'Sci / Tech Tourism' Category
The scientific tourist #128 — the Sanger II space plane
This week’s image is a display model of a Sanger II space plane, on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany…
The scientific tourist #127 — Freedom 7 II
This week’s image comes to you from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy center — it’s of a Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7 II, and it’s got quite an involved history…
The scientific tourist #126 — the Arado Ar 234B
Now residing at the National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — the Arado AR 234 Blitz…
The scientific tourist #125 — Lunar Orbiter
I’ve told you before about the ongoing effort to reprocess (and as a result, to enhance) old data tapes from the Lunar Orbiter program of 1966-1967. Well, if you were curious about what the original spacecraft looked like…
The scientific tourist #124 — Edmontosaurus
This week’s image is of an Edmontosaurus at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science…
The scientific tourist #123 — banded iron
A slab of banded iron at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C….
The scientific tourist #122 — Mariner 9
This week’s image is a scan of a photograph I took at JPL back in 1989, it’s a small model of the Mariner 9 spacecraft…
The scientific tourist #121 — Phantom
This week’s image is of an F-4 Phantom II fighter on display at the San Diego Air and Space Museum…
The scientific tourist #120 — Early Zeps
This week’s image comes to you from the Technisches Museum in Vienna (Wien), Austria…
The scientific tourist #119 — Pliosaurus
This week’s image comes to you from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis — it’s the skeleton of a Pliosaurus…
