'History' Category
The scientific tourist #115 — meeting the Surveyor
This week’s image is a scan of a photograph of an engineering model Surveyor lunar lander at JPL…
The scientific tourist #114 — The Avro Arrow
Yes, it’s only a model (at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia) of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow…
The scientific tourist #113 — Lunch time
This week’s image comes to you from Florence, Italy — a somewhat oddly put-together diorama…
Carnivalia — 2/17 – 2/23
The past week’s selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…
The scientific tourist #111 — ejection seats
At the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim north of Munich, a line-up of ejection seats from both sides of the cold war…
The scientific tourist #110 — the track to 34
These are interesting times for NASA’s crewed spaceflight program…
The scientific tourist #109 — Fairy Caves
This week’s image comes to you from the Fairy Caves, now part of the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, just outside of Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Casual Friday — meet “Space Shuttle Jr.”
One of the longest-running sagas in the space age has been the quest for a practical, reuseable space plane…
The scientific tourist #107 — the F-1 rocket engine
The F-1 rocket engine was built to power the first stage of the Saturn V for Apollo, and still holds the crown of being the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever built, so I thought I’d gather up a collection of pictures I’ve taken of F-1s in various places on my travels
The scientific tourist #106 — the Ford Trimotor
This week’s image is of a Ford Trimotor at the San Diego Air & Space Museum…
