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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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