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PictionID:53758523 - Catalog:14_031698 - Title:Atlas Centaur 12 Details: AC-12 Nose Fairing in CSTS Date: 11/03/1966 - Filename:14_031698.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53764423 - Catalog:14_032156 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Nose Cone Date: 07/15/1968 - Filename:14_032156.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Ahead of launch as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is encapsulated in the payload fairing, or nose cone, of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket on Nov. 21, 2023, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Launch of Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One will carry NASA and commercial payloads to the Moon in early 2024 to study the lunar exosphere, thermal properties, and hydrogen abundance of the lunar regolith, magnetic fields, and the radiation environment of the lunar surface. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Reducing weight to increase fuel economy and payload is a continuing goal for most sectors of the transportation industry, including the automotive, trucking, rail, and aircraft sectors. Heavy truck manufacturers, for example, have relied upon aluminum castings with thick cross-sections to meet load and durability requirements and to reduce the weight of vehicles. However, as the life of trucks is steadily extended, to now well over a million miles, the longterm endurance of aluminum is being challenged. As an alternative, thin-wall steel castings feature:.* high strength.* high strength-to-weight ratios.* excellent fatigue properties.* lightweight (≤ aluminum counterpart)..Thin-wall steel castings also may replace other steel castings that are heavy and bulky due to wall sections that cannot economically be further reduced using conventional casting processes. Unfortunately, currently available processes for producing thin-wall steel castings are uneconomical. (Although the term “thin-wall” is relative, the cross-sections of conventional sand-cast steel castings are generally process limited to a minimum of .250 inches.) Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) use the evaporative pattern casting (EPC) process to make thin-wall steel castings and apply flow and solidification modeling to gating systems to optimize metal delivery and insure thin-wall filling. In the EPC process, molten metal is poured directly into a polystyrene or other foam pattern that is embedded in unbonded sand. The pattern vaporizes, and the metal assumes the pattern’s configuration. Each casting requires a new pattern. The advantages of EPC include: dimensional tolerances and surface finishes that approach those obtainable by investment casting; elimination of cores an option of gluing simple pattern parts together to make a more complex whole; elimination of sand binders and sand preparation equipment; reduction of pattern and part draft; elimination of parting lines; reduction of post-casting cleaning; and the freedom to orient patterns within molds in a variety of positions to increase options for casting feeding and directional solidification. EPC.economies are documented for aluminum casting, but the process has not been widely used to manufacture steel castings..NETL researchers have successfully made 0.125 inch (3 mm) thick castings by modifying the EPC process for aluminum casting and adapting it to steel. Double-walled sand flasks were developed for the application of vacuum to sand molds..Because metal freezing and fluidity are a function of time, the timely dispatch of metal to thin sections is essential. The vacuum speeds the delivery of molten metal by effectively increasing the pouring height to an equivalent of nearly five feet and provides additional flow enhancement to ensure complete pattern filling.
Though the A-4 Skyhawk was by no means outdated by 1962, the US Navy began work on a replacement with better range and heavier payload. The designs submitted would be necessarily heavier than the A-4, but this was not seen as much of a problem, nor was a lack of speed: the Navy was willing to trade subsonic performance for increased range and more bombs. Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) submitted a design based loosely on its successful F-8 Crusader fighter, which was enough to beat out three other designs, and it was ordered into production as the A-7A Corsair II, named for the successful Chance-Vought fighter of World War II.
Though the A-7 was based on the F-8, the two shared very little other than basic configuration: the A-7 was stubby and wide, and definitely subsonic as intended, though it initially used the same powerplant as the F-111 Aardvark. Turn performance was excellent, if acceleration was indifferent, but the centerpiece of the Corsair II was its integrated bomb delivery system. This included the APQ-116 radar, a heads-up display, traveling map display below the radarscope, and a digital computer. Ease of maintenance was also emphasized. With no problems encountered in flight testing, the A-7A entered fleet service in 1967.
It was immediately committed to fighting in Vietnam. Though A-7s would only see action in the tail end of Operation Rolling Thunder, they were to be used extensively in South Vietnam, due to their accuracy: A-7s were capable of putting ordnance within sixty feet of friendly troops, making it well-liked. The Navy liked the USAF's A-7D variant, and subsequently adopted it, with changes for naval operations, as the A-7E. This was to be the definitive model of the Corsair II, and surviving A-7As and A-7Bs were converted to E standard.
It was a mixed batch of A-7 models that finished the war in Vietnam: A-7Bs were mostly used in the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) Wild Weasel role, and increasingly Corsair IIs were armed with precision weapons such as the AGM-62 Walleye, which proved capable enough to destroy the infamous Thanh Hoa Bridge—albeit temporarily—in 1972. The workhorse A-7 also struck targets in the Hanoi area extensively, making it second only to the B-52 in amount of ordnance dropped on the North Vietnamese capital. Navy A-7s from USS Coral Sea participated in the last combat missions of the Vietnam War, the Mayaguez rescue mission in May 1975. 98 Navy A-7s were shot down during the conflict.
