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This is the last time that NASA sends humans to the moon. You look Saturn-5 moon rocket that will make a fantastic show with this launch night. Currently, technicians are fuelling the tanks of the most powerful rocket in the world. The countdown continues ... We see now from Press-site view (3 miles), the launch pad with Apollo 17 and of several powerful searchlights. It is a vision that I'll remember all my life. We are witnessing a great historic event. Dan Beaumont. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont, Pierre-Paul Beaumont photo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
KSC INFO: Dr. K. Debus, KSC Director and Dr. V. Von Braun pose in front of a 365-foot-tall Apollo Saturn 5 facilities vehicle which is being moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building and will be transported to the launch complex. This test vehicle, designated the Apollo Saturn 500-f, will never make the journey to the moon, however. It is being used to verify launch facilities, train launch crews, and develop test and checkout procedures. The first flight vehicle is scheduled to arrive later this year. Following the procedures which will be used during preparation for the actual lunar launch, the 500-F was assembled on a mobile launcher in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. A 3,000 ton crawler will move under the mobile launcher, lifting the launcher and the assembled vehicle off its support pedestals. The combined weight of the launcher and space vehicle will be almost 6,000 tons. FOR REALEASE: May 25, 1966. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 66-HC-295, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976.
The first stage of the Europa II rocket with Rolls-Royce RZ-2 engines intended for launch F-14.
The Europa rocket was an early expendable launch system of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), which was the precursor to the European Space Agency (ESA). It was developed with the aim to delivering space access technology, and more specifically to facilitate the deployment of European-wide telecommunication and meteorological satellites into orbit.
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Transinne - Euro Space Center
Euro Space Center - a science museum and educational tourist attraction located in Transinne, Belgium. It is devoted to space science and astronautics. The centre includes simulators of space flight and micro-gravity, various space craft models and space exploration objects. It is also the home of the only full-scale mock-up of a U.S. Space Shuttle existing in Europe, named Amicitia.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_Space_Center.
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Richard Poppelaars
About Pixels Photography: #Europa2 #ELDO #spacerocket #EuroSpaceCenter #Transinne #BE
NASA INFO: Cape Canaveral, Pad 14. Launch of Mercury Capsule with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper. WIKIPEDIA INFO CUT: Cooper was launched into space on May 15, 1963, aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) spacecraft, the last Mercury mission. He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined—34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds—traveling 546,167 miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum of 7.6 g (74.48 m/s²). Cooper achieved an altitude of 165.9 statute miles (267 km) at apogee. He was the first American astronaut to sleep not only in orbit but on the launch pad during a countdown.[1]
"Spam in a can"[edit]
Like all Mercury flights, Faith 7 was designed for fully automatic control, a controversial engineering decision which in many ways reduced the role of an astronaut to that of a passenger, and prompted Chuck Yeager to describe Mercury astronauts as "Spam in a can".
Toward the end of the Faith 7 flight there were mission-threatening technical problems. During the 19th orbit, the capsule had a power failure. Carbon dioxide levels began rising, and the cabin temperature jumped to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38°C). Cooper fell back on his understanding of star patterns, took manual control of the tiny capsule and successfully estimated the correct pitch for re-entry into the atmosphere. Some precision was needed in the calculation, since if the capsule came in too steep, g-forces would be too large, and if its trajectory were too shallow, it would shoot out of the atmosphere again, back into space. Cooper drew lines on the capsule window to help him check his orientation before firing the re-entry rockets. "So I used my wrist watch for time," he later recalled, "my eyeballs out the window for attitude. Then I fired my retrorockets at the right time and landed right by the carrier."[5][6] Cooper's cool-headed performance and piloting skills led to a basic rethinking of design philosophy for later space missions. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, MA-9-77, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
Experimenting with the offset 4-way SNOT brick (what do you call those things?) technique. Neoclassic Space, of course, because this is me. I think I actually prefer this on its stand and flying horizontally rather than standing on its tail like a classic rocket.
