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Click to invoke the Largerizer The photograph above is of the Galileo space probe and Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in the Atlantis payload bay on mission STS-34 in 1989 and getting ready to deploy. Galileo was the second of only two planetary spacecraft ever deployed from a space shuttle, the other being the Magellan [...] Click to invoke the Largerizer This abandoned control room is the cockpit of a BAC Concorde, now on display at the Auto & Technik Museum in Sinsheim, Germany. You punks are all (probably) too young to remember all of the sturm und drang of the SST (SuperSonic Transport) programs back in the late [...] Click to invoke the Largerizer Here we see the Holman-Moody Ford GT40 MkII in the pit for repairs during the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona. The GT40s finished 1-2-3 overall in that race, and the Holman-Moody car driven by Walt Hansgen, Mark Donohue, Tom Payne, and Grant Clark finished 3rd. The Ferrari’s in [...] Click to invoke the Largerizer With the current lack of a US space vehicle capable of ferrying people back and to the ISS, we’re forced to mooch rides from the Russians (Можем ли мы задницей ездить, товарищ?). The Soyuz spacecraft date back to the ’60s, and however goofy they might look (and they [...] Intersection at 11th Avenue and West 28th Street in NYC, circa 1910.Click to Largerizerize. Progress always has its price, and add a new, unfamiliar technology to the mix and you often end up with a number of dead people. In 1847 the City of New York authorized the construction of street-level railroad tracks [...] Voyager 2 getting prepped for launch in 1977. Click to Largerizerize You may have missed it, but recently there has bee a bit of a fooferaw in the media regarding Voyager 1 leaving the solar system and entering interstellar space. A new paper by the American Geophysical Union citing data from the summer [...] Apollo 4 on the pad at Kennedy on the morning of its launch with a moon that wasn’t in the sky. Click to Largerizerize. A rather important milestone, Apollo 4 was first flight of the Saturn V rocket and the first launch from the John F. Kennedy Space Center. A tremendously handsome vehicle, [...] Mir from STS-81. Click to Largerizerize Dèárthàïr is evidently sleeping one off in the drunk tank today (he says that he’s working. Ha!) so I’ll see if I can get an argument going. With any luck, there will be blood, just like a regent’s meeting. America’s space program is kind of in limbo [...] So tempting…. This weekend my wife’s desktop started making it’s death rattle, so we decided to replace it while it was still functioning. After 4 or 5 years of constant use it was due anyway. So we trundle off down to Best Buy to see if there was anything worth buying for the [...] |
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