Following the end of the Vietnam War, the A-7 replaced the A-4 in Navy light attack squadrons, standardizing on the A-7E. Aside from minor upgrades, this would remain the type used by Navy units for the duration of the Corsair II’s career. A-7s would go on to participate in every military operation undertaken by the United States in the 1980s—attacks on Lebanon and the invasion of Grenada in 1983, operations against Libya in 1985, during the “Tanker War” in the Persian Gulf in 1987, and finally in the First Gulf War in 1991. In these operations, the A-7 was able to use its pinpoint bombing ability to good use; in Libya and the Persian Gulf, Corsair IIs attacked and sank numerous Libyan and Iranian patrol boats with unguided bombs. It also was the Navy’s Wild Weasel of choice during the 1980s, using the Vietnam-era Shrike before upgrading to the far superior HARM.
In Operation Desert Storm, two A-7 squadrons from John F. Kennedy were used both to attack fixed targets with “iron” bombs and Walleyes in “tank plinking”—knocking out Iraqi tanks with precision weapons. Despite there being less than 30 A-7s in theater, these aircraft were able supplements to the USAF’s A-10s and F-111s.
The First Gulf War was the A-7’s swan song. The last squadrons gave up their Corsair IIs for F/A-18 Hornets by May 1991, ending nearly thirty years of operations. Some ex-Navy A-7s were passed on to Greece, Portugal, and Thailand, and some still remain in service with Thailand and Greece. Of the 1569 A-7s built, about half were Navy types, and today 20 former US Navy A-7s are on display as gate guards and museum pieces.
Bureau Number 157455 joined the Navy in 1973 with VA-83 ("Rampagers") aboard the USS Forrestal (CV-59), and remained with that squadron until 1980, when it shifted to first VA-46 ("Clansmen") aboard the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and then VA-12 ("Flying Ubangis") aboard the USS Dwight Eisenhower (CVN-69), where it took part in peacekeeping operations over Lebanon. In 1984, 157455 made its last stop with VA-37 ("Ragin' Bulls"), back aboard the Forrestal, and was retired in 1990 when the squadron reequipped with F/A-18 Hornets. It was acquired by the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, New Mexico soon after that.
Though 157455 was repainted in its original colors with VA-83 back in 2014, the hot desert sun has already started to fade the colors once again. It is displayed with one wing folded upwards. I got this picture on indeed a rather hot day in June 2022.
PictionID:55951563 - Catalog:14_038180.tif - Title:Atlas Centaur Testing Details: Positioning Movie Camera For Centaur Nose Cone Jettison Test Date: 01/23/1961 - Filename:14_038180.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
I had bought this crew litho already signed by payload specialist then-Rep. C. William Nelson. After languishing in my collection, I decided to send it around to get signed - first by Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, since I had another photo for him to sign, then George D."Pinky" Nelson, who was on bucket list of astronauts who I met but didn't sign my "Space Shuttle: 20 Years" book. I then sent it off to Robert J. Cenker, another payload specialist, who lives in my state.
STS-61-C was the last successful shuttle flight prior to the Challenger accident, which occurred 10 days after this crew landed.
In retrospect, I should have had both ret. Navy Capt. Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson sign it when I had the chance, as well as ret. Marine Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr.
But Bolden makes enough appearances, and while I didn't see Gibson again, I heard he was great about signing through the mail. So I held my breath and sent him this as well as another photo. Gibson returned both within three months.
As for the last crewmember, Steven A. Hawley, I attended a presentation by the STS-93 crew (less Jeff Ashby.) STS-93 was the last of Hawley's five missions, and he signed this for me. Boston, Ma., 18 Nov. 2014.
Buoyed by Hawley's signature, and not wanting to wait any longer, I sent this off to Bolden on 29 Jan. 2015, and received it back on 21 Mar. Crew complete!
115-amp HD alternator, Engine block heater *Standard in AK, CO, IA, ME, MN, MT, ND, SD, WI & WY.
Stationary elevated engine idle control (SEIC), 4-wheel drive, 9400# GVWR, 2900# max payload, Mono-beam front axle w/coil spring suspension,
4-wheel anti-lock braking system (ABS), 2-speed transfer case w/manual locking front hubs, Front stabilizer bar, 156" WB, 29 gallon fuel tank,
Trailer tow pkg-inc: 7-wire harness w/relays, 7/4 pin combination connector,
trailer brake wiring kit w/o controller, Pwr steering, 2-ton mechanical jack,
Pwr 4-wheel disc brakes, 6-3/4' pickup box-inc: (4) tie-down hooks, partitionable & stackable storage, HD shock absorbers, 3.73 axle ratio.
