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This is where astronauts are trained for launches and landings.
We got an amazing tour in areas of the Johnson Space Center that are not available to tourist. Thank you Robert and Barry!!
Space Shuttle Exhibit - Restoration staff move the Space Shuttle Exhibit(CCT) into the new fourth building at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Oct. 22, 2015.
'Space for Inspiration' is an international conference organised by the European Space Agency for everyone curious about space exploration and why it matters. The second edition's theme -is ‘Living in our universe’.
Credits: ESA–A. Brancaccio
'Space for Inspiration' is an international conference organised by the European Space Agency for everyone curious about space exploration and why it matters. The second edition's theme -is ‘Living in our universe’.
Credits: ESA–A. Brancaccio
In SPACE at Eldon Building, University of Portsmouth.
The SPACE gallery was host to the international artist Pete Codling who creatied a giant charcoal drawing directly on the gallery wall. The building, currently being demolished in the next 2 weeks along with this final artwork, was actually Codling’s old studio space when he was a student at Portsmouth College of Art in the late 1980s.
This ‘charcoal epitaph’ is a personal way for the artist to say good bye to the building but also to celebrate the creativity of many artists, designers and musicians who have used this space over the last fifty years.
Wonderfull space fabric design by me! Produced as sweat fabric by Alles fur Selbermacher
For sale at: www.alles-fuer-selbermacher.de/Sweat---SpaceFlight---Rake...
And in my easy shop:
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The Cassini spacecraft captures eight new propeller-like features within
Saturn's A ring in what may be the propeller "hot zone" of Saturn's rings.
Propeller features form around small moonlets that are not massive enough
to clear out ring material, but are still able to pull smaller ring
particles into a shape reminiscent of an airplane propeller. Scientists
believe that propellers represent moonlet wakes, which are denser than the
surrounding ring material and appear bright in the images.
Propellers were first discovered in Cassini images taken during Saturn
orbit insertion in 2004. This new image is from a more extensive study of
the full A ring and provides evidence that these features are not
distributed evenly as previously thought, but are instead grouped in a
3,000 kilometer-wide (1,860 mile) propeller belt.
This image shows four new propellers and was put together from images in
the Planetary Data System, a web site which archives and distributes
scientific data from NASA planetary missions. The largest propeller seen
here is noted in the white dashed box, and it indicates the presence of a
150-meter (490-foot) moonlet. The size is inferred from the radial
separation of the propeller wings. The propeller is seen in another image
and is shown in the upper left box. The reappearance of the propellers
clearly demonstrates the orbital motion of the propellers. The region
enclosed in the red box is zoomed and shown in the top panel of PIA10080.
Three additional propellers are noted with white dashed circles on the
right. Very bright and round spots are artifacts. But some of the bright
elongated and non-saturated streaks could be smaller propellers that are
not resolved in the image.
This view is made up of two images from a set of 26 images with a complete
radial coverage of the A ring and part of the Cassini division taken
during an occultation of the star Antares (alpha Scorpii; brightest spot
on top) on Aug. 20, 2005.
In this clear filter image, the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera
observed the unlit side of the rings, with a phase angle of 126 degrees.
The images were taken at 1 minute intervals with 0.05 seconds exposure
time. Image resolution is 1 kilometer (0.6 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 was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/University of Colorado
Satellite view of the Vehicle Assembly Building (bottom left) where we will watch from, and Pad 39A, from which Discovery will launch. The distance is about 5km.
2011-02-23 - Final flight of space shuttle Discovery
Mission Control Team at ESOC working through the network countdown to MSG-4 launch, 15 July 2015. Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Saturn's moon Pan, orbiting in the Encke Gap, casts a slender shadow onto
the A ring.
For a closeup view of the "flying saucer" shape of Pan (28 kilometers, or
17 miles across), see PIA08405.
The novel illumination geometry created as Saturn approaches its August
2009 equinox allows moons orbiting in or near the plane of Saturn's
equatorial rings to cast shadows onto the rings. These scenes are possible
only during the few months before and after Saturn's equinox which occurs
only once in about 15 Earth years. To learn more about this special time
and to see movies of moons' shadows moving across the rings, see PIA11651
and PIA11660.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 57 degrees
below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini
spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 24, 2009. The view was acquired at a
distance of approximately 840,000 kilometers (522,000 miles) from Pan and
at a Sun-Pan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 123 degrees. Image scale is 5
kilometers (3 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
Image Addition Date:
2009-07-06
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - FEBRUARY 07: Space Shuttle Endeavour astronauts (L-R) mission specialists Robert Behnken, Nicholas Patrick, Stephen Robinson, and Kathryn Hire, with pilot Terry Virts and Commander George Zamka prepare to travel out to launch pad 39A hours before launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center February 7, 2010 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. STS-130 Endeavour is set to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station early Sunday morning. It will be Endeavour's 24th mission, the 33rd shuttle flight dedicated to station assembly and one of the last five flights of the shuttle program, which is scheduled to finish in September. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Robert Behnken;Nicholas Patrick;Stephen Robinson;Kathryn Hire;Terry Virts;George Zamka
As the last mission take to the skies, take a look back over 30 years of shuttle travel
Space Pirate.
If you haven't noticed, I've been in a sort of "Space/Syfy" figure-making mood. I've also enjoyed using a lot of weapons that I have not used very much. Tell me what you think!
I love hearing feedback, whether it's a comment/favorite, suggestion, etc..
Oh, and what do you think of the "Piercing," using the shotgun shell? I have no clue why that came to mind, and no, I do not have piercings, nor do I intend to get any :P, but I for some reason thought it looked "legit," him being a "space pirate" and all. ;)