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The same Turkey Vulture in the drizzling rain I uploaded earlier, switching positions and having a stretch at the same time. This shot actually precedes the other, as it didn't take off till later.
I went back the following day to see if they had started eating the dead baby Harbour Seal on the beach, but nothing really had changed. A large kettle of Vultures were still hanging out in the same bunch of trees on private land on the other side of the road, and only something little had tried to munch on the beached carrion. I suspect some larger carrion was on the property, making the seal seem like a paltry alternative (Pat Bay, BC).
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.
My friend Mark Kramer has, throughout the pandemic, posted a regular series of blog entries on the Armand Bayou Nature Center website that he calls, "Nature As Normal," to remind humans there is a natural world out there carrying on mostly unperturbed by the foibles and follies afflicting the surrounding urban sprawl. Before sunrise on each of my past several visits to the bayou, this Osprey has greeted me from his roost on the far shore from Bay Area Park, reassuring me that nothing we have done in the intervening days has fundamentally shifted that natural order. Today I feel a strong need to go verify nature is indeed still normal.
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup. My minifigure is using Crazy Arms from Crazy Bricks. These are from their Kickstarter for their new Crazy Arms 2.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup. My minifigure is using Crazy Arms from Crazy Bricks. These are from their Kickstarter for their new Crazy Arms 2.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
The sunrise casts a warm glow around the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 21, 2022. The SLS and Orion atop the mobile launcher were transported to the pad on crawler-transporter 2 for a prelaunch test called a wet dress rehearsal. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. In later missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
#MoontoMars #NASAMarshall #nasasls #artemis #NASA
"Commander Neil Armstrong (right) and pilot David R. Scott prepare to board the Gemini-Titan VIII. Gemini VIII successfully launched at 11:41 a.m. EST, March 16, 1966. The mission conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit and landed safely back on Earth after an emergency abort."
"Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (foreground), command pilot, and David R. Scott, pilot, walk up the ramp at Pad 19 during the Gemini-8 prelaunch countdown.”
While both of the above are “official" NASA descriptions, I assume the second to be a latter, dumbed-down, cursory & half-assed version…more per the norm:
Note the reporter(?) on the far right, with microphone in-hand. If so, for one of the networks? Or, an in-house NASA chap? He looks vaguely familiar to me...I think I remember him...as a network reporter for either NBC or ABC. Maybe/Maybe not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Update: Sometimes, I amaze myself. The gentleman with the microphone is indeed NBC reporter Bob Abernethy, who I do actually remember watching regularly! I’m counting this as a WIN:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Abernethy
Credit: Wikipedia
www.circlingthenews.com/obituary-former-honorary-mayor-bo...
Credit: “Circling The News” website
8.5" x 11".
My posted photo was taken at about the 00 : 01 : 23 : 18 Periscope "film counter" mark:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVTdO34uPBk
Credit: PeriscopeFilm/YouTube
Finally, something interesting & unique about this photo, although I'm sure only to me:
99.98% of the time, a NASA photo on "A KODAK PAPER" is vintage, that is, produced/distributed shortly after the event, mission, etc. So, when I saw this photo for the first time, I discounted the stamped date on the verso, assuming that was just when it was deemed to merit being stamped.
However, in comparing the 'sequence' of the McDonnell Douglas photo identification number on the verso to other McDonnell Douglas photos in my possession, it does seem to correspond with that time period. So, technically, this is a reissue, despite being on A KODAK PAPER. I haven’t come across anything like this before.
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup. My minifigure is using Crazy Arms from Crazy Bricks. These are from their Kickstarter for their new Crazy Arms 2.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup. My minifigure is using Crazy Arms from Crazy Bricks. These are from their Kickstarter for their new Crazy Arms 2.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup. My minifigure is using Crazy Arms from Crazy Bricks. These are from their Kickstarter for their new Crazy Arms 2.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup. My minifigure is using Crazy Arms from Crazy Bricks. These are from their Kickstarter for their new Crazy Arms 2.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled back to the Vertical Integration Facility from the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 to avoid inclement weather, Friday, July 30, 2021 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The earliest available launch opportunity is Tuesday, Aug. 3 at 1:20pm ET. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft on board is seen illuminated in the distance in this thirty second exposure on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to launch on Sept. 8 at 7:05 p.m. EDT and will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth.