Audio & Video
AM/FM
CD Changer
Tire & Wheel
275/60R20
85% tread remaining
20 inch
Alloy
Wheels in Excellent condition
History
No Known Problems
Non-Smoker
Original Manuals
Service Records
Front passenger-side roof ride handle, Front/rear license plate brackets, Rear seating roof ride handles, Black lower air dam,
Underhood service light, Dual beam jewel effect headlamps, Chrome rear bumper,
Chrome front bumper w/glossy body-color top cover, Grille w/bright insert & chrome surround,
Black door handles, Black box-rail & tailgate top-edge moldings, Pickup box/cargo lights,
Interval windshield wipers, Solar tinted glass, Removable locking tailgate w/black handle.
Dual color-keyed coat hooks, Accessory delay, Glove box, Front door operated dome lamp w/time delay off & IP switch,
Color-keyed door trim panel-inc: color-keyed soft armrest, pwr switch bezel,
molded upper applique, upper & lower map pockets, grab handle & reflector,
Color-keyed carpet full-floor covering, BeltMinder seatbelt-not-buckled chime & flashing warning light,
FlexFold 60/40 rear bench seat w/fold-flat feature, grocery hooks, dual cupholders, tray,
steel load floor, Behind seat storage trays, Instrument panel mounted dual cupholders,
storage bin & trash bag hook, Black instrumentation-inc: tachometer, speedometer, oil pressure, coolant temp,
fuel gauge, indicator lights, message center w/odometer, trip odometer, engine hour meter, warning messages,
voltmeter, Dual color-keyed cloth sunvisors-inc: driver-side map strap, passenger-side mirror insert,
Rear seat LH/RH grab handles, Driver & passenger grab handles, Pwr windows w/driver one-touch-down & backlit switches,
Speed control, Color-keyed cloth headliner, Tilt steering wheel w/speed controls, Color-keyed scuff plates,
Auxiliary pwr point, Driver & front passenger manual lumbar support, Ashtray & cigar lighter, Air conditioning, (4) air registers w/positive shut-off.
Vice President Mike Pence places a call to the International Space Station from the Payload Operations and Integration Center on Sept. 25, 2017, at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Pence spoke with astronauts Randy Bresnik, Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Brian Massey
Steven L. Smith, payload commander, takes a picture with a 35-mm camera during the final spacewalk of the STS-103 mission in December 1999. Smith stood on a foot restraint connected to the end of Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm. John M. Grunsfeld, mission specialist, worked in the background.
Credit: NASA
Closeup of the hinge on the Space Shuttle Discovery's Payload Bay Door. The Space Shuttle Discovery is now on display at its new home at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center located at Dulles Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. Discovery is displayed in its operating condition and was not repainted or restored for display. Noticably visible are black singing from reeentry and tile damage on the underside of the thermal protection system.
An instrument for the SAGE III payload is lifted onto a test stand following testing in the Space Station Processing Facility low bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The payload will be launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket later this year. Once at the station, NASA’s Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III instrument will take long-term measurements of ozone, aerosols and other trace gasses to help scientists better understand how to monitor and protect the Earth’s atmosphere. Photo credit: ESC Rory Duncan
KSC-20250731-PH-RNS01_0007 (2025-07-31) --- CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist for NASA’s Artemis II mission, participates in a suited crew test on Thursday, July 31, 2025, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Hansen and fellow Artemis II crew members, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander; Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot; and Christina Koch, mission specialist, donned their Orion crew survival system spacesuits for training at NASA’s Kennedy’s Multi-Payload Processing Facility, where they entered their fully powered Orion spacecraft as part of the test. Artemis II will take the four astronauts around the Moon, as the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence for science and exploration through Artemis.
SPACE SHUTTLE PAYLOAD --- A Space Shuttle Orbiter places a Space Tug and payload in Earth orbit as a prelude to Tug's transporting package to Earth synchronous orbit in the artist's concept by Rockwell International Corporation's Space Division.
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Michael L. Lampton (left) was the alternate US payload specialist for STS-9/Spacelab 1. He was to have flown on STS-61-K, the combined EOM-1/2 Spacelab mission which would have reflown some Spacelab-1 experiments, but that flight was postponed after Challenger.
That flight was later remanifested as STS-45/ATLAS-1, but Lampton was replaced by alternate payload specialist Dirk D. Frimout due to medical problems.
Wubbo J. Ockels, representing the European Space Agency, was selected in 1978 by ESA as one of three European payload specialists (science astronauts) to train for the Spacelab missions, together with Ulf Merbold and Claude Nicollier.
In May 1980, Ockels began the basic astronaut training for mission specialist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States. He successfully completed the training in August 1981 and joined the Spacelab 1 crew for training as a back-up payload specialist for the first mission of ESA's Spacelab. During the mission (28 November – 8 December 1983) he served as ground-communicator and liaison-scientist for the crew on board STS-9/Spacelab 1.
