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  1. Space Shuttle Atlantis made one final move on November 2nd, 2012, to her new home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The journey, stacked on top of the 76-wheeled Orbiter Transport System, competed the decommissioning process of the three orbiters and marks the first time that Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has b...

  2. On Halloween, October 31st, kids in America go from door to door wearing costumes and collecting candy. It seemed like a fitting holiday to do some astrophotography. The bands on Jupiter were barely visible as well as several Jovian moons, but our lunar companion was a better target. I had to adjust the telescope const...

  3. The panorama is made with about 110 single frames taken on SOL54, SOL60 and SOL64 using the MASTCAM 34mm camera while the rover was involved in sand sampling activities. This bedrock site was named by NASA Curiosity team as "Rocknest". Maybe in the next days new frames has to come, and I'll update the pananorama. ...

  4. Space Shuttle Endeavour, known as OV-105, flew twenty-five missions in her twenty years of service amounting to 296 days in space, 4,671 orbits of Earth and a distance traveled of almost 200 million kilometers (122 million miles). She carried the first pieces of the International Space Station to orbit and made the fir...

  5. Space Shuttle Endeavour is named after the ship that carried Captain James Cook to Tahiti for observations of the 1769 transit of Venus, the reasoning behind its British spelling. This orbiter, the fifth and final built for the space shuttle program, was constructed from structural spare parts to replace Challenger aft...

  6. This newly retrieved medium resolution image, frame 2013_M, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 18 November 1966 at 15:25 GMT LPI reference: www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/frame/?2013 Will open in a new tab or window Large at LOIRP: images.spaceref.com/news/loirp/2013_M.jpg Will open in a new tab or window Very Large at NASA NLSI: lunarscience.arc Will open in a new tab or window....

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  7. Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 was manufactured as a passenger aircraft 747-100 for American Airlines in 1970 but acquired by NASA in 1974. By 1976, Boeing had heavily modified the aircraft by stripping its interior and strengthening the fuselage to support the weight of an 172,000 lb orbiter attached on top. The f...

  8. The cockpit of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 hasn't been updated since it was built in 1970. There are no computer screens and no joystick controls. Both the pilot and co-pilot do have their own ashtrays, harkening back to the days when smoking would be common while flying a jumbo-jet. The additional weight and dr...

  9. MSL Curiosity is a NASA rover landed on Mars on August 5th 2012. This is the first hi-res color panorama taken with Mastcam 34mm camera. The panorama is made with 140 single frames taken on SOL3 and SOL13 before the rover moves away. The sky and the Sun are not real: I added them with photoshop. NASA names Curiosity ...

  10. This L-shaped, tubular airlock was added to Endeavour’s Payload Bay in 1997. Prior to this, an airlock existed internally in the Mid-deck of the Crew Module between the toilet and a bank of computers and storage lockers. An external airlock allowed not only more area in the cramped Mid-deck but also access both out i...

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