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NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams and JAXA Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide Tags: nasa   goddard   jaxa   greenbeltmd   astrounaut    NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide of expeditions 32/33 visited NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md on Monday, March 18, 2013. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Pat Izzo NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in a Suspected Binary Protostar Tags: nasa   hubble   hst   spaceic348lrll54361    This infrared image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows an image of protostellar object LRLL 54361 and its rich cosmic neighbourhood, a region called IC 348. The protostar, which is the bright object with fan-like beams of light coming from it, located towards the right of the image, is letting off flashes of light every 25.3 days. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Muzerolle (STScI) To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/protostar-flash... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 3 months ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite Tags: satellite   nasa   rocket   launch   ula   atlasv   capecanaveralairforcestation   nasasatellite   tdrsk    NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K, aboard an Atlas V rocket, was rolled to its launch position, Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station beginning at 10 a.m. January 29. TDRS-K will augment NASA’s space communications network, providing high data-rate communications to the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, launch vehicles and a host of other spacecraft. “With this launch, NASA has begun the replenishment of our aging space network,” said Jeffrey Gramling, TDRS project manager. “This addition to our current fleet of seven, will provide even greater capabilities to a network that has become key to enabling many of NASA’s scientific discoveries.” The TDRS Project Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the TDRS development program. ---- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. "TDRS-K bolsters our network of satellites that provides essential communications to support space exploration," said Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for Space Communications and Navigation at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "It will improve the overall health and longevity of our system." The TDRS system provides tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include the International Space Station and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. "With this launch, NASA has begun the replenishment of our aging space network," said Jeffrey Gramling, TDRS project manager. "This addition to our current fleet of seven will provide even greater capabilities to a network that has become key to enabling many of NASA's scientific discoveries." TDRS-K was lifted into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41. After a three-month test phase, NASA will accept the spacecraft for additional evaluation before putting the satellite into service. The TDRS-K spacecraft includes several modifications from older satellites in the TDRS system, including redesigned telecommunications payload electronics and a high-performance solar panel designed for more spacecraft power to meet growing S-band requirements. Another significant design change, the return to ground-based processing of data, will allow the system to service more customers with evolving communication requirements. The next TDRS spacecraft, TDRS-L, is scheduled for launch in 2014. TDRS-M's manufacturing process will be completed in 2015. NASA's Space Communications and Navigation Program, part of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at the agency's Headquarters in Washington, is responsible for the space network. The TDRS Project Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the TDRS development program. Launch services were provided by United Launch Alliance. NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center was responsible for acquisition of launch services. For more information about TDRS, visit: www.nasa.gov/tdrs NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on <a href="http:/ Recent Updated: 3 months ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft Tags: nasa   crusader   vought   f8u   tf8a    A Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing in place of the conventional wing. The unique design of the Supercritical Wing (SCW) reduces the effect of shock waves on the upper surface near Mach 1, which in turn reduces drag. The F-8 Supercritical Wing (SCW) project flew from 1970 to 1973. Dryden engineer John McTigue was the first SCW program manager and Tom McMurtry was the lead project pilot. The first SCW flight took place on 9 March 1971. The last flight of the Supercritical wing was on 23 May 1973, with Ron Gerdes at the controls. Original wingspan of the F-8 was 35 feet, 2 inches while the wingspan with the supercritical wing was 43 feet, 1 inch. F-8 aircraft were powered by Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engines. The TF-8A Crusader was made available to the NASA Flight Research Center by the U.S. Navy. F-8 jet aircraft were built, originally, by LTV Aerospace, Dallas, Texas. Rockwell International’s North American Aircraft Division received a $1.8 million contract to fabricate the supercritical wing, which was delivered to NASA in December 1969. Recent Updated: 7 months ago - Created by tormentor4555 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - tormentor4555 NASA's Global Hawk Flies Over Tropical Storm Nadine Tags: nasa   globalhawk   tropicalstormnadine    NASA's Global Hawk flew over Tropical Storm Nadine on Sept. 26, 2012 at 3 p.m. EDT and captured this photo from the camera located in the belly if the aircraft as it flew over the northern edge of the storm. Credit: NASA NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 7 months ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA AMES Research Centre Tags: centre   nasa   research   ames   sfendeavour2012    NASA AMES Research Centre Recent Updated: 8 months ago - Created by Amitrajit Chatterjee - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Amitrajit Chatterjee Team NASA Social Tags: nasa   shuttle   endeavour   dreyden   nasasocial    NASA Photograph Recent Updated: 8 months ago - Created by Telstar Logistics - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Telstar Logistics NASA Sees New Salt in an Ancient Sea Tags: nasa   deadsea    The expansion of massive salt evaporation projects on the Dead Sea are clearly visible in this time series of images taken by Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. This false-color image was captured by the Landsat 1, 4 & 7 satellites. Jutting out into the sea from the right in all three images is the Lisan Peninsula. In 1989, the expansion of pools to harvest salt resulted in that white-colored peninsula cutting the sea in half and forming a land bridge across the sea. The intensity of the blue colors within the sea shows the depth of the water. Deep water in the north part of the sea is dark blue. Lighter colored blue is where the water is channeled into pools for harvesting salt. The straight white lines are dams built to break up the sea into 'fields' of salty water. Over time, these salt evaporation projects sliced the Dead Sea into more and more of these pools. In 2011 the deeper-looking water in the southern part of the sea is due to weekly variations in the amount of water filling the pools, ongoing changes that depend on the current stage of salt harvesting. On land, the pale pink and sand-colored regions are desert with denser vegetation appearing bright red. The Dead Sea is so named because its natural salinity discourages the growth of fish, plants and other wildlife. The sea exists because the land has been