LIFE photo, source Google/Life 2008 (Free). Saturn -5 rocket launch with apollo 11 spacecraft. Apollo 11 astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
WIKIPEDIA INFO: Mercury-Atlas 4 was an unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on September 13, 1961 at 14:09 UTC from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A Crewman Simulator instrument package was aboard. The craft orbited the Earth once. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, MA-4-10, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
KSC INFO: A modified Saturn 5 rocket, topped by the Skylab space station, lifted off at 1:30 p.m.EDT May 14, 1973, from the Kennedy Space Center's Complex 39a. Launched into Earth orbit, it will be visited by three astronaut crews during an eight-month period. For release: Filed: May 14, 1973. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 108-KSC-73PC-239, 73HC-439, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: Skylab News Center, May 15, 1973.
Kennedy Space Center: This is the pad 39a and the last Saturn 5 rocket with Skylab 1 space laboratory, which will take off tomorrow afternoon. I was 17, and I was extremely lucky, that NASA gives me access to all the facilities and the proximity of events. I was the youngest in the members of the accredited press.
NASA KSC-73PC-0010, Kennedy Space Center, January 9, 1973: Skylab 2 rollout to Pad 39b. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
NASA INFO: May 24, 1962, Cape Canaveral, "Moment of liftoff". Astronaut Malcom Scott Carpenter inside the Aurora 7 spacecraft atop the Atlas booster seconds after leaving Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral. Carpenter became the second American to orbit the earth and after three orbitslanded approximately 200 miles east of Puerto Rico where he was plucked from the ocean by long range Navy helicopters from the carrier USS Intrepid. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, MA-7-38 (62-MA7-94), US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976, www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
PA_1145 [50 points]
A space rocket in the 13ème arrondissement of Paris. Hard to capture in the afternoon due to very heavy backlight.
Other view:
PA_1145 (Zoom in, July 2015)
Date of invasion: 24/06/2015 (Source: Instagram, First seen on Flickr on 24/06/2015 by Tofz4u)
[ Visited PA_1145 for the first time 22 days after invasion ]
NASA INFO: FOR RELEASE: December 4, 1972. Kennedy Space Center,--The Apollo 17 prime astronaut crew observes pre-launch activity at Complex-39a while participating in emergency egress test. They are, left to right, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald E. Evans and Eugene A. Cernan. 4x5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 72-HC-872 , US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, ACQUISITION: NASA Apollo News center, Cocoa-beach, December 5, 1972. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
Arco No.5006 – Arco simply called this toy Space Rocket, even though it looks more like a heavy ground assault vehicle. It appeared to be a standalone item, not part of a series or intended to augment any other manufacturer’s toy line. It was certainly too small to work with the popular 3¾” action figures of the time. Its specialty was that it could, without batteries, light up, make a motor sound and race along the ground just by pushing it! 9⅜“ long, made in Hong Kong, 1979, $6.99.
Not sure I can remember each of the Rockets in the picture. If you know pse comment and I'll update the description
NASA KSC-73-PC-0017, Kennedy Space Center, January 11, 1973: Skylab - Mobile Service Structure move from parksite to LC 39b and mate to Skylab 2. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
LIFE photo, source Google/Life 2008 (Free). NASA INFO: Apollo 10 was launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Pad B, at a Range Zero time of 16:49:00 GMT (12:49:00 p.m. EDT) on 18 May 1969, and was the first piloted launch from this pad. The launch window extended to 21:09 GMT to take advantage of a sun elevation angle on the lunar surface of 11°.
Between 000:00:13.05 and 000:00:32.3, the vehicle rolled from a launch pad azimuth of 90° to a flight azimuth of 72.028°. The S-IC engine shut down at 000:02:41.63, followed by S-IC/S-II separation, and S-II engine ignition. The S-II engine shut down at 000:09:12.64 followed by separation from the S-IVB, which ignited at 000:09:16.81. The first S-IVB engine cutoff occurred at 000:11:43.76, with deviations from the planned trajectory of only -0.23 ft/sec in velocity and only -0.08 n mi in altitude.
