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  1. A shot I got of the 60% Waning Gibbous Moon from Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown, Rhode Island on February 2, 2013. Photograph details: Camera: Canon S95 (CHDK) with custom Intervalometer. Telescope: Meade 16" SCT, 4000m fl, f/10 Eyepiece: 15mm RKE Camera F-stop: f/3.2 - f/4 ISO: 100 Exposure: 1/80 se...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. Part of a 3D Stereo Pair from Mars Satelite Observer

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  5. The space shuttle Discovery rests atop the Boeing-747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) just hours after landing at Dulles International Airport. This particular aircraft was the first ever to transport a shuttle, after being converted from a passenger plane for American Airlines in the early 1970s. It has ferried the spa...

  6. 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...

  7. At 15 feet (4.5 meters) wide and 60 feet (18 meters) long, the payload bay of Discovery carried cargo to and from space. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched to space from here, as were several pieces of the International Space Station (ISS). Payloads were usually loaded while the shuttle was vertical on the launch...

  8. When a space shuttle is mated to a shuttle carrier aircraft (SCA) for transport between space centers, a tail cone is installed over its main engines. This reduces both drag and turbulence created by the piggy-backing spacecraft while also protecting the engines. Discovery's final tail cone was installed in the Orbiter...

  9. MSL Curiosity is a NASA rover landed on Mars last week. This is the first hi-res color panorama taken with Mastcam 34mm camera. The panorama is made with about 80 single frames. You can find the final version (140 frames) in my profile. All images used are courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

  10. The toilet on the space shuttle was known as the Waste Collection System (WCS) and collected human waste through air flow and the suction it created. Liquid waste was vented to space but solid waste was moved to a cylindrical container below deck and exposed to vacuum to dry it. Air used in these processes is filtered ...

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