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Designer: Sima Lianyi (司马连义)
1987, July
Space world
Taikong shijie (太空世界)
Call number: BG E37/399 (Landsberger collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net/themes/space-program
"SATURN I TYPE ORL EVOLUTION"
Sure, clear as mud. 😉
So, basically, just the elimination of the S-IV, Gemini-type, Apollo-X & Modular concepts. However, the MORL depicted incorporates Gemini ferry/logistics? craft.
And, although the ‘Modular’ concept looks familiar, it’s as a segment of a much larger space station. I’ve never associated it with, or seen it referenced as part of the ‘ORL’ family. I thought it was a Lockheed thing from the early 1960s, beautifully depicted by Ludwik Źiemba.
A scene with the main character and his troops against Separatist forces in the hangar bay. It is if but many new techniques that we wish to improve on later on. As such, this is all from the latest chapter of "The Jedi Mercenary".
The Galaxy Dropship IcePlanet version is the 6th theme derived from the set proposal at LegoIdeas. You may help it become a reality here:
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Based on the Futuron version of the Galaxy Dropship. Cargo possibilities: space lab, trailer with ladder, truck, truck and space lab, rocket launcher.
By turning a knob on the rocket launcher, the rocket moves up and down. Ready for lift off!
More pics at LegoIdeas in the update section.
PictionID:46905736 - Catalog:Bono_0205 - Title:Bono McDonnell Douglas slide presentation scans - Filename:Bono_0205.tif - Philip Bono was a renowned space engineer who was probably 30 years before his time. He was born in Brooklyn, NY on January 13, 1921. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1947 with a B.E. degree in mechanical engineering, and served three years in the U.S. Naval Reserves. After graduation in 1947, Mr. Bono worked as a research and systems analyst for North American Aviation. His first "tour" with Douglas Aircraft Company was from 1949 to 1951, doing structural layout and detail design. From 1951 to 1960, he worked primarily in structures design at Boeing. - ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Waxing Gibbous Moon met the International Space Station, at least that's what it looked like from near the Sebastian Inlet Tuesday night.
A mere 438km away, the Space Station flew across the face of the Moon in just over a half a second (.59, to be exact). This is the first time I've shot stills of a Lunar Transit (aka "spray and pray"), and I managed to capture the ISS in 4 frames, shown here in a 4-shot composite. It was breezy, chilly, and the Moon was quite high in the sky. Considering how much the lens was moving around in the breeze, I was uncertain I'd capture anything, but at least one of the frames is pretty sharp.
Also, I was shooting with the always-talented John Kraus / John Kraus Photos and Marcus Cote / Marcus Cote Photography, both of whom got great shots. Go check them out.
Details:
ISO800, f5.6 and 1/3200 sec, shot with a Canon 7D2 with a 500mm + 1.4x combo.
Transit details (from transit-finder.com):
Tuesday 2019-01-15 20:50:48.50 • Lunar transit
ISS angular size: 63.02″; distance: 438.46 km
Angular separation: 0.0′; azimuth: 227.9°; altitude: 67.6°
Center line distance: 0.03 km; visibility path width: 4.06 km
Transit duration: 0.59 s; transit chord length: 31.7′
R.A.: 03h 02m; Dec: +11° 51′; parallactic angle: -38.4°
ISS velocity: 54.2 ′/s (angular); 6.91 km/s (transverse)
ISS velocity: -2.62 km/s (radial); 7.39 km/s (total);
Direction of motion relative to zenith: -2.3°
Moon angular size: 31.7′; 30.2 times larger than the ISS
Moon phase: 67.9%; angular separation from Sun: 110.9°
Sun altitude: -39.8°; the ISS will be in shadow
NASA's workhorse Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center on the way to the International Space Station on its historic final mission on February 24, 2011. STS-133 is the final mission for Discovery as NASA begins retiring the entire shuttle fleet.
"It's them ! Blast them !"
('Stormtrooper' by Hasbro / Star Wars - The Black Series / 6-inch)
Diorama by RK
At the prime focus of Celestron EdgeHD 925 telescope.
