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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
Pentax 645N SMC Pentax - A 645 Macro 1:4 120mm Exp Delta 100 DDX 1+4 07/18/2022
This is my fourth roll of 120 Ilford slow speed film that has had this mottling problem. Ilford has acknowledged the issue and replaced three rolls of FP4+ for me that had the same issue. Information on the issue can be located here:
- www.ilfordphoto.com/statement-120-roll-film/
I'm not going to bother Ilford with this roll as it has been in the refrigerator for a while and is past the use by date. I purchased these rolls in late 2020.
They are all worth the same.
I took the same picture back in September 2017 and was the first picture in my "Green Estate" series using Lynch's 5 elements of the city descriptors. Since then this play area has been described as being like Chernobyl in the UK National press.
For context behind the wall is the River Cole and the Cole valley, to my right is a fairly new housing estate and a magnificent ancient oak tree that deserves TPO (Tree Protection Order) status (there are no TPOs in North Solihull), and over my left shoulder Bacons End Bridge (a grade 2 listed foot and road bridge from 1764).
This whole area is due to be flattened to provide road access to the Simon Digby field for a new housing estate.
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-...
Quote:
'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’
End Quote.
i.e. Jane Jacobs 'eyes on the street' Ref; The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1959)
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
"Node", a 102 ft. tall pubic art sculpture by New York artist Roxy Paine (1966- ) at the Yerba Buena/Moscone MUNI (Municipal Transportation) station in San Francisco, California.
"Node" is the tallest freestanding sculpture in the city. The stainless-steel form reaches upward from a 5 1/2-foot-thick base reminiscent of a tree trunk. From there, it curves as it extends upward gradually tapering until it's just a quarter of an inch thick at its peak. The sculpture was intended to function as a way-finding landmark for the station.
A track inspector effects an on-the-spot repair of a pull-apart at Blue Island Junction, certainly among the busiest and most critical rail traffic nodes in Chicago. During cold weather, it’s not uncommon for steel rail, which contracts when chilled, to pull apart from an adjoining rail at a joint. As long as the gap between the rails is just a few inches, trains may still pass over at slow speed; however, it won’t take too long for the breach to grow, posing risk of a major derailment. Fortunately, eagle-eyed inspectors examine every inch of mainline track at least twice each week (and aways immediately following a sudden cold snap), looking for broken or defective rail and paying careful attention to rail joints and switches, the most vulnerable components of track.
To fix this particular pull-apart, the inspector merely has to heat the rail up (so it expands enough to close the gap) and secure it with fresh joint bars and bolts. To do this, he starts a controlled fire along the inside of about a hundred feet of rail—fifty feet on either side of the break. In his track inspection vehicle, he keeps a bucket (the blue bucket in the foreground of the photo) filled with a mixture of finely-shredded cellulose insulation soaked in diesel fuel. The inspector (wearing protective gloves) slaps a generous handful of this flammable concoction, which has the consistency of thick oatmeal, onto the rail above every wooden cross tie—about every eighteen inches. Before setting the whole deal ablaze, he makes a quick phone call to the local fire department to let them know not to be alarmed by the sudden clouds of black smoke coming from the railroad tracks. Then, he lights a fusee (a roadside flare) and walks along the track, touching the bright red jet of flame to each little pile of incendiary goo. Soon, it looks like a hundred campfires strung out along the section of railroad. Acrid black smoke billows into the grey winter sky. Now he waits.
Training and experience have taught the inspector that as soon as the little fires begin to die out, their fuel consumed, the steel will have warmed and expanded enough to bring the estranged sections of rail back together. Sledge hammer in hand, he walks the line amidst smoldering fires, gently tapping the rail, coaxing it to inch back into place. Once the rail ends are reunited, he quickly applies two new steel joint bars, one to the inside and one to the outside of the rail. The joint bars, about eighteen inches long, fit snuggly against the rail and span the joint. On each side of the joint, there are bolt holes through the rail, which align with holes in the joint bars. A few new bolts, a few tightening tugs with a very large wrench, and the track is as good as new, ready to handle a quarter of a million tons of freight every day. The whole repair, from discovery to remedy, only takes about 20 minutes. Time is money for the railroad.