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The first Space Shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Although the airframe and flight control elements are like those of the Shuttles flown in space, this vehicle has no propulsion system and only simulated thermal tiles because these features were not needed for atmospheric and ground tests. "Enterprise" was rolled out at Rockwell International's assembly facility in Palmdale, California, in 1976. In 1977, it entered service for a nine-month-long approach-and-landing test flight program. Thereafter it was used for vibration tests and fit checks at NASA centers, and it also appeared in the 1983 Paris Air Show and the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred "Enterprise" to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
Dan Brinkman returned to the library with his exciting program Sail into Space, a fun-filled launch into why rockets fly. Kids learned what is that silly thing called gravity.
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Space Patrol was a competing puppet television programme to the early Gerry Anderson SF efforts, and was produced by former Anderson collaborators.
The newly refurbished Space gallery at the Powerhouse Museum. The journey begins in the space shuttle, with Andy and Shannon talking from Mission Control Houston about what its like to live and work on the ISS. You then move into the habitation module, based on a prototype design for the ISS, where you can see how astronauts spend their time when they're not working.
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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
window on one premises in this back street was grayed out, translucent but not transparent, save for this logo "in every space" in the middle of the plate glass window. Since it was night and there was a light on inside it glowed and drew my eye, as I had the tripod out for some night shots already I thought may as well try one and see what it looked like...
JSC2010-E-181352 (28 Oct. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 27/28 flight engineer, participates in a routine operations training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS Mockups
PHOTOGRAPHER: James Blair
Live chat with Britain's first official astronaut Major Tim Peake and Exeter College design students at the Met Office
Joshua A.C. Newman's "Space Marine" Frame, with modifications by zeekhotep & [Soren].
11 May 2012
Photo tests of some Mobile Frame Zero Frames.
In Hollywood blockbusters, explosions are often among the stars of the show. In space, explosions of actual stars are a focus for scientists who hope to better understand their births, lives, and deaths and how they interact with their surroundings. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have studied one particular explosion that may provide clues to the dynamics of other, much larger stellar eruptions. A team of researchers pointed the telescope at GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness. Today, astronomers cite GK Persei as an example of a “classical nova,” an outburst produced by a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star, the dense remnant of a Sun-like star. A nova can occur if the strong gravity of a white dwarf pulls material from its orbiting companion star. If enough material, mostly in the form of hydrogen gas, accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, nuclear fusion reactions can occur and intensify, culminating into a cosmic-sized hydrogen bomb blast. The outer layers of the white dwarf are blown away, producing a nova outburst that can be observed for a period of months to years as the material expands into space. Classical novas can be considered to be “miniature” versions of supernova explosions. Supernovas signal the destruction of an entire star and can be so bright that they outshine the whole galaxy where they are found. Supernovas are extremely important for cosmic ecology because they inject huge amounts of energy into the interstellar gas, and are responsible for dispersing elements such as iron, calcium and oxygen into space where they may be incorporated into future generations of stars and planets. Although the remnants of supernovas are much more massive and energetic than classical novas, some of the fundamental physics is the same. Both involve an explosion and creation of a shock wave that travels at supersonic speeds through the surrounding gas. The more modest energies and masses associated with classical novas means that the remnants evolve more quickly. This, plus the much higher frequency of their occurrence compared to supenovas, makes classical novas important targets for studying cosmic explosions. Chandra first observed GK Persei in February 2000 and then again in November 2013. This 13-year baseline provides astronomers with enough time to notice important differences in the X-ray emission and its properties. This new image of GK Persei contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow), and radio data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (pink). The X-ray data show hot gas and the radio data show emission from electrons that have been accelerated to high energies by the nova shock wave. The optical data reveal clumps of material that were ejected in the explosion. The nature of the point-like source on the lower left is unknown. Over the years that the Chandra data span, the nova debris expanded at a speed of about 700,000 miles per hour. This translates to the blast wave moving about 90 billion miles during that period. One intriguing discovery illustrates how the study of nova remnants can provide important clues about the environment of the explosion. The X-ray luminosity of the GK Persei remnant decreased by about 40% over the 13 years between the Chandra observations, whereas the temperature of the gas in the remnant has essentially remained constant, at about one million degrees Celsius. As the shock wave expanded and heated an increasing amount of matter, the temperature behind the wave of energy should have decreased. The observed fading and constant temperature suggests that the wave of energy has swept up a negligible amount of gas in the environment around the star over the past 13 years. This suggests that the wave must currently be expanding into a region of much lower density than before, giving clues to stellar neighborhood in which GK Persei resides. A paper describing these results appeared in the March 10th issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The authors were Dai Takei (RIKEN, Spring-8 Center Japan), Jeremy Drake (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), Hiroya Yamaguichi (Goddard Space Flight Center), Patrick Slane (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), Yasunobu Uchimaya (Rikkyo University, Japan), Satoru Katsuda (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency). NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations. › Read More from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Image Credit: NASA/CXC/RIKEN/D.Takei et al Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu via NASA ift.tt/1Ax4qhr
May 8, 2017: The Space Needle in Seattle taken with the Quad Camera iPhone app. The Space Needle opened in 1962 as the centerpiece of the World's Fair. I was one of the 2.3 million visitors to the fair that year. The Space Needle is 605 feet tall and includes 25 lightning rods. The Quad Camera app became obsolete after a recent iOS update.
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Comfortable ample room, til 4 guests
Spaziosa camera, fin 4 persone
Space stations are the lifeblood of galactic trade and commerce and as such, construction and defence of them is considered of singular importance to all spacefaring races. Ranging from small orbital boarding stations to remote fueling stops to solar system defence platform all the way to gargantuan, self-sustaining "colony" stations, the variety of Space stations is matched only perphaps by those ships and people they service. Among these myriad of structures, the Jupiter-class is by far the largest and most productive, able to service up to four class 10 ships and twenty class 4's at once, along with dozens of smaller classes.
Midway Station, however, is truly a giant among giants. The single largest human-built space construct, it is an updated Jupiyer-class with improved environmental controls, increased cargo capacity, larger ore refineries and enhanced shielding capacity. The Sol System Union is justifiably proud of this immense undertaking.
Situated on a quadripoint border of space between the Sol Union, Vatraxian Collective, Independent Systems Alliance, and the Planeto Corporation, Midway not only serves as the single largest trade hub in the galaxy, but also a strategic jumping-off point. Consequently, there has been almost as much fighting as trading in what is known as the "Quadpoint". The station, along with many other smaller satellite stations from various other races and groups, orbits a red dwarf star. Quad-point is unique as an important system which otherwise has very few resources of its own. There are three ice moons, one gas giant and a barren super-planet sourrounded by an immense asteroid field yielding low-quality ore.
The Vatraxian Revolution nearly caused the destruction of the station when radicals snuck a nuke onto it, but in a rare example of beauracratic incompetence leading to positive results, the container holding the bomb was accidentally labelled as waste and ejected into the sun.
Sector 47 of Midway is still undergoing decontamination procedures even five years after the Clochian rat outbreak of 2346. Progress is said to be made, although the latest estimates for full decontamination have recently been moved ahead two years.
'"Sentients are warned to avoid Section 8, as this is a restricted region. Please head to Section 54 for borders and customs services. You are required to declare any hazardous materials as defined by inter-galactic law # 33467 that you or your vessel may be transporting. Code 4 In Section 79, level 2. Peace Officers respond."'
-Samples of announcements made aboard Midway station in a 6-second period on August 9th, 2356.