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Space Shuttle Coda Replay

2019/05/21 by terranovabay

Originally posted on Range Tracking:
http://youtu.be/Zl3ccXHLIfs My video homage to the end of the Space Shuttle Program using audio taken from the last flights of Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis in addition to images I’ve taken of those flights and from various Kennedy Space Center Up-Close tours and other events to get near these incredible vehicles during their preparation and move into retirement.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center Up-Close, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Program, Up-Close

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Endeavour Flashback Friday

2019/05/10 by terranovabay

The Orbiter Endeavour streaks to a landing behind telephone poles, a palm tree, and a metal tower for a landing at Kennedy Space Center ending the STS-127 construction mission to the International Space Station on 31 July 2009.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Endeavour, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space Shuttle, STS-127

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Dawn Vulture

2019/04/30 by terranovabay

A Black Vulture in the early morning light at Kennedy Space Center.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus, Kennedy Space Center

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Rocket Railroad

2019/04/23 by terranovabay

A relic of the old railroad running right up along the beach to Launch Pads 39A & B dates back to the Apollo days at Kennedy Space Center when the 20th Century journey to the Moon got an assist from a 19th Century innovation.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Apollo Program, Kennedy Space Center, Moon, railroad

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Disappointed Crowd

2019/04/16 by terranovabay

A line of people wend their way through Kennedy Space Center’s Saturn V Center to the busses after the Arabsat-6A launch attempt scrub on 10 April 2019. That is an Apollo Saturn V rocket lying on its side overhead with Snoopy and a mockup of an Apollo lunar rover in the foreground.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Apollo, Arabsat-6A, Kennedy Space Center, Lunar Rover, Saturn V Center, Snoopy

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Arabsat-6A

2019/04/15 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched Arabsat-6A into orbit at 6:35 p.m. on 11 April 2019 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Click to view my gallery of selected images from the launch.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Arabsat-6A, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX

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WGS-10 Wildlife: Great Blue Heron

2019/03/20 by terranovabay

A Great Blue Heron forages in the golden light of sunset photographed while waiting for the launch of WGS-10. The undeveloped areas of Kennedy Space Center and the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are managed as a wildlife refuge.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Ardea herodias, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Great Blue Heron, Kennedy Space Center, WGS-10

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WGS-10 Wildlife: Turkey Vulture

2019/03/19 by terranovabay

A Turkey Vulture soars overhead in the golden light of sunset photographed while waiting for the launch of WGS-10. The undeveloped areas of Kennedy Space Center and the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are managed as a wildlife refuge.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cathartes aura, Kennedy Space Center, Turkey Vulture, WGS-10

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Crew Dragon Demo-1

2019/03/04 by terranovabay

SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon Demo-1 mission at 2:49 a.m. on 2 March 2019 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Click for more information and to view the launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Commercial Crew Program, Crew Dragon, Demo-1, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, LC-39A, NASA, SpaceX

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LC-39A Update

2018/12/21 by terranovabay

Views of Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center taken on 18 December 2018. SpaceX is currently in the midst of a twenty year lease on LC-39A, the historic pad from the Apollo and Space Shuttle eras now refurbished to launch Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. Also launching from this pad soon, astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft that will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The white arm sticking out to the right is the Crew Access Arm […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Crew Dragon, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Launch Complex 39A, LC-39A, SpaceX

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Tag: Kennedy Space Center

Space Shuttle Coda Replay

Endeavour Flashback Friday

Dawn Vulture

Rocket Railroad

Disappointed Crowd

Arabsat-6A

WGS-10 Wildlife: Great Blue Heron

WGS-10 Wildlife: Turkey Vulture

Crew Dragon Demo-1

LC-39A Update

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