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Tag Archives: spacecraft
The scientific tourist #255 — under the skin
An Apollo lunar module prototype on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere… Continue reading
Posted in History, Space, Technology
Tagged Apollo, crewed, LM, Lunar Module, manned, spacecraft
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The scientific tourist #247 — Corona
Coming to you from the Air Force Space and Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida — it’s a model of Corona… Continue reading
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Space, Technology
Tagged cold war, History, spacecraft, Technology
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The scientific tourist #243 — Boilerplate Mercury capsule
This week’s image comes to you from the Air Force Space and Missile History Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It’s a boilerplate (“dummy”) Mercury spacecraft… Continue reading
Casual Friday — Fobos-Grunt, how it was *supposed* to happen
Well, if you are at all tuned into space news, you’ve heard that the Russian space agency’s latest attempt to send a spacecraft to Mars is pretty much dead. Here’s a video (11+ minutes long) of how things were supposed to play out…
Posted in Space, Technology, YouTubing
Tagged Mars, Russia, Space, spacecraft, Technology
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The scientific tourist #165 — Vanguard TV-3
The star of a very non-photogenic launch failure, but the forerunner of many later successful satellites…
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Space, Technology, YouTubing
Tagged cold war, History, satellite, Space, spacecraft, Technology
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Casual Friday — one last Discovery
A quick bit of video showing the space shuttle Discovery’s last return from orbit
Casual Friday — NASA Day of Remembrance
NASA Television’s video remembrance of the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia crews…
Casual Friday — Commemorating the shuttle
Since the space shuttle program is planned to wind down next year, it seemed fitting for this News Year edition of “Casual Friday” to play host to this video pulled together by a couple of Glenn Research Center engineers — it’s a “greatest hits” collection of space shuttle launch video…
The scientific tourist #151 — Vega
The Vega spacecraft and landing system at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum…
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Space, Technology
Tagged History, Soviet, Space, spacecraft, Technology, USSR, Venus
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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…
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Space
Tagged aircraft, Deutsches Museum, Germany, History, Munich, museum, Space, spacecraft
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