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The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from Pad 39B on a ten-day mission with a crew of five NASA Astronauts and a Canadian Payload Specialist. The Photograph was taken by astronaut Steven R. Nagel from a Shuttle Training Aircraft. Mission STS-52 payloads onboard include the Laser Geodynamic Satellite II.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: GPN-2000-001876
Date: October 22, 1992
No details given for this mini diorama seem at Model Mania, Locomotion, Shildon.
Very well modelled though.
Leaving Merritt Island and staying with some local fare folks. IMHO these are one of the most beautiful and elegant species we have here. It's Monday so have a great day and a great week, and thanks for the visit.
Full Description:The Space Shuttle Columbia on Pad 39A during the picture-perfect ascent of sister ship Discovery after lift off of STS-31. This was the first time since January 1986 that there was a Shuttle on each pad, which are separated by 1.6 miles. Discovery, carrying a five-member crew and the Hubble Space Telescope, lifted off at 8:34 a.m. EDT, April 24. Columbia, with its Astro-1 observatory, was scheduled for launch in May.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-90PC-0610
Date: April 24, 1990
From the Launch Party in March. for the livestock festival in Niagara Falls on July 22nd. The festival highlights local music, art & artisans, as well as craft beer and a wellness area. If your in the area & your interested, check it out at .https://livestockniagara.com
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Double-crested Cormorant taking off from a salt marsh near Mountain View, Ca this morning.
This is probably my favorite bird in the SF Bay Area; it is a powerful swimmer, it's reflective eyes assist with hunting prey down along the bottom, and the distance it travels underwater and the time it stays down is quite impressive. This morning I caught the Pelicans waiting for the Cormorants to stir things up, and then feed up on the surface.
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The four women in charge of the effort to build and test the 212-foot-tall rocket stage that will enable NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon watch as the first completed core stage for NASA's Space Launch System Program rolls out from the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Jan. 8, 2020. These key leaders are, from left, Lisa Bates, NASA Stages element deputy manager; Jennifer Boland-Masterson, Boeing Michoud production/operations manager; Julie Bassler, NASA Stages element manager; and, Noelle Zietsman, Boeing chief engineer. Each of these women manage the entire scope of design, development, testing and production of the complex core stage that will power the super heavy-lift rocket and the agency's Artemis lunar missions. Combined, the women have 90 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industries. Bassler and Bates previously held leadership positions within many NASA programs and projects, including International Space Station, space shuttle, microgravity experiments, robotic lunar landers and other launch vehicles. Â Manufacturing of the core stages for the SLS rocket is a multistep, collaborative process for NASA and Boeing, the core stage lead contractor. The first core stage for Artemis I is undergoing the core stage Green Run test series at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, ahead of the program's first launch. Michoud manufacturing teams are currently producing core stages for the second and third Artemis missions.
NASA is working to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with Orion and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon. SLS will be the most powerful rocket in the world and will send astronauts in the Orion spacecraft farther into space than ever before. No other rocket is capable of carrying astronauts in Orion around the Moon.
Image credit: NASA/Jude Guidry
Test launch of the Lunar variant of the R-7 rocket. Obviously inspired by Shannon's "Battle for the Moon" theme.
This boat launch is part of the Ram Light, located off the Ocean Point shoreline at Grimes Cove. Near Boothbay Harbor. It was built in 1883. Prior to its existence, the perilous rocks of Ram Island were marked by lanterns tended by local mariners.
They were crude and many times could not be seen beyond 100 feet. Now the light is visible for 13 miles.
Ram Light can be seen from a distance at Grimes Cove or closer by boat.
From the Launch Party in March. for the livestock festival in Niagara Falls on July 22nd. The festival highlights local music, art & artisans, as well as craft beer and a wellness area. If your in the area & your interested, check it out at .https://livestockniagara.com
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Description: A Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Kepler spacecraft rises through the exhaust cloud created by the firing of the rocket's engines. Liftoff was on time at 10:49 p.m. EST. Photo credit: NASA/Regina Mitchell-Ryall, Tom Farrar
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-2009-1975
Date: March 6, 2009
Taken from the viewing gallery in The Shard - a highly recommended experience, if you have the chance - this is 30, St Mary Axe (AKA 'The Gherkin') looking like it's about to blast off for the moon - especially with the Willis Building (51 Lime St) acting as the support tower!
I'm quite pleased with this mono conversion, as it shows the intricate structure of the windows very nicely...
From the Launch Party in March. for the livestock festival in Niagara Falls on July 22nd. The festival highlights local music, art & artisans, as well as craft beer and a wellness area. If your in the area & your interested, check it out at .https://livestockniagara.com
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This rocket was launched from Ny Ã…lesund, Svalbard in early December to study the upper atmosphere. I was present as part of the team and took the opportunity to try a rocket launch shot on large format film. This was done on my Tachihara with Fuji Provia 100F film. The exposure was started about two hours before launch at f/8 to expose the sky, star trails, and distant landscape. About 30 seconds before launch I stopped the lens down to f/16 to expose the foreground lit by the rocket like a giant flash. I'm fairly proud of getting this on large format film since there's no way to meter or do any kind of test exposure.
