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A major challenge of the Apollo Program was designing a spacesuit that would endure temperatures ranging from +250F (121C) to -200F (-129C). It had to protect against ultraviolet radiation and micrometeroites, and seal out the vacuum of space while still allowing the astronauts to carry out their tasks.
"Lunar Wardrobe"
A liquid-cooled undergarment made of knitted nylon-spandex with 265 feet of plastic tubing was used to circulate cooling water from the Portable Life Support System. An outer pressure garment (spacesuit) of 18 layers including a helmet and gloves and provided meteroite and thermal protection. The elbows, shoulders, wrist, knee, waist and ankle joints were rubber coated allowing the astronauts limited movement for working on the Moon. Caps worn under the helmet had microphones and earphones. On later flights, a quart bag of drink water was attached inside the helmet. The gloves had fingertips made of silicon rubber to provide increased sensitivity.
Other componenets of thesuit included:
-an Extra Vehicula Activity (EVA) visor assembly which fit over the helmet and protected the astronaut from impact, thermal, ultraviolet and infrared rays.
-a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpack containing oxygen, cooling water and communications equipment. It also absorbed carbon dioxide and removed excess humidity from the air supply.
-an Oxygen Purge System (OPS) providing more than one hour of emergency air supply.
I love Edu-Card games and have been looking for this set, reasonably priced, for ages. Found on Etsy. "Space Race Card Game," unabashedly biased, with "Sputnik" and "Friendly Satellite" cards, plus Pluto ('cause Pluto was a planet in those days). Copyright 1969.
I have a nice little collection of Space Race stuff--a small moon globe, some Viewmaster reels and some books.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
John Glenn is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States Senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. John Glenn returned to space on October 29, 1998, at age 77, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. [Source: Wikipedia]
A nearby stairwell provides one of the only decent above-wing-level views of the Shuttle, everything else is from below.
By Dawn Putney in Carrollton, GA
Name of Panel: “I Can Do Anything I can Imagine”
Dream Theme: Space
Did you enjoy this project? “Yes! It was an incredible opportunity to combine my love of fabric and quilting with my father’s dream of working with the Space Program.”
What could the IFC do next? “Multigenerational – both in subject matter and in those creating the blocks.”
Materials & Techniques Used: Hand dyed fabric, recycled garment linings, yarn all stitched on a fountain made from an old pair of khaki pants. Backing is nylon Kite fabric.
What is the story behind your panel?
“Hi, my name is Dawn Putney and I am going to tell you about the quilt block I made for the Dream Rocket Quilt project. I created the block in memory of my father, Robert Putney who passed away in Huntsville, Alabama on August 16, 2009, the day before the official press conference for the Dream Rocket Quilt. My father spent many years working with the Space Program and it seemed very appropriate to share his dream.
I hand dyed the fabric I used for the background. My father was fascinated with this process and loved the colors in these fabrics. The individuals items on the quilt were made out of recycled garment linings. The lines connecting my father to the plow as well as to the space objects represent the reins connected to the plow and symbolize my father’s connections to many aspects of the Space Program. The layer between the front and back of the quilt block was cut from a pair of my father’s old khaki pants.
The beginning point for the design was a photo of my father as a young man on a plow. He began his work life as a farmer and as his life progressed, he also worked as a carpenter, automotive assembler, draftsman, and finally as a designer in the Space Program full time from 1965-1985 and then part time from 1985-1998.
The object in the center of the block represents the Space Shuttle and the many experiments conducted on those flights that my father worked on.
The top center object represents the Hubble Telescope for which my father worked on the preliminary sketches and watched that project transform over the years until it was finally completed.
The 2 spacemen and the rockets to which they are tethered represent the tools and equipment my father designed throughout his work in the Space Program used by many astronauts.
Saturn in the top right corner, and the sun, comet and stars represent the far reaches of space we have yet to explore.
The request that we consider using recycled materials in our quilt block also connected with my father’s passion for recycling trees. Anytime he found a tree down by the side of the road or even when the beavers cut down his fruit trees, he would drag the trees home and after drying the wood, created incredible carvings and furniture.
Even in the last week of his life my father was still active, still solving puzzles, and spending time with the family.
In 1993, my father dictated the following statement: “All of my work life has been enjoyable but the most rewarding has been my work here in Huntsville, which for the most part has been in research and development for NASA. I feel privileged to have been a part of the Space Program, especially enjoyable and rewarding were my efforts on the Lunar Rover used on the moon landing, the solar panels on Sky Lab, high temperature furnaces, plasma separator and special tools for astronaut use for manufacturing in the gravity-free environment in outer space.”
Throughout his life, April 12, 1926 to August 16, 2009, whether on the farm, in the woods by himself, working, or spending time with family, my father was an awesome teacher, mentor, and dreamer. I grew up watching his dream of working with the Space Program come true and I carry with me all the many life lessons he taught me and the confidence he instilled in me that I can do anything I can dream.”
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This illustration was scanned from David Baker's "The History of Manned Spaceflight," although I'm pretty sure it's a public domain diagram.
I was going to annotate all of the callouts using the "notes" feature, but there were so many of them packed into such a small space, I was starting to pull my hair out trying to fit them all in. Note that part of Solar Array Wing 2 is missing - poor Skylab just can't get a break!
A. Command & Service Module
1. SPS Engine
2. Running Lights (8 Places)
3. Scimitar Antenna
4. Docking Light
5. Pitch Control Engines
6. Crew Hatch
7. Pitch Control Engines
8. Rendezvous Window
9. EVA Handholds
10. EVA Light
11. Side Window
12. Roll Engines (2 Places)
13. EPS Radiator Panels
14. SM RCS Module (4 Places)
15. ECS Radiator
B. Multiple Docking Adapter
1. Axial Docking Port Access Hatch
2. Docking Target
3. Exothermic Experiment
4. Infrared Spectrometer Viewfinder
5. Atmosphere Interchange Duct
6. Area Fan
7. Window Cover
8. Cable Trays
9. Inverter Lighting Control Assembly
10. L-Band Antenna
11. Proton Spectrometer
12. Running Lights (4 Places)
13. Infrared Spectrometer
14. Film Vault 4
15. Film Vault 1
16. SO82 (A&B) Canisters
17. M512/M479 Experiment
18. Area Fan
19. Composite Casting
20. Film Vault 2
21. TV Camera Input Station
22. Utility Outlet
23. M168 STS Miscellaneous Stowage Container
24. Redundant Tape Recorder
25. Radial Docking Port
26. 10-Band Multispectral Scanner
27. TV Camera Input Station
28. Temperature Thermostat
29. Radio Noise Burst Monitor
30. ATM C&D Console
C. Airlock Module
1. Deployment Assembly Reels and Cables
2. Solar Radio Noise Burst Monitor Antenna
3. Handrails
4. DO12/DO24 Sample Panels
5. (Removed)
6. Clothesline (EVA Use)
7. Permanent Stowage Container
8. STA IVA Station
9. Nitrogen Tanks (6 Places)
10. Oxygen Tanks (6 Places)
11. Molecular Sieve
12. Condensate Module
13. Electrical Feedthru Cover
14. Electronics Module 1
15. EVA Hatch
16. Airlock Instrumentation Panel
17. Molecular Sieve
18. STS C&D Console
19. ATM Deployment Assembly
20. Battery Module (2 Places)
21. EVA Panel
22. Airlock Internal Hatches (2 Places)
23. S193 Microwave Scatterometer Antenna
24. Running Lights (4 Places)
25. Handrails
26. Stub Antenna (2 Places)
27. Thermal Blanket
28. Discone Antenna (2 Places)
D. Instrument Unit
E. Orbital Workshop
1. OWS Hatch
2. Nonpropulsive Vent Line
3. VCS Mining Chamber and Filter
4. Stowage Ring Containers (24 Places)
5. Light Assembly
6. Water Stowage Tanks (10 Places)
7. TO13 Force Measuring Unit
8. VCS Fan Cluster (3 Places)
9. VCS Duct (3 Places)
10. Scientific Airlock (2 Places)
11. WMC Ventilation Unit
12. Emergency Egress Opening (2 Places)
13. M509 Nitrogen Bottle Stowage
14. SO19 Optics Stowage Container
15. S149 Particle Collection Container
16. SO19 Optics Stowage Container
17. Sleep Compartment Privacy Curtains (3 Places)
18. M131 Stowage Container
19. VCS Duct Heater (2 Places)
20. M131 Rotating Chair Control Console
21. Power and Display Console
22. M131 Rotating Chair
23. WMC Drying Area
24. Trash Disposal Airlock
25. OWS C&D Console
26. Food Freezers (2 Places)
27. Food Preparation Table
28. M171 Ergometer
29. MO92 Lower-Body Negative Pressure
30. Stowage Lockers
31. Equipment Support System Panel
32. Biomedical Stowage Cabinet
33. M171 Gas Analyzer
34. Biomedical Stowage Cabinet
35. Meteoroid Shield
36. Nonpropulsive Vent (2 Places)
37. TACS Module (2 Places)
38. Waste Tank Separation Screens
39. TACS Spheres (22), Pneumatic Sphere
40. Refrigeration System Radiator
41. Acquisition Light (2 Places)
42. Solar Array Wing (2 Places)
F. Apollo Telescope Mount
1. Command Antenna
2. Telemetry Antenna
3. Solar Array Wing 1
4. Solar Array Wing 2
5. Solar Array Wing 3
6. Solar Array Wing 4
7. Command Antenna
8. Telemetry Antenna
9. Sun-End Work Station Foot Restraint
10. Temporary Camera Stowage
11. Quartz Crystal Microbalance (2 Places)
12. Acquisition Sun Sensor Assembly
13. ATM Solar Shield
14. Clothesline Attach Boom
15. EVA Lights (8 Places)
16. Sun-End Film Tree Stowage
17. Handrail
18. SO82-B Experiment Aperture Door
19. Ha-2 Experiment Aperture Door
20. SO82-A Film Retrieval Door
21. SO82-A Experiment Aperture Door
22. SO54 Experiment Aperture Door
23. Fine Sun Sensor Aperture Door
24. SO56 Experiment Aperture Door
25. SO52 Experiment Aperture Door
26. Ha-1 Experiment Aperture Door
27. SO55A Experiment Aperture Door
28. SO82-B2 Experiment Aperture Door
29. SO82-B Film Retrieval Door
30. Canister Solar Shield
31. Canister
32. Canister Radiator
33. Rack
34. Charger-Battery-Regulator Modules (18 Places)
35. Handrail
36. CMG Inverter Assembly (3 Places)
37. Control Moment Gyro (3 Places)
38. Solar Wing Support Structure (3 Places)
39. ATM Outriggers (3 Places)
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Was driving home from downtown Huntsville this evening and just couldn't resist a sunset with Huntsville's Space and Rocket Center
This is the Saturn V rocket at Rocket Park, in Johnson Space Center.
The Saturn V (pronounced "Saturn Five") was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. In total, NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets with no loss of payload. It remains the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status from a height, weight and payload standpoint.
The Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the "Aggregate" series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A12 in Germany during World War II.
Versions of the Saturn V exist in three locations, but only the one at the Johnson Space Center's Rocket Park consists entirely of stages that were intended to be launched. It is made up of made up of first stage of SA-514, the second stage from SA-515 and the third stage from SA-513. With stages arriving between 1977 and 1979, this was displayed in the open until its 2005 restoration when a structure was built around it for protection.
[Adapted from Wikipedia.]
Apollo 49th Gala under the Saturn V Rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, commemorating the 49th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, in July of 1969. WIll be attending this year's 50th celebration as well.
Many Apollo, Shuttle (STS), other astronauts in attendance, along with team members from Virgin, Blue Origin, SpaceX.
At VIP table with Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham, directly beneath the Saturn V. Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission to carry humans to space, the first to follow the Apollo 1 tragedy (launch pad fire) that killed Grissom, White and Chaffee, and the first to test redesigned capsule. Took no small amount of courage. Walt is a great guy and hero.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Vintage 1966 sheet music for the song Spaceman’s Salute. Words and music by Henry Elder who was actually a NASA engineer. Looking to cash in on the Race for Space, Henry went and copyrighted the song in 1966. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
"As part of a physiological experiment, scientists planned to have the rhesus monkey press a telegraph key (under the right paw) when a light flashed. The rhesus monkeys initially trained for the mission, though, were born in India where the rhesus is sacred and are not used as experimental animals. To avoid diplomatic repercussions, the American-born Able was substituted, two weeks before the mission. As she did not have time to learn her drill, the experiment was cancelled."
Source: The Able experiment was a project of the US Army Medical Research and Development Command.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
I love Edu-Card games and have been looking for this set, reasonably priced, for ages. Found on Etsy. "Space Race Card Game," unabashedly biased, with "Sputnik" and "Friendly Satellite" cards, plus Pluto ('cause Pluto was a planet in those days). Copyright 1969.
I have a nice little collection of Space Race stuff--a small moon globe, some Viewmaster reels and some books.
High-pressure fuel turbo pump rotor from a space shuttle liquid-fuel rocket engine. According to the information displayed with this rotor, it turned at up to 36,000 RPM.
Infinity Science Center
Hancock County, Mississippi.
Infinity Science Center:
Stennis Space Center:
ARLINGTON, Va. (April 19, 2010) Capt. Kathryn Hire, an astronaut and Navy reserve component Sailor, presents items she took to space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, including a coin, a bumper sticker and flags, to Vice Adm. Dirk Debbink, Chief of Navy Reserve. Hire was a mission specialist for STS-130 and operated the robotic arm that installed the Tranquility node aboard the International Space Station. Hire is the commanding officer of the Office of Naval Research/Naval Research Lab unit 113 supporting projects at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, Calif. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jay Chu/Released)
August 25, 2012: RIP Neil Armstrong.
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Note: Originally posted July 20, 2009.
Was it really 40 years ago that Apollo 11 landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, and man first walked on the moon? I know I am not the only person asking myself that question today.
I was 17 and looking forward to beginning my senior year in high school. I had my own car, and had just purchased my first television set that I kept in my room (which was painted black and decorated with posters that glowed under black light). Life was good.
Most of my friends and I knew this date - July 20, 1969 - was one that we would always remember. After dinner that night, I borrowed my mom's Rolleiflex camera (which is sitting in front of me as I write this) so I could take pictures of the moonwalk off the television. I remember being tuned to CBS watching Walter Cronkite describe the landing of the lunar module earlier that afternoon, and talking about the historic event we were about to witness.
As the moment approached - which was just before 10 p.m. CDT, I turned off the lights in my bedroom and, holding the camera, took the five photographs seen here beginning with "Armstrong On Moon" and ending with President Nixon's very long distance phone call to Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The images are grainy and not very high contrast, but that's the way things were back then. I just feel fortunate to have been at an age where I could appreciate the importance of the moment, and to have these photos as a personal record of that very special day.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Rocketdyne F-1 liquid-fuel rocket engine, developed for the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo Program.
Data Sheet:
history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/documents/F-1_Engine.pdf
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmuc8kD08g
Also see:
heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-thrust-chamber.html
Infinity Science Center
Hancock County, Mississippi.
Infinity Science Center:
Stennis Space Center:
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured these images in Pretoria using an old HP flatbed scanner.
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
I love Edu-Card games and have been looking for this set, reasonably priced, for ages. Found on Etsy. "Space Race Card Game," unabashedly biased, with "Sputnik" and "Friendly Satellite" cards, plus Pluto ('cause Pluto was a planet in those days). Copyright 1969.
I have a nice little collection of Space Race stuff--a small moon globe, some Viewmaster reels and some books.
Apollo 49th Gala under the Saturn V Rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, commemorating the 49th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, in July of 1969. WIll be attending this year's 50th celebration as well.
