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the NASA thread and anything related

Space Shuttle Atlantis
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Nice shot of the ISS.
 
Mercury crew

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By Chrysler Saturn V Booster rockets
how far they have fallen :BangHead: today

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Apollo 16 last trip a man, the USA walked on the moon

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Apollo X-15/s
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orig. pilot X-15
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cutaway view
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launch off the bottom of the plane
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1st SR-71 (A-12 pilots) 1965
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1st SR-71 (A-12 pilots) 1967 & crew
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1st 6 SR-71 (A-12) Pilots, very secretive at the time
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SR-71 or A12 engines/airflow patterns
ramjet
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11 SR-71's rare to have them all out spying eyes want to know too much

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Sorry I have probably posted these before, just thought about it

2 were AF-Y12s
A-12s were silver/polished titanium 1st (Chrysler loved the name)
one with a rear trainer seat way on top
all the SR-71s had the radar blocking paint/coatings paint
didn't really matter nothing could catch them

SR-71 A12 Plane 8 of them & 2 YF-12's waiting.jpg
 
These items are pretty cool.

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25gbd_b.jpg

The Florida one sold out awhile back. The Texas one went on sale today. U.S. Mint
 
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Stepping down from the bottom step looks like it would be interesting.
 
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JPL / NASA
Two views of a century-old penny on Mars, separated by nearly 13 years. This penny is part of a camera-calibration target attached to Curiosity. The MAHLI camera on the rover took this image during Sol 34 (September 9, 2012). The penny is on the MAHLI calibration target as a tip of the hat to geologists’s informal practice of placing a coin or other object of known scale in their photographs. At right, the same penny is seen, rephotographed on June 22, 2025, or Sol 4577, showing almost no visible wear, with only a small coating of dust.

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JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Texas A&M University / NASA
Curiosity captured this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater. This was the first sunset observed in color by Curiosity.

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JPL-Caltech / NASA
On July 26, 2025, Curiosity demonstrated a new multitasking capability while capturing this view. It snapped the 15 images that make up the mosaic while simultaneously communicating with an orbiter. The rover’s tracks cross through a region filled with boxwork formations—hardened ridges created by mineral deposits from subsurface water billions of years ago. This boxwork region is in the lower foothills of Mount Sharp, a three-mile-tall mountain in the center of Gale Crater.

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More pics and accompanying text at:

Photos: 13 Years on Mars
 
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