sinking for millennia due to the continents of Africa and Asia pulling away from each other. This depression makes the lake the lowest surface feature on Earth at about 1,300 feet (nearly 400 meters) below sea level. On a hot dry summer day, the surface of the Dead Sea can drop as much as one inch (two to three centimeters) because of evaporation. The sea has attracted visitors for thousands of years. Between 1947 and 1956, a series of 972 ancient texts were discovered in caverns near the sea's northeastern shore. These Dead Sea Scrolls were written on papyrus and paper and contained details from the Hebrew Bible and other biblical documents. The ancient Egyptians also used salts from the Dead Sea for mummification, fertilizers and potash (a potassium-based salt). In the modern age, the sodium chloride and potassium salts culled from the sea are also used in part for water conditioning, road de-icing and by the chemical industry for the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. The Landsat 1, 4 and 7 satellites captured this false-color image using light from near-infrared, red and green wavelengths (MSS bands 4, 2, & 1 and TM and ETM+ bands 4, 3, & 2 respectively). Landsat 1 launched in 1972 and provided scientific data until 1978. In 1982 NASA launched Landsat 4, which ran for 11 years until 1993. Landsat 7 is still up and running; it was launched in 1999. The data from these and other Landsat satellites has been instrumental in increasing our understanding of forest health, storm damage, agricultural trends, urban growth, and many other ongoing changes to our land. NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet. The next Landsat satellite, now known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) and later to be called Landsat 8, is scheduled for launch in January 2013. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat Related Links NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission www.NASA.gov/Landsat USGS's Landsat website Landsat.USGS.gov NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA ATREX Rockets Brick, NJ Tags: space   nasa   rockets   atrex    NASA ATREX Rockets Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by Bill Striffler - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Bill Striffler NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA ATREX Mission Tags: nasa   rocket   troposphere   wallops   atrex    The result of the NASA Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) -- five rockets launched in five minutes from the NASA facility at Wallops Island, VA. The sounding rockets placed a chemical dye into the Earth's upper atmosphere (called the troposphere, about 60-65 miles above sea level) to photograph the movement of high altitude winds. Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by threewiremedia - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - threewiremedia NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA ATREX Mission Tags: nasa   atrex    The result of the NASA Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) -- five rockets launched in five minutes from the NASA facility at Wallops Island, VA. The sounding rockets placed a chemical dye into the Earth's upper atmosphere (called the troposphere, about 60-65 miles above sea level) to photograph the movement of high altitude winds. Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by threewiremedia - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - threewiremedia NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Launches Five Rockets in Five Minutes Tags: nasa   soundingrocket   atrex   wallapos    NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: NASA/Wallops To watch a video of the launch and to read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Sees More Severe Weather Over Eastern Texas, Oklahoma Tags: weather   nasa    The AIRS instrument onboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image that showed cloud top temperatures in the severe frontal system over Texas and Oklahoma on March 20 at 0753 UTC 34:53 a.m. EST). The strongest thunderstorms, heaviest rainfall and coldest cloud top temperatures (around 220 Kelvin/ -63.6 F/-53.1 C) appear in purple. Credit: NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen A low pressure area is centered over eastern Oklahoma, and its associated cold front drapes south into eastern Texas. The front is stalled over eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma and is generating severe weather today. NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES-13 satellite have been providing infrared, visible and microwave images to forecasters of the stalled frontal system. On March 20, a flood warning was in effect up and down the eastern sides of Texas and Oklahoma, including Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. The National Weather Service posted a flood warning for the double cities because of heavy rainfall over the last 36 hours. More isolated thunderstorms are expected to develop late afternoon and evening, generating more heavy rainfall, lightning and small hail. When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the low pressure area on March 20 at 0753 UTC 34:53 a.m. EST), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument onboard captured an infrared image that showed cloud top temperatures in the frontal system. The strongest thunderstorms, heaviest rainfall and coldest cloud top temperatures (around 220 Kelvin/ -63.6 F/-53.1 C) appeared as a giant wedge over the region. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. uses data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) GOES-13 satellite's and creates images and animations. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured a visible image of the clouds associated with the stalled front over eastern Texas and Oklahoma on March 20, 2012 at 1731 UTC (1:31 p.m. EDT). Ironically, the clouds look almost like a giant funnel. Rob Gutro NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Training Pool Composite Tags: nasa   tokina   d90   1116    NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. This is a three shot composite of the Astronaut training pool. The International Space Station module is in the over six million gallon pool (23.5 million liters). Two Astronauts are going through a briefing before training starts (offices at top right). Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by goten1969 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - goten1969 NASA's Swift Narrows Down Origin of Important Supernova Class Tags: nasa   typeiasupernovae    NASA image release March 20, 2012 Studies using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA's Swift satellite provide new insights into the elusive origins of an important class of exploding star called Type Ia supernovae. Three types of systems, illustrated here, may host Type Ia supernovae. The first two panels depict a white dwarf in a binary system accumulating matter transferred from a red supergiant companion many times the sun's mass (left) or similar to the sun (middle). The transferred matter is thought to accumulate on the white dwarf and ultimately cause it to explode. Swift data on dozens of supernovae essentially eliminate the first model. Mounting evidence suggests that some Type Ia supernovae occur when binary white dwarfs (right) merge and collide. Credit: NASA/Swift/ Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State Univ. To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/supernova-narrowi... NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video Eastern Two-Thirds of U.S. at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 01/29/12) Tags: atlanta   gulfofmexico   mobile   mississippi   georgia   birmingham   louisiana   unitedstates   florida   huntsville   charlotte   memphis   tennessee   neworleans   alabama   southcarolina   northcarolina   nasa   jacksonville   montgomery   savannah   biloxi   pensacola   atlanticcoast   