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The Space Shuttle Atlantis on display at the John F. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near Titusville, Florida. Atlantis conducted 33 launches and completed 4,848 orbits of the Earth.
Vega (α Lyr, α Lyrae, Alpha Lyrae) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. It is a relatively close star at only 25 light-years from Earth, and, together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the most luminous stars in the Sun's neighborhood.
Vega has been extensively studied by astronomers, leading it to be termed "arguably the next most important star in the sky after the Sun. Vega was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and will be so again around the year 13,727 when the declination will be +86°14'. Vega was the first star other than the Sun to be photographed and the first to have its spectrum recorded. It was one of the first stars whose distance was estimated through parallax measurements. Vega has served as the baseline for calibrating the photometric brightness scale, and was one of the stars used to define the mean values for the UBV photometric system.
Vega is only about a tenth of the age of the Sun, but since it is 2.1 times as massive its expected lifetime is also one tenth of that of the Sun; both stars are at present approaching the midpoint of their life expectancies. Vega has an unusually low abundance of the elements with a higher atomic number than that of helium. Vega is also a suspected variable star that may vary slightly in magnitude in a periodic manner. It is rotating rapidly with a velocity of 274 km/s at the equator. This is causing the equator to bulge outward because of centrifugal effects, and, as a result, there is a variation of temperature across the star's photosphere that reaches a maximum at the poles. From Earth, Vega is being observed from the direction of one of these poles.
Based on an observed excess emission of infrared radiation, Vega appears to have a circumstellar disk of dust. This dust is likely to be the result of collisions between objects in an orbiting debris disk, which is analogous to the Kuiper belt in the Solar System.Stars that display an infrared excess because of dust emission are termed Vega-like stars.
Catalog #: 08_00893
Title: Space Shuttle Program
Date: 1981-2010
Additional Information: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Space servbot is ready for duty Mrs. Torn. Poorly made in gimp.
made for this group www.facebook.com/GetMeOffTheMoon
It's too bad we never got to see these tanks in action.
Here's my composition showing the ground tank battling incoming Hawks. If you look closely, I even placed a driver inside the tank via photoshop. Used a shot of a Major Matt Mason figure.
SPACE - Amanda's completed collage for her good friend Ali who loves all things sea ships and space.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour made a pit stop in Fort Worth, Texas and spent the night at the NAS Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base on its journey from California to Florida.
This shot won me a 1st place ribbon at the State Fair of Texas 2009!
Picture Of The Space Shuttle Enterprise Sitting On A Barge In The Middle Of The Hudson River In New York City Before Being Loaded Onto The Flight Deck Of The USS Intrepid. Photo taken Wednesday June 6, 2012.
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With Smoking Tongue and Late City Edition - Live review can be read on www.giggingni.com - Photos by Robert J E Simpson
Pressure Suit, A7-LB, Irwin, Apollo 15
On July 26, 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 launched from pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center on the 7th mission to the moon. The command module "America" docked with the lunar module "Challenger" for the final journey to the lunar surface, where it landed in the deep Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Sea of Serenity, just 300 ft from the target landing sight. It was the fourth lunar landing.
The spacesuit worn by astronaut Jim Irwin on the lunar surface was designed to provide a life-sustaining environment during periods of extra vehicular activity or during unpressurized spacecraft operation. It permitted maximum mobility and was designed to be worn with relative comfort for up to 115 hours in conjunction with the liquid cooling garment. It was also capable of being worn for 14 days in an unpressurized mode.
To ensure the maximum mobility and comfort for the astronaut, the suits were custom fitted. The astronaut entered from the rear, through the pressure sealing slide fastener opening. Two zippers - one acting as a restraint and the other that is the pressure-sealing zipper, run from the upper front of the chest around the waist to the lower chest - were used to close the suit. Convoluted joint sections of rubber were located in the shoulders, elbows, knees, hips and ankles. This enabled relatively easy movement while the suit was pressurized. From the inside out, the suit was constructed of a nylon comfort layer, a neoprene-coated nylon pressure bladder and nylon restraint layer. The outer layers of the spacesuit consisted of Nomex and Teflon-coated Beta cloth, followed by two layers of neoprene-coated nylon, layers of Beta/Kapton spacer laminate, and an outer layer of Teflon-coated Beta cloth. During the EVA periods, a liquid-cooling garment was worn closest to the skin, replacing the constant-wear garment worn while in the spacecraft.
The pressure helmet was a transparent bubble designed to attach to the spacesuit neck ring. It was constructed of a transparent polycarbonate shell with a red anodized aluminum neck ring, a feed port, a vent pad at the rear through which oxygen passed into the helmet. A valsalva device was attached to the inner part of the neck-ring - this was so the astronauts could 'pop' their ears during launch if needed - they could also use it to scratch their noses.
The A7-LB Lunar Extravehicular Visor Assembly consisted of a polycarbonate shell onto which the beta-cloth cover, visors, hinges, eyeshades and latch are attached. It consists of two visors, one covered with a thermal control coating (UV) and the other with a gold optical coating. It had one center and two side sunshields which could be raised and lowered independently of the other two visors. This visor was worn over the pressure helmet and fastened with a latch during EVA periods, and provided impact, micrometeoroid, thermal, ultraviolet and infrared light protection.
The Extravehicular gloves were built of an outer shell of Chromel-R fabric and thermal insulation to provide protection when handling extremely hot and cold objects. The blue fingertips were made of silicone rubber to provide more sensitivity. They were attached to the spacesuit with the same locking mechanism as the intra-vehicular gloves.
The Intra-vehicular gloves were made with a bladder, dip molded from a hand cast of the individual's hand. The interior had an inner restraint core of nylon tricot, which had been dipped in a neoprene compound. A convoluted section was incorporated into the wrist, with anodized aluminum connectors for attachment to the spacesuit. A fingerless glove restraint was attached to the bladder at the wrist and enclosed the entire hand excluding the fingers and thumb.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
Space texture created using the soon-to-be-closed Picnik website
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SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
Title: JFK Space Center
Catalog #: 08_01599
Additional Information: Aerials
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
I needed to be at a work site today doing a Caracara (a threatened raptor) survey that always begins 30-minutes before sunrise. I was about 70 miles away from Cape Canaveral and knowing that the shuttle was launching this morning, I got there a few minutes early. I didn't get there in time to photograph the shuttle itself (although I saw it!), but I got to photograph the contrails it left later. As the sun rose, the sun rays on the contrails made for a cool effect. I'll post several of the shots I got over the next few days. The little puff of a cloud at the top of the photo is where the booster rockets separated from the shuttle.
The Soleil module is a workhorse, offering tactical flexibility without any true specialization. The majority of the PAC/EUROCOM space force consists of Soleil Pattern Nimbuses.