The Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand or Dynamic Structural Test Facility is a 360 foot high building at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL inside...
Another view of the iconic T-Tower, Static Test Stand, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Last summer, I was lucky enough to be taken on a behind-the-scenes tour at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. As a life-long...
The last of this series of images of the US Space and Rocket Center’s A-12 shows the front of the aircraft. The Oxcart is on static display in front...
A detail of the rear of the A-12 Oxcart at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama showing the afterburner exhaust and some control surfaces.
I did a bit more reading about the A-12 after posting yesterday’s image. It was a slightly shorter, slightly faster version of the aircraft that...
I was delighted to see what I thought was an SR-71 Blackbird in the static display at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. On closer...
This Apollo command module, nicknamed “Casper” by its crew, was launched on April 16th, 1972 and took Apollo 16 crew John Young (later to command...
The nose of a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) and portion of the external tank as seen at the US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama...
We visited the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama this morning and, as a bona-fide space nerd, I had a fantastic time. Usually, I would...
An area of the magazine beneath the newer, concrete gun emplacements inside historic Fort Morgan, Alabama.
Receding arches and patterns from leaching mortar in the brickwork at Fort Morgan, Alabama.
The main reason for my November morning visit to Fort Morgan, Alabama last year was to photograph the civil war era fort itself. Here’s a shot of some...
Staying with bird pictures today, here’s another image from a very productive morning at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This handsome brown...
Here’s another of the many Great Blue Herons that I found while walking the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This one seems to be a juvenile...
An adult great blue heron seen on the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama on November 21st, 2022.
Minerals leaching out of the mortar in the brickwork at Fort Morgan, Alabama, form soda straws and stalactites under some of arches in the fortification’s...
A series of brickwork arches in the under-cover section of Fort Morgan, Alabama. I’m pretty sure the white streaks are chalky deposits that have...
One of the entrances into the magazine at one of the newer, concrete batteries at Fort Morgan, Alabama. Although the majority of the fort is built of brick,...