internationalspacestation   pascagoula   earthatnight   crewearthobservation   spacestationresearch    This north-looking nighttime panorama of much of the land mass of the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous United States was photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station as it was moving over the Gulf of Mexico on Jan. 29, 2012. In this series, the 24-mm images cover the area from the Atlantic Coast (right) to the eastern edge of the southwestern states and the western Gulf of Mexico. Most of the Florida peninsula is easily recognizable at right edge. The lights of dozens of large metropolitan areas are visible. Image credit: NASA Original image: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-30/html/... More about space station research: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html There's a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/ View more than 400 photos like this in the "NASA Earth Images" Flickr photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/ _____________________________________________ These official NASA photographs are being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photographs. The photographs may not be used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement by NASA. All Images used must be credited. For information on usage rights please visit: www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelin... Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Nasa - 5cinco Tags: nasa   unhas   esmaltes   nacarado   5cinco    Nossa q esmalte difícil de fotografar , ele fica prata, roxo, esverdeado , e um prata mais escuro mas cade que eu consegui captar isso tudo. 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Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by vivndum - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - vivndum Mexico, Baja, California, Gulf of Cortez (NASA, International Space Station, 07/12/11) Tags: california   arizona   mexico   sandiego   nasa   baja   tijuana   yuma   mexicali   saltonsea   internationalspacestation   stationscience   crewearthobservation   gulfofcortez   stationresearch   iss028e016239    A crewmember on the joint STS-135/Expediton 28 aggregation photographed this image of parts of Mexico, including Baja California the Gulf of Cortez. Ten astronauts and cosmonauts are currently aboard the joint Atlantis/station complex sharing chores. This photo opportunity presented itself on July 12 -- a very busy spacewalk day. Image credit: NASA Original image: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-28/html/... 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This is the NASA Visualization Explorer App, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad. Download it starting Tuesday, July 26th and tap into the power of NASA's cutting-edge research. Click here starting July 26th to download the app NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Johnson Space Center: detail on space shuttle plumbing simulator Tags: nasa   johnsonspacecenter    Building 9 at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX. Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by xeni - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - xeni NASA's GPM Satellite Tested on Goddard's Centrifuge Tags: nasa   centrifuge   payload   gpm   goddardspaceflightcenter    April 1, 2011 NASA technicians spun the Global Precipitation Monitor (GPM) satellite up to just over 10 RPM in Goddard Space Flight Center’s High-Capacity Centrifuge facility March 31. At that speed, the spin exerted a lateral pressure of 2.4 G’s, or 2.4 times the force of gravity on the satellite. Spin tests such as these are used to determine whether the forces of launch could adversely affect hardware we put into space, and to test spacecraft chassis design. In this case, a combination of flight hardware parts and the so-called mass model were spun. The mass model simulates the final size, shape and weight distribution of the satellite and it’s component sensors, fuel, maneuvering thrusters, processing and control equipment. GPM will study global rain, snow and ice to better understand our climate, weather, and hydrometeorological processes. For more on the GPM mission, visit gpm.gsfc.nasa.gov/. Goddard’s 120-foot-diameter centrifuge can accelerate a 2.5-ton payload up to 30 Gs, well beyond the force experienced in a launch. The most intense roller-coasters in the world top out at about 5 Gs, and then only for brief moments. The 2.4 Gs experienced by GPM would be sufficient to prevent blood from flowing up into a person’s brain, inducing blackout if sustained. Karl B. Hille Photo Credit: NASA/GSFC/Rebecca Roth To learn more about GPM go to: gpm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Security Forces Tags: nasa   launch   apc   spaceshuttle   escort   sts133   tacitcal   nasapolice    Nasa armorded vehicle APC escorts the 6 astronauts of STS-133 to launch pad 39-A [Photo: Luis Santana] Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by LuisSantanaPhoto - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - LuisSantanaPhoto NASA T-38 N846NA Tags: nikon   nasa   talon   nikkor   coronado   t38   nasni   northrop   2011   d90   cona   navalairstationnorthisland   3570mmf28d   centennialofnavalaviation    NASA T-38 Talon. Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by SBGrad - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - SBGrad NASA's Terra Satellite Saw Tropical Storm Zelia Fizzling Enroute to New Zealand Tags: nasa   cyclone   cyclonezelia    NASA image acquired January 16, 2011 NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of a weakening Tropical Storm Zelia heading for New Zealand on January 16 at 7 p.m. EST. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument captured the image from its perch aboard the Terra satellite. The image showed a strong storm with a visible eye which fizzled quickly as a result of wind shear. On Monday, January 17 at 10am EST (1500 UTC) Tropical Storm Zelia still had maximum sustained winds near 62 mph and was moving southeast toward New Zealand. At that time, it was centered about 495 nautical miles north-northwest of Auckland, New Zealand near 31.4 South and 170.3 East. It was still a tropical cyclone despite cooler water temperatures. The New Zealand Meteorological Service noted on Monday, January 17 that Tropical Cyclone Zelia was northwest of Norfolk island and moving toward New Zealand. Zelia quickly weakened and became a remnant low, raining on northern New Zealand Tuesday afternoon and evening (local time). To see weather radar from the New Zealand meteorological services for Auckland, go to: www.metservice.com/national/maps-rain-radar/rain-radar/al.... Text Credit: Rob Gutro Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Satellites See Partial Solar Eclipse over Europe and Asia Tags: nasa   solareclipse   modis   goddardspaceflightcenter    NASA image acquired January 4, 2010 09:20 UTC Partial solar eclipse over Europe and Asia. Satellites: Terra and Aqua Near sunrise on January 4, 2011, the first partial solar eclipse of the year cast a golden glow across the surface of the Earth. The penumbral shadow – the area where sunlight was partially blocked as the Moon occulted the Sun – fell first in Algeria, at 6:40:11 UTC. It then moved steadily eastward across the Middle East and Central Asia. The greatest eclipse occurred at 8:51 UTC, about one-half hour before this image was captured, in northern Sweden, where about 85.8 percent of the Sun was covered by the Moon. Stockholm, Sweden is found in the sepia-shadowed northeast corner of this image, near the thickest area of lime-green borderlines. The northwest corner falls just east of the Ural Mountains at the western edge of Siberia. The border of Pakistan and India just north of Sundra, India lies in the southeast corner, and the southwest corner is found in Libya. Much of the region is shrouded in snow and a layer of clouds can also be seen. Both reflect light, bringing bright golden streaks to the sepia-toned penumbral shadows. As the Moon’s shadow fell upon the Earth, both the Aqua and Terra satellites, each carrying a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), passed over the region in close enough proximity to capture contiguous views of the spectacular event. This natural color image, a mosaic of images from both satellites, gives a synoptic view of the morning’s partial eclipse and was captured January 4 at 9:20 UTC. The left section of the image was captured from the MODIS aboard Terra as the satellite traveled from northeast to southwest, while the right section was captured by Aqua as it orbited from southeast to northwest. The blank triangle in the center of the image is an area outside of either orbit, where no data was collected. Four partial solar eclipses and two total lunar eclipses will occur in 2011. This 4:2 combination of solar and lunar eclipses is rather rare. Only six cases will occur in the 21st Century, with the next occurring in 2029. To view the entire image go to: rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2011004-0104/EuropeA... Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA's Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity Tags: nasa   hubble   hst   hannysvoorwerp    NASA image release January 10, 2011 In this image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy. The bizarre object, dubbed Hanny's Voorwerp (Hanny's Object in Dutch), is the only visible part of a 300,000-light-year-long streamer of gas stretching around the galaxy, called IC 2497. The greenish Voorwerp is visible because a searchlight beam of light from the galaxy's core illuminated it. This beam came from a quasar, a bright, energetic object that is powered by a black hole. The quasar may have turned off about 200,000 years ago. This Hubble view uncovers a pocket of star clusters, the yellowish-orange area at the tip of Hanny's Voorwerp. The star clusters are confined to an area that is a few thousand light-years wide. The youngest stars are a couple of million years old. The Voorwerp is the size of our Milky Way galaxy, and its bright green color is from glowing oxygen. Hubble also shows that gas flowing from IC 2497 may have instigated the star birth by compressing the gas in Hanny's Voorwerp. The galaxy is located about 650 million light-years from Earth. What appears to be a gaping hole in Hanny's Voorwerp actually may be a shadow cast by an object in the quasar's light path. The feature gives the illusion of a hole about 20,000 light-years wide. Hubble reveals sharp edges but no other changes in the gas around the apparent opening, suggesting that an object close to the quasar may have blocked some of the light and projected a shadow on the Voorwerp. This phenomenon is similar to a fly on a movie projector lens casting a shadow on a movie screen. An interaction between IC 2497 and another galaxy about a billion years ago may have created Hanny's Voorwerp and fueled the quasar. The Hubble image shows that IC 2497 has been disturbed, with complex dust patches, warped spiral arms, and regions of star formation around its core. These features suggest the aftermath of a galaxy merger. The bright spots in the central part of the galaxy are star-forming regions. The small, pinkish object to the lower right of IC 2497 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the background. The image was made by combining data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The ACS exposures were taken April 12, 2010; the WFC3 data, April 4, 2010. Object Names: Hanny's Voorwerp, IC 2497 Image Type: Astronomical Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Keel (University of Alabama), and the Galaxy Zoo Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video Nasa “worm” and “meatball” logos Tags: nasa   identity    In 1992, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin officially retired the "worm" logo to bring back the 1959 "meatball" logo. Image: Top - NASA logotype (“worm”), designed by Danne & Blackburn, 1974 Bottom - NASA Insignia (“meatball”), designed by James Modarelli, 1959 - Follow Design Facts on Twitter: twitter.com/DesignFacts Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by Design Facts - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Design Facts NASA Wallops Flight Facility Tags: nasa   wallops   wallopsisland   wallopsflightfacility   goddardspaceflightcernter    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was established in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as a center for aeronautic research. Wallops is now NASA's principal facility for management and implementation of suborbital research programs. The Wallops Mission Plan includes the following objectives: • To help achieve NASA's strategic objectives for scientific and educational excellence through cost efficient integration, launch, and operations of suborbital and small orbital payloads. • To enable scientific, educational, and economic advancement by providing the facilities and expertise to enable frequent flight opportunities for a diverse customer base. • To serve as a key facility for operational test, integration, and certification of NASA and commercial next-generation, low-cost orbital launch technologies. • To pioneer productive and innovative government, industry, and academic partnerships. The research and responsibilities of Wallops Flight Facility are centered around the philosophy of providing a fast, low cost, highly flexible and safe response to meet the needs of the United States' aerospace technology interests and science research. The 1,000 full-time Civil Service and contractor NASA Wallops employees act as a team to accomplish our mission in the spirit of this philosophy. NASA also opens its unique facilities to industry for space and aeronautics research. Wallops expects an increase in commercial launch activity in the very near future. Credit: NASA/Wallops NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA's ER-2 Checks Out New Airborne Multiangle Polarizing Imager Tags: nasa   environment   jpl   climatechange   globalwarming   earthscience   aerosols   nasajpl    A team of researchers and collaborators from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences in Tucson has successfully conducted the first test flight of a prototype science instrument for a next-generation satellite mission to survey the impacts of aerosols and clouds on global climate change. The Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager, or MSPI, is a multi-directional multi-wavelength, high-accuracy polarization camera that is a follow-on instrument to the JPL-developed Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft. It is a candidate instrument for NASA's Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystem (ACE) mission, an Earth satellite recommended by the National Research Council in its 2007 Earth Sciences Decadal Survey. ACE mission objectives include characterizing the role of aerosols in changing Earth's energy balance (the balance between incoming solar energy and outgoing heat from Earth), especially their impact on precipitation and cloud formation. › Find this on JPL's Space Images app, available on iTunes Full image and caption | JPL Homepage Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASAJPL - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASAJPL NASA's 3-D Look into Hurricane Igor's Heavy Rainfall Tags: nasa   hurricaneigor    NASA image captured September 15, 2010 This 3-D image of Igor's cloud heights and rainfall from NASA TRMM data shows a large area of heavy rainfall (falling at about 2 inches per hour) shown here in red on Sept. 15 at 0353 UTC. The yellow and green areas indicate moderate rainfall between .78 to 1.57 inches per hour. The image reveals that Igor's eye was still very distinct but the southwestern portion of the eye wall had eroded. Credit: NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA's Magnetospheric Mission Passes Major Milestone Tags: nasa   goddardspaceflightcenter   magnetosphericmission    NASA image release September 3, 2010 (Caption: Artist conception of the four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft investigating magnetic reconnection within Earth's magnetic field (magnetosphere). Credit: Southwest Research Institute) The universe is still an arcane place that scientists know very little about, but a new NASA Solar Terrestrial Probe mission is going to shed light on one especially mysterious event called magnetic reconnection. It occurs when magnetic lines of force cross, cancel, and reconnect releasing magnetic energy in the form of heat and charged-particle kinetic energy. On the sun, magnetic reconnection causes solar flares more powerful than several atomic bombs combined. In Earth's atmosphere, magnetic reconnection dispenses magnetic storms and auroras, and in laboratories on Earth it can cause big problems in fusion reactors. Although the study of magnetic reconnection dates back to the 1950s and despite numerous scientific papers addressing this perplexing issue, scientists still cannot agree on one accepted model. To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/sunearthsystem/main/mms-c... 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The Global Hawk is one of three aircraft involved in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment. GRIP is a NASA Earth science field experiment that runs from August 15-September 30, 2010 to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. Credit: NASA/NOAA To learn more about Hurricane Earl go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2010/h2010... To learn more about Global Hawk and the GRIP Hurricane Mission go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/missions/grip/main/... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the Space Shuttle Atlantis Tags: nasa   747   drydenflightresearchcenter   shuttleatlantis    Collection: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Collection Photo Description: NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the Space Shuttle Atlantis on top lifts off from Edwards Air Force Base to begin its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cross-country journey will take approximately two days, with stops at several intermediate points for refueling. Project Description: Space Shuttle Atlantis descended to a smooth landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station. With Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot Lee Archambault at the controls, Atlantis landed at 12:49 p.m. PDT on June 22, 2007. Atlantis launched June 8, 2007, and arrived at the International Space Station on June 10. While at the orbital outpost, the crew installed the Starboard 3 and 4 truss segment and conducted four spacewalks to activate it. During the third spacewalk, the crew repaired an out of position thermal blanket on the left orbital maneuvering system pod. Atlantis also delivered a new station crew member, Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson. He replaced astronaut Suni Williams, who is the new record holder for a long-duration single spaceflight for a woman. She arrived at the station in December of 2006 with STS-116. STS-117 is the 118th shuttle mission and 21st mission to visit the space station. Photo Date: July 1, 2007 NASA Photo by: Carla Thomas Photo Number: ED07-0137-32 UID: SPD-DRYDEN-ED07-0137 -32 Original url: www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-117/HTML/ED07-0137-32... SOURCE: nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~8~8~62547~166395 Visit www.nasaimages.org for the most comprehensive compilation of NASA stills, film and video, created in partnership with Internet Archive. Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA on The Commons - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA on The Commons NASA Center for Climate Simulation Debuts Tags: nasa   climate   goddardspaceflightcenter   nasacenterforclimatesimulation    NASA Center for Climate Simulation Debuts Dr. Horace Mitchell presents a wall-sized visualization of Earth’s orbiting satellites on the NCCS visualization wall. To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA use iPhone, iPad for launch pad control Tags: nasa   kennedyspacecenter   iphone   ipad   spaceops2010    NASA shows how they use the iPad and the iPhone to remote control a launch pad. A real one, for rockets... Will post more information on this tomorrow... 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Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Swift To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/500th.html NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by NASA Goddard Photo and Video - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA Sets Payload Record as Part of Parachute Development Test (NASA, Ares, 4/14/10) Tags: nasa   chute   droptest   yuma   parachute   drogue   payload   usarmyprovinggrounds    The jumbo dart used as part NASA's drogue parachute test was loaded into the back of an Air Force C-17 on April 13, 2010, at the U. S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds near Yuma, Ariz. The design load limit test will provide engineers with a better understanding of the full structural capabilities of the drogue parachute currently under development to return next-generation space vehicles safely to Earth. Credit: NASA About the drop test: Under a brilliant early morning Arizona sky, NASA conducted a successful, record-breaking test of a drogue parachute being designed to return next-generation space vehicles safely to Earth. The 77,000-pound payload used in the test was dropped from the back of a U.S. Air Force C-17 at an altitude of 25,000 feet, setting a record for the heaviest single load ever extracted out of a C-17 during flight. NASA conducted the drop test, April 14, at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. 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A 3-D visualization of this model takes viewers on an amazing four-minute voyage through the 15-light-year-wide canyon. Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA) Go here to learn more about Hubble 3D: www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/hubble_imax_premier... or www.imax.com/hubble/ Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth stars whose brilliant light illuminates and energizes the entire cloudy region. Zoom by dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems. This virtual space journey isn't the latest video game but one of several groundbreaking astronomy visualizations created by specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science operations center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today at select Imax theaters worldwide. The 43-minute movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission to the Earth-orbiting observatory, with footage taken by the astronauts. The giant-screen film showcases some of Hubble's breathtaking iconic pictures, such as the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation," as well as stunning views taken by the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3. While Hubble pictures of celestial objects are awe-inspiring, they are flat 2-D photographs. For this film, those 2-D images have been converted into 3-D environments, giving the audience the impression they are space travelers taking a tour of Hubble's most popular targets. "A large-format movie is a truly immersive experience," says Frank Summers, an STScI astronomer and science visualization specialist who led the team that developed the movie visualizations. The team labored for nine months, working on four visualization sequences that comprise about 12 minutes of the movie. "Seeing these Hubble images in 3-D, you feel like you are flying through space and not just looking at picture postcards," Summers continued. "The spacescapes are all based on Hubble images and data, though some artistic license is necessary to produce the full depth of field needed for 3-D." The most ambitious sequence is a four-minute voyage through the Orion Nebula's gas-and-dust canyon, about 15 light-years across. During the ride, viewers will see bright and dark, gaseous clouds; thousands of stars, including a grouping of bright, hefty stars called the Trapezium; and embryonic planetary systems. The tour ends with a detailed look at a young circumstellar disk, which is much like the structure from which our solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. Based on a Hubble image of Orion released in 2006, the visualization was a collaborative effort between science visualization specialists at STScI, including Greg Bacon, who sculpted the Orion Nebula digital model, with input from STScI astronomer Massimo Roberto; the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. For some of the sequences, STScI imaging specialists developed new techniques for transforming the 2-D Hubble images into 3-D. STScI image processing specialists Lisa Frattare and Zolt Levay, for example, created methods of splitting a giant gaseous pillar in the Carina Nebula into multiple layers to produce a 3-D effect, giving the structure depth. The Carina Nebula is a nursery for baby stars. Frattare painstakingly removed the thousands of stars in the image so that Levay could separate the gaseous layers on the isolated Carina pillar. Frattare then replaced the stars into both foreground and background layers to complete the 3-D model. For added effect, the same separation was done for both visible and infrared Hubble images, allowing the film to cross-fade between wavelength views in 3-D. In another sequence viewers fly into a field of 170,000 stars in the giant star cluster Omega Centauri. STScI astronomer Jay Anderson used his stellar database to create a synthetic star field in 3-D that matches recent razor-sharp Hubble photos. The film's final four-minute sequence takes viewers on a voyage from our Milky Way Galaxy past many of Hubble's best galaxy shots and deep into space. Some 15,000 galaxies from Hubble's deepest surveys stretch billions of light-years across the universe in a 3-D sequence created by STScI astronomers and visualizers. The view dissolves into a cobweb that traces the universe's large-scale structure, the backbone from which galaxies were born. In addition to creating visualizations, STScI's education group also provided guidance on the "Hubble 3D" Educator Guide, which includes standards-based lesson plans and activities about Hubble and its mission. Students will use the guide before or after seeing the movie. "The guide will enhance the movie experience for students and extend the movie into classrooms," says Bonnie Eisenhamer, STScI's Hubble Formal Education manager. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) and is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. The institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington, D.C. 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This activity occurs against a fiery backdrop in the crowded, hostile environment of the galaxy's core, the center of which is dominated by a supermassive black hole nearly four million times more massive than our Sun. Permeating the region is a diffuse blue haze of X-ray light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by outflows from the supermassive black hole as well as by winds from massive stars and by stellar explosions. The Astrophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate supports the International Year of Astronomy Great Observatories image unveiling. The project is a collaboration among the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., the Spitzer Science Center in Pasadena, Calif., and the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Mass. 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Check out the joy and determination in these expressions -- truly the "face of the race." 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Rosenwald Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 21, 2006; D01 [We are lucky to be working with world class data visualizers and animators. This article in the Washington Post is one of the best print stories I've seen on the folks who are on the front lines of translating our science and making it accessible to our many audiences.] www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/20/... Every once in a while when a new movie with mind-blowing special effects or oh-my-gosh-it-looked-so-real animation opens, a nondescript office at NASA Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt will mysteriously empty of employees during matinee hours. Before an investigation is launched into the whereabouts of these workers -- particularly, say, around last year's opening of "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" -- understand that they are not blowing off work. The absentee employees are animators, NASA staffers and contractors who use the same software Pixar Animation Studios uses to tell stories about talking cars to instead tell stories about the Earth. They just want to see what their counterparts in Hollywood have been up to. There is the occasional did-you-see-that elbow nudge, but in their case it's about craft, not cinematic delight, said Horace Mitchell, project manager at the space center's scientific visualization studio. Mitchell is a NASA employee, but the studio is staffed primarily by animators working for Global Science & Technology Inc., a government contractor in Greenbelt. The company uses the Hollywood software, including Pixar's RenderMan and Autodesk Inc.'s Maya, to translate complicated data into animated movies that illustrate what is happening in and around Earth. The videos often end up on the evening news. The crucial difference in NASA's use of the software is that Hollywood uses it to spin inspiring, happy-ending stories about love and courage and friendship and hope, while the animators in Greenbelt are often telling stories about bad things happening in the atmosphere, such as last year's hurricane season. In their chilling short film "27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta," set to Vincenzo Bellini's eerie music, viewers can watch the ocean heat up, helping fuel one storm after another -- thanks to the same Pixar software used in the upcoming version of "Charlotte's Web." NASA oceanographer Gene Carl Feldman frequently collaborates with the Global Science studio. He studies the ocean from space. "Visualization is that link between the flood of data coming down from space and the ability of the human mind to interpret it," Feldman said. "That's the crux of the story. Better than most other groups in the world, they are able to take this fire hose of data coming down and turn it into images -- visual animation -- that then allows the general public to see this data in ways their brains can interpret and study." The Hollywoodization of NASA data is in part the result of Pixar's success in creating real-life worlds from fantasy stories. People have come to expect that even the most fantastical of ideas -- a talking, curmudgeonly Mr. Potato Head -- can look and feel exceedingly real. "They don't expect to see crudity," Mitchell said. "They expect to see sophistication because they see it everywhere. In order for us to tell the story, we have to be sophisticated about telling stories and we have to use sophisticated technology to tell them." Pixar was spun off from George Lucas's film company, and its early days were spent selling animation software and hardware -- a way to pay the bills until computer technology caught up with the firm's vision of making the incredibly life-like films that it produces today. Today, anyone can purchase versions of RenderMan online, for $995 to $3,500. Global Science, a private company that employs about 250 people, is definitely not a movie studio. It was founded in 1991 by