The S-IC stage impacted the Atlantic Ocean at 000:08:59.12 at latitude 30.188° north and longitude 74.207° west, 348.80 n mi from the launch site. The S-II stage impacted the Atlantic Ocean at 000:20:17.89 at latitude 31.522° north and longitude 34.512° west, 2,389.29 n mi from the launch site.
The maximum wind conditions encountered during ascent were 82.6 knots at 270° from true north at 46,520 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0203 sec-1 at 50,200 feet.
Parking orbit conditions at insertion, 000:11:53.76 (S-IVB cutoff plus 10 seconds to account for engine tailoff and other transient effects), showed an apogee and perigee of 100.32 by 99.71 n mi, an inclination of 32.546°, a period of 88.20 minutes, and a velocity of 25,567.88 ft/sec. The apogee and perigee were based upon a spherical Earth with a radius of 3,443.934 n mi.
The international designation for the CSM upon achieving orbit was 1969-043A and the S-IVB was designated 1969-043B. After undocking at the Moon, the LM would be designated 1969-018C.
SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
KSC INFO: FOR RELEASE: February 6, 1968, Apollo 6 (A/S-502) the second unmanned space vehicle in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo/Saturn V program, leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building Feb. 6, 1968, for erection at Pad A of Complex 39. The 363 foot, three stage rocket and spacecraft, weighing 6,286,000 pounds when fueled, is being transported on the mobile launcher to the launch pad by the transporter. The transporter moves over the special constructed crawlerway designed to support loads of approximately 18 million pounds. The unmanned Earth orbital Apollo 6 mission will be a high apogee flight, with systems testing, several propulsion systems burns, and a heat shield testing lunar re-entry speeds. Launch is programmed for the first quater of 1968. 4x5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 68-HC-102, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
NASA Mercury Astronauts ( 1963 ) , Cape Canaveral, NASA PHOTO, S63-18853, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
In early 1959, 12 Soviet R-5M (SS-3 Shyster) Nuclear Missiles were stationed here, deep within a forest in former East Germany.
This is one of two Nuclear Warhead Storage Bunkers.
On Tour with Fotofreq and Mr Shadow!
best on black: hit "L"
NASA PHOTO: S-63-7633. NASA INFO: Cape Canaveral, Pad 14. Launch of Mercury Capsule with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper. WIKIPEDIA INFO CUT: Cooper was launched into space on May 15, 1963, aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) spacecraft, the last Mercury mission. He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined—34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds—traveling 546,167 miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum of 7.6 g (74.48 m/s²). Cooper achieved an altitude of 165.9 statute miles (267 km) at apogee. He was the first American astronaut to sleep not only in orbit but on the launch pad during a countdown.[1]
"Spam in a can"[edit]
Like all Mercury flights, Faith 7 was designed for fully automatic control, a controversial engineering decision which in many ways reduced the role of an astronaut to that of a passenger, and prompted Chuck Yeager to describe Mercury astronauts as "Spam in a can".
Toward the end of the Faith 7 flight there were mission-threatening technical problems. During the 19th orbit, the capsule had a power failure. Carbon dioxide levels began rising, and the cabin temperature jumped to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38°C). Cooper fell back on his understanding of star patterns, took manual control of the tiny capsule and successfully estimated the correct pitch for re-entry into the atmosphere. Some precision was needed in the calculation, since if the capsule came in too steep, g-forces would be too large, and if its trajectory were too shallow, it would shoot out of the atmosphere again, back into space. Cooper drew lines on the capsule window to help him check his orientation before firing the re-entry rockets. "So I used my wrist watch for time," he later recalled, "my eyeballs out the window for attitude. Then I fired my retrorockets at the right time and landed right by the carrier."[5][6] Cooper's cool-headed performance and piloting skills led to a basic rethinking of design philosophy for later space missions. NASA PHOTO, S-63-7633, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
The rocket garden is located inside the front entrance, beyond Heroes & Legends.It is an outdoor display of historic rockets that put Americans and satellites in space. Visitors can walk up to and around the base of the rockets. The Mercury-Redstone, Mercury-Atlas 6, and Titan II rockets launched astronauts and the Juno I, Juno II, Thor-Delta, and Atlas-Agena rockets launched satellites from Cape Canaveral. These are mounted upright whereas the largest rocket, a Saturn IB, is mounted on its side.The Juno I on display is painted with serial number "UE" like the one that launched the first US satellite, Explorer I
The first stage of the Europa II rocket with Rolls-Royce RZ-2 engines intended for launch F-14.
