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 command module from Apollo 14, named “Kitty Hawk” by her crew, on display in the Kennedy Space Center visitors’ center. Apollo 14 flew...
We’re in Florida this week, visiting son number 2 who is working an internship at SpaceX. First port of call was, of course Kennedy Space Center...
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...
The nose of a Beechcraft King Air at the Texas Air and Space Museum in Amarillo, Texas. This particular aircraft was a testbed for the technology used...
Apparently I forgot to post this shot while I was running my series of shuttle + carrier photos back in May. This is the fifth image in a set of detail...
This beautiful piece of precision engineering is “Illusion”, the 2018 robot from famed team 118, the Robonauts, from Clear Creek Independent...
Prior to this recent visit, the last time I was down at Space Center Houston was for a Cub Scout camp which allowed me to spend large chunks of the night...
Heat-shielding tiles under the nose of “Independence”, the mock-up space shuttle which sits on the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft outside...
Another detail of space shuttle mock-up “Independence” sitting on the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft outside Space Center Houston.
During our visit to Space Center Houston recently, I took a few pictures of the mock-up shuttle “Independence” and Shuttle Carrier Aircraft...
On the final day of FRC competition, team 6537 took a break to visit Space Center Houston. It had been at least 6 years since I was last there and I was keen...