Many Apollo, Shuttle (STS), other astronauts in attendance, along with team members from Virgin, Blue Origin, SpaceX.
At VIP table with Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham, directly beneath the Saturn V. Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission to carry humans to space, the first to follow the Apollo 1 tragedy (launch pad fire) that killed Grissom, White and Chaffee, and the first to test redesigned capsule. Took no small amount of courage. Walt is a great guy and hero.
HERE'S SOME CHANGE YOU CAN TAKE TO THE BANK...the end of American superiority in the space program, a program that President Reagan called "starwars" and a program that served us well. Have we reached the limits of our innovative research? Or let me put it another way, have we run out of ideas? Are our space engineers so inefficient that they can no longer use their education and creative genius to further our exploration of this subject? Have they told the leaders in charge to go ahead and scrap the program because they have no more ideas? Now, having been acquainted with one or two space engineers during the past fifty years, but more recently in the past five years, it is my opinion that they have not come to a dead end. They are not suffering anything akin to what creative novelists call a "writer's block." No, on the contrary, according to what I have heard, we are only just beginning to explore the vast frontiers of our capabilities of electronic defense and counter-electronic offense warfare systems. Not that we will ever need any more technical knowledge now that we have all in control. I am being satirical. If there was ever a time to continue searching for methods to keep our infrastructure safe from bogies at any hour on the clock, this is the time. Yet, we are cutting back. We are going to invest in methods for building a better windmill or a more absorbent solar panel to keep us warm while figuring out how to clean the smoke from coal burning stoves and furnaces. I am so thrilled that the sunsets will be more awe-inspiring; but that joy soon wans when I visualize tens of thousand of our Chinese friends working overtime in state laboratories and virtual programs concerned with creating mass outages of any foe's power structure. If we should be threatened, then, by any rogue nations who are building nuclear weapons that will rattle our windows and screw up our television viewing for purpose of putting our defensive radar programs out of service, we can call on the Chinese to protect us from the enemies of evil, those enemies who wear no uniforms but sneak around like demons in the shadow for the purpose of killing American babies of all colors, killing them dead in their cradles. Yes, these are the enemies who are not religious terrorists--there is no such being as a religious terrorist, no matter whose names they invoke as they fire at wounded men and women trying to get out of harms' way. Harm's way" They are seeking cover from the forces of demonic devil, pure and simple.
So, say good bye to our space programs, we will count on China to cover our back.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
A beautiful launch during a beautiful sunrise. It doesn't get much better than this! As seen from Tampa.
We Seven, by the Project Mercury astronauts*
Giant Cardinal/Pocket Books GC-785, 1963
Photo covers
*M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
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Piction ID: 83885391 Aldrin, Edwin E. Jr.--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
June 8th, 2007 the launch of the Space Shuttle on a mission to the International Space Station. These pictures were taken from the NASA causeway about six miles from the launchpad. This is the closest visible spot from which the public is allowed to view. The launch was at 7:30:04 PM. An unusual evening launch that had the sun lower in the western sky and made for a great setting for getting optimal pictures without worrying about a "high sun". I shot several pictures prior to launch, captured main engine start, liftoff and then I switched high speed mode and shot several hundred pictures of the shuttle as it climbed in the sky including a faint, but cleary visible solid rocket booster separation at an altitude of 28 miles.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1. They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963. These seven original American astronauts were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton. Alan Shepard was the second person and the first American to travel into space. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to travel into space.
The story of the macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program of the Mercury astronauts and the equally fearless approach of test pilot Chuck Yeager was the basis of a book by Tom Wolfe (1979) and a movie by Philip Kaufman (1983). Both are titled “The Right Stuff.” Here is a link to the movie trailer:
The amazing display of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle is displayed raised and tilted with the payload bay doors open and the robotic arm extended to provide a representation of how it appeared in space. I've seen the shuttle in many configurations, but what is striking about this exhibit is how large the spacecraft appears when you are looking at the underside of the vehicle.
Astronauts Gus Grissom, John Young, Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra, along with 30 + other military and aerospace personalities of the mid-1960s have signed the book.
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.