Between 30 October and 6 November 1985, Ockels flew as a payload specialist on flight STS-61-A with Space Shuttle Challenger.
STS-61-A was the German D-1 Spacelab Mission, a joint German/ESA mission with three European astronauts on board - besides Ockels, these were Ernst Messerschmid (then DLR/Germany) and Reinhard Furrer (DLR/Germany).
The D1 Mission was the first to carry a crew of eight, and was also the first in which payload activities were controlled from outside the United States, namely from the German Space Operations Centre (GSOC) in Oberpfaffenhofen. More than 75 scientific experiments were completed in the areas of physiological sciences, materials science, biology, and navigation.
At the conclusion of the Spacelab D-1 mission Ockels had travelled 110 Earth orbits, and logged over 168 hours in space.
I sent the photo first to Ockels and then to Lampton. I also sent the cover of my STS-61-K flight file to Lampton, but he didn't autograph that. Maybe he thought the cover was a cardboard protector?
While the C-141A Starlifter had done well in the 1960s, especially in supply efforts over Vietnam, the aircraft had one glaring problem: it would “bulk out” before it reached its projected payload weight: the fuselage would be full, but the aircraft was capable of carrying more weight. In response to this and the C-141’s need for fueling stops on long trips, the USAF began upgrading the C-141A fleet to C-141B standard. By adding two plugs fore and aft of the wings, the fuselage was stretched 23 feet. While the Starlifter was still incapable of carrying oversize loads, it now could carry up to its full weight. Inflight refueling capability was also added. All surviving C-141As were upgraded between 1977 and 1982 to B standard, essentially adding 90 new C-141s to the fleet without building new aircraft. With the C-5B Galaxy also entering service, the C-141B gave the USAF unmatched air transport capability, something that would be very useful in time of war. The B model's first wartime service would be Operation Desert Shield, the buildup to the First Gulf War of 1991. Starlifters carried nearly half of all payloads delivered to the Southwest Asia theater.
The 1990s would see the most use of the aircraft, especially over the wartorn former nations of Yugoslavia. During NATO efforts to resupply Bosnian towns cut off by Serbian forces, C-141s were flown from Rhein-Main airbase at low level over Bosnia, where cargo pallets were dropped from the rear filled with food. As these pallets could cause damage when they hit the ground, the pallets were replaced by food boxes tied together: these boxes would break apart in midair and float down on individual parachutes. These “food bombs” would be used later in other areas where the C-141 was unable to land. Other Rhein-Main based Starlifters made the trip into the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, the airport of which was considered one of the most dangerous spots on earth. C-141s and other NATO transports kept the city alive during its three-year siege, which finally ended in 1995. In response to this, 13 C-141Bs were modified to SOLL II standard, with low-light vision equipment, GPS, and defensive chaff/flare countermeasures, for operations over high-threat areas or in conjunction with Special Forces units. Later, about a third of the lowest-timed Starlifters were modified to C-141C standard, with a new “glass” cockpit and upgraded avionics.
Despite this, the days of the C-141 were numbered. It was getting old, and wing cracks had begun to appear on older aircraft. As the C-17 Globemaster III was now coming into service, Starlifters began to be retired. The C-141Cs soldiered on long enough to be used in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they finally used their paratroop-carrying capability in combat, dropping elements of the 101st Airborne Division near Tikrit in northern Iraq. After 2004, the Starlifter was retired from active units and passed on to Air National Guard and Reserve units; the last eight operational C-141s were used to shuttle supplies into New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2005. This was the Starlifter’s swan song, as after this operation ended the C-141 finally left USAF service after forty years of service. Of 285 aircraft, 19 were lost in accidents and 13 are preserved in museums.
This rather anonymous C-141B is shown in the standard white over gray scheme of Military Airlift Command units in the 1970s; these were later camouflaged, first in Europe One green-and-gray, and later overall dark AMC Gray before retirement. This is a solid wood model rather than a plastic model kit. The missiles in the background are not to scale!
"This photograph shows how Krafft A. Ehricke pictures man going to the moon by nuclear rocket. The manned payload hangs 1000 feet below the nuclear power plant after having been boosted from Earth into space by a chemical rocket. Upon reaching the Moon, the nuclear rocket is set down some distance from where the capsule lands. This arrangement protects the crew from the radiation of the nuclear rocket. (Convair, General Dynamics Corp.)"
The book presents the best information, ideas and assumptions on the conquest of the moon as of 1958. The authors, who were experts on missiles and space flight, tell how the moon would be approached, first with instrumented probes and then with man himself as a payload. Fascinating conjectures, based on the latest scientific findings, show what life on the moon might be like, how men would build a base there, how they would explore the moon, and how they would push on from there to further explorations of outer space.