Chieh-san Cheng, a former employee of an aerospace and technology company with advanced degrees in technical management and meteorology. Global Science provides services in applied science and research, geospatial standards, engineering services, and information technology. The firm's contract with NASA is a small part of its business, contributing about $650,000 a year to about $45 million in revenue. Global Science and Pixar know about each other, but interaction between the staffs is generally limited to animation conferences and trade shows. But the Global Science staff does feel a strong bond with Pixar, particularly when watching one of its movies. Jim Williams, a Global Science animator, said, "I'll go into it thinking I'm going to look at the technical stuff and then I'll get completely sucked into the story." This happened during Pixar's recent hit, "Cars." "I'm watching it, I'm totally into the story, and they get to the end and they go into that stadium, and there's tens of thousands of cars in there and I drop out of the story and think, 'Wow, that must have been a pain in the butt to get that right.' And then I'm back into the story," he said. The difference between the storylines is that Pixar is trying to get laughing cars right and Global Science is trying to get the atmosphere right. The way in which Global Science uses RenderMan is not easy. Here's one way of looking at it: This article has been typed on a word processor. The computer received the data -- in this case, they looked like letters -- and displayed them on a screen. The lines were long, containing dozens of words. Those words needed to appear in the newspaper, and to do that a graphic designer used another program to render and squeeze the words into narrow columns of newsprint, with black type, a font, and italics , and so forth so the words appear in the paper as they do now. That's essentially what RenderMan does for data -- whether it be information about Buzz Lightyear's appearance or atmospheric models of hurricanes. RenderMan is the mechanism by which data are translated. Another program, Maya, acts as the word processor. Global Science translates scientific data this way. Recently, one of its animators sat behind a computer monitor in a dark room with an image that could have appeared as a backdrop in a Van Gogh painting. But it was a depiction of aerosols moving across the atmosphere, a way of illustrating air quality. Yellow represented dust, the green was sulfates produced by humans, the blue was sea salt. Altogether, it was sort of beautiful but apparently not good news for the atmosphere. Like their Hollywood counterparts, the Global Science animators typically refer to their finished products as releases, but the scripts are composed of data and the script writers are some of the world's most brilliant scientists. The creative process generally works like this: A scientist or a public affairs officer will ask the animators to illustrate a concept or data set. It can be as simple as ocean temperatures or as complicated as a collection of satellite images. A discussion with the scientific team and public affairs officer ensues over the best way to illustrate the data, and the animators get to work. Feldman, the NASA oceanographer, studies oceans from space because, as he said: "Oceans are really, really, really big and they change very, very quickly. You can't track that from a ship. What a satellite sees in a minute would take a ship a decade." Feldman is particularly interested in the relationship between the changing environment and ocean life, which he pursues by studying the first level of life in the ocean, or microscopic plants, through ocean color. The only problem is that satellites collect a very large amount of complicated data. The visualization studio helps him make sense of it. Feldman has made animations of what happened to the ocean during the transition between El Niño and La Niña -- "it was the biggest phytoplankton bloom in the world ever observed," he said. He has animated Lake Michigan's microscopic plant blooms and a dust storm the size of Spain that blew across the ocean in the past few years. He has animated autumn in Boston, which roughly translates into, as he put it, "how life follows the sun." If Cheng, chief executive of Global Science, has his way, NASA scientists wouldn't be the only people relying on his firm's handling of Hollywood software to explain complicated subjects. Cheng would like to use the software to better explain the human body to doctors. He said the company is finalizing plans for a medical-imaging division and is exploring the possibility of a partnership with Maryland universities. 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Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by twm1340 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - twm1340 NASA Astronaut Mae Carol Jemison Tags: nasa   blackhistory   spaceflight   blackastronaut    Mae Carol Jemison, M.D. (born 17 October 1956) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. She became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. Mae Carol Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, the youngest child of Charlie Jemison, a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher of English and math The family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when Jemison was 3 to take advantage of better educational opportunities there. Jemison says that as a young girl growing up in Chicago she always assumed she would get into space "I thought, by now, we'd be going into space like you were going to work She said it was easier to apply to be a shuttle astronaut, "rather than waiting around in a cornfield, waiting for ET to pick me up or something. As a child growing up, Jemison learned to make connections to the world by studying nature "It sounds a little gross, but I was fascinated with pus," Jemison said. Once when a splinter infected her thumb as a little girl, Jemison's mother turned it into a learning experience "I ran and showed it to my mother and she was telling me it was pus. I was like, ‘'Well, what is that?' And I ended up doing this whole project, reading about pus. My mother always told me to go find out the information myself. She was very directive, in the sense of ‘'it's your responsibility,' sort of like those people who tell you to go look up a word in the dictionary when you don’t know how to spell it."[3] Jemison wouldn't let anyone dissaude her from pursuing a career in science "In kindergarten, my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I told her a scientist," Jemison says. "She said, 'Don't you mean a nurse?' Now, there's nothing wrong with being a nurse, but that's not what I wanted to be." Jemison loved science growing up but she also loved the arts.