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Circa 1971 montage of North American Rockwell artist’s concepts depicting primarily satellite/spacecraft retrieval/deployment & servicing by the future Space Shuttle.
Tantalizingly, the center vignette appears to have an artist’s signature in the lower right. No idea. Although, the image below it has a Gjertson look to. Is it/Would it have been reasonable to expect the vignettes of this or any montage to all be by the same artist?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We'll probably never know.
Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, at the Aero Gatineau Airshow as he prepares to pilot a WWII era Spitfire.
A Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot. The first Canadian to walk in space, Hadfield has flown two Space Shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station.
After his demonstration flight, he spent hours meeting fans, signing autographs and posing for selfies. I had the opportunity to meet him, and he autographed my hat. I felt like a kid.
Hatch open for HTV7. At first ingress, crew have to wear protection gear, for the unlikely case of air contamination. Lots of new experiments for International Space Station research including the new ESA Life Support System.
Die HTV7 Luke ist offen. Beim ersten "Betreten" des Vehikels trägt die Crew Schutzausrüstung, heute räumen wir den Raumfrachter aus. Viele neue Experimente für ISS research, inklusive des neuen ESA Lebenserhaltungssystems.
ID: 362E4502
Credit: ESA/NASA
A clear evening to watch the Space Station fly over, although with it being the middle of summer, the nights don't get completely dark here in northern UK, so even at 22:48 it was still very light. It hampers your chance of doing any really long exposure photography so this is just a 20 second image, even having the ISO very low to stop too much light leeching in. Normally at night you ramp up the ISO to bring light in.
A mature space station configuration might look like this one, conceived at Rockwell International’s North American Space Operations Division as part of contracted NASA studies. Two solar panels provide power. Cylindrical modules are arranged for living and for experimental activity. Prominently featured is an advanced Remote Manipulator System (RMS), for assembly of large structures and the servicing or storage of satellites and instruments, facilitated by the open basket-like structure. In this artist’s concept, an Astronaut is seen conducting an Extravehicular Activity (EVA), secured to the RMS arm, controlling it in a ‘cherry picker’ fashion in order to possibly grapple/maneuver the Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV). Note also the dual floodlights attached to the RMS platform on either side of the Astronaut, to provide illumination during nighttime passes. Finally, a shuttle orbiter is seen, either prior to/after docking with the space station, or possibly after delivery of the OTV?
Although the image is not contained within, this exact space station configuration, with its caption, from which I paraphrased the above, is at the following, on page 11 (of the actual document):
docshare01.docshare.tips/files/4606/46060281.pdf
Credit: “NASA Space Station” (EP-211), 1985, by David A. Anderton
See also, from two years earlier:
www.astronautix.com/s/spacestationdesigns-1982.html
Specifically. Looks to me to be the same configuration, from the other side:
www.astronautix.com/graphics/s/ss8232.jpg
Credit: Astronautix website
A Grumman design, also from 1982. A very similar open basket-like structure is referred to as a/the “surrogate”:
www.astronautix.com/graphics/s/ssg82a.gif
Credit: Astronautix website
Hmmm. Rockwell International. 1984/85. Manuel E. Alvarez? I'm pretty sure this was after Henry Lozano Jr's tenure. Maybe Ted Brown? Who knows. 😐
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22:12 pass of the ISS, 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 17,500mph at an altitude of roughly 200 miles.
“The NASA Space Shuttle unloading some cargo which will comprise the Space Station system, in a design by the Boeing Aerospace Company for NASA.”
8.375” x 11”. Dramatic depiction by the man, John J. Olson. I like his ghost-like allusion to future expansion. Note also what looks like a Boeing-version/design? of a space tug, in front of the shuttle, possibly berthed to the space station. Also, slightly below & to the left of it, the enclosed servicing bay.
I don't have it in me to try to identify which design, phase, iteration, etc., this is. Space Operations Center (SOC) maybe? Planar? If indeed 1985 or subsequent, maybe the core elements of a dual-keel configuration? Ugh.
Above, along with the image, at:
www.granger.com/results.asp?inline=true&image=0185268...
Credit: Granger Historical Picture Archive
Pay-to-play, but at least they put it out there, and ‘oh well’.
Last, but NOT least. Jack Olson:
www.398th.org/Images/Images_Association/Text/Olson_Cleari...
Credit: 398th Bomb Group Memorial Association website
space.nss.org/national-space-society-governor-jack-olson-...
Credit: NSS website
Screenshot of the beauty of Prey (2017).
Tools used: Otis_Inf 's Camera/Hud Tool, Lightroom color correction custom preset.
Operations image of the week:
This vivid image shows China’s space station Tiangong-1 – the name means ‘heavenly palace’ – and was captured by French astrophotographer Alain Figer on 27 November 2017. It was taken from a ski area in the Hautes-Alpes region of southeast France as the station passed overhead near dusk.
