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Park water fountains (foreground); former Bank of America Center, Penzoil Place, former Gulf Building, and Bob Lanier Public Works Building (left to right), Houston, Texas
This is also a frame grab from HD video, using my Samsung A35 smartphone.
If you look closely, you can see two bright tiny objects behind the payload and within the contrail. I think that is part of the remaining booster rocket breaking off and disintegrating in the upper atmosphere.
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
"One Small Step For Man" is an Apollo 11 Moon landing hand-painted cold-cast porcelain miniature diorama kit made by Danbury Mint (c. 2005). It comes with a framed faux newspaper front page dated July 21, 1969. The New York Chronicle, in reality, was only published between January and April of 1963 during the 1962–1963 New York City newspaper strike.
Wikipedia:
* Vega 1
* Vega 2
Mark McCaughrean has photos of this probe:
* Soviet VeGa Venus / Halley probe
* Soviet VeGa Venus balloon & surface lander
No, it's not Tom Servo's mother.
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
The historic launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130. This will be the last night launch of a US Space Shuttle...ever.
Thomas is a sad boy.
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
This is a full-scale wooden mockup of the ill-fated X-15-3 – AF Ser. No. 56-6672, last piloted by Major Michael J. Adams on November 15, 1967.
(Atlantis rocket and tank, that is) :)
GX8 + LEICA DG 100-400/F4.0-6.3
400.0 mm (in 35mm: 800.0 mm)
1/500 sec; f/7.1; ISO 200
A trip to The Kennedy Space Center in northeast Florida is very interesting. The facility occupies acres and acres of land, and you travel form one point to the other by bus. There are various displays, and demonstrations, including this actual Apollo Rocket . Man's first step on the moon was in July 1969, 40 years ago!
Best Viewed Large.
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I decided to do a few frame grabs of the Space-X rocket that I shot video of. This is supposed to be another Starlink project. I'll have to look around more later to get the details.
But I'm glad I shot video. As you can see, I can make frame grabs from video, but if I had shot a higher resolution still I would not have gotten the rocket moving downrange (south-southeast) before disappearing into the upper atmosphere and into earth orbit.
This is a frame grab from HD video, using my Samsung A35 smartphone.
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
Media:
* Ars Technica: Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained, by Lee Hutchinson, December 24, 2019
* AIRfrenchbandofficial: AIR - Le voyage dans la lune (Full Album - Official Audio) (2012)
* MovieMusic37: The Enterprise - Jerry Goldsmith from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Live)
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
Media:
* Jack's Movie Reviews: The Morality of High and Low (1963; directed by Akira Kurosawa)
See also: IMG_7902 North American X-15 and IMG_7903 Ol' Painless Is Waiting
"Auch wenn ihr euch alleine dreht." — Till Lindemann, "Amerika" (2004)
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which successfully landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969.
It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
The Apollo astronauts were chosen from the Project Mercury and Gemini veterans, plus from two later astronaut groups. All missions were commanded by Gemini or Mercury veterans. Crews on all development flights (except the Earth orbit CSM development flights) through the first two landings on Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, included at least two (sometimes three) Gemini veterans. Harrison Schmitt, a geologist, was the first NASA scientist astronaut to fly in space, and landed on the Moon on the last mission, Apollo 17
Saturn V S-IC first stage
The first stage of Apollo Saturn V
The S-IC was built by the Boeing Company at the Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, where the Space Shuttle external tanks would later be built by Lockheed Martin. Most of its mass at launch was propellant: RP-1 fuel with liquid oxygen as the oxidizer The stage was 138 feet (42 m) tall and 33 feet (10 m) in diameter. It provided 7,750,000 lbf (34,500 kN) of thrust at sea level. The S-IC stage had a dry mass of about 303,000 pounds (137,000 kilograms); when fully fueled at launch, it had a total mass of 4,881,000 pounds (2,214,000 kilograms). The S-IC was powered by five Rocketdyne F-1 engines arrayed in a quincunx. The center engine was held in a fixed position, while the four outer engines could be hydraulically turned with gimbals to steer the rocket. In flight, the center engine was turned off about 26 seconds earlier than the outboard engines to limit acceleration. During launch, the S-IC fired its engines for 168 seconds (ignition occurred about 8.9 seconds before liftoff) and at engine cutoff, the vehicle was at an altitude of about 42 miles (67 km), was downrange about 58 miles (93 km), and was moving around 7,500 feet per second (2,300 m/s).
Also known as the Titan II SLV (Space Launch Vehicle), the rockets were retired Titan II ICBMs that were converted into launch vehicles to carry payloads for the United States Air Force, NASA and NOAA. Thirteen were launched between 1988 and 2003. This unused Titan 23G was donated to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. Adapted Titan IIs were also used in the 1960s for Project Gemini. They were known as the Titan II GLV (Gemini Launch Vehicle).
Dreams of the space program from a section of the Communist reliefs along the highway to Tskvarichamia, the abandoned Soviet resort in the foothills of the Georgian Caucuses.
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
Media
* David Bowie: Space Oddity (Official Video) (1969)
See also: IMG_1267 Dr. Rendezvous
The Command Module of the U.S. spacecraft Apollo 6, on permanent display, at ...