[5] Jemison began dancing at the age of 9. "I love dancing! I took all kinds of dance — African dancing, ballet, jazz, modern — even Japanese dancing. I wanted to become a professional dancer," said Jemison During high school she auditioned for the leading role of "Maria" in West Side Story. She didn't get the part but Jemison's dancing skills did get her into the line up as a background dancer. "I had a problem with the singing but I danced and acted pretty well enough for them to choose me. I think that people sometimes limit themselves and so rob themselves of the opportunity to realise their dreams. For me, I love the sciences and I also love the arts," says Jemison. "I saw the theatre as an outlet for this passion and so I decided to pursue this dream." Later during her senior year in college, she was trying to decide whether to go to New York to medical school or become a professional dancer. Her mother told her, "You can always dance if you're a doctor, but you can't doctor if you're a dancer." Jemsion graduated from Chicago's Morgan Park High School in 1973 and entered Stanford University at age 16. "I was naive and stubborn enough that it didn’t faze me," Jemsion said . "It’s not until recently that I realized that 16 was particularly young or that there were even any issues associated with my parents having enough confidence in me to [allow me to] go that far away from home." Jemison graduated from Stanford in 1977, receiving a B.S. in chemical engineering and fulfilling the requirements for a B.A. in African and Afro-American Studies . Jemison said that majoring in engineering as a black woman was difficult because race is always an issue in the United States. "Some professors would just pretend I wasn't there. I would ask a question and a professor would act as if it was just so dumb, the dumbest question he had ever heard. Then, when a white guy would ask the same question, the professor would say, "That's a very astute observation.'" Jemison obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1981 from Cornell Medical College (now Weill Medical College of Cornell University). She interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and later worked as a general practitioner.During medical school Jemison traveled to Cuba, Kenya and Thailand, to provide primary medical care to people living there. During her years at Cornell Medical College, Jemison took lessons in modern dance at the Alvin Ailey school Jemison later built a dance studio in her home and has choreographed and produced several shows of modern jazz and African dance. After completing her medical internship, Jemison joined the staff of the Peace Corps and served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer from 1983 to 1985 responsible for the health of Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Jemison's work in the Peace Corps included supervising the pharmacy, laboratory, medical staff as well as providing medical care, writing self-care manuals, and developing and implementing guidelines for health and safety issues. Jemison also worked with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) helping with research for various vaccines . Once while serving as a Doctor for the Peace Corps, a volunteer got sick and another doctor diagnosed malaria. The volunteer got progressively worse and Jemison was sure it was meningitis with life-threatening complications that could not be treated in Sierra Leone. Jemison called for an Air Force hospital plane based in Germany for a military medical evacuation at a cost of $80,000. The embassy questioned whether Jemison had the authority to give such an order but she told them she didn't need anyone's permission for a medical decision. By the time the plane reached Germany with Jemison and the volunteer on board, she had been up with the patient for 56 hours. The volunteer survived. While working in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, Jemison found a feline companion who would share her life for the next 15 years - a cat named "Sneeze and Fleas." "He was white with touches of silver and gray, and used to sit at the table with me. When I first got him he was eating the local foods, which were spicy sauces and stews over rice," Jemison said. "When I started working on the space mission, he lived with my parents in Chicago and was the one thing I really couldn't wait to return to. When I think of home and what it means to me, I always think of Sneeze." Astronaut Dr. Mae C. Jemison was a mission specialist on board the STS-47 mission. Jemison is shown preparing to deploy the lower body negative pressure (LBNP) apparatus in this 35mm frame taken in the science module aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavor. Astronaut Dr. Mae C. Jemison was a mission specialist on board the STS-47 mission. Jemison is shown preparing to deploy the lower body negative pressure (LBNP) apparatus in this 35mm frame taken in the science module aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavor. In 1985 Jemison returned to the United States, entered private practice in Los Angeles as a general practicioner with CIGNA Health Plans of California and began taking graduate engineering courses. After the flight of Sally Ride in 1983, Jemison felt the astronaut program had opened up enough for her to apply Jemison's inspiration for joining NASA was African-American actress Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Commander Uhura on Star Trek. Jemsion was turned down on her first application to NASA, but in 1987 Jemison was accepted on her second application and became one of the fifteen candidates accepted from over 2,000 applicants. "I got a call saying are you still interested and I said 'yea'," says Jemison. Her work with NASA before her shuttle launch included launch support activities at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and verification of Shuttle computer software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) ] "My task while I was with NASA was not to immediately start training for space flight, because it takes a while before you are assigned to a mission, but I did things like help to support the launch of vehicles at Kennedy Space Center," said Jemison "I was in the first class of astronauts selected after the Challenger accident back in 1986, and the very first assignment I had was working at Kennedy Space Center. I saw the launch and in fact actually worked the launch of the first flight after the Challenger accident. I worked at the shuttle avionics integration laboratory, which is where all the software that flies the space shuttle is tested." Dr. Jemison flew her only space shuttle mission from September 12 to 20, 1992 as a mission specialist on STS-47.[8] "The first thing I saw from space was Chicago, my hometown," said Jemison. was working on the middeck where there aren't many windows, and as we passed over Chicago the commander called me up to the flight deck. It was such a significant moment because since I was a little girl I had always assumed I would go into space," Jemison added. "When I grew up, in the 1960's, the only American astronauts were men. Looking out the window of that space shuttle, I thought if that little girl growing up in Chicago could see her older self now, she would have a huge grin on her face." Because of her love of dance and as a salute to creativity, Jemison took a poster from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company along with her on the flight. "Many people do not see a connection between science and dance," says Jemison. "but I consider them both to be expressions of the boundless creativity that people have to share with one another. Jemison also took several small art objects from West African countries to symbolize that space belongs to all nations STS-47 was a cooperative mission between the United States and Japan that included 44 Japanese and United States life science and materials processing experiments. The international crew was divided into red and blue teams for around the |clock operations. Jemison was the co-investigator for the bone cell research experiment that investigated how space flight causes changes in bone cell function to better understand why bones become weaker during space flight. Dr. Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993 "I left NASA because I'm very interested in how social sciences interact with technologies," says Jemison. "People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity." Although Jemison's departure from NASA was amicable, NASA was not thrilled to see her leave. "NASA had spent a lot of money training her; she also filled a niche, obviously, being a woman of color," says Hiram Hickam, a training manager for NASA’s space station efforts Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by eqadams63 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - eqadams63 NASA 107-KSC-56C-101 Tags: nasa   rocket   apollo   saturnv    Press Release on back of image. 5-25-66 NASA/Saturn W/O 063777D NASA Apollo Saturn V, 500F Facility Vehicle enroute from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39A. Aerial View. 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