The station is seen at lower right as a white streak, resulting from the exposure of several seconds, just above the summit of the snowy peak of Eyssina (2837 m altitude). Several artefacts in the original have been removed.
Tiangong-1 is 12 m long with a diameter of 3.3 m and had a launch mass of 8506 kg. It has been unoccupied since 2013 and there has been no contact with it since 2016.
The craft is now at about 280 km altitude in an orbit that will inevitably decay some time in March–April 2018, when it is expected to mostly burn up in the atmosphere.
“Owing to the geometry of the orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43ºN or further south than 43ºS,” says Holger Krag, head of ESA’s Space Debris Office.
“This means that reentry may take place over any spot on Earth between these latitudes, which includes several European countries, for example.”
“The date, time and geographic footprint can only be predicted with large uncertainties. Even shortly before reentry, only a very large time and geographical window can be estimated.”
The station’s mass and construction materials mean there is a possibility that some portions of it will survive and reach the ground.
In the history of spaceflight, no casualties from falling space debris have ever been confirmed.
ESA is hosting a test campaign to follow the reentry, which will be conducted by the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, a grouping of the world’s top space agencies including ESA, NASA and the China National Space Administration.
Credit: A. Figer. Used by permission.
See:
More images from Alain Figer
Astrophotography group on Flickr
A colorful sunrise marks the dawn of a new era in human spaceflight ahead of NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission, as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft stand ready for launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 29, 2020. The rocket and spacecraft lifted off from historic Launch Complex 39A at 3:22 p.m. EDT on May 30, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, returning human spaceflight capability to the U.S. after nearly a decade. Demo-2 is SpaceX's final flight test, paving the way for NASA to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Entry for my Iron Builder with VolumeX. The secret ingredient for this round is the yellow arch piece.
Image rendered @33 megapixels (custom DSR)
Injectable camera tools by Otis_Inf (game version rolled back to 1.0.4)
Real Lights plus Ultra Graphics Mod by jmx777
Reshade 3.4.1
Cropped and resampled on GIMP
The fix we did 10 years ago to our solar panel is still going strong. The impossible is possible: well done STS-120 ground & space team!
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Credit: ESA/NASA
Screenshot of the beauty of Elite Dangerous.
Tools used: Image Composite Editor, Lightroom color correction custom preset.
(“Give it back, give it back!!”, in Blips' language)
One of the blips has been sucked up by Mr. Robot!! And he's going haywire… (look at his eyes!) The other two blimps are desperately trying to rescue their friend, while Benny freaks out and the vacuum cleaner is about to explode!! o_O
I got the idea from the movie “The glass bottom boat” starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor. In a scene of that movie Doris Day finds herself in a sort of space-age kitchen, with, among other gizmos, an automatic vacuum cleaner, that, in an attempt of cleaning the kitchen, tries to suck up one of her thongs.
P.S.: No blip has been harmed during this photo shoot.
YouTube 4K UHD Video Link: youtu.be/WVqzElW0WGU
flickr single image link: flic.kr/p/DTZguD
It has been a very quiet time on the surface of the Sun recently, with very
little solar activity for the start of 2018.
A new small and rather faint active region appeared on 16 January though and
seeing as the International Space Station with Expedition 54 on board was
going to fly overhead on the same morning, I decided to see if I could get a
Space Station crossing near the Sunspot.
It was very close and my first capture of a ISS solar crossing for 2018!!
Video was captured using the EOS-1DX Mark II with 800mm Canon Lens and solar
filter.
Single image composited from 18 Frames showing the path of the transit
across the Sun.
The ISS solar transit was viewed from Mount Coot-Tha, Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia.
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International Space Station
16 January 2018 - 9h21m48.60s
Crosses the disk of the Sun next to Solar Sunspot Region AR2696
Mount Coot-Tha, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Transit Duration: .69s Visible Path width: 5.47 km.
Diameter of ISS: 54.84" Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m
Satellite at Azimuth=88.7° E Altitude=54.3°
Distance=502.35 km Angular Velocity=47.4' /s
Ground Speed=7.39 km/s (27,600km/h)
Stace watches the International Space Station from the backyard. She did a pretty good job at standing still!
Screenshot of the beauty of Elite Dangerous.
Tools used: Image Composite Editor, Lightroom color correction custom preset.
Stop! Space tractors aren't allowed in the corridors!
In my last two pounds of black L-go from the flea market were these beautiful "Police" signs, so I've build a bit of scene around them.
I even tried to build a white, streamlined version of the Lanz, but a tractor and streamline are on opposite ends of the design spectrum. It just looks ridiculous in white with red stripes.
Toy Project Day 768