Camera: Tachihara 4x5 field
Lens: Caltar-S 135mm f/5.6
Film: Fuji Provia 100F
I know this shot has been done already but I wanted to go ahead and give a try myself. I wasn’t happy with some of the results so we had to ride Space Mountain 3-4 times before I was satisfied. I hope you enjoy!
Traction Off
Launch control Set
Rev
3...
2... ready
1... steady
Blaaaaaaaaast
Supercharged Infinity G35
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Digital
Exposure: 0.6 sec (3/5)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: -2/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
The Apollo 16 Saturn V space vehicle carrying astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke, Jr., lifted off to the Moon at 12:54 p.m. EST April 16, 1972, from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 72PC-0177
Date: April 16, 1972
After having spent the night in the Panamanian town of Rio Hato our next stay would be in San Carlos where we visited the beaches of Playa Blanco, Farallon Beach and Nico's Beach.
Launch of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew-12. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, no earlier than Friday 13 February 2026 at 10:15 GMT/11:15 CET (5:15 local time). Sophie flies as Mission Specialist 1 on the Dragon spacecraft. The other Crew-12 members are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, respectively commander and pilot of the mission, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, Mission Specialist 2. The French ESA astronaut is the first of her class, the Hoppers, to fly. Only two years and ten months separate the start of her astronaut training from the launch of her first long-duration mission – a record! Sophie has chosen the name εpsilon for her mission, which may last up to nine months. On board the Station, she will conduct a wide range of tasks, including European-led scientific experiments and medical research, support Earth observation activities, and contribute to operations and maintenance on the Station.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
View of the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-9 mission from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Launch time was 11:00 am EDT.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S83-44997
Date: November 28, 1983
On June 11, 2008, a Delta II rocket carrying the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched from Cape Canaveral. Its mission was to explore the extreme universe.
Credit: NASA/Jerry Cannon, Robert Murray
Image Number: KSC-08pd1637
Date: June 11, 2008
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NASA has announced the winners of the 2016 NASA Student Launch challenge, held April 13-16 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tennessee, won first place and took home the top prize of $5,000, offered by Orbital ATK, of Promontory, Utah, longtime corporate sponsor of the challenge.
The University of Louisville, in Kentucky, won second place, and Cornell University of Ithaca, New York, placed third. The Rookie of the Year award was presented to the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
Nearly 50 middle and high school, college and university teams from 22 states demonstrated advanced aerospace and engineering skills related to real-world activities and programs on NASA’s journey to Mars. Teams spent eight months building and testing rockets designed to fly to an altitude of one mile, deploy an automated parachute system, and land safe enough for reuse, while some teams also designed scientific payloads for data collection during flight.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1:00 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Liftoff!!
At 1:48am (ET) Wednesday the #Artemis1 mission took flight, as the Space Launch System aka #SLS carried the Orion spacecraft to space.
#WeAreGoing? We just went…to the Moon!
Just amazing, and LOUD!
Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much greater importance. When the Vanguard rocket exploded on the pad in December 1957, the ability to orbit a satellite became a matter of national prestige. The ABMA (Army Ballistic Missile Agency) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, in cooperation with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, launched a Jupiter rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket consisted of a modified version of the Redstone rocket's first stage and two upper stages of clustered Baby Sergeant rockets developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Credit: NASA
MSFC Negative Number: 0100074
Image Number: MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C
Date: January 31, 1958
Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base as seen from Saguaro National Park East in Tucson, Arizona
Launch of IWMF mobile security app, Reporta. Event hosted by International Women's Media Foundation at the Newseum on Friday, October 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tony Powell)
The scene from the Cape Canaveral AFS where we watched SpaceX successfully launch its #CRS6 Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Bound for a five-week mission to the ISS, #Dragon #NASASocial
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1:00 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
From the Launch Party in March. for the livestock festival in Niagara Falls on July 22nd. The festival highlights local music, art & artisans, as well as craft beer and a wellness area. If your in the area & your interested, check it out at .https://livestockniagara.com
**Full Disclosure: I have been working with the festival , but they have NOT paid me for this post.
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An otter ready to grab his lunch. Taken, once again, at the Tamar Otter and Wildlife Centre in Cornwall. This little fellow was just getting fed his lunch from the keeper who was telling the assembled crowd all about this type of otter. Needless to say, I cant remember what type he was...
Anyway, he held this pose for about 10 seconds, which gave me plenty of time to get the composition right (IMHO) and dial in some exposure compensation (damn that bright sunlight on a summers day!)
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More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched nearly 50 high-powered, amateur rockets April 15, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency's annual rocket competition.
For the past nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.
Student Launch is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges - a series of activities providing students access to the Artemis program. Through Artemis, NASA will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, missions that will help pave the way for future missions to Mars.
The 2023 launch event and award ceremony are available to view on NASA's Marshall YouTube and Student Launch Facebook pages.
For more information, visit: NASA Student Launch.
#nasa #NASAMarshall #MSFC #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #education #space #studentlaunch
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 23 November 2014 with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her crewmates to the weightless research centre where they will live and work for five months.
With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014