The ISS was at a height of 425km and travelling at 30,000km/hour.
The technique for taking these is described here: www.flickr.com/photos/ejwwest/sets/72157623878835436/comm...
and here: ejwwest.wordpress.com/imaging-the-international-space-sta...
The ISS is the largest Space Station/ laboratory ever built orbiting the Earth, it can be spotted with the naked eye at certain times as it orbits the planet at 17500mph at an altitude of roughly 200 miles.
Spotting the station is very easy and you don’t need any special equipment, only your eyes.
To capture this photograph our Canon 600D was attached prime focus to our Maksutov 127mm telescope, whilst Simon tracked in the finderscope - continuously readjusting, I monitored on the live view as it zoomed across the camera screen and clicked a couple of shots!
We were hindered with cloud cover tonight and this was the best of our shots ;0)
ISO 1600, 1/500
In this image, the aurora australis arcs over Earth during an active solar event in this photograph taken at approximately 11:32 p.m. local time from the International Space Station as it orbited 271 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth, Australia.
NASA/Jessica Meir
#NASA #InternationalSpaceStation #ISS #Launch #Astronauts #SpaceStation #science
I love the user interface to illuminate the status of a flow digram of control valves and sensors... and how the errors in the engraved groove lines have been painted over.
There were two Mir Space Stations. One burned up on reentry, ending its space odyssey in 2001. The second was used for astronaut training in Russia. This control console and monitor comes from the one that survived, and was used by every astronaut and cosmonaut that visited Mir.
The Mir space station orbited the earth for fifteen years; its assembly in orbit began with the core module launch in 1986 and continued for ten years. It was occupied by a crew for more than twelve years of its fifteen year life, playing host to 125 space travelers from twelve different countries. After 86,331 total orbits, Mir re-entered Earth's atmosphere on March 23, 2001, breaking up over the southern Pacific Ocean.
The International Space Station (ISS) travels across the sky on December 2, 2019, beginning at 6:08 p.m. MST, from due west at left to due east at right, passing high in the north at centre in this 360° fish-eye view. At right, the ISS fades from view at it experiences sunset, dimming and reddening as it passes above the Pleiades.
This was from home in Alberta with a waxing quarter Moon providing the illumination, with the Moon behind the camera due south and out of frame. This is looking due north. I am posing for a selfie with the Station.
This is a stack of 7 x 40-second exposures for the ISS path, masked and blended in Lighten mode onto a single image for the sky, foreground, and me! That background layer was shot immediately after the last ISS frame. All with the 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens at f/3.5 and Canon EOS Ra at ISO 1000.
This photograph shows the launch of the SA-513, a modified uncrewed two-stage Saturn V vehicle for the Skylab-1 mission, which placed the Skylab cluster into Earth orbit on May 14, 1973. The initial step in the Skylab mission was the launch of a two-stage Saturn V booster, consisting of the S-IC first stage and the S-II second stage, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its payload was the unmanned Skylab, which consisted of the Orbital Workshop, the Airlock Module, the Multiple Docking Adapter, the Apollo Telescope Mount and an Instrument Unit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 108-KSC-73PC-284
Date: May 14, 1973
“This artist concept of the permanently manned Space Station focuses in on the pressurized modules where crews will work and live. Four modules, two provided by the U.S. and one each attached to the horizontal transverse boom. Resource nodes that house the distributed subsystems as well as command and control stations connect the laboratory and habitation modules together. Two crewmen inside the cupola atop the right-hand resource node control the Canadian provided Space Station co-orbiting platform flies in tandem with the manned base. An orbital maneuvering vehicle is shown flying out toward the platform where it will rendezvous with the platform, attach itself and bring the platform back to the manned base for servicing. At the bottom of the photo, a Space Shuttle Orbiter prepares to berth with the manned base.”
Other than a couple of wonky sentences, that’s the kind of information I want regarding an image. Something that attempts to describe/put in context what I’m looking at, NOT the vague, all too often ignorant “bigger picture”, i.e., useless stuff. A commendable attempt.
