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Here is a common bronze 10 centimes piece reused as a photograph mount, a love token presumably. The photograph is of a women in her late teens, the style of dress and hair suggesting c.1890's, possibly 1900. The coin has been hollowed out to take the photograph, a piece of the right side being removed in the process and reset with solder. The mint mark A for Paris is shown on the reverse along with the hand and anchor on the obverse.
29.5mm. dia. W. 6.7g.
Ref: Krause Y#17.
Final test firing of reusable solid rocket motor FSM-17 on Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.
From the NASA news release about the test:
NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.
The flight support motor, or FSM-17, burned for approximately 123 seconds – the same time each reusable solid rocket motor burns during an actual space shuttle launch. Preliminary indications show all test objectives were met. After final test data are analyzed, results for each objective will be published in a NASA report.
ATK Launch Systems, a unit of Alliant Techsystems Inc., in Promontory, north of Salt Lake City, manufactures and tests the solid rocket motors.
The test – the 52nd conducted for NASA by ATK – marks the closure of a test program that has spanned more than three decades. The first test was in July 1977. The ATK-built motors have successfully launched the space shuttle into orbit 129 times.
"Today's test was a great deal more than the successful conclusion to a series of highly successful NASA/ATK-sponsored static tests that began more than three decades ago," said David Beaman, Reusable Solid Rocket Booster project manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The project, part of the Space Shuttle Propulsion Office, is responsible for motor design, development, manufacturing, assembly, testing and flight performance.
"These tests have built a base of engineering knowledge that continued engineering development of the reusable solid rocket motor system and the continued safe and successful launch of space shuttles," Beaman said. "They have provided an engineering model and lessons learned for additional applications in future launch systems."
The final test was conducted to ensure the safe flight of the four remaining space shuttle missions. A total of 43 design objectives were measured through 258 instrument channels during the two-minute static firing. The flight motor tested represents motors that will be used for all remaining space shuttle launches.
The space shuttle's reusable solid rocket motor is the largest solid rocket motor ever flown, the only one rated for human flight and the first designed for reuse. Each shuttle launch requires the boost of two reusable solid rocket motors to lift the 4.5-million-pound shuttle vehicle.
During space shuttle flights, solid rocket motors provide 80 percent of the thrust during the first two minutes of flight. Each motor, the primary component of the shuttle's twin solid rocket boosters, generates an average thrust of 2.6 million pounds and is just over 126 feet long and 12 feet in diameter.
Image/caption credit: NASA
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Monday Meditation
Jan 2022 • 6⅓x8⅓
This is an acrylic painting. Recycle Reuse Renew, painted on a piece of cardboard. I think everyone has at least one thing they can "be better" at. I have many and I work on them regularly. Being perfect or the best is never the goal for me. Being better today than I tried to be yesterday is a definite goal. Having a little sign that reminds me is a good thing. What do you think?
While I was back in my hometown over the holidays visiting family, I got a tour of the newly renovated Burlington Train Station by my brother's wife, Sheila Ireland, who was the lead architect on the project (more on that below). Although I only had my iPhone, i took these photos which turned out fine.
The Burlington Station first opened in 1898 in time for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition World's Fair held in Omaha. Designed by architect by Thomas Rogers Kimball in an Italianate style with massive granite columns evocative of a Greek temple, the station echoed the classical style of Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. The station underwent a major renovation and re-design in 1930 to compete with the new Art Deco Omaha Union Station just across the rail yard (see this set of photos shot a few days later).
Burlington Station closed in 1974 after Amtrak constructed a new station a block or so to the east. The building passed through several owners and unsuccessful plans for various renovations and adaptive reuses, including failed plans for office space and residential condos, until local ABC-affiliate KETV purchased the property to relocate it's TV station. Omaha-based architectural firm Leo A. Daly won project and Sheila Ireland become the lead architect in no small part because she had done her Master Thesis on adaptive reuse of the Burlington Station. See this brief tour of the station and interview with Sheila, which is excerpted from a longer special presentation on the newly opened station by KETV.
Here are some photos of the station before and after renovation from KETV. See also article from the Omaha World Herald.
My stash of re-usable grocery bags, all tied up with an elastic band and ready for the next shopping trip.
Thank you in advance for your views, comments, and faves. They are much appreciated!
A greenhouse spotted in Stropkov, Slovakia a few years ago.
It was made from recycled plastic bottles, strung on to wires. A brilliant idea. Sorry for the poor quality picture but I had to take this from a distance, through a fence. Best viewed large
The crew on Peninsular 52 chat with the passengers at Pantano before returning back to Rio Vista Junction
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I've decided to use lots of little scraps of colored paper, and rename them with more fun and interesting names!
Repainted into a new Connections 4 livery and also gained a seat retrim to at Go North East and looking smart seen here at Gateshead Stadium on its way back to Washington depot
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Street Sticker photographed on the mailbox in front of the U.S. Post Office
Eureka Springs Arkansas
Saturday May 14th, 2022
Volvo B7TL / Plaxton President 6033 (V233LGC) is pictured in Newcastle on the 327.
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Back in the 1950s and 1960s we use to buy Welch's Jelly which came in jars you could reuse as glasses. I am sure my parents didn't pay more than a quarter a jar for the jelly.
The lovely flower was reused—it had fallen out of the planter and The Bear picked it up for me. The sweet little bud vase is also reused, it used to be a mini candle holder.