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Shortly before dawn, a red-rimmed moon helped to light the way for the Space Shuttle Atlantis as it rolled out to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for launch of Mission STS-86 on September 26, 1997.
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket is rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California in preparation to launch the NROL-91 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly addresses the audience in attendance at the rollout ceremonies of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour which occurred on April 25, 1991, at the Rockwell International facility, Palmdale, Calif. Endeavour, the fourth Orbiter to join the fleet, replacing the lost Challenger, can be seen in the background.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 91-H-323
Date: April 25, 1991
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, 26 May 2013. The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Karen Nyberg of NASA, is scheduled for Wednesday 29 May, Kazakh time. Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
L-3: Our Soyuz rocket with the spacecraft inside is rolled out to the launchpad. The system to keep it upright is ingeniously simple. By using counterweights the rocket is held upright but the slightest force (such as liftoff) pushes the supports out of the way, no complicated electronics required! Did you ever wonder how a launch time is recorded? Easy, the rocket is standing on a large switch, as soon as it is depressed (i.e. we are launched) the time is recorded and we have a launch time!
L-3 : Transfert de la fusée jusqu’au pas de tir. Ça a l’air impressionnant, mais le système pour la faire tenir à la verticale n’a rien de compliqué : on utilise tout simplement des contrepoids. Pas besoin non plus d’électroniques sophistiquées pour dégager la voie à la fusée lors du lancement, la force du décollage suffisant largement pour faire basculer les structures de soutien en arrière. Comment arrive-t-on à connaître l’heure exacte du décollage ? Là aussi, c’est facile : la fusée est installée sous une sorte de grand bouton-poussoir qui est relâché quand elle décolle, ce qui déclenche l’enregistrement de l’heure du lancement.
Credits: ESA–M-Pedoussaut
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden delivers a “state of the agency” address at NASA's televised fiscal year 2016 budget rollout event with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana looking on, at right. Representatives from the Kennedy workforce, news media and social media were in attendance. NASA's Orion, SpaceX Dragon and Boeing CST-100 spacecraft, all destined to play a role in NASA’s overall exploration objectives, were on display. For information on NASA's budget, visit www.nasa.gov/budget. Photo credit: NASA/Amber Watson
nhq201704170047 (April 17, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is seen after the gantry arms closed around the rocket to secure it at the launch pad on Monday, April 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 Baikonur time and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
L-3: Our Soyuz rocket with the spacecraft inside is rolled out to the launchpad. The system to keep it upright is ingeniously simple. By using counterweights the rocket is held upright but the slightest force (such as liftoff) pushes the supports out of the way, no complicated electronics required! Did you ever wonder how a launch time is recorded? Easy, the rocket is standing on a large switch, as soon as it is depressed (i.e. we are launched) the time is recorded and we have a launch time!
L-3 : Transfert de la fusée jusqu’au pas de tir. Ça a l’air impressionnant, mais le système pour la faire tenir à la verticale n’a rien de compliqué : on utilise tout simplement des contrepoids. Pas besoin non plus d’électroniques sophistiquées pour dégager la voie à la fusée lors du lancement, la force du décollage suffisant largement pour faire basculer les structures de soutien en arrière. Comment arrive-t-on à connaître l’heure exacte du décollage ? Là aussi, c’est facile : la fusée est installée sous une sorte de grand bouton-poussoir qui est relâché quand elle décolle, ce qui déclenche l’enregistrement de l’heure du lancement.
Credits: ESA–M-Pedoussaut
nhq201704170017 (April 16, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sunday, April 16, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
L-3: Our Soyuz rocket with the spacecraft inside is rolled out to the launchpad. The system to keep it upright is ingeniously simple. By using counterweights the rocket is held upright but the slightest force (such as liftoff) pushes the supports out of the way, no complicated electronics required! Did you ever wonder how a launch time is recorded? Easy, the rocket is standing on a large switch, as soon as it is depressed (i.e. we are launched) the time is recorded and we have a launch time!
L-3 : Transfert de la fusée jusqu’au pas de tir. Ça a l’air impressionnant, mais le système pour la faire tenir à la verticale n’a rien de compliqué : on utilise tout simplement des contrepoids. Pas besoin non plus d’électroniques sophistiquées pour dégager la voie à la fusée lors du lancement, la force du décollage suffisant largement pour faire basculer les structures de soutien en arrière. Comment arrive-t-on à connaître l’heure exacte du décollage ? Là aussi, c’est facile : la fusée est installée sous une sorte de grand bouton-poussoir qui est relâché quand elle décolle, ce qui déclenche l’enregistrement de l’heure du lancement.