DeKalb County (Westchester Hills), Georgia, USA.
9 November 2018.
▶ Reverse view: here.
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▶ "Apollo 6 was the last unmanned Apollo mission and was launched April 4, 1968. The purpose of the mission was to test for a second time, the Saturn V rocket.
At the time of the launch (one second past 7 a.m. EST), all five engines operated normally; then a series of sharp vibrations shook the rocket (known as Pogo at NASA). Minutes later, two of the five rocket engines shut down. For the next 80 seconds, the Saturn V behaved like a drunken driver, lurching back and forth, as NASA flight controllers decided whether to abort the mission or not.
After two earth orbits, it was time to re-light a smaller rocket, CS-IVB, to simulate injecting the rocket into a path toward the moon; but the rocket failed. Using a series of smaller rockets (service propulsion system) on the Service Module, NASA scientists completed most of the planned maneuvres. The spacecraft was returned safely to Earth.
Later the same day, Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee."
— Fernbank Science Center placard.
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PictionID:54500962 - Catalog:Atlas 21F 1962 - Title:Atlas 21F 1962 - Filename:Atlas 21F 1962.JPG - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The casts of each of the three Apollo 11 astronauts' hands, used for making their custom gloves.
From front to rear: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
Well, actually... this is a shot of the old Hall of Science in Queens, New York showing some of the recent rockets developed by NASA. Taken with my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic 104 using 126 square format film in a plastic cartridge. August 1967.
PictionID:54500934 - Catalog:Atlas 215D - Title:Atlas 215D - Filename:Atlas 215D.JPG - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:54500876 - Catalog:Atlas 13F 1962 - Title:Atlas 13F 1962 - Filename:Atlas 13F 1962.JPG - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Sometimes taking a wrong turn isn't such a bad thing. Barbara missed our exit on the way to a sales meeting Sunday, but it took us by the Kennedy Space Center, and I managed to get some fun shots. This is what you see when you pass by. There are several old rockets standing outside, and the history of the place is evident. I've lived in Florida for 52 years, and I still find the things impressive.
Even as far away as where I live in the Daytona area, the noise from sonic booms, and the absolute glory of the flames in a night sky are always awe-inspiring. Now that Space X is doing most of the launches and it's privatized, the technology is getting more and more advanced. Now, they're landing many of the rockets, instead of having to retrieve parts out of the ocean. That's economical, as well as being better for the environment. Launches are a lot more frequent now, too. Lots of satellites going up, the last was placed 20,000 miles up to improve the internet worldwide! It's mind-boggling for a non techie, and possibly a bit scary. This is where it all began and still goes on for the U.S., and no trip to Florida is complete without a visit to the Cape. It's been about 30 years since I've been there, so I'm due another trip, too. Maybe I'll see you there!
PictionID:54500905 - Catalog:Atlas 14F 1962 - Title:Atlas 14F 1962 - Filename:Atlas 14F 1962.JPG - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
To the stars - On Tuesday 27Aug24, the @polarisprogram Polaris Dawn mission is scheduled to lift off for a historic milestone in civilian space flight. The Polaris team is set to break a high altitude orbit record set by Gemini XI. In 1966 astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon reached an altitude of 850 miles above sea level, a record that still stands. The crew of Polaris Dawn; @rookisaacman, @kiddpoteet, @annawmenon and @gillis_sarahe are planned to achieve an orbit of 870 miles, a height of 620 miles about the @iss, a height which hasn’t been reached since the Apollo days. Also they will perform the first commercial Extra Vehicular Activity Spacewalk at an altitude of 435 miles. Interestingly enough, the Crew Dragon spacecraft does not have an airlock so all four crew members will be in the new @spacex EVA suits as the entire capsule will be exposed to the vacuum of space during the evolution. Cant think of a better team to crew this mission, all the while supporting @stjude and looking to aspire the next generation of aviators and astronauts. Ad Astra indeed! Have A Bandit Day. #spacex #polaris #polarisprogram #stjude #spaceprogram #kennedyspacecenter #adastra #aviation #astronauts #spaceflight #rocket #crewdragon #falcon9 #polarisdawn
And to celebrate the event, here displayed in
Washington DC's Air & Space Museum is one of NASA's Lifting Bodies - the Northrop M2-F2, NASA803, designed and built to test 're-entry' aero-dynamic designs during NASA's Space program.
The connection??
If you're old enough to remember the TV series 'The Six Million Dollar Man' - it's one of these that 'Steve Austin' crashed in during the intro sequence.
Taken from real footage you can see it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLs0V8T5AA
These 'wingless' craft were hung below the wing of their 'Mother-ship', a NASA NB-52 and after being airlifted to a great height, released to test their flying characteristics as they made the 'brick-like' descent back down to Earth.
Their shape generated just enough lift to make a controlled landing on the giant desert complex at Edwards AFB, California.
Several different designs were constructed and tested over a period in the 1960's with much of the knowledge applied to the later Space Shuttle program.
In the sequence in the link, the pilot did survive but with life changing injuries
See the full story here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_M2-F2
and some better footage here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50dDWT48b9M
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency