles (1,250 kilometers) wide.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI