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Taken the day before the first launch attempt.

 

Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL

 

www.nasa.gov/orion/

This selfie was taken leaning over with the 526 feet of the Vehicle Assembly Building rising above.

 

Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL

 

www.nasa.gov/orion/

#NASASocial Event at NASA Glenn's Plumb Brook Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

Display at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

University of Colorado, Boulder

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24.01.2018 13:46 MST

24mm 1/50 sec f/3.5 ISO 160

Display at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

University of Colorado, Boulder

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24.01.2018 08:36 MST

24mm 1/500 sec f/5.0 ISO 500

Heliophysicist Yari Collado-Vega explaining how a 2012 solar coronal mass ejection (basically the sun belching a bunch of material into space) impacted the Earth's magnetic field. Their work helps protect earth's many satellites from damaging solar activity.

Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL

 

www.nasa.gov/orion/

On top of launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center. The pad is being prepared for the launch of NASA's Space Launch System, their newest rocket set for launch in early 2017.

 

Images from the Sept. 18 - 19, 2014, NASA Social held at the Kennedy Space Center in Fla. #NASASocial #SpaceX4

Sign on the back fence for the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)

Images from the Sept. 18 - 19, 2014, NASA Social held at the Kennedy Space Center in Fla. #NASASocial #SpaceX4

As it turns out, SRBs use hydrazine as a monopropellant to push away from the core rocket when they are expended. Hydrazine is bad for you. If that lights up, then you need to leave now-ish.

 

Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL

 

www.nasa.gov/orion/

This picture, of the internal structure at the Vehicle Assembly Building shows the internal scaffolding where rockets are assembled. The VAB is large enough to completely house four statues of liberty.

  

Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL

 

www.nasa.gov/orion/

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder

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24.01.2018 14:22 MST

24mm 1/200 sec f/6.3 ISO 3200

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder

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24.01.2018 14:18 MST

24mm 1/200 sec f/6.3 ISO 3200

Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL

 

www.nasa.gov/orion/

The classic NASA Launch Countdown Clock was replaced recently with this newer, updated LCD-based display. The antiquity of the old clock made it nearly impossible to find replacement parts.

 

Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL

 

www.nasa.gov/orion/

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