Description The Television InfraRed Observational Satellite (TIROS) 1 was the first weather satellite. Launched into a polar orbit equipped with two TV cameras, TIROS 1 was operational for only 78 days but demonstrated the feasibility of monitoring planet Earth’s cloud cover and weather patterns from space. TIROS satellites eventually began Read More →
The Space Shuttle Columbia passes into a brilliant sunrise scene during the STS-9\Spacelab 1 mission. The photograph was taken with a 35mm camera aimed through Columbia’s aft flight deck windows. Part of the science module, which hosted more than a week’s scientific experimentation, is silhouetted against the scene. Image #: Read More →
Photographic documentation showing astronauts in Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMU) working on both Experimental Assembly of Structures in Extravehicular Activity (EASE) and on Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures (ACCESS) in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis during STS-61B. Image #: 61b-45-029 Date: November 28, 1985 via Flickr Read More →
Earth as viewed from 10,000 miles. In 1969, the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) unmanned test flight made a great ellipse around Earth as a test of the translunar motors and of the high speed entry required of a human flight returning from the moon. A 70mm camera was programmed Read More →
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