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Where did that picture come from?

I'm currently scanning a box of slides from someone at my church - stuff her father took back in the sixties. I came across a similar shot, likely at the same time. What a coincidence.
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I ran across it on another car forum. It caught my eye because my parents took a similar B&W photo while visiting the Smithsonian. I'm hoping there is a copy in the many boxes of photographs they left behind.

Yeah, coincidences indeed!

 

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Bruce McCandless II
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I had a fantastic time working with him on a Lockheed proposal to NASA back in 1999. We were with different divisions of Lockheed. He was a great guy and had a great sense of humor. Sure do miss those days.

Our nemesis at Boeing Seal Beach won the contract. I knew their technical lead and manager...nice gentlemen. That being said, NASA selected the wrong team.

 

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The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). Back in 1996, Marty Masters was my supervisor at Lockheed, and he told me stories about him testing the MMU at night when everyone was gone for the day because the unit had very sensitive sensors (gyros / accelerometers.)

 

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A long, but interesting article:

 

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NASA's latest moon rocket: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/artemis-i-rehearsal-sls-launch-pad-1.6386870

 

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...ignment-milestone-optics-working-successfully

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60771210

 

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https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-u...MIwJ_X2svQ9gIVrj6tBh1nog-FEAAYASAAEgJFHfD_BwE

https://www.rocketlaunch.live/

 

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In this view looking up in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, all of the work platforms that surround the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft are fully retracted on March 16, 2022. The Artemis I stack atop the mobile launcher will roll out to Launch Complex 39B atop the crawler-transporter 2 for a wet dress rehearsal ahead of launch. Photo credits: NASA/Glenn Benson

 

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Built in 1965, the two 6,000 ton transporters at the Kennedy Space Center have only built up 3,400 miles between them. Talk about garage queens.

It takes a crew of nearly 30 people to operate, and when loaded travels at 1 mph.

The platform remains level even when the roadway is sloped.

 

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How about a space song......

 

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Rock steady!

 

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The first official Webb deep field image. If you wonder about the blurry streaks in the background, you're right - it's distorted. No fault of the telescope, it is caused by the forground galaxies causing a gravitational lens effect on the farther subjects. Just what Einstein predicted. If you hold up a grain of sand at arm's length, that's the size of sky that this image was pulled from.

Webb Image Galleries - NASA Science

Webb's most recent images released by NASA in 2025, displayed in reverse chronological order.

www.nasa.gov

 

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Webb vs. Hubble. Here's an example of the extra clarity available from the new telescope.
Hubble image of the Carina Nebula:

And the same point in space as seen by the new Webb telescope:

 

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Additional Webb Telescope imagery

Gallery

 

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High resolution video from the surface of Mars.

NASA Mars video shows planet in incredible detail

NASA has released a video that explores a 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic of Mars, the most detailed image of the red planet ever created.

www.digitaltrends.com