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George Frederick ''Buzz'' Beurling, DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar (6 December 1921 – 20 May 1948).
Sculpture by Alexandra E. Whitney.
Displayed at Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa, Canada.
Saturn's moon Pan is seen here orbiting within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A
ring in two differently processed versions of the same Cassini image. The
little moon is responsible for clearing and maintaining this gap, named
for Johann Franz Encke, who discovered it in 1837. Pan is 20 kilometers
(12 miles) across.
The top image reveals two of the faint, dusty ringlets that occupy the
gap along with Pan. One of the ringlets occupies nearly the same orbit as
Pan, while the other is closer to the gap's inner edge. Not only do the
ringlets vary in brightness, but they also appear to move in and out along
their length, resulting in notable "kinks," which are similar in
appearance to those observed in the F ring (see PIA06585). One possible
explanation for the complex structure of the ringlets is that Pan may not
be the only moonlet in this gap.
Pan is responsible for creating stripes, called 'wakes,' in the ring
material on either side of it. Since ring particles closer to Saturn than
Pan move faster in their orbits, these particles pass the moon and receive
a gravitational "kick" from Pan as they do. This kick causes waves to
develop in the gap where the particles have recently interacted with Pan
(see PIA06099), and also throughout the
ring, extending hundreds of kilometers into the rings. These waves
intersect downstream to create the wakes, places where ring material has
bunched up in an orderly manner thanks to Pan's gravitational kick.
In the bottom image, the bright stripes or wakes moving diagonally away
from the gap's edges can be easily seen. The particles near the inner gap
edge have most recently interacted with Pan and have just passed the moon.
Because of this, the disturbances caused by Pan on the inner gap edge are
ahead of the moon. The reverse is true at the outer edge: the particles
have just been overtaken by Pan, leaving the wakes behind it.
This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on May 18, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.6
million kilometers (1 million miles) from Pan and at a Sun-Pan-spacecraft,
or phase, angle of 44 degrees. The image scale is 9 kilometers (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 and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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.
If you manage your intergalactic business properly, invading and destroying some planet on your way is a piece of cake. All you might need is hyperactive gigantic squids or good old flying saucers with powerful blasters. That’s it! Off we go! Apocalypses starts here!
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This is the Classic Space Transporter set! It was released in 1979! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hvw7OplG1g
“UK Russia Year of Space 2011” Reception in honour of Britain’s first astronaut Helen Sharman, 07 September 2011, Moscow, HMA Residence.
ExoMars launch event at ESOC 14 March 2016, including images from the Main Control Room around launch and receipt of first signals. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
The Space Shuttle Endeavour was the fifth and final operational shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011.
After more than 20 organisations submitted proposals for the display of an orbiter, NASA chose that Endeavour would go to the California Science Center in Exposition Park, Los Angeles.
The exhibit was opened to the public on October 30, 2012 at the temporary Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion of the museum.
For the panel “Commercial Space: Integrating the Future of the NAS,” NATCA Commercial Space Rep Paul Behan introduced ACTA Senior Project Manager Kevin Hatton and Space Florida Senior Vice President & General Manager Jim Kuzma at #NATCACFS2019 to talk about regulating and ensuring compliance while encouraging, facilitating, and promoting commercial space operations.
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.
Image from the book SEATTLE STREET ART. A Visual Time Capsule Beyond Graffiti (Volume 3) By A. Tarantino ISBN-10: 0988272016 SeattleStreetArt.com
The Seattle Street Art Book Series contains over 300 original photos taken within city limits over many years to help preserve the mediums aesthetic in print.
The space pirates strapped a couple railcannons and a plasma cannon onto a basic heavy fighter/bomber frame. The result is a devastating weapon of minimal size. Perfect for small swarms.
I like the way the BA U-Clips and SAR look here.
My little brother and I were tinkering with micro space today. This is something I made.
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.