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The actual Skylab training module used by astronauts to prepare for life aboard the Skylab is on display in the Starship Gallery of Space Center Houston. Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, bridging the gap between the Apollo era and the International Space Station. There were a total of three manned expeditions to the station, conducted between May 1973 and February 1974, in which three different crews spent a total of 171 days on board, conducting a wide array of research. Skylab consisted of a command and service module, a multiple docking adapter, an airlock module, Apollo Telescope Mount and an orbital workshop.
A total of eleven space walks were performed by the three Skylab crews. This Airlock Module (AM) allowed them to make brief excursions outside to perform experiment support or station maintenance. The airlock was completely sealed by closing air tight hatches that led into the rest of the space station. Once the air was evacuated, the suited astronaut would open the Gemini style hatch to begin the space walk. Outside, the astronaut would use a series of blue handrails to transition to the worksite. The spherical and cylindrical storage tanks mounted on the external truss work of the AM provided oxygen and nitrogen needed for Skylab's life support system. The AM was also the 'nerve center' of Skylab, serving as the home to electrical power control, data handling and recording equipment, environmental control systems and communication.
Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum owned and operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation. The center opened in 1992 and hosts more than 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex with over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, attractions, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in 1962 and the 1,620-acre facility officially opened for business in September 1963. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights. It is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored.
One of a series of test shots of a test target about 8.4m away using a Nikon Z9 and either the 400/2.8TC and/or 800/6.3 with and without use of the internal or an additional external ZTC14 or ZTC20 - resulting focal lengths from 400 to 1,600mm. Shots are taken wide open in aperture priority using ISO 32 to ISO 6400 - all shot data is shown in the Title. Images were all shot at EV +1 1/3rd to give the white brightness and saved as Lossless RAW files, which have been processed in DxO PureRAW 2. Optical corrections are applied in Lightroom Classic. Files are exported as sRGB JPGs
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IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim receives Dr. Agus Joko Pramono, Vice-Chairman of the Audit Board of Indonesia (9-3-22).
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external harddrive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... They are happily appreciated!
Dr. Herman N. Uhley (1926-2012) made this pacemaker from spare parts including tubes from a Sylvania television set for a total cost of $25.00. It was put into service when a 68-year-old male patient at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, California, would no longer respond to heart medication.
Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History
Choreography, Valerie Gonzalez
Music, Meditation Drums and Japanese Temple, by Columbia Nature Sound Project,
Talking Drums, Bikram Ghosh
Costumes, Kim Instenes
Light Design, William Newcomb
Performers
Alexandrou, Libby Nelson, Kristin Orban, Megan Smith, Kelly West, Emily Wild,
Jenny Wild
I first saw All Saints from under the eaves of King's Wood up on the downs. It was a misty morning and All Saint's towers was showing through the autumnal mist.
I had been meaning to go here for some time. The church is situated off the Canterbury to Ashford road, about half a mile up a dead end lane near, I guess, a country house.
I parked up, and went into the church yeard, and instantly the unusual layout of the church was clear, as was the brick flying buttress in one corner.
I did not hold out much hope of finding it unlocked, but then the churchwardens arrived to remove the flowers from the harvest festival.
"would you like to go inside?" they asked. Indeed I would.
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A connoisseur's church built in the thirteenth century by a man called Adulphus to replace a Saxon church. About a hundred years later the church was substantially enlarged under Sir Thomas Aldon, a courtier of Edward III. Stained glass shields of the King and associated Kentish families still survive as part of the fantastic East window where the upper lights actually follow the curve of both the external arch and the arch of the three main lights below. How fine it must have looked when completely glazed in stained glass. The south porch has a rare fireplace - showing that it may have been adapted to cater for pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Of the same date is the fine screen and possibly the floor tiles. In the north transept is a good example of late fifteenth century wall painting. It depicts the Trinity and is set in a series of decorative frames. Regrettably the dove - central to the story as representative of the Holy Spirit - has long disappeared.
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All Saints' Church, is a 13th-century pilgrims'[1] Grade I listed church[2] in Boughton Aluph near Ashford, Kent.[3] It is part of the Church of England.[1][4]
Built in the thirteenth century by a man named Adulphus to replace a Saxon church, it was enlarged in the 14th century by Sir Thomas Aldon, one of Edward III of England's courtiers.[3] The building was restored in 1878.[2] On 27 November 1957, the Church was placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, as a Grade I building.[2] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was extensively renovated, including the cleansing and restoration of the windows in 2009.[1] The Church continues to be an active centre for worship, and is part of the United Wye Benefice. Every June, the building is used to host the Stour Music Festival.
The present chancel and chapel are from the 13th century, with 15th century East Windows and a 17th-century porch. Most of the remainder of the church originates from the 14th century. The nave, aisles, transepts and crossing were all built together, between approximately 1329 and 1361 (based on heraldic evidence).
The church is primarily built from flint and rubble, with rubble and ashlar dressings. The porch and buttresses are brick constructions.
The church consists of a nave, aisles and a chancel. The chapel is in the North-east of the church, a crossing tower with a 2-stair turret. There are north and south porches. Both the chancel and the chapel are at a lower level than the transepts and crossing, with steps leading down to the east.
The West and North transept windows have a curvilinear design - as did the former south transept window - of 4 lights with cinquefoil over. The North aisle has two 3-light windows in brick while the South aisle has two 3-light windows in curvilinearstyle, all in plain chamfered surrounds. In the North chapel, there are two lancets to the west, and two paired lancets with quatrefoils over to east, while the chancel has a 3-light Perpendicular window and a 2-light curvilinear window on the south wall. The chancel east window is a 5-light perpendicular window, while the chapel east window is a 4-light perpendicular window. All of the windows possess the original reveals, as do all of the doors. The chancel south wall has two blocked window openings: the westernmost one is blocked by the stair turret while the easterly one is cut through by 14th century curvilinear window.[2]
The South Transept window is a work of art commissioned in 2002, which replaced the original windows which was damaged by incendiary bombs in the Second World War.[1][5] The window had been bricked up and concreted over in 1952.[5] The money to pay for the new window was raised by the Stour Music Festival Appeal Fund in memory of its founder Alfred Deller and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Festival.
The West door is made of 18th century plank in a 14th-century roll-moulded surround between two large offset buttresses. The North door is a 17th-century plank with door-width plain metal hinges. The South door has been plastered over.
The nave has 4 bays with octagonal piers on moulded bases. The arches are double-chamfered. The crossing piers are a continuation of the nave arcade, although on a slightly larger scale, with crossing arches. All of the piers are made from chalk blocks. Over the west and the north doors, there are angular 4-centred arches. The arcade to the chancel has 3 round piers, various moulded and undercut capitals and 'water-holding' bases. The arches are similar double-chamfered ones as seen in the nave. The same style of arches are also used in the nave, and in the transept crossing arches.
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