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Emirates
Scale 1-500 model diecast
Airbus A330-200
Registration: A6-EKX (MSN 326)
Original printed box
Aircraft Type: Airbus A330-243
Config: F12C42Y183
Engines: 2x RR Trent 772B-60
Airframe status: Stored
Original Dimensions: Wingspan 60,3m - Lenght 59m - Height 17,9m
Seating Capacity: 253 (Is manufacturers typical 3 class configuration)
Range: 12350km (With maximum passengers and no cargo)
MTOW: 233 tonnes
MLW: 182 tonnes
MZFW: 170 tonnes
Typical OWE: 120,5 tonnes
Typical Volumetric Payload: 36,4 tonnes
Max. Structural Payload: 49,5 tonnes
Fuel Capacity: 139090 litres
IATA: EK
ICAO: UAE
Callsign: EMIRATES
Airline Full Name: Emirates Airline
Country: United Arab Emirates
Airline Founded: 25 Oct 1985
Headquarters: Dubai International (DXB / OMDB)
Fleet Size: 271 Aircraft (+ 9 On Order/Planned)
Brand: Herpa Wings
Colors: Black - Gold - Green - Grey - Red - White
Material: Metal
Condition: New
Dimensions (cm): Box: 4 x 14,2 x 14,7 / Model: 12,06 x 11,8 x 3,58
Weight (g): 128
United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists the Amazon Leo mission payload atop the Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Atlas V will launch the Leo 7 mission for Amazon's broadband satellite constellation. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
The instrument to be deployed by the weather balloon is contained within a foam box and contains the necessary measurement instruments and radio communications gear - all in just a few pounds. This particular payload is primarily intended to measure ozone levels, as well as air pressure, temperature, and relative humidity.
NASA Social - Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
The National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-38 satellite, encapsulated inside a 4-meter payload fairing, is mated to its United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster at Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
PictionID:55951377 - Catalog:14_038166.tif - Title:Atlas Centaur Testing Details: Centaur Nose Cone Test Site; Overall with Net Date: 12/19/1960 - Filename:14_038166.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Russian-built Docking Module (DM) is lowered for installation into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis while the spaceplane is in Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2. The module will fly as a primary payload on the second Space Shuttle/Mir space station docking mission, STS-74, which is now scheduled for liftoff in the fall of 1995. During the mission, the module will first be attached with the orbiter's robot arm to the Orbiter Docking System (ODS) in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis and then be docked with the Mir. When Atlantis undocks from the Mir, it will leave the new docking module permanently attached to the space station for use during future Shuttle Mir docking missions. The new module will simplify future Shuttle linkups with Mir by improving orbiter clearances when it serves as a bridge between the two space vehicles. The white structures attached to the module's sides are solar panels that will be attached to the Mir after the conclusion of the STS-74 mission.
Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/
Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Manufacturer: Winston Motors Ltd.
Nationality: United Kingdom
First assembled: August 8th 2049
Birthplace: Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Engine: 4.3 L Turbocharged I6
HP: 622 BHP
0-60: 4.6 seconds
Top Speed: 120.00 MPH
While they certainly have their niche, the pickup truck isn’t exactly a popular choice in the UK. Your average blue collar worker more often chooses a van instead for both security reasons and weather protection from the rain that the UK is so well-known for. Combined with fuel prices and the small, narrow English roads not working well with the typical pickup’s large size, and its not hard to see why they never took off with the average Brit. But again, they have their niche. Seek out a farmer, tradesman or rural worker in the English countryside, and there’s a decent chance they’ll be doing their work in a mid-sized regular or crew-cab truck. The towing capacity and off-road capabilities would certainly come in handy out in a boggy British field. This fact is apparent enough that Winston Motors, the largest automaker in the UK, is no stranger to building pickups, giving England its own domestically-made truck. They took the UT-1, their standard utility vehicle and one of the first purpose-built off-road vehicles ever made, and slightly extended the chassis for a pickup bed, giving the world the UT-1 EB in 1953. It was mainly intended as a military utility vehicle for the Royal Army to build other variants off of, but it was sold to the English public where it found an audience with farmers and park wardens. When the UT-1’s successor, the Bombardier series, first appeared in the 1980s, a Bombardier EB wasn’t far behind. It never was the most popular variant of now-legendary nameplate though, with the EB trim last appearing in 2018 before the Bombardier became solely an SUV. Fast forward to the mid 2040s, and things are starting to change. While the van is still king among the UK’s utility vehicles, the pickup truck is starting to become a more popular option. Small and mid-sized models from Japanese brand Yamato and even French brand Amour are becoming less and less uncommon. But the real surprise is the appearance of an American truck on the English streets. American brand Rogue Automotive has been selling a euro-spec iteration of their 4x4 Koshuké mid-sized truck in the UK, thanks to a partnership with UK brand Rose Motors giving them access to an established dealer network to sell the truck on English soil. America, arguably the masters of the pickup truck, has seemingly finally got the English and Europe at large to bite on their flavor of truck if Rogue sees some viability of even making a Euro-spec iteration of their US designed-and-built pickup. Winston Motors is not one to ignore changing tides like this, and with how long they’ve been in the business, they know an opportunity when they see it. Clearly a domestic pickup truck isn’t a bad idea, but what also isn’t a bad idea is bringing the fight back at the American invaders. Winston already has a pretty dedicated customer base in North America, with the Bombardier being one of the best-selling luxury SUVs over there. And again, America is the land of the pickup truck. It doesn’t even need to be a domestic truck over there either with just how popular they are. With everything set up nicely before them, Winston was ready to take their latest Bombardier platform, and head out on a journey. A journey that would need a fair bit of cargo space.