For more information about the OSIRIS-REx mission, click here.
NASA's Psyche spacecraft is nearly complete as it rests in a clean room on June 26, 2023, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers and technicians have begun final assembly, test, and launch operations on Psyche, with assembly of the spacecraft all but complete except for the installation of the solar arrays and the imagers. Psyche is targeted to launch in October 2023.
The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid Psyche unique is that it appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system.
Image Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
#SolarSystemandBeyond #NASAMarshall #jpl #psyche #asteroid
A team working on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft transitioned it from a vertical to a horizontal test configuration during prelaunch processing inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 9, 2022. The mission is targeting an Aug. 1 launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. The spacecraft will use solar-electric propulsion to travel approximately 1.5 billion miles to rendezvous with its namesake asteroid in 2026. The Psyche mission is led by Arizona State University. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, is responsible for the mission’s overall management, system engineering, integration and testing, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California, provided the high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis. NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP), based at Kennedy, is managing the launch.
Image Credit: NASA
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The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure (RSS) was rolled back at launch pad 39a, Thursday, July 7, 2011 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is set to liftoff Friday, July 8, on the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA's Ares I-X rocket is seen on launch pad 39b at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The flight test of Ares I-X, scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, will provide NASA with an early opportunity to test and prove flight characteristics, hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Cinematic toy photography, captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with a 100mm macro prime, for a dual focus setup. My minifigure is using Crazy Arms from Crazy Bricks. These are from their Kickstarter for their new Crazy Arms 2.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana is gearing up for the arrival of Ariane 6, Europe’s next-generation launch vehicle. This aerial view taken in January 2020 shows the main elements of the new launch complex.
The 8200 tonne 90 metre-high mobile gantry will house Ariane 6 before launch. First in July then again in December 2019, the gantry was rolled along its rails to its prelaunch position over the launch pad. Platforms inside the gantry will allow engineers access to the rocket for integration and maintenance. The mobile gantry is retracted before launch.
Flame trenches on either side of the gantry will funnel the exhaust at liftoff.
Four lightning masts have been erected around the launch pad to protect against lightning strikes.
The water tower pictured left of the mobile gantry will provide the water that will quell the fiery plumes at liftoff.
The assembly building, on the right, is 20 m tall, 112 m long and 41 m wide and is located 1 km away from the launch pad. This is used for Ariane 6's horizontal preparation and integration before rollout to the launch zone.
Credits: CNES/ESA/Sentinel
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen in the final assembly building ahead of the planned roll to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Chris Gunn)
Visitors to Baikonur are greeted by a monument known by some as “Rybak” (fisherman), which welcomes visitors with a brag describing the size of fish he caught in the nearby Syr Darya River others see it as a cosmonaut in space, Sunday, July 3, 2016 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of July 7, Kazakh time (July 6 Eastern time.) All three will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for Sept. 3 at 2:17 p.m. EDT. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A mockup of Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket is seen at the entrance to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory is scheduled to launch later in the week and will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A during sunrise, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
In this long exposure image, Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, right, is seen illuminated by spotlights ahead of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test mission, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Also visible are the Vehicle Assembly Building, left, and Launch Pad’s 39B, second from left, and 39A, second from right at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The uncrewed Orbital Flight Test, launching onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, will be Starliner’s maiden mission to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for a 6:36 a.m. EST launch on Dec. 20, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
A close-up view of the Orion spacecraft poised atop the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B ahead of the Artemis I launch, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Florida. A portion of the mobile launcher and umbilical connections are in view. Liftoff is targeted for Nov. 16 at 1:04 a.m. EST. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A vehicle drives past a sign showing zero days until the launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two hour launch window opens tonight at 7:05pm ET. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
🚀🌙 NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission is ready to live up to its name!