Credits: ESA–M-Pedoussaut
Carried by its mobile launcher platform, shuttle Discovery slowly moves through the high bay doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building on the way to Launch Pad 39A before the STS-82 mission. A seven-member crew performed the second servicing of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope during the flight.
Jan. 17, 1997
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At around 3:00 am Saturday, July 17, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner emerged from the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. It traveled at 5 mph to United Launch Alliance's Vertical Integration Facility, where it was placed atop its ride to the International Space Station, an Atlas V rocket.
The OFT-2 launch is set for 2:53 pm on July 30.
(Pic: me/Nat Geo)
nhq201704170010 (April 16, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sunday, April 16, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
What's in that Bag? What do you keep in that Bag?
Not pictured are my Nalgene bottle (not sure if I'm gonna take it), my hairbrush and face moisturizer (because I forgot to put 'em in, good thing I took the picture) and my travel booklight and usb drive (because they were stowed away so well I passed them over when I was emptying the bag).
This'll be the last photo I upload to flickr maybe till after christmas, definitely not until after my flight. Hope everyone is having a happy holidays and will have a Merry Christmas.
At around 3:00 am Saturday, July 17, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner emerged from the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. It traveled at 5 mph to United Launch Alliance's Vertical Integration Facility, where it was placed atop its ride to the International Space Station, an Atlas V rocket.
The OFT-2 launch is set for 2:53 pm on July 30.
(Pic: me/Nat Geo)
The Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sunday, March 23, 2014, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 26 and will send Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Steven Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with a single-engine Centaur upper stage stands ready to boost an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Science payloads include the second generation of a portable onboard printer to demonstrate three-dimensional printing, an instrument for first space-based observations of the chemical composition of meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere and an experiment to study how fires burn in microgravity.
Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Monday, April 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Ahhh! This was mountain railroading, well almost! The engine grunt would have to be at work in the night to chuck burning newspapers into the firebox and baby the fire with light coal until getting it fired for the first time. I imagine the stumble bums (or road apples) played odds for boss to push the turntable into alignment. Labor would have been thin in the old days. Steam up should be slow enough to not shock the old geezer; rides start at 10:00. The 1881 BLW sported some Christmas finery but avoided silliness. It must be happy to be back at work in the original engine green and a straight stack. I always like the old timey ornamentation on the domes. Note the headlight is off because the steam generator (the round device with vertical pipe in front of the cab) has not yet been started. No steam evaporates from it's exhaust pipe. Eddie wanted a diamond stack which was only for wood burners. The burned out D&RG diesel is parked on the left.
I am surprised that Eddie the slug has any arms left after the twisting to get him down to the Colorado RailRoad Museum in Golden, Colorado. I figured we could hit the Christmas steam up over at the Colorado Rail Road Museum in Golden, I think Eddie said it was December 10th and that sounds early so I checked the Colorado RailRoad Museumwebsite. Eddie said they would be running #346 because RGS #20 is not yet back from it's total rebuild that went into extra innings out east. I fingered Eddie will be a pest after he sees the museum for the first time ever. As it worked, the staff said Sunday would be more sane, barely any more. Everyone at the place got three loops. Only those with sharp elbows got the cupola in the caboose or a ride in the cab. They also do railroad modeling over here but they prefer modeling at a 12 inches to the foot scale. Area and other fans ought to make the trek; take your camera, empty and ready to go!
I had to call out all the turns to Eddie on I-25 and I-70 to get to the place or what were the odds? He started to believe we might be on the right route when he spotted the first CRRM highway signs. He assumed we were there when I pointed out Coors but I suggested Coors was at least 5 miles long. You'd have thought I would not have to call out the route home but I did.
The morning broke very clear and bright. Typical Rockies drop to below zero but today got hefty after it exceeded 50 degrees here in the Front Range area of the Rockies. A great but unfortunately cloudless day to cover the time before the holidays. A close look reveals it is already too hot for the engineer's coat. Especially in the cab.
Apollo 16 rollout from VAB to Pad 39A, December 13, 1971."
Photo taken from one of the work platforms of the Mobile Service Structure (MSS), positioned at its parking spot alongside the crawlerway leading out to Launch Complex (LC)-39A & LC-39B.
The raised concrete launchpad & hardstand of LC-39A is visible in the background, immediately to the left of the Saturn V.
The vehicle stack has just passed the 'hard left' turn that leads to LC-39B.