Winston’s most preferred method of unveiling something new is hosting an event at their main facility in Malvern. Mind you, a party at Malvern isn’t exclusively just a glorified press release, Winston just likes an excuse to have a good time. Holiday banquets are expected, and sometimes birthdays of exceptional employees are celebrated. And of course, being the biggest car manufacturer in the UK, car meets held around the entire Malvern campus are a given, with one such meet in the spring being among the largest in the UK. For one glorious day, the county of Worcestershire is treated to the Winston Motors Functional Art Auto Show, a celebration of all things motoring more than keeping in the spirit of company founder Charles Winston. Seen as a bit of a “test run” for the more prestigious Goodwood Festival of Speed scheduled just over a month after, while the main bulk of cars appearing at the show are of course Winston models from across the brand’s long history, everything is welcomed and encouraged to the point that Winston has invited reps from rival companies in the past. This wasn’t the case for when the show ran in 2049, but Winston still had something special to show. Late into the show with every parking lot and side street on the Malvern campus packed with motoring excellence, Winston rolled out something special in front of the plant’s main entrance. It was a new variant of the Bombardier. A variant that seemed to have a lot less “car” to it because a lot of the rear was gone, including even the rear doors. And looking back there, one would find a large open cargo area. Some might even refer to this as “a bed”. To get into this “bed”, Winston presented this strange wide door on the back that opened downwards at a 90-degree angle that they referred to as a “tailgate”. Despite how strange this new model was, the showgoers were absolutely enamoured by it. In all seriousness though, this was the grand unveiling of the mythical new Bombardier pickup, something not seen since the late 2010s with the Bombardeir EB. Winston thinks that this has been so long, that this variant needs a new name. Which lead to the world being properly introduced to the Winston Bombardier Journeyman. A name chosen to reflect the pickup’s common association with the blue collar worker, the Journeyman seems to be trying to harbor a more rugged appeal than with the regular Bombardier, which is almost ridiculous considering the Bombardier’s reputation as one of the most serious off-roaders on the market. Despite the different attitude and body style from the regular Bombardier, under the skin and that large bed is something very familiar. Despite the new name, Winston promises the Journeyman is still the same Bombardier that everyone holds in such high regard.
When Winston unveiled the Journeyman at their auto show on the Malvern campus, they also unveiled all their options and overall plans for this new trim level. There’s of course a lot of finer details when introducing a whole new bodystyle to a platform, but to put things simply, any trim previously found on the Bombardier SUV would be seen on the Journeyman, with the “LS” trim being what was actually displayed at the show that day. The LS trim is the highest trim available for the Bombardier SUV, and will be no different for the Journeyman. And despite all the abundant cargo space they’ll have, anyone accustomed to the original LS will be in very familiar territory with the top trim-level Journeyman because again, it’s the same car with just a large bed behind the driver now. That means the same 35-inch Kevlar-composite tyres connected to 4 electromagnetic dampeners and 8 air springs giving it a max suspension travel of 9.5 inches. The same onboard advanced terrain mapping system is still also connected to these wheels, offering the Journeyman the same 360 view of the terrain around it to adapt on the fly, in case some mud or loose rocks are just ahead. It also still has unrivaled wading ability, able to wade in up to 3.5 feet of water without flooding the engine or especially the interior. The Journeyman is also still made of the same blend of high-quality aluminium for the frame and natural fiber nanocomposites for the bodywork. Inside the Journeyman its still surprisingly luxurious, with fine leather seats featuring heating/cooling functionality, acoustic dampening for quieter rides, and one of the best infotainment systems on the market. Things do change a bit when talking about the powertrain, however. Like in the LS SUV, the top-trim Journeyman features Winston’s trademark 4.3 L turbo straight-6, the same engine they use in their beloved Longsword sportscar. The arrival of the Journeyman marks a nice update to this powertrain, though. For the 2049 model year for both the Bombardier SUV and the Journeyman, this engine has been boosted from 585 HP up to 622 HP. This of course did some things for the Bombardier’s overall performance. With that power going to all the wheels thanks to Winston’s new AWD system, acceleration is a bit faster. But the Journeyman actually has an edge in this area over it’s SUV counterpart thanks to it being lighter, having lost so much weight in the back. This results in a burly-looking off-road truck that can do 0-60 just 4.6 seconds. That’s genuine sportscar numbers in something you can drive through a shallow river. Top Speed, while obviously not the most important part of the Bombardier range’s performance, still goes to the SUV. Winston electronically limited the Journeyman’s top speed to 120 due to concerns with the speed ratings of its tyres and the aerodynamic effects of its open bed. A bed that features 68 inches of length and a total volume of about 53 cubic feet. With all this extra space, payload capacity is also increased, up to a maximum of over 1,000 kg in the bed. With the increase in horsepower also comes more torque, meaning towing capacity is also increased up to 4,200 kg. Impressively rugged, but what might be more impressive is some of the options. Taking clear inspiration from the expansive level of personalization from their Longsword sportscar, the Journeyman has a long list of interesting optional extras. This ranges from stuff as simple and expected for an offroader like winches and foglights, to more outlandish things like an onboard generator, search and rescue kits, military grade emergency beacons, a foldable bed-mounted tent, even an entire camper trailer built by Winston for the Journeyman to tow. So while the Journeyman is designed to bring out a more working man’s side to the Bombardier name, it absolutely hasn’t forgotten the adventurous spirit that made the name so legendary in the first place.