The small satellite is riding along on Int_Machines’ IM-2 launch, part of NASA’s CLPS initiative, which is slated to launch no earlier than Feb. 26.
Approximately 48 minutes after launch, Lunar Trailblazer will separate from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and begin its independent flight to the Moon. Once there, it will map the distribution of water on the Moon - helping scientists to better understand the lunar water cycle.💧
Observations gathered during Lunar Trailblazer's two-year prime mission will contribute to the understanding of water cycles on airless bodies throughout the solar system and support future missions to the Moon. 🌌
📺 Make sure to tune in to NASA+ to watch live launch coverage and prelaunch events starting Tuesday, Feb. 25.
Visual description: The Intuitive Machines lunar lander, that NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is hitching a ride on, is encapsulated in the fairing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Credit: SpaceX
Lunar Trailblazer is part of NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, which provides opportunities for low-cost, high-risk science missions that are responsive to requirements for flexibility. SIMPLEx mission investigations are managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the Discovery Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
#NASA #NASAMarshall #NASAJPL #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #IM2 #CLPS #LunarTrailblazer #Moon #NASAMoon #LunarScience #Space #MoonScience #LunarLander
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signs an autograph while at the Operations Support Building II (OSB II) while attending prelaunch activities for NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two hour launch window opens tonight at 7:05pm ET. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Dressed in their Sokol suits, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet are ready for the final examination on the Soyuz spacecraft that will take them to the International Space Station next month.
The exams are held at Star City near Moscow, Russia, in a mockup Soyuz. Over many hours the astronauts enact a launch and docking to the International Space Station, with instructors throwing in a few malfunctions for good measure.
Based on how they perform, the trio will be declared fit to fly the Soyuz. They will fly to the Station on a new model of Soyuz ferry designated MS: ‘modernised systems’. This will be the third launch of the lighter, upgraded vehicle. A new spacecraft means new flight procedures, so Oleg, Thomas and Peggy have more homework than usual to master the controls.
Thomas will act as copilot to commander Oleg, assisting him during the critical phases of launch, docking and landing.
Follow Thomas and his mission via thomaspesquet.esa.int
Credit: NASA–Bill Ingalls
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, March 12, 2015 in Florida. Launch of the Atlas V rocket will carry the four identical MMS spacecraft into orbit to provide the first three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is seen at Space Launch Complex 41 after rollout on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx is schedule to launch on Sept. 8 and will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure (RSS) was rolled back at launch pad 39a, Thursday, July 7, 2011 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is set to liftoff Friday, July 8, on the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
PictionID:44030392 - Title:Atlas 16E Details: Prelaunch 16E; Complex 13-AMR Date: 03/24/1961 - Catalog:14_009531 - Filename:14_009531.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Nov. 16 at 1:04 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
PictionID:42698514 - Title:Atlas 71D, Prelaunch Details: Atlas 71 D; Prelaunch Complex 11 Date: 10/13/1960 at Cape Canaveral. 71D carried mice into orbit. - Catalog:14_002526 - Filename:14_002526.tif - - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Lightning strikes the Launch Pad 39B protection system as preparations for launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard continue, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Aug. 29 at 8:33 a.m. ET. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft stands ready to launch from Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake – the fossilized human ancestor, "Lucy," whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution – Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The mobile service tower at SLC-3 is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with the NASA InSight spacecraft onboard, Friday, May 4, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with fellow members Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen during sunrise atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 as the countdown progresses for the launch of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission, Thursday, May 19, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch at 6:54 p.m. ET, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen at the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Chris Gunn)
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Aug. 29 at 8:33 a.m. ET. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen at the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Chris Gunn)