Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts

10/04/2011

Transiting the Sun (2009)


the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1354.html

29/12/2009

Ares V (2020)

Planning and early design are under way for hardware, propulsion systems and associated technologies for NASA's Ares V cargo launch vehicle -- the "heavy lifter" of America's next-generation space fleet. Ares V will serve as NASA's primary vessel for safe, reliable delivery of large-scale hardware to space -- from the lunar landing craft and materials for establishing a moon base, to food, fresh water and other staples needed to extend a human presence beyond Earth orbit.
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02/11/2009

NASA - Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-117 Crew Has Fun in Space


Atlantis STS-117 Crew plays with juice droplets, a water blob with a Life-Saver inside and a stack of videotapes in zero gravity.

01/09/2009

NASA - Glass Cockpit Design (2000)

Eleven new full-color, flat-panel display screens in the shuttle cockpit replace 32 gauges and electromechanical displays and four cathode-ray tube displays. The new "glass cockpit" is 75 pounds lighter and uses less power then the older model, and its color displays provide easier pilot recognition of key shuttle functions. The new cockpit is expected to be installed on all shuttles in the NASA fleet by 2002, and it sets the stage for the next cockpit improvement planned to fly in 2005: a "smart cockpit" that reduces the pilot's workload during critical periods. During STS-101, Atlantis will fly as the most updated shuttle ever, with more than 100 new modifications incorporated during a ten-month period in 1998 at Boeing's Palmdale, Calif., shuttle factory. View the source and other glass cockpit designs HERE.
 
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