The Journeyman would begin production in the later summer of 2049, marking a slight refresh of the Bombardier line. Besides the general increase in power, the platform was overall just touched up to iron out some wrinkles from the earlier models. At a starting price of $76,000 before options it certainly wasn’t being sold with an average blue collar budget in mind, which was a bit of an issue when it arrived in the market it was built with in mind: North America. Originally dominating in the luxury SUV sector in North America, the Bombardier struggled a bit when it showed up with a pickup bed. Stiff competition from established local nameplates like the previously-mentioned Rogue Koshuké, the Thunderhead Jotun, or even against another import model, the Yamato Nara Pickup from Japan. The Winston name and Bombardier’s reputation ensured the Journeyman was no sales flop, but it wasn’t exactly in-line with their plans of taking the pickup truck fight back to the Americans. Internal studies from Winston showed that they specifically believed the Journeyman’s arrival in America was kneecapped by the very truck it was meant to fight; the Koshuké. Just months before the Journeyman went on sale, Rogue released the Koshuké RS, a high-performance off-road iteration of the humble work truck currently selling in Winston’s backyard in the UK. Basically a road-going version of the Koshuké R race truck, the RS was not only more established in the North American market, but was just a better performance option with a more powerful engine, packing nearly 800 HP against the Journeyman’s 600. While the Journeyman had a big, built-in-Lemont-IL wall in its way over in North America, the story is different down under. The other market the Journeyman was sold in outside of Europe was none other than Australia, where it actually performed pretty well, more or less filling in the niche its rival the Koshuké RS left open due to it not being sold in Australia. With the Journeyman’s rugged capabilities and plentiful adventure-focused options, it found a great audience in the Land Down Under, a place that has its fair share of wealthy outdoorsmen. The Journeyman was so well-received in Australia it even found its way on multiple “Best Utes of 2049” lists in multiple automotive new outlets. So while the Journeyman didn’t exactly fulfill its main purpose, its great to see it found another in an entirely different part of the world.
PictionID:46975366 - Catalog:14_024149 - Title:Atlas Transport Details: Atlas Program Payload Date: 1961 - Filename:14_024149.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
My office is right by the Caltech trash pile. Lots of interesting things turn up there. Today in the garbage was a shipping crate with "SPACE SHUTTLE PAYLOAD" stencils and many "Extremely delicate space hardware" stickers.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In the Astrotech payload processing facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft, has been secured inside a transportation canister and secured onto a transporter for its move to the launch pad.
SMAP will launch on a United Launch Alliance Delta II 7320 configuration vehicle featuring a United Launch Alliance first stage booster powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-27A main engine and three Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, strap-on solid rocket motors. Once on station in Earth orbit, SMAP will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state. These measurements will be used to enhance understanding of processes that link the water, energy and carbon cycles, and to extend the capabilities of weather and climate prediction models. SMAP data also will be used to quantify net carbon flux in boreal landscapes and to develop improved flood prediction and drought monitoring capabilities. Launch from Space Launch Complex 2 is targeted for Jan. 29. To learn more about SMAP, visit www.nasa.gov/smap. Photo credit: NASA/U.S. Air Force Photo Squadron
Barely discernible against cloudy skies, the GRIPS balloon pulls the payload—a dark splotch trailing below it—towards the upper atmosphere, where it will measure high-energy radiation from solar flares in an effort to understand their origins.
