What can be said against a fun family outing to the moon?
Vintage Book Art
via Flickr
(Source: Flickr / glenmullaly)
Take-off of America’s first “rocket-assisted” airplane, an Ercoupe fitted with a GALCIT developed solid propellent 28 pound thrust JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) booster.
The setting sun peeks beneath a SR-71B Blackbird, silhouetted against the orange hues of the western sky.
NASA research pilot Bill Dana takes a moment to watch NASA’s NB-52B cruise overhead after a research flight in the HL-10
NASA Headquarters photographic tribute to modified USAF-type altitude pressure garments used by Shuttle astronuats was arranged by NASA-artist Chet Jezierski. It includes STS-4’s suits, press clippings from the test mission series, insignia and other memorabilia from the era.
Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly $2 million dollars.
