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Part of the Space Expo exhibit, presented by the Columbia Memorial Space Center. This is at least the second year they've had a section of the convention, which included a VR display, battle bots and panels on space exploration.
The Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 is the third fully operational orbiter to be built, first flying on August 30, 1984 and continuing for 27 years, with 39 flights, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date. The Discovery was used to launch the Hubble Space Telescope as well as the Ulysses probe and three TDRS satellites. It flew the first "Return To Flight" following both the Challenger and Columbia disasters. In 1988 STS-95 flew John Glenn into space, the oldest person to do so. The Space Shuttle Discovery had traveled 238 million km in 39 missions, completed 5830 orbits, and spent 365 days in orbit over 27 years. It was decommissioned in 2011 and is now the star attraction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia
Dramatic edge-on Cassini views of Saturn's E ring, like these side-by-side
images, reveal for the first time a double-banded structure. The structure
is similar to that of Jupiter's gossamer ring and to the bands of dust
found within the solar system's asteroid belt. Scientists believe that the
E ring particles have their origins in the geysers erupting from the south
polar of Enceladus.
The double-banded appearance exists because there are fewer particles
close to the ring plane than 500 to 1,000 kilometers (300 to 600 miles)
above and below. This circumstance can arise if the particles making up
the ring encircle Saturn on inclined orbits with a very restricted range
of inclinations.
This special condition might exist for two reasons. One possibility is
that the particles being jetted out of Enceladus and injected into Saturn
orbit may begin their journey around Saturn with a certain velocity, and
consequently a restricted range of inclinations, with respect to the ring
plane. Another is that the particles may begin with a large range of
inclinations, but those orbiting very close to the ring plane get
gravitationally scattered and removed from that region by the passage of
Enceladus.
Scientists will continue to observe the E ring from various angles to
confirm and understand the structure.
Most of the bright specks in the images are background stars, although a
few are cosmic ray hits on the camera's detector.
The two images were taken five hours apart on Dec. 1, 2005, when Cassini
was approximately 1.9 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Saturn.
The image scale on the sky at the distance of Saturn is about 220
kilometers (137 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
Catalog #: 10_0007782
Date: 1950-1959
Title: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel B-58
Corporation Name: Convair/General Dynamics
Additional Information: B-58 Personnel
Tags: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel B-58, B-58 Personnel , 1950-1959, Convair/General Dynamics
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
I made my way back home recently, and visited my family for my brother's graduation. We got to visit Kennedy Space Center again. Which i haven't been to in maybe 10 years.
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.
Caught both the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Space Station tonight with in minutes of one another. The Discovery on it's way HOME. Safe travels.
|Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand|
|Nikon D5100 with Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S VR DX NIKKOR|
Images taken in space with the on-board camera showing deployment of the solar arrays and synthetic aperture radar antennas. Credit: ESA
The Space Needle. Symbol of the Century 21 Exposition, the Seattle World's Fair, 1962. View from the Seattle Monorail.
Kodachrome II transparency.
WA004a
Billboard of classic LEGO themes...
Check it out on LEGO Ideas:
ideas.lego.com/projects/cfceb1df-371a-49e1-8e60-810930661909
LEGO Studio 2.0 Files: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aRhkvcABm4uwWzvBQ9LqkqEHP...