View allAll Photos Tagged SPACE
2 feet in diameter; stained glass, dichroic glass, mirror, crystals, pearls, glass beads, and vintage costume jewelry on a wood base.
From the Japanese series "Space Battleship Yamato," which saw a limited run in the USA as "Starblazers."
The 160mm long miniature is from Megahouse, and made in China. Where else would a heroic Japanese battleship be made?
Tech: focus stacked image made from seven images taken with a tripod-mounted Canon EOS 60D. f/16, and the focus steps were made manually. Merged in PhotoAcute Studio.
Strobist: Yongnuo YN-560 III with a Rogue Grid on camera left; Yongnuo YN-560 camera right with a Rogue beam bender, bent into a snoot, with a blue gel. All fired with Yongnuo RF-603 C3 radio triggers.
The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is a test vehicle designed to operate in the atmosphere; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Enterprise was rolled out at Rockwell International's assembly facility in Palmdale, California in 1976. In 1977, it entered service at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, for a nine-month-long approach and landing test program. The vehicle was flown atop the Boeing 747 Shuttle carrier aircraft and also released for piloted free-flights and landings to check out all systems and performance characteristics. This test program was a necessary prelude to the first orbital flight by the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981.
Upon completion of the approach and landing tests, Enterprise was used for vibration tests at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and for launch complex fit checks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. In 1983, it appeared in the Paris Air Show and other sites in Europe, and was a featured attraction at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred Enterprise to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum where it remained in a storage hangar at Washington's Dulles International Airport. In November, 2003, Enterprise was moved to the nearby Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center where it will be on public display while it is restored.
Seattle Space Needle
Copyrighted image. To use or purchase this image, please contact me at jimclark@jmclarkphoto.com.
Wallpaper features a bizarre ghostly rose. For me? A dozen alien space roses? Ah… thank you. Visit www.redandblackwallpapers.com to download the wallpaper for free. Comes in widescreen, fullscreen, iphone and mobile phone sizes.
Most activities can be done remotely but having a person on the spot gives a problem solving capability that is valuable.
As the lunar infrastructure expands, remote operations will be more common. There will be super-conducting magnetically levitated transport networks that will operate during the two-week lunar night. The same technology can be used for launching payloads into lunar orbit or even to the earth.
It is hard to say what will be profitable in the future since we have no idea what things will be like 25 to 50 years down the road. No doubt there will be something of value even if it is simply tourism.
Experience learned from lunar surface operations will be directly applicable to Mars and asteroid activities. The idea of bypassing the moon and proceeding directly to Mars is ludicrous and inherently unsafe. Everything we need to know for life in deep space will be learned in an environment close by the earth where supplies and help are readily available.
i find the idea of a single person spacecraft very interesting.
On the moon you could ride around on one of those robotic dogs the military is experimenting with. On asteroids, they just fly around it rarely touching the surface. You might be able to conduct 7 to 10 day excursions with something like that.
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.
Sparkling space gun. Tin friction ray gun with bright sparks visible in red plastic barrel. A must for the well-armed astronaut.
Made in Japan.
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.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first Space Shuttle Orbiter. It was the test shuttle and never actualy made it into space.
It has been housed here at the Udvar Hazy Air & Space Museum since 2003 when this remote site of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum opened.
My son's daycare class was learning about space and the planets this week and since it is blazing hot here I thought it'd be a nice treat to go visit the museum. He LOVED IT!!!
I shot this with my 24-70mm and wanted to get it with my 14mm that I had in my bag, but a very "informative" tour guide brought a group of visitors up right where I was standing. I waited for him to finish, but his talking outlasted my sons patience. *SIGH*
"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
- Star Trek, Original series.
Please either click on the picture or View On Black... it just doesn't work on white.
The use of negative space on this monument is so interesting in this setting. The right half of the monument has a matte finish, while the left half is shiny. Does anyone know what the characters mean?
"Go Play In Space" is a free tutorial ebook and exploration guide for the (also free) Orbiter space flight simulator (www.orbitersim.com). You can download "Go Play In Space" from www.virtualspaceflight.com or from www.migman.com/orbiter/orbiter.htm
Illustration for www.365daysofastronomy.org podcast for April 14, 2009, "Exploring Space with Your Computer."
Space Shuttle Atlantis starts it's cross-country journey, on top of a modified 747, to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 24th.
Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129. "liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis, on a mission to build, re-supply and to do research on the International Space Station"
Images licensed under Creative Commons by
flickr user dkuropatwa: www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/2306234485/
and flickr user dcJohn: www.flickr.com/photos/dcjohn/74907741/