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Title: Space Suit
Catalog #: 08_01490
Additional Information: Full Pressue Space Suit
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
A busy time for ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in the Netherlands, seen in this vintage photo from March 1977.
The first Italian telecommunications satellite, SIRIO-1 (Satellite Italiano per la Ricerca Industriale Orientata), is seen about to be placed in the Test Centre’s Heat Balance Facility 2 – the cylindrical thermal vacuum chamber laying open behind it.
The 400-kg satellite went on to be launched into geostationary orbit by a US Delta 2312 launcher in August that year. SIRIO-1 tested novel frequency bands from orbit for commercial use, helping pave the way for Europe’s telecom satellite industry.
Historical space photographs and publications from 1977 have just been added to ESA’s Space Heritage Image Project, SHIP. Collections from extra years are being added every few months, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of European cooperation in space.
In 1964 the first European space organisations were founded: ELDO (the European Launcher Development Organisation) and ESRO (the European Space Research Organisation). These forerunners of ESA were merged after just over a decade, in 1975, to form today’s European Space Agency.
Credits: ESA - S. Burden / P. Sjoedin
When the Agents go to space... this is their ship of choice. The ship is a modular design; allowing the middle section to be setup as stand-alone base of operations.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
Title: Space Shuttle Program
Catalog #: 08_01001
Date: 1981-2010
Additional Information: shows a model concept for a space shuttle
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Space elevator add-on in Orbiter, installed at Pavonis Mons on a future terraformed "Green Mars," recalling the space elevator in Kim Stanley Robinson's SF novel "Green Mars."
Hey everyone, I'm back, and this time I want to show you something different. This build was built as a part of "Out of This World Space Builds" on lego ideas, and was built as a 3D model because of lack of parts. It represents a small laboratory located on Mars, or whatever other planet that you want it on. On the exterior you can see it has rounded windows, entrance and on the top a small greenhouse, while in the interior you have a computer with a litle stand for samples of stones or whatever. It also has plenty of room to fit a minifigure. This was built as a hexagonal build wich takes up 10x12 stud space. Although it is a mecabricks build, all interactions between bricks have been previously checked with phisical bricks. Overall build contains 241 bricks. I would appreciate if you would drop a like or comment on lego ideas entry. It's called "Space Laboratory", original, isn't it. Here's the link:
ideas.lego.com/challenges/3a0cb2a7-395f-400c-8e0b-c342804...
I hope you like it!
Title: Space Suits
Catalog #: 08_01666
Additional Information: Garrett Corp Crew Systems EVA Branch
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
S125-E-006928 (13 May 2009) --- An STS-125 crewmember onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis snapped a still photo of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft approached each other in Earth orbit prior to the capture of the giant observatory.
Catalog #: 08_00938
Title: Space Shuttle Program
Date: 1981-2010
Additional Information: Space Shuttle Mock up
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
The Space Shuttle Enterprise (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.
Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia. However, during the construction of Columbia, details of the final design changed, particularly with regard to the weight of the fuselage and wings. Refitting Enterprise for spaceflight would have involved dismantling the orbiter and returning the sections to subcontractors across the country. As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame (STA-099) that had been created as a test article. Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.
Construction began on the first orbiter on June 4, 1974. Designated OV-101, it was originally planned to be named Constitution. However, a write-in campaign caused it to be renamed after the Starship Enterprise, featured on the television show Star Trek.
The design of OV-101 was not the same as that planned for OV-102, the first flight model; the tail was constructed differently, and it did not have the interfaces to mount OMS pods. A large number of subsystems—ranging from main engines to radar equipment—were not installed on this vehicle, but the capacity to add them in the future was retained. Instead of a Thermal Protection System, its surface was primarily fiberglass.
In mid-1976, the orbiter was used for ground vibration tests, allowing engineers to compare data from an actual flight vehicle with theoretical models.
On September 17, 1976, Enterprise was rolled out of Rockwell's plant at Palmdale, California. In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.
On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.
While at NASA Dryden, Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program. The initial nine-month testing period was referred to by the acronym ALT, for "Approach and Landing Test". These tests included a maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977 atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system. Ground tests of all orbiter subsystems were carried out to verify functionality prior to atmospheric flight.
The mated Enterprise/SCA combination was then subjected to five test flights with Enterprise unmanned and unactivated. The purpose of these test flights was to measure the flight characteristics of the mated combination. These tests were followed with three test flights with Enterprise manned to test the shuttle flight control systems.
Finally, Enterprise underwent five free flights where the craft separated from the SCA and was landed under astronaut control. These tests verified the flight characteristics of the orbiter design and were carried out under several aerodynamic and weight configurations.
On August 12, 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise flew on its own for the first time
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
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Free Street Exhibition by Wolfgang Sterneck
at the Blockupy Protests and Blockades in Frankfurt
31-05-2015
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The Lancer is a single seat, three engine interceptor designed to get places quickly on short notice. It is armed with four lasers and two missiles for interception.
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The wings on this thing are held on by two studs and that blue rubber band.
for a LUG window display, probably. I started building a little base to go with my various space ships, but now that it's a totally different color scheme and fairly elaborate, it might go in by itself. At the least I need to make a couple more little vehicles to go with it.
It'll be cool to have a display window all to myself.
On the wreck of a merchant spaceship, lies in wait a dastardly pirate... Ready to steal off any scavengers who want his prize!
For the Eurobricks Space Pirate Contest, it was built in conjunction with Phred's classic pirate set on the same topic: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=108865
Generally pretty satisfied with it, it's very different to other stuff I've made and it was fun adding the ATV, rock, and figures to make it more like a set. There's a light-up brick in the engine block, which is a V8 - who says space ships have nothing to learn from muscle cars?
On 26 May 2014, German Federal President Joachim Gauck made the first-ever visit by a Head of State to ESA’s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany. He was joined by 140 ambassadors and Tarek Al-Wazir, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Hesse region, for a guided visit through the centre’s mission control facilities.
www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/German_Head_of_State_visits_ESA...
Credit: ESA/J.Mai
The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the
infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern latitudes.
Nearly the full expanse of the main rings is visible here -- from the C
ring to the outer edge of the A ring (in the upper left corner).
Ring shadows are visible on the planet at lower left, and two large storms
swirl near center.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 52
degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a
combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light
centered at 752 (red channel), 890 (blue channel) and 728 (green channel)
nanometers. The view was acquired on April 5, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 81 kilometers (51 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute