The Sky Calls To Us - Log Book
Stories about the photographs included in The Sky Calls To Us, Photographs of The John F. Kennedy Space Center, September - October, 2015
Crawler Transporter Track Area, Launch Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Center, October 2015
To create the unbalanced force to propel Space Shuttle missions away from Earth, three main engines worked together to create almost 1.2 million pounds of thrust and two solid rocket boosters created a total of 6,600,000 pounds of thrust. The total thrust at launch, on this pad surface, was about 7.8 million pounds.
Read MorePad Surface Detail, Launch Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Center, October 2015
"This is the spot where humans are going to travel to Mars from!" …
Read MorePedestal for Mobile Launch Platform, Launch Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Center, October 2015
Once at the launch pad, the MLP (Mobile Launch Platform) is placed on a supportive structure of six steel pedestals that are 22 ft (6.7 m) tall, and four extensible columns.
Read MoreView of Launch Pad 39B in Landscape, Kennedy Space Center, October 2015
When we speak of Space, it's usually from the perspective of a place that we go to, an outer place - separate from and beyond ours and us. ...
Read MoreFull Moon Over Mobile Launch Pad For Space Launch System Under Construction, Near VAB, Kennedy Space Center, October 2015
The air was thick with ocean salt and the scent of a fusion of life decomposing and regenerating in the brackish marshes, salt water estuaries, and hardwood hammocks in and around the space center. My guide and I were on a mission, a quest for the Moon ...
Read MoreUnited Launch Alliance, Atlas V Launch, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, October 31, 2015
The Sky Calls To Us, Photographs of The John F. Kennedy Space Center- Log Book Entry, October 31, 2015-Flight: #AV-060; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41; Configuration: Atlas V 401.
Read More"The Sky Calls To Us," Carl Sagan, Atlantis Visitor Center Complex, Kennedy Space Center
...Yet, it is in the deep darkness of night that the blue veil is lifted from above us and we are able to see beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere to detect with our eyes, something of our place in the cosmos.
Read MoreThe Sky Calls To Us, Photographs of The John F. Kennedy Space Center
“We have to go to space!”...
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