The Europa rocket was an early expendable launch system of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), which was the precursor to the European Space Agency (ESA). It was developed with the aim to delivering space access technology, and more specifically to facilitate the deployment of European-wide telecommunication and meteorological satellites into orbit.
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Transinne - Euro Space Center
Euro Space Center - a science museum and educational tourist attraction located in Transinne, Belgium. It is devoted to space science and astronautics. The centre includes simulators of space flight and micro-gravity, various space craft models and space exploration objects. It is also the home of the only full-scale mock-up of a U.S. Space Shuttle existing in Europe, named Amicitia.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_Space_Center.
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Richard Poppelaars
About Pixels Photography: #Europa2 #ELDO #spacerocket #EuroSpaceCenter #Transinne #BE
Experimenting with the offset 4-way SNOT brick (what do you call those things?) technique. Neoclassic Space, of course, because this is me. I think I actually prefer this on its stand and flying horizontally rather than standing on its tail like a classic rocket.
Ralph Morse photo for LIFE. AP INFO: Cape Canaveral, March 5. OFF AND ROARING, The Jupiter-C rocket, a second U.S. satellite in its spinning nose cone pours out flame from its first stage engine as it heads for outer space from its launch pad at the missile test center here today. WIKIPEDIA INFO: Explorer 2 (EXPLR2) was to be a repeat of the Explorer 1 mission. However, due to a failure in the rocket during launch, the spacecraft did not reach orbit.
Explorer 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station LC-26A in Florida on March 5, 1958 at 18:28 UTC, by a Jupiter-C launch vehicle.[2] The Jupiter-C had its origins in the United States Army's Project Orbiter in 1954. The project was canceled in 1955, when the decision was made to proceed with Project Vanguard.
Following the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) was directed to proceed with the launching of a satellite using the Jupiter-C, which had already been flight-tested in nose-cone re-entry tests for the Jupiter IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missile). Working closely together, ABMA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) completed the job of modifying the Jupiter-C and building Explorer 1 in 84 days. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
NASA 73-H-406, Kennedy Space Center, May 7, 1973: Deliberate double exposure of rockets, actually 11/2 miles apart, compares Skylab 1 and Skylab 2 space vehicles on their pads at the launch center. Skylab 1, at right on Pad 39a, is the modified Saturn 5 rocket scheduled to lift the nation's first space station into earth orbit on May 14. Skylab 2, left, on Pad 39b, will lift astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, and Paul Weitz to their rendezvous and dock with the space station May 15. Mission calls for 28 days of working and experimentation in the space station. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , Acquisition: NASA Skylab News Center, Cape Canaveral city, May 12, 1973. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
Strobist Info: Adapted Clam Shell Style With 42" Softbox Below Model With YN560 @ 1/32 Power, 32" Shoot Thru Umbrella Above Model With Nissin 360tw @ 1/4 Power, And Nissin 360 @ 1/2 Power, Left Of Model For Hairlight/Rimlight With 1/4 CTO Gel. Triggered With RF602's.
Huntsville U. S. Space & Rocket Center - Past, present and future of space exploration. Demonstrations, hands-on exhibits, IMAX movie. Space Camp Training Center. Take a pine-tingling trip on the Space Shot.
