Tag: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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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Happy 60th!

2018/07/29 by terranovabay

The National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law by President Eisenhower on 29 July 1958, which established the goals for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space; The improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and space vehicles; The development and operation of vehicles capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies, and living organisms through space; The establishment of long-range studies of the […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: EMU, International Space Station, ISS, Manned Maneuvering Unit, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, President Eisenhower, Soviet Union, Space Shuttle

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Heroes and Legends: The Exhibit

2016/11/16 by terranovabay

The new Heroes and Legends exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC) melds the old U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, which originally was its own facility six miles to the west of KSCVC, with the history of early spaceflight exhibit that used to be onsite at the Visitor Complex. The new exhibit displays artifacts from the Mercury and Gemini programs along with pop culture visions of spaceflight side-by-side with dramatic, high tech 3-D simulations of early space flight […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Alan Shepard, Astronaut Hall of Fame, Bob Crippen, Boeing, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Frank Borman, Gemini, Gemini 9A, Gene Cernan, George Takei, Gerald Carr, Gus Grissom, Heroes and Legends, John Glenn, Kennedy Space Center, Lost in Space, Mercury Control, Mercury Program, Mercury Seven, Mercury-Atlas, Mercury-Redstone, Michael Collins, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Rocket Garden, Sigma 7, Star Trek, Tom Stafford, Wally Shirra

OSIRIS-REx launches to Asteroid Bennu

2016/09/11 by terranovabay

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 configuration rocket launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission for NASA at 7:05 p.m. on 8 September 2016 from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will rendezvous with the Asteroid Bennu, study it for two years from orbit, before descending down to the surface to collect samples that will be returned to Earth for analysis. Click to view the OSIRIS-REx launch […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Asteroid, Atlas V, Bennu, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Origins, OSIRIS-REx, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, SLC 41, Space Launch Complex 41, Spectral Interpretation, United Launch Alliance

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Plummeting faster than the speed of sound

2016/07/18 by terranovabay

SpaceX launched the ninth of its commercial resupply missions for NASA to the International Space Station on 18 July 2016 at 12:45 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Besides getting the Dragon spacecraft successfully off into orbit, the first stage booster was successfully flown back to a safe touchdown on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral. These images show the entry burn as the engines fire to slow the booster as it falls from a high altitude while traveling […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Commercial Resupply, Dragon spacecraft, Falcon 9, Falcon 9 rocket, first stage, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SLC 40, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX

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Mercury Transit 2016

2016/05/09 by terranovabay

As seen from Florida — it is all about perspective after all — the planet Mercury could be seen moving across the face of the Sun on 9 May 2016. Florida was lucky enough to be positioned to see the entire event, which lasted for more than seven hours. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, having the shortest “year” of all the planets in the Solar System. Other interesting info from NASA states “Mercury’s day is 176 Earth […]

Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: greenhouse effect, Mercury, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, planet, Sun, transit, Venus

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National Astronaut Day

2016/05/05 by terranovabay

May 5, 2016 has been selected as National Astronaut Day and today is the first annual observance. The day coincides with NASA astronaut Alan Shepard’s historic suborbital flight aboard Mercury-Redstone 3 on May 5, 1961. Riding inside the Freedom 7 Mercury space capsule, Shepard’s quick jaunt took him 116-miles into space before splashing down a little over 300 miles from Cape Canaveral fifteen minutes after launch. A small step heralding bigger things to come. Pictured is John Glenn’s spacesuit on […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Alan Shepard, astronaut, Freedom 7, John Glenn, Mercury, Mercury Program, Mercury-Redstone rocket, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Air and Space Museum, National Astronaut Day, Project Mercury

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Back from the edge of space

2016/04/16 by terranovabay

The SpaceX autonomous droneship “Of Course I Still Love You” arrived back at Port Canaveral on 12 April 2016 at 2:00 a.m. with the history making Falcon 9 first stage that successfully landed on the barge out in the Atlantic Ocean after launching on 8 April 2016 to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The first stage followed up on its predecessor in December 2015 that successfully landed on land at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SpaceX is aiming […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Commercial Resupply, CRS-8, Dragon, Dragon spacecraft, droneship, Exploration Tower, Falcon 9, Falcon 9 rocket, first stage, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., SpaceX

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Mice In Space

2016/04/09 by terranovabay

SpaceX’s eighth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station (ISS) launched almost 7,000 pounds of science and research –including twenty mice, crew supplies and vehicle hardware aboard a Dragon spacecraft to the orbital laboratory and its crew on 8 April 2016 at 4:43 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. View more photos of the launch, which was pretty spectacular.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Commercial Resupply, CRS-8, Dragon, Dragon spacecraft, Falcon 9, Falcon 9 rocket, International Space Station, ISS, mice, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SLC 40, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX

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Space Age Vulture

2016/04/03 by terranovabay

Black Vultures enjoy the morning atop light poles lining the Crawlerway at Kennedy Space Center. A view of one of the Crawler-Transporters with a Shuttle-era Mobile Launcher Platform upon its back waits patiently in the storage yard to be of use again one day. All these photos were taken from the Launch Complex 39 Observation Gantry, which put one at Vulture-level on the lights. The Crawlerway turns toward the distant Launch Complex 39B. A former Apollo-Saturn and Space Shuttle launch […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus, Crawler, Crawler-Transporter, Crawlerway, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Launch Complex 39 Observation Gantry, Launch Complex 39B, LC39B, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SLS, Space Launch System

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