GRIPS, short for Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares, launched on Jan. 18, 2016, suspended underneath a football-field-sized scientific balloon. GRIPS studies the extremely high-energy particles released by solar flares, information that will help scientists pinpoint the processes that set off these explosive events. Since the sun doesn’t set at all for several weeks of the Antarctic summer, GRIPS will be able to observe the sun continuously during much or all of its flight, which the team hopes will last anywhere from 14 to 55 days. The 24/7 summer sunlight also provides a constant source of energy, powering the instrument the entire time.
Scientific balloons are a low-cost way to access Earth’s upper atmosphere up to the edge of space, allowing scientists to make measurements that are impossible from the ground.
Credit: NASA/Albert Shih
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PictionID:44806848 - Catalog:14_014053 - Title:Atlas Payload Component - Filename:14_014053.TIF - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53761726 - Catalog:14_031940 - Title:Atlas 5001 Details: OAO/A-1 Being Placed in Palette and Encapsulated Date: 02/28/1966 - Filename:14_031940.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:44808825 - Catalog:14_014215 - Title:Atlas Payload Component - Filename:14_014215.TIF - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Kumartuli is the potter's quarter in Northern Kolkata. It's the area where most of the idols for Durga Puja festivals are prepared. Some of the idols are also exported to various parts of the world.
C Rajesh Pamnani 2012 A halo (from Greek ἅλως; also known as a nimbus, icebow or gloriole) is an optical phenomenon produced by ice crystals creating colored or white arcs and spots in the sky. Many are near the sun or moon but others are elsewhere and even in the opposite part of the sky. They can also form around artificial lights in very cold weather when ice crystals called diamond dust are floating in the nearby air…Wikipedia
Pic © Rajesh Pamnani 2013
NanoRacks stimulates commercial use of ISS as a small satellite deployment platform. Read more nanoracks.com/products/smallsat-deployment/
PictionID:55951391 - Catalog:14_038167.tif - Title:Atlas Centaur Testing Details: Centaur Nose Cone Test Site; Overall with Net Date: 12/19/1960 - Filename:14_038167.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53764313 - Catalog:14_032147 - Title:Atlas Centaur 17 Details: Conical Nose Fairing for AC-17; CSTS Date: 05/16/1968 - Filename:14_032147.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Hubble Space Telescope engineer Ben Reed (left) talks with Thermal Protection System Imagery Coordinator Dan Smith in the Payload Operations Control Center, located in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Credit: NASA
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is lifted off a workstand for transfer to the spin balance machine for testing. In late July, the MRO will be transported to the Vertical Installation Facility. It will join the Atlas V for the final phase of launch preparations. The spacecraft is then scheduled to undergo a functional test, and a final week of integrated testing and closeouts. The MRO was built by Lockheed Martin for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. It is the next major step in Mars exploration and scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in a window opening Aug. 10. The MRO is an important next step in fulfilling NASAs vision of space exploration and ultimately sending human explorers to Mars and beyond. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Nombre: Payload
Afiliación: Decepticon
Línea: Movie
Tamaño: Deluxe
Año: 2007
Número de adquisición: 90
Otra de las figuras del juego tipo Drone. Me gusta bastante, tiene una transformación un poco compleja. Lo único que no me gusta es la barra que queda atravesada en forma de robot que sirve como garra.
PictionID:53760845 - Catalog:14_031878 - Title:Atlas Centaur Details: Centaur Nose Cone; Ft Worth, Texas Date: 09/28/1960 - Filename:14_031878.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
A crane is attached to the payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) and preparations are underway to lift it up and into the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Horizontal Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The fairing-encapsulated GOES-S spacecraft was mated with the launch vehicle on February 16, 2018.
GOES-S is slated for launch on March 1.
Additional Launch Info: goo.gl/RMBbHU
Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In the Astrotech payload processing facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians secure a transportation canister around NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft for its move to the launch pad.
SMAP will launch on a United Launch Alliance Delta II 7320 configuration vehicle featuring a United Launch Alliance first stage booster powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-27A main engine and three Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, strap-on solid rocket motors. Once on station in Earth orbit, SMAP will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state. These measurements will be used to enhance understanding of processes that link the water, energy and carbon cycles, and to extend the capabilities of weather and climate prediction models. SMAP data also will be used to quantify net carbon flux in boreal landscapes and to develop improved flood prediction and drought monitoring capabilities. Launch from Space Launch Complex 2 is targeted for Jan. 29. To learn more about SMAP, visit www.nasa.gov/smap. Photo credit: NASA/U.S. Air Force Photo Squadron
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The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is lifted up by crane at the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The fairing-encapsulated GOES-S spacecraft was mated with the launch vehicle on February 16, 2018.
GOES-S is slated for launch on March 1.
Additional Launch Info: goo.gl/RMBbHU
Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
GOES-R is now encapsulated inside the payload fairing at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida near NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The payload fairing protects the spacecraft during the ascent through Earth's atmosphere. GOES-R is to launch aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket in November.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim
For the latest on the GOES-R launch, visit www.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES-R/.