The Professor, on May 2nd, 2013
 The mailboxes are watching… We’ve all watched lots of videos of various NASA launches, especially launches of the Space Shuttle. I’ve always marveled at the videos that show the vehicles clearly at very high altitudes and wondered at what kind of equipment that they use. Well, perusing the UK edition of Gizmodo, I found my answer. A post by Jamie Condliffe today included a video from the 1980s about the photo operations at Kennedy Space Center, and shows all sorts of interesting old camera tech and the various shops and contractors that made it all work. Well worth watching after the jump.
Photo Credit: NASA
Continue reading Recording the Shuttle Launches
engineerd™, on January 8th, 2013
NASA has not officially put them up on Craigslist, but several facilities are on the auction block at Kennedy and other space centers. At the end of this year, funding for the wind down of the space shuttle program ends. Follow-on programs, like Constellation, have not taken over all space shuttle facilities. One of the more famous facilities is LC-39A.
Continue reading For Sale: Launchpad
engineerd™, on December 20th, 2012
Way back on the 2nd of January, 2012 AD, we asked you to try and predict what technologies would find their final resting place this year. We had some interesting guesses. And a huge miss.
Continue reading A-T Technology Death Pool: The End
engineerd™, on November 2nd, 2012
These signs have popped up along the route Space Shuttle Atlantis will take today as it is moved on its 76-wheel Orbiter Transporter “cart” from the Vehicle Assembly Building to its retirement home at the Visitor Center outside Kennedy Space Center’s gates. The trip is 9.8 miles, is expected to take about 12 [...]
HycoSpeed, on October 21st, 2012
[Our beloved HycoSpeed has been abducted and forced to do exactly what he's wanted to do his entire life. It's terrible, I know. Acting as doppelgänger, I have hacked into his account and made a few posts on his behalf, but I'm running out of pre-composed material. He sends me tidbits now and then, but I'm pretty much winging it now. Unfortunately for you, I'm nowhere near as amusing, nor as well-versed in obscure tech, but I do have some familiarity with a few specific fields of tech. If you'll bear with me, I'll do my best to make your weekends seem less empty.]
Continue reading And now for something completely different…
HycoSpeed, on September 28th, 2012
Why, I do believe it’s booty. B-B-B-Booty.
Image from airpigz.com.
engineerd™, on September 26th, 2012
One of the best uses of the internet, other than pr0n, is the amazing collections of old images that can be found on various sites. Flickr, in a bid to stay relevant, has been working with various museums to get the museum’s image collection hosted on Flickr’s servers. One such museum is the awesome San Diego Air & Space Museum. You can see their whole Flickr photostream here. Buried among all the great images, are some that are truly special. I know you’re busy, so I’ll show them after the jump.
Continue reading Concepts of the Space Shuttle
engineerd™, on September 20th, 2012
Yesterday morning, Space Shuttle Endeavour departed Kennedy Space Center aboard the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft on her way to her retirement home at the California Science Center. She traveled from Florida to Ellington Field in Houston. Today, she is departing Houston and travelling to Biggs Army Air Field near El Paso, TX for a refueling stop then heading to Dryden Flight Research Center in the California high desert. From there, she’ll fly up to San Francisco doing a flyby of NASA’s Ames Research Center then back to LAX. This route, the last flight of a space shuttle ever, gives people in Southern and Northern California plenty of opportunities to see this monstrous, 475,000 lb. combo flying overhead. From personal experience, I can tell you it is one of the most bizarre and awesome sights you will ever encounter. So, where are some good viewing sites?
Continue reading A Viewer’s Guide to History
engineerd™, on September 17th, 2012
It was 36 years ago today that the first space shuttle, OV-101 Enterprise, rolled out of its manufacturing facility in Palmdale, CA. NASA had intended to name the first of its new space planes Constitution and unveil it on Constitution Day (September 17). However, that restless and semi-insane group known collectively as Trekkies [...]
HycoSpeed, on July 18th, 2012
Orbiting the Earth the old fashioned way.
Image via nerdcore.
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