On April 12, NASA’s last space shuttle external tank will embark on a journey to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Its final mission is to commemorate past achievements in space, educate, and inspire future generations of explorers at the California Science Center.ET-94, a lightweight version of the external tank, measures approximately 154 feet long and 27.5 feet in diameter and weighs about 69,000 pounds. The external tank served as the structural backbone of the space shuttle and was designed to absorb and distribute over 7 million pounds of thrust generated at launch. It also fed liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to the space shuttle main engines mounted on the shuttle’s orbiter.ET-94 was designated a test article for the Space Shuttle Program in order to validate processes and procedures prior to performing the work on the next flight article. ET-94 was a vital part of NASA’s ability to return flight and is a testament to the ingenuity and can-do spirit of the external tank team.The Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, NASA’s only large-scale manufacturing facility, manufactured 138 ET’s during the Space Shuttle Program. The external tank was managed by Lockheed Martin for NASA. Michoud is managed by the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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nhq201704170038 (April 16, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is raised into position on the launch pad Monday, April 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 Baikonur time and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
The Soyuz booster rocket and MS-11 spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sat. Dec.1, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Dec. 3 and will carry Expedition 58 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) into orbit to begin their six and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is seen after arriving at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad by train, 26 May 2013. The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Karen Nyberg of NASA, is scheduled for Wednesday 29 May, Kazakh time. Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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The orbiter Atlantis, strapped to 19-stories of space shuttle solid rocket booster and external fuel tank, crawls out the door of the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building for the final time April 21 at 11:31pm EDT, the start of its six-hour 3.4 mile trip to Pad 39A.
nhq201704170040 (April 17, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is seen after being raised into a vertical position on the launch pad Monday, April 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 Baikonur time and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Shortly before dawn, a red-rimmed moon helped to light the way for the Space Shuttle Atlantis as it rolled out to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for launch of Mission STS-86 on September 26, 1997.
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L-3: Our Soyuz rocket with the spacecraft inside is rolled out to the launchpad. The system to keep it upright is ingeniously simple. By using counterweights the rocket is held upright but the slightest force (such as liftoff) pushes the supports out of the way, no complicated electronics required! Did you ever wonder how a launch time is recorded? Easy, the rocket is standing on a large switch, as soon as it is depressed (i.e. we are launched) the time is recorded and we have a launch time!
L-3 : Transfert de la fusée jusqu’au pas de tir. Ça a l’air impressionnant, mais le système pour la faire tenir à la verticale n’a rien de compliqué : on utilise tout simplement des contrepoids. Pas besoin non plus d’électroniques sophistiquées pour dégager la voie à la fusée lors du lancement, la force du décollage suffisant largement pour faire basculer les structures de soutien en arrière. Comment arrive-t-on à connaître l’heure exacte du décollage ? Là aussi, c’est facile : la fusée est installée sous une sorte de grand bouton-poussoir qui est relâché quand elle décolle, ce qui déclenche l’enregistrement de l’heure du lancement.
Credits: ESA–M-Pedoussaut
L-3: Our Soyuz rocket with the spacecraft inside is rolled out to the launchpad. The system to keep it upright is ingeniously simple. By using counterweights the rocket is held upright but the slightest force (such as liftoff) pushes the supports out of the way, no complicated electronics required! Did you ever wonder how a launch time is recorded? Easy, the rocket is standing on a large switch, as soon as it is depressed (i.e. we are launched) the time is recorded and we have a launch time!
L-3 : Transfert de la fusée jusqu’au pas de tir. Ça a l’air impressionnant, mais le système pour la faire tenir à la verticale n’a rien de compliqué : on utilise tout simplement des contrepoids. Pas besoin non plus d’électroniques sophistiquées pour dégager la voie à la fusée lors du lancement, la force du décollage suffisant largement pour faire basculer les structures de soutien en arrière. Comment arrive-t-on à connaître l’heure exacte du décollage ? Là aussi, c’est facile : la fusée est installée sous une sorte de grand bouton-poussoir qui est relâché quand elle décolle, ce qui déclenche l’enregistrement de l’heure du lancement.
Credits: ESA–M-Pedoussaut
nhq201704170044 (April 17, 2017) --- The gantry arms close around the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft to secure the rocket at the launch pad on Monday, April 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 Baikonur time and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
nhq201704170011 (April 16, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sunday, April 16, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station.Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
nhq201704170037 (April 16, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is raised into position on the launch pad Monday, April 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for April 20 Baikonur time and will carry Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)