'Sci / Tech Tourism' Category
The scientific tourist #138 — Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk
This week you get two images of a Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk, taken at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia…
The scientific tourist #137 — Thor-Able
This week’s image is another from the U.S. Air Force Space & Missile Museum at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — it’s a Thor-Able launch vehicle…
The scientific tourist #136 — the Dornier Do 335
I’ve always thought that the Do 335 has to take the prize for “oddest looking military aircraft,” but then its performance more than made up for its unusual appearance…
The scientific tourist #135 — AOSO
An engineering model of AOSO — the Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory…
The scientific tourist #134 — the Loon missile
This week’s image is of a Loon missile at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia…
The scientific tourist #133 — Right whale
This week’s image is from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. — it’s a life-size model of a right whale…
The scientific tourist #132 — The Focke-Wulf Fw 190
This weeks image is of a Fw 190 fighter at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia…
The scientific tourist #131 — Hawaiian petroglyphs
Ancient carvings in lava fields…
The scientific tourist #130 — Northrop N-1M
This week’s image is of a Northrop N-1M at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia…
The scientific tourist #129 — Sputnik 1, here, there, and very nearly everywhere!
Sputnik 1 may have been launched 50+ years ago, but it sure still gets around…
