By Jason Rhian, on August 21st, 2012 NASA has entered into an agreement with the Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration to be used to train midshipmen. Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studios
One of the iconic ships that ferried the space shuttle’s solid rocket boosters (SRBs) back to shore after they splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean – will […]
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By Jason Rhian, on May 2nd, 2012 Photo Credit: U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
Three space shuttle veterans are being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Saturday, May 5 at 3 p.m. The ceremony will be carried like on NASA Television. The three astronauts that will be included into the hall […]
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By Jason Rhian, on April 28th, 2012 NASA's crawler-transporters have been around since the Apollo era and are now being prepared for future missions. Photo Credit: Julian Leek/Blue Sawtooth Studios
We sent veteran aerospace photojournalist Julian Leek to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a tour of one of the massive crawler-transporters that have been used by the space agency to […]
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By Jason Rhian, on April 15th, 2012 None of the various spacecraft currently being developed to return U.S. astronauts to orbit have all the capabilities and capacities that NASA's decommissioned orbiters had. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com
The crop of space capsules that are currently being developed to return U.S. astronauts to orbit have all-too-often been dubbed “replacements” for […]
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By Julian Leek, on March 26th, 2012 The O & C building was where the astronauts prepared for their missions is, much like the shuttles themselves, being decommissioned. Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studios
Located of the third floor of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Operation & Check Building (more commonly known as the O&C building) lies the […]
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By Jason Rhian, on March 22nd, 2012 [youtube_video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw7-OoJ1nus[/youtube_video]
Video courtesy of Aerojet
Seventy years ago this week, the aerospace company, Aerojet, was founded. Based out of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the fledgling firm was started by Dr. Theodore von Kármán and five of his colleagues. The company’s formative years actually revolved around aircraft, albeit with a rocketry “twist.” Some seven […]
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By Julian Leek, on March 10th, 2012 Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studios
Starting under cloudy skies and with the threat of rain later NASA went ahead with the scheduled move of Space Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis. A nose to nose photo opportunity did not take place due to the weather, more like two ships passing in the […]
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By Jason Rhian, on February 19th, 2012 [youtube_video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvSkoIL0tsc[/youtube_video]
Video Courtesy of Suresh Atapattu
For those of us that followed or worked on the space shuttle program, the fleet of flying gliders will always hold a very special place in our hearts. We will miss seeing Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour riding pillars of flame to orbit, hearing the twin sonic booms […]
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By Ben Evans, on February 8th, 2012 On STS-110 in April 2002, Jerry Ross became the first person to record a seventh space flight. He is seen here with a montage of his crew patches, shaped into the figure '7'. Photo Credit: NASA.
When President Ronald Reagan announced plans to build a permanent space station in the spring of 1984, NASA […]
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By Jason Rhian, on February 8th, 2012 [youtube_video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_GzQyMsBQ[/youtube_video]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – Starting at 5 a.m. EDT, my day began early. I drove across the state to Kennedy Space Center, I was excited to meet with an old friend – her name is Endeavour. By the time my day was over – I would unexpectantly meet two other “old friends.”
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