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The launch was already canceled because of false readings from the engine cutoff sensor system that measures liquid hydrogen in the external tank when a spider decided to walk over the camera.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is NASA's manned spacecraft center. It is the home of the Apollo program in addition to being a training facility. On display are Apollo artifacts as well as the Saturn V rocket.
Johnson Space Center (NASA). Houston, Texas.
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.
"Shared Space" is a tool that allows scenographers to create virtual sound spheres in any space in a museum. This new experience offers the public the possibility to merge more deeply with works of art. While wearing headphones, the visitor is at the center of every sound. Depending on their location in the museum, the visitor can focus on a specific sound, story, or sound texture. In this way, senses other than sight, may be aroused and stimulated.
I was organizing photos from our Florida trip over a year ago and found some groups of 3 exposures that I had shot at the Kennedy space center Apollo building. I just had to do an all out grunge HDR on this one.
Space Invader @ Paris
J'avais un peu de retard dans la mise en ligne de certains de mes spécimens photographiés...
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.
The effects of the moon Prometheus create intricate formations in Saturn's
thin F ring.
The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles
across) periodically creates streamer-channels in the F ring. See PIA10461 and
PIA10593 to learn more. To watch a movie of this process, see PIA08397.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 9
degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the
Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 26, 2009. The view was
acquired at a distance of approximately 922,000 kilometers (573,000 miles)
from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 27 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:
2009-07-14
Cold here today. I got the space heater going in the computer room with me while the rest of the house is cooold.
Lots of filling and sanding to get the doors to fit flush. This is the identical mold they used for the exact same kit Revell sold in the 1980s and they are not ashamed to sell it for 30 years without fixing the horrendous gaps and malformed parts! One huge issue is the transparent cockpit window piece. Off by up to 5mm on one side and half the roof is missing, lots of filler!
This image of the lit face of Saturn's outer, or A, ring was taken by the
Cassini spacecraft shortly after crossing the ring plane after its orbit
insertion burn. The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on July
1, 2004. The rings in the middle of the image are approximately 134,000
kilometers (83,200 miles) from the center of Saturn.
The bright wave pattern near the center of the image is caused by the
overlap between spiral waves of varying particle density generated by
Saturn's moons Janus and Epimetheus, which share an orbit. These two moon
orbital periods are very close to each other and, at this location, affect
ring particle orbits.
Cleaner spiral patterns caused by single satellites can be seen in other
images; some of the weaker wave patterns in this image are also spiral
patterns generated by smaller moons outside the main rings. All these
spiral waves are of the same nature as the arms of spiral galaxies. The
finest features which can be discerned (inwards, or to the left, of the
bright wave feature in the center) are less than one mile across. Their
cause is not currently known.
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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
credit: NASA/JPL
Space Engine is a Celestia type space simulator that is more complex and graphically advanced. It barely runs on this laptop I am using so I can't comment on the features I want to see.
There are thousands of stellar systems to explore and you can land on the planets and they have terrain and clouds etc.
The key thing is being able to create your own planets as I did here. I always got frustrated when I would download a star system for Celestia only to find 100's of asteroids and dull boring planets. I want to see some color and crazy geography.
Real exoplanets are so bizarre we have nothing like them to work off of to create new textures.
Danny gears up for his first ride. "I'm not scared! I'm not scared!" No body thought it for a minute. Afterwards he had to be pried off the handlebars cause he didn't wanna go inside. "Go motorcycle!"
The contrails of the shuttle get highly distorted by the strong upper winds. They get shaped into some beautiful colored patterns in the early morning light. KSC, Florida.
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If you sit back, and relax it feels reminiscent of old sci-fi films. battlestar gallactica maybe? i see an eclipsed planet on the far right, ships moving to formation and a jj abrams lens flare trying to sneak in on the left.
What do you see?
Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place
October 20th & 22nd 2012
A Holding Space
Choreographers: Adam Benjamin, Russell Maliphant
Dancers: Addisu Demissie, Junaid Jemal Sendi
Photography by: Pari Naderi
A few of us from PennLUG attended Philcon, a Science Fiction Convention near Philly (technically in NJ these days).