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"Blueprint of Spacecraft, giving by the Origaliens. We are told that they are resting now, recharging their battery. "
Happy weekend everyone ;-))
I folded this tessellation "Spacecraft "with a bigger hexagon 43cm (grid 1:64", "Anett paper" ) and using the same basics as in 'Dance'. Then altering this one in really 3D.
If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".
"We proudly present you a photo of the "SpaceCraft", which is approaching Earth too.
On the left you can see where one of the spaceships must land, when it returns home.
The aliens are looking forwards to meet and greet us, they mean no harm and come in peace. From an anonymous, but trustworthy source. "
I folded this origami tessellation "Spacecraft "with a bigger hexagon 43cm (grid 1:64, "Anett paper" ) and using the same basics as in 'Dance'. Then altering this one in really 3D.
The backside, which I call "MoToR" looks different too.
If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".
Крылатый космический аппарат БОР-4 (беспилотный орбитальный ракетоплан) предназначался для отработки в условиях реального космического полета теплозащиты будущего орбитального корабля «Буран». Носовая часть аппарата повторяла обводы носовой части будущего «Бурана». Общий вид аппарата БОР-4 представлял собой уменьшенный в два раза советский орбитальный самолет, создававшийся по программе «Спираль» в 70-е годы. Тогда этот проект осуществлен не был, но в рамках его реализации проводились короткие суборбитальные испытательные полеты уменьшенных аппаратов БОР-1, БОР-2 и БОР-3.
БОР-4 имел небольшие размеры: длину около 4 м и вес менее 1,5 т — почти как автомобиль. Двигатели, топливо, бортовая ЭВМ, системы автоматики и навигации — вот все, что удалось разместить в его фюзеляже. Чтобы при посадке не повредить испытываемые образцы теплозащиты, было принято решение сажать БОР-4 на воду. Небольшого парашюта для мягкого приводнения было достаточно...................................The BOR-4 cruise spacecraft (an unmanned orbital rocket plane) was intended for testing the thermal protection of the future Buran orbiter in real space flight conditions. The nose of the device repeated the contours of the nose of the future "Buran". The general appearance of the BOR-4 apparatus was a Soviet orbital aircraft reduced by half, created under the Spiral program in the 70s. At that time, this project was not implemented, but as part of its implementation, short suborbital test flights of the reduced BOR-1, BOR-2 and BOR-3 spacecraft were carried out.
The BOR-4 was small in size: about 4 m long and weighing less than 1.5 tons — almost like a car. Engines, fuel, on—board computer, automation and navigation systems - that's all that could be placed in its fuselage. In order not to damage the tested thermal protection samples during landing, it was decided to plant BORON-4 on water. A small parachute for a soft landing was enough.
Empiezan mis Vacaciones, con mi nave espacial hacia las estrellas - I start my holidays with my spacecraft to the stars
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Yes, of course, it's a Martian Spacecraft. We're being invaded again ;)
That's the thought that ran through my head looking at this image. What it is, if you haven't guessed, is a water drop on top of an unopened fireweed flower. I just love the look! And thanks for taking a look!
Taken 21 July 2022 at the Wynn Nature Center, Homer, Alaska.
Some modern office building remind more of a grounded spacecraft than a piece of architecture. This is a building close to London Bridge, with lots of mirroring glass and steel frames. It was a bright but cloudy day, showing very nice reflections and high contrast between the light and darker parts of the building's surface.
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Do you think this looks like a UFO?
A broken paua shell (abalone) for Macro Mondays 'Broken' theme 26-Jun-2017. Happy MM :-)
[here are more of my beach finds on flickr :-)]
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Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències
FR : Palais des Arts / Cité des arts et des sciences / Valencia (Espagne)
Architecte Santiago Calatrava
EN : Valencia (Spain) City of art and sciences
Architect : Santiago Calatrava
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches at 7:45 p.m. EDT from Pad-0A, Monday, October 17, 2016, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station is delivering over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew.
Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the space station Sunday, Oct. 23. Expedition 49 astronauts Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Kate Rubins of NASA will use the space station’s robotic arm to grapple Cygnus.
This is the first flight on the upgraded Antares 230 launch vehicle, and the first launch from Wallops since an Antares rocket and its Cygnus spacecraft were lost in October 2014. It’s also the third flight of an enhanced Cygnus spacecraft featuring a greater payload capacity, supported by new fuel tanks and UltraFlex solar arrays.
There I was taking photos of trees and similar shots when all of a sudden a ship came down from above - a space ship that is and these two made their presence known !! Fear not , they said they come in peace - well that's what they said anyway !!
On Valentine's Day 1990, the Voyager I unmanned spacecraft, nearing the edge of our solar system, turned its camera back towards where it had come from - a love letter to the earth. The resulting photograph saw the earth as a pale blue dot in a sunbeam and it inspired one of the greatest speeches ever made about our planet.
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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I want to dedicate this triptych to Carl Sagan (1934-1996). A wonderful astronomer who never lost his sense of wonder. He is best known to the world for his groundbreaking television series Cosmos (1980), with its hauntingly beautiful musical soundtrack.
Sagan never lost sight of the fact that the great gift we have of being born on earth came with an immense responsibility. Watch this clip of his final appeal to us all:
Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?
so wird es aussehen, wenn ein solches Vehikel über dir landet um dich aufzunehmen ... ;-) ...
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In June 2015, when the cameras on NASA’s approaching New Horizons spacecraft first spotted the large reddish polar region on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, mission scientists knew two things: they’d never seen anything like it elsewhere in our solar system, and they couldn’t wait to get the story behind it.
Over the past year, after analyzing the images and other data that New Horizons has sent back from its historic July 2015 flight through the Pluto system, the scientists think they’ve solved the mystery. As they detail this week in the international scientific journal Nature, Charon’s polar coloring comes from Pluto itself – as methane gas that escapes from Pluto’s atmosphere and becomes “trapped” by the moon’s gravity and freezes to the cold, icy surface at Charon’s pole. This is followed by chemical processing by ultraviolet light from the sun that transforms the methane into heavier hydrocarbons and eventually into reddish organic materials called tholins."
To read the full article, click here.
Circa 1962/63 North American Aviation (NAA) artist’s concept of the (then) Saturn C-5/Advanced Saturn launch vehicle on the pad.
One of countless gorgeous works by Gary Meyer, this one featured in NAA’s ca. 1963 film, “The Apollo Mission”:
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Credit: Jeff Quitney (THANK YOU Good Sir!!!), and the WONDERFUL Internet Archive website
Note the prominent strake on the Command Module. I'll easily overlook the missing RCS quad on the Service Module. 😉
The subsequent 1966/67 version:
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Both above credit: "HACK THE MOON", MIT/Draper Laboratories website
Pushpin imprints/damage & other handling defects do not detract. Still of excellent gloss.
Votre livraison quotidienne d'aurore australe est arrivée !
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An Aurora a day... keeps the boredom away? 😉😀
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Farewell Cygnus – you served us well!
Cygnus CRS-5 departing the Space Station 19 February 2016
More about the Principia mission: www.esa.int/Principia
Credits: ESA/NASA
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This high-resolution image captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto’s surface shows a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. The bright expanse is the western lobe of the “heart,” informally known as Tombaugh Regio. The lobe, informally called Sputnik Planum, has been found to be rich in nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane ices.
The pathway to alien spacecraft.
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As you all know and see my photographing skills are mwoa, so Legonardo Davidy offered me to do a new( and of course a better :D) shot of the fighter which I had sent to him through the STG round 5 " the Neophyters" . Needless to say that it looks way better then my pictures :) Enjoy it and a big shout out to Legonardo Davidy for doing this.
Again I am suprised by the people of the online Legocommunity, nothing seems to much to do for a fellow enthusiast :D, you all rock guys & dolls :)
Cheers Henry