Although I'm inclined to think this is by Ted Brown, based on an image of this station configuration, from another perspective, and at a different stage of construction, but with a very similar artistic style, I'm going to leave the door open to Mr. Wallace Farr, MSFC graphic illustrator. Regardless, thank you for your service Brother, continue to Rest In Peace:
www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/decatur-al/wallace-far...
Credit: Dignity Memorial website
Two stars will merge in 2022 and explode into red fury
Get ready for a big nova event ( Prediction)
This is great news for space fans .Also i'd already posted about Supernova.
“We don’t know if it’s right or wrong, but it’s the first time we can make a prediction,” Molnar says. At 2nd magnitude, it’ll be easy if it see if the prediction was correct.
“You won’t need a telescope in 2022 to tell me if I was wrong or I was right,” he says
In 2022, there will be a spectacular sky show. Two stars will merge into one, pushing out excess gas into an explosion known as a red nova. At magnitude 2, it will be as bright as Polaris in the sky, and just behind Sirius and Vega in brightness. The collision in the constellation of Cygnus will be visible for up to six months.
That’s pretty impressive. What’s more impressive: we’ve never been able to predict a nova before. But Lawrence Molnar, a professor of astronomy and physics at Calvin College, was able to find a pair of oddly behaving stars giving an indication of what might happen.
The objects, termed KIC 9832227, are currently contact binaries. Contact binary refers to two objects that are so close they are currently touching. The object was discovered by Kepler. The expected outcome is a merger between the two stars that will put on quite a show. Because both are low mass stars, the expected temperature is low, with Molnar terming it a “red nova.”
how does Molnar know what will happen? After all, as he puts it, it’s “a very specific prediction that can be tested, and a big explosion.” He and his team First observed in 2008, astronomers were able to watch the light curve as the event unfolded. First, there were a few “booms” in the sky. Then, a spectacular light show unfolded. Using precovery data, astronomers were able to trace back the evolution from 2001 on, giving a big picture of the decade of progression of the event.
see more how two stars merge
astrobites.org/2012/08/01/two-stars-merged-and-we-got-to-...
How did they know it was a merging star?
“V1309 was (brightening) before the explosion,” Molnar said in a press conference at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. “It isn’t doing it today. That’s the smoking gun of a merging star.”
Using Kepler data, Molnar found that KIC 9832227 fit the lightcurve of V1309 almost perfectly. All radial velocity measurements seem to indicate a contact binary, and by aligning the light curve to the period in time, he and his team came to the conclusion that the merger would complete in 2022.
About Image : Red Nova
credit : STScI _ Molnar and his team
This is the passage of the International Space Station (the bright streak going from west to east, right to left) on September 13, 2024, passing above the bright waxing gibbous Moon low in the south. The lens field of view wasn't quite wide enough to capture the end of the path at left when the ISS faded into Earth's shadow. The bright star above the ISS trail at top centre is Altair.
At this time the ISS had a record 12 astronauts on board, including veteran Don Pettit and the two Starliner test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams. There were also 5 Russian cosmonauts on board, and 4 other NASA astronauts.
There were also a record 19 people in space at this time, also counting the 4 crew members of the private SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and the 3 taikonauts on board the Chinese Tiangong space station. Neither craft are in this picture!
Technical:
This is a stack of 14 x 15-second exposures taken from home in Alberta (latitude 51° N) on a bright moonlit night, with the Viltrox 16mm lens at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 400. The gaps in the ISS trail are from the 1s interval between exposures. Only the first image was used for the ground and sky, to keep the stars as pinpoint as possible. The subsequent exposures were masked to add just the ISS trail onto the base image, using a Lighten blend mode.
Screenshot of the beauty of Elite Dangerous.
Tools used: Lightroom color correction custom preset.
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Whilst enjoying the meteor shower, Simon spotted the International Space Station glide across the sky, so pleased to capture the early morning pass ;0)
Mapped at COGS:
The breathtaking depth of Earth's atmosphere viewed from an abandoned space station. Just kidding. Utility ladder on an old warehouse.
