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Node 2 is a European-built module of the International Space Station that serves as utility room, docking port and sleeping quarters. It was built in Italy for NASA and installed on the Space Station in 2007.
In this image Portuguese-born photographer Edgar Martins has shot the exterior of a Node 2 mock-up the Erasmus centre in ESA’s scientific and technical heart at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. In space the docking ports are used to connect spacecraft such as the Japanese ferry HTV, commercial supply ship Cygnus and NASA’s Space Shuttle before it retired from service.
Edgar Martins collaborated closely with ESA to produce a comprehensive photographic survey of the Agency’s various facilities around the globe, together with those of its international partners.
The striking results are collected in his book entitled The Rehearsal of Space and The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite.
Characteristically empty of people, Martins’ long-exposure photos – taken with analogue wide film cameras – possess a stark, reverent style. They document the variety of specialised installations and equipment needed to prepare missions for space, or to recreate orbital conditions for testing down on Earth.
This artistic collaboration was part of a number of events marking the 50th anniversary of European cooperation in space in 2014.
Credit: Edgar Martins
As 2019 closes, thoughts of new beginnings stream anew, meandering; encountering obstacles; redirecting. The path forward is unclear, but the water will find the way.
new work for Pulse NY.
you can see it in the Narwhal Art Projects booth.
May 3 - 6, 2012
www.narwhalprojects.com/upcoming-exhibitions-2/pulse-nyc-...
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'Although Oscar Newman’s seminal Defensible Space was a decade away from publication, it is clear that Brooke House provided a sense of communal surveillance to a city centre otherwise devoid of population after closing time, allowing Basildon to avoid a situation where its centre could become a ‘nogo area’
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i.e. Jane Jacobs 'eyes on the street' Ref; The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1959)
These nodes, placed along the upper level platforms, mark where the streets above lie. Each one is lit up in a different color, marking 45th to 48th street with shades of green, blue and purple.
Node 1, the first element of the International Space Station to be manufactured in the United States and the first to be launched on the Space Shuttle, is unloaded in its container from an Air Force C-5 jet cargo transport at Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility runway on June 23, 1997, after its arrival from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The module was then transported to the Space Station Processing Facility. The Node 1 module was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-88 on December 4, 1998 along with Pressurized Mating Adapters (PMAs) 1 and 2. The 18-foot in diameter, 22-foot-long aluminum module was manufactured by the Boeing Co. at MSFC. Node 1 functions as a connecting passageway to the living and working areas of the International Space Station. It has six hatches that serve as docking ports to the U.S. laboratory module, U.S. habitation module, an airlock and other Space Station elements.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-97PC-923
Date: June 23, 1997
2 years and 500.000 views later.
Certainly this is not my best MOC ever, but I figure nothing better to celebrate than a band of intergalactic musicians, so for this time I will call this one a WIP.
After much debate I decided not to recreate the Mos Eisley Cantina, because many amazing versions are all ready done.
Eventually I want to create the Tour Bus/spaceship for the Band.
Two years ago I posted the first custom Star Wars MOC. (Wookiee Starship).
That was the beginning of an incredible journey thru the Lego Galaxy far away.
I want to say thank you to all the people who posted comments and added so many favorites. Thanks to all the people that just visited my photo stream.
Very special thanks to the people that follow constantly my work and encourage me to keep learning and exploring.
A Mega big thank you to Will Brick for giving so much confidence and support in my early days. I’m honored to have met him.
Thanks to all the web sites that had been posting my work and last but not least, all my love to my biggest fans …my wife and my 9-year-old son. ☺