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From Flickr: “First TV Image from Space” by NASA on The Commons

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 →

From Flickr: “Variable Density Wind Tunnel” by NASA on The Commons

Description: Left to right: Eastman Jacobs, Shorty Defoe, Malvern Powell, and Harold Turner. In this photo taken on March 15, 1929, a quartet of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) staff conduct tests on airfoils in the Variable Density Tunnel. (In 1985, the Variable Density Tunnel was declared a National Read More →

From Flickr: “19 foot Pressure Wind Tunnel” by NASA on The Commons

Description Guide vanes in the 19 foot Pressure Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, form an ellipse 33 feet high and 47 feet wide. The 23 vanes force the air to turn corners smoothly as it rushes through the giant passages. If vanes were omitted, Read More →

From Flickr: “Friendship 7” by NASA on The Commons

At 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight. Image # : 87PC-0069 Date: February 20, 1962 via Flickr Read More →

From Flickr: “Friendship 7” by NASA on The Commons

At 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight. Image # : 87PC-0069 Date: February 20, 1962 via Flickr Read More →

From Flickr: “Friendship 7” by NASA on The Commons

At 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight. Image # : 87PC-0069 Date: February 20, 1962 via Flickr Read More →

From Flickr: “Friendship 7” by NASA on The Commons

At 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight. Image # : 87PC-0069 Date: February 20, 1962 via Flickr Read More →

From Flickr: “Friendship 7” by NASA on The Commons

At 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight. Image # : 87PC-0069 Date: February 20, 1962 via Flickr Read More →

From Flickr: “Venus” by NASA on The Commons

Description This picture of Venus was captured by the Mariner 10 spacecraft during its approach to the planet in early 1974. Taken with the spacecraft’s imaging system using an ultraviolet filter, the picture has been color enhanced to simulate Venus’s natural color as the human eye would see it. Although Read More →

From Flickr: “John Glenn’s Official Portrait” by NASA on The Commons

Official portrait photograph of NASA astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American to orbit Earth in a Project Mercury spacecraft. Image #: S62-05540 Date: December 1962. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/PMVD5S