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It was small, but an amazing sight watching the space shuttle take off from Cape Canaveral. If you can see this photo in full size, you can see it better. This photo was taken from Jacksonville Beach 31 May.
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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.
That moment when dawn's first glow starts in the eastern sky, but the night's stars have yet to fully fade. Shot overlooking the Tasman Glacier terminal lake (half frozen on a winter's night), Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand. ift.tt/1p5BG8B
Catalog #: 08_00842
Title: Space Related
Date: 1981-2010
Additional Information: Winter Boots
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Title: International Space Station
Catalog #: 08_01060
Date: 11/12/70
Additional Information: artist's concept of a lounge type room aboard the station
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
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.
Old Dominion University for a piano recital.
Is a space number like a GUID? How do I know if I even have a space number? How much space does the number represent?
Space shuttle Atlantis moves from Orbiter Processing Facility-2 to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis will be moved to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in November where it will be placed on public display.
Oct. 17, 2012
Rundgang durch Module der Raumstation im Europäischen Astronautenzentrum am Tag der Luft- und Raumfahrt 2015. / Visitors love going in and out of the space modules on display at the European Astronaut Centre - fun for big and small.
Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0)
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.
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.
There are three designs for large space colonies and all of them date from the original period of interest in the concept.
There is the giant cylinder type that has huge windows that take up half the floor space. There is also the Bernal sphere that reflects sunlight to the interior through a complicated mirror system near the poles of the sphere.
This is the much better torus design where the sunlight comes from directly above for a more earth like environment. That is nice but I think that unless you are trying to grow crops, the whole mirror thing is a waste of effort. Windows are an engineering nightmare on something this big and a pressure loss hazard. Fuck the windows and instead of a huge open area inside the torus just put floors a hundred meters apart. You can always have a promenade deck with sunlight and trees and have it sealed off from the interior of the torus as a precaution against leaks.
This is a simpler and more efficient use of your living area. Farming areas can be located in separate smaller structures outside of the main torus where they belong anyway.
You can always pipe light into the interior by a number of methods but artificial light will probably work just fine
You do want it to be as earthlike as possible but you are in a space colony so make allowance for that.
There are some odd side effects to living in a huge rotating structure. The gravity will be determined by the rate of rotation of the torus and I think they will go with slightly less than a full gee. Easier on the structure and the people inside.
The torus rotates inside of a non-rotating radiation shield made of lunar surface rock etc sent by catapult from the moon. Since you are in a rotating structure if you drop or throw something it will go in a curved trajectory. This is something you want to account for in bathroom urinal design. Fountains could be very amusing here.
I would scale it up much larger than the designs shown,
20 to 25 km in diameter could easily support a million inhabitants. Someday most of the human race will live in space habitats like this.
As with any of these graphics I do, you have to download it to read the fine print. The colony art at the top is by Glenn Clovis and is on Deviant Art.
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b, a potentially habitable world 8.6 times as massive as Earth. An abundance of carbon dioxide and methane (along with a shortage of ammonia) is intriguing to astronomers: It supports the idea that this planet may have a water ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.
Webb also hinted at a detection of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) on K2-18 b. On Earth, this molecule is only produced by microbial life. Because the detection needs to be confirmed, the team plans to follow up and look for additional evidence of biological activity on the planet.
K2-18 b orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone (where conditions are right for liquid water to exist) and lies about 120 light-years from Earth. While K2-18 b is in the habitable zone, that does not necessarily mean it can support life. For instance, it may have a hostile environment due to its active star. Its ocean may also be too hot to be habitable. More: www.nasa.gov/goddard/2023/webb-discovers-methane-carbon-d...
This illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. The exoplanet K2-18 c is shown between K2-18 b and its star.
Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Science: Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA)
Image description: Artist illustration (as labeled in the upper left corner) of a planet and its cool red dwarf star. In the foreground on the right is the planet, which fills most of the frame. The planet is various shades of blue, with wisps of white scattered throughout. The left edge of the planet (the side facing the star) is lit, while the rest is in shadow. In the background at the lower left is the star, which appears smaller. The star has a bright red glow. Also in the background is another planet, which appears as a small crescent. The black background of space is speckled with a few small stars.
Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date.
I asked my guitar building friends to help inspire an automotive art project. I asked Chris Szarek to give me a decade or a year and he suggested the 80s because he said he’s stuck in the 80s. (He really is!) Next I asked Alex Moll to come up with an automotive make and model. He said, well since Chris picked the 80s can I be greedy and suggest my 1989 Ford F-150 4x4 short bed? I said yepper. Lastly I asked Nancy Wilson Chang to suggest a theme and she definitely didn’t disappoint with “Space Vikings”. This led me to researching 80s movie posters, the art of Frank Frazetta and, just for good measure, a few Motörhead album covers. I went with an arctic blue paint scheme for the truck and installed a catapult in the bed. The traction on the tires makes the truck reminiscent of a siege weapon. A Nordic boar graphic adorns the side while massive pipes and a snarling red-eyed skull makes it an over-the-top hellish ride. Add a rugged fiery space landscape, throw in a few mighty Vikings, planets and pterodactyls, add my guitar building friend’s names into the credits and you have yourselves the makings of what clearly would have been the best 80s movie in the history of the world ever. Suck it, E.T.!
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.
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.
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
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.
This astronaut looks more to me like a scuba diver. Its meant to commemorate the first space walk by Alexei Leonov March 18, 1965, Two weeks later Ed White became the first American to space walk. He looked more like my idea of an astronaut.
Czech stamp issued April 4, 1961. I was 11 years old at the time. These developments were thrilling to watch. I can't explain the date discrepancy. See the date of issue on the stamp and here is a link to the space walk. www.newscientist.com/definition/first-space-walk/
Here is a link to Ed Whites space walk: spacecenter.org/this-day-in-history-ed-white-becomes-firs....