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  • August 1991 Space Shuttle Launch, 11:02 a.m., at Kennedy Space Center from Astronaut Road. Cape Canaveral, Florida. Flight Number: STS-43 Craft: Atlantis. Flight Duration: 8d 21h. Mission was a TDRS launch.
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  • August 1991 Space Shuttle Launch, 11:02 a.m., at Kennedy Space Center from Astronaut Road. Cape Canaveral, Florida.  Flight Number: STS-43 Craft: Atlantis. Flight Duration: 8d 21h. Mission was a TDRS launch.
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  • August 1991 Space Shuttle Launch, 11:02 a.m., at Kennedy Space Center from Astronaut Road. Cape Canaveral, Florida.  Flight Number: STS-43 Craft: Atlantis. Flight Duration: 8d 21h. Mission was a TDRS launch.
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  • Rockwell Aerospace: manufacturer of airplane and space vehicles. Rockwell operated in Downey, California for seventy years (1929-1999) and produced systems for the Apollo Project as well as the space shuttle. President Rocco Petrone 1986, with full-scale mock-up of space shuttle.
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  • Rocketdyne Corporation: Canoga Park (near Los Angeles), California; a division of Rockwell Aerospace in 1986. Technician seen here checking welds on rockets engine cone with ultraviolet light. Rocketdyne is the premier rocket engine design and production company in the United States. The company was related to North American Aviation (NAA) for most of its history. NAA merged with Rockwell International,, which was then bought by Boeing in December, 1996. In February, 2005, Boeing reached an agreement to sell Rocketdyne to Pratt & Whitney, and this transaction was completed on August 2, 2005.
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  • Rockwell Aerospace: manufacturer of airplane and space vehicles. Rockwell operated in Downey, California for seventy years (1929-1999) and produced systems for the Apollo Project as well as the space shuttle. Quarter-scale model of space shuttle (tools with cobwebs) MODEL RELEASED 1986.
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  • Rocketdyne: Canoga Park (near Los Angeles), California; a division of Rockwell Aerospace in 1986. Technician seen here with space shuttle engine. Rocketdyne is the premier rocket engine design and production company in the United States. The company was related to North American Aviation (NAA) for most of its history. NAA merged with Rockwell International,, which was then bought by Boeing in December, 1996. In February, 2005, Boeing reached an agreement to sell Rocketdyne to Pratt & Whitney, and this transaction was completed on August 2, 2005. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Rockwell Aerospace: manufacturer of airplane and space vehicles. Rockwell operated in Downey, California for seventy years (1929-1999) and produced systems for the Apollo Project as well as the space shuttle. President Rocco Petrone 1986.
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  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. [1977]
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  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. [1977]
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  • Pre-flight preparation of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). This is a converted Lockheed C-141A Starlifter aircraft, operated by NASA since 1974. Its main instrument is a 90-cm infrared telescope. The KAO can cruise at up to 12,500 meters, well above most of the atmospheric water vapor that absorbs far infrared radiation and prevents ground-based far-IR astronomy. Here, the liquid nitrogen tanks in the rear of the aircraft are being filled, venting gas producing the cloud. Liquid nitrogen is used in the cryogenics system used to maintain the temperature of the KAO's instruments to within one degree of absolute zero (-273 Celsius). NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mt. View, California. [1992]
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  • Airborne infrared astronomy. Alan Meyer (left) and Roger Hildebrand seen during a flight of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The screen displays show the image made by the alignment telescope (left) and the infrared telescope (right). The KAO is a converted Lockheed C-141A Starlifter aircraft, containing a 90-cm infrared telescope. Flying at up to 12,500 meters, the KAO can cruise well above most of the atmospheric water vapor,, which absorbs far-infrared radiation. The KAO also contains computerized data reduction and analysis stations. Operated by NASA, the first flight of the KAO was in January [1992] NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Infrared telescope looking at gas clouds. [1992]
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  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. [1977]
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  • Mountain View, California.Vials of chemicals known as P.A.H. (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) luminesce in ultraviolet light. These molecules, naturally occuring throughout the depths of space, are believed by these and and other researchers to be possible origins of life on earth. P.A.H.s have been found to become chemically modified when surrounded by ice and exposed to ultraviolet radiation -- a situation likely to occur in space.iOnce molecularly altered, the modified P.A.H.s closely resemble known organic molicules that are found in abundance on earth. Thus P.A.H.s may be found to be the first stage in a chain of molecules that led to life on earth. Researchers at NASA/Ames are simulating the conditions in space in order to study these alterations in the molecular structure of P.A.H.s. They also track P.A.H.s as they travel through interstellar space towards developing solar systems where they may become transformed into the seeds of life, all to hypothesize about the origins of life on earth..[1999]
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  • Practical astronomy. A logbook and calculator used by a crewmember of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The logbook details the times at, which liquid helium and nitrogen were added to the cryogenic system of the KAO's far-infrared telescope. At right is a chart used to plan observations with an infrared polarimeter fitted to the telescope. The calculator, a programmable type, may be used for work on preliminary data. NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory: Astronomy from the stratosphere. NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Data gathered during a mission to be analyzed.
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  • Mountain View, California.Researcher Dr. Lynn Rothschild takes samples of algal communities in order to study the impact of ultraviolet light damage on molecular evolution. Like many researchers at NASA/Ames Research center in Mountain View, California, Dr. Rothschild performs experiments to hypothesize about the origins of life on earth and the possible existence of life on other planets. Dr. Rothschild studies the biology of hostile environments in order to extrapolate about the conditions on earth when life began forming here several billion years ago and about the possibilities of life on other planets. MODEL RELEASED 1999
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  • Mountain View, California.David Koch, a researcher at the NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, displays an area in the sky that can be approximated by two handfuls of sky at arms length. David Koch is planning to search an area of this size with the KEPLER space telescope/photometer for as of yet undiscovered terrestrial planets in the "habitable zone". The area he plans to study is located in the Milky Way, and is known as the H-2 area. Koch plans to search this area using the KEPLER orbiting telescope, looking at 100,000 stars every four minutes for four years. In doing so, he expects to find about 400 earth sized planets as well as 800 planets twice the size of earth. Koch is double exposed with the 120 inch telescope at the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton and the night sky. MODEL RELEASED [1999]
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