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus spacecraft loaded with cargo bound for the International Space Station arrives at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 18th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The CRS-18 Cygnus spacecraft is named after the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, and is scheduled to launch at 5:50 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Brian Bonsteel)
flickr image composite link flic.kr/p/QhBasG
Took me a few days to edit, but here is the video version of the International Space Station Australia Day Solar Crossing.
Australia celebrates our National Day and the International Space Station (invisible to the naked eye) silently crosses directly through the middle of the Sun over Brisbane Botanic Gardens & Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, Mount Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The ISS also passed over AR2629 one of three visible Sunspot regions appearing on the face of the Sun today.
14 Frames composited to one image.
International Space Station
26 January 2017 - 15h51m43.87s.
Crosses the disk of the Sun
Brisbane Botanic Gardens & Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium,
Mount Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Transit duration: 0.99s
Path Width: 9.3km.
Diameter of ISS: Angular size: 41.55″
Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m.
Satellite at Azimuth=266.4° W
Altitude=36.6° Distance=667.9 km.
Angular Velocity=32.4'/s
Ground Speed=7.791 km/s
“A depiction of a permanent space operations center that has been freighted piecemeal into low Earth orbit by the Shuttle and assembled by astronauts. The two joined cylinders contain living quarters and a laboratory. Below the cylinders, the service modules supply electrical power, communications, a docking berth, guidance and control instruments and life-support systems, such as air and water. When in operation, the eight-person center will function as the base for a host of space programs to improve the quality of life on Earth. In time, the center could lead to the development of larger stations, which could be used to fabricate mammoth solar power satellites in far space requiring 500-man building crews.
Painting courtesy
Kentron International, Inc.”
The above, paraphrased, is per NASA EP-169, “Aboard the Space Shuttle”, used to describe the cover image, a cropped version of the photo, at:
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19810014646/downloads/1981001...
Kentron International…I’d never heard of them. Apparently, owned by Dallas-based LTV Corporation. Kentron was subsequently sold to private investors in 1982, who in turn sold it to Planning Research Corp. in 1985…whoever they are/were.
The International Space Station streaks across California at 17,000mph. That is almost 5 miles per second. Here, seen over Deer Valley in Antioch, CA.
I used the built in GPS and Astrotracer feature on the K3II to minimize star trailing. Lens was the Sigma 8-16mm at 8mm, so the stars still fan out at the edges due to the extreme wide angle distortion.
Anyhow, I look forward to warm nights to do more astrophotography. More Astrotracer pics here: www.flickr.com/photos/mikeoria/albums/72157649944280914
Thanks for looking!
It's a lot easier to wait hours and hours for your flight when you have a camera to play with, let me tell ya...
The new Bangkok airport looks positively modern(and freaky).
5 exposure HDR
This looks better large on black
"Scout troopers, also known as biker scouts, were specially trained soldiers of the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps. As light-armored variants of the Imperial stormtroopers, scout troopers were specifically trained for activities too complicated for regular infantry troopers."
('Biker Scout' and 'Speeder Bike' by Hasbro / Star Wars - The Black Series / 6-inch)
Mid- to late-1970s artist’s concept depicting United States/NASA manned space flight programs, through the Space Shuttle. So, technically, SpaceX/Crew Dragon not withstanding, it’s still “up-to-date”. How depressing.
An “A” for the graphical depiction; with the whole launch vehicle/spacecraft pairing, not bad. Although the LM looks rather contorted. And a relatively minor detail, possibly due to space limitations, but the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle has been omitted.
HOWEVER, an “F- -”, maybe even a “J”, for execution. There’s something blatantly & inexcusably wrong with one of these spacecraft.
Hopefully/likely, I don’t think this was intended to be anything educational or informative, probably just a lame promotional effort, so the visual ‘damage’ is minimal. It’s primarily just comically pathetic. The artwork is otherwise excellent. No idea on the artist. Intentional?
Seriously though, didn’t anybody with even the slightest/any clue look at this (and too many other images of the time) before they were printed?
Appropriately, it pretty much reflected NASA’s manned space flight doldrums of the late 70s. Fortunately & thankfully, the unmanned program was spectacularly successful.