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According to China Daily, “The consequence of this rocket launch, which is a common occurrence, is that many UFO believers mistook it for the latest visit by alien guests, as people across the southern part of China, including …
Hello Flickr friends! I highly recommend watching the video linked at the end of this caption. VERY cool stuff…! NASA recently performed a trial run on a rocket sled test fixture, powered by rockets, to replicate the forces a supersonic spacecraft would experience prior to landing. The sled tests will allow the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator [...]
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the third stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with several solid rocket motors attached sits on NASA’s Space Launch Complex-2. The Delta II will carry NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite into space. NPP [...]
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This image is part of a series showing many of the steps to recover a Solid Rocket Booster, beginning with landing of the booster in the Atlantic ocean some 140 to 160 miles east of the coast of Florida. The final images show Liberty Star and Freedom Star recovery ships arrival at the dock at [...]
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This image is part of a series showing many of the steps to recover a Solid Rocket Booster, beginning with landing of the booster in the Atlantic ocean some 140 to 160 miles east of the coast of Florida. The final images show Liberty Star and Freedom Star recovery ships arrival at the dock at [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is image (3) of (4) in the "NASA Train" series. The NASA-owned, ATK-operated train departs Utah for the Kennedy Space Center to deliver the final set of Reusable Solid Rocket Motor segments which are planned to serve as the Launch on Need segments for NASA’s final space shuttle launch. Image credit: NASA/ATK [...]
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