Strobist Info: Adapted Clam Shell Style With 42" Softbox Below Model With YN560 @ 1/32 Power, 32" Shoot Thru Umbrella Above Model With Nissin 360tw @ 1/4 Power, And Nissin 360 @ 1/2 Power, Left Of Model For Hairlight/Rimlight With 1/4 CTO Gel. Triggered With RF602's.
This is Catch Photo #22, a new game of Photo Catch I'm playing with my Partner Darek (aka blankspace321) . We each take turns adding something to the photo. We limit ourselves to 20 additions each. This is the 16th of my 20.
To see the original photo: CLICK HERE!
To see D & J Photo Catch folder (1-20) CLICK HERE!
Strobist Info: Adapted Clam Shell Style With 42" Softbox Below Model With YN560 @ 1/32 Power, 32" Shoot Thru Umbrella Above Model With Nissin 360tw @ 1/4 Power, And Nissin 360 @ 1/2 Power, Left Of Model For Hairlight/Rimlight With 1/4 CTO Gel. Triggered With RF602's.
Arco No.5006 – Arco simply called this toy Space Rocket, even though it looks more like a heavy ground assault vehicle. It appeared to be a standalone item, not part of a series or intended to augment any other manufacturer’s toy line. It was certainly too small to work with the popular 3¾” action figures of the time. Its specialty was that it could, without batteries, light up, make a motor sound and race along the ground just by pushing it! 9⅜“ long, made in Hong Kong, 1979, $6.99.
Figures: With little else than the clear window to give it any sense of scale, I zeroed in on 1/48 scale (1½” figures). Maintenance crew figures from various Lindberg, Monogram and Hasegawa model kits. The robot is a Kinder candy egg premium from around 2008.
Strobist Info: Adapted Clam Shell Style With 42" Softbox Below Model With YN560 @ 1/32 Power, 32" Shoot Thru Umbrella Above Model With Nissin 360tw @ 1/4 Power, And Nissin 360 @ 1/2 Power, Left Of Model For Hairlight/Rimlight With 1/4 CTO Gel. Triggered With RF602's.
The joy of doing all 365 days of the year is that you get to do your own birthday!
Another year on the clock, but no matter how big that number gets you are never EVER too old for birthday cake with candles on. :)
Kudos to Laura for the loan of the camera, but I dd take the shot. After a relight of course - I couldn't keep everyone waiting before I blew the candles out. ;)
A lovely day, and thanks to everyone for your kind wishes.
This is Catch Photo #22, a new game of Photo Catch I'm playing with my Partner Darek (aka blankspace321) . We each take turns adding something to the photo. We limit ourselves to 20 additions each. This is the 17th of my 20.
To see the original photo: CLICK HERE!
To see D & J Photo Catch folder (1-20) CLICK HERE!
Strobist Info: Adapted Clam Shell Style With 42" Softbox Below Model With YN560 @ 1/32 Power, 32" Shoot Thru Umbrella Above Model With Nissin 360tw @ 1/4 Power, And Nissin 360 @ 1/2 Power, Left Of Model For Hairlight/Rimlight With 1/4 CTO Gel. Triggered With RF602's.
This is Catch Photo #22, a game of Photo Catch I'm playing with my Partner Darek (aka blankspace321) . We each take turns adding something to the photo. We limit ourselves to 20 additions each. This is the last of my 20. After Darek adds his 20th one he will start Catch Photo #23.
To see the original photo: CLICK HERE!
To see D & J Photo Catch folder (1-20) CLICK HERE!
half finished illustration for Pulse Today, Doctor Weavings diary.
Doctor weaving has a visit to number 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State.
Dr Peter Weaving is a GP and locality lead in Cumbria.
Because of Doctor Weavings commissioning success, he and his consortium have been tasked with putting the reforms that the government has asked for into practice. The way ahead look s difficult and troubled, somewhat like a mountain pass!.
I used the title of the piece "pathfinder lift off" as a starting point and used the fells of cumbria for the metaphorical path, I used the view from Great Moss up to scarfell pike and put the Number ten door at the foot of the fells!
© Daniel Mackie