visibility Similar

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — From between lightning masts surrounding the launch pad, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft roars into the blue sky aboard an Atlas V rocket spewing flames and smoke. Liftoff was on time at 2 p.m. EST from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This was the third launch attempt in as many days after scrubs due to weather concerns. The compact, 1,050-pound piano-sized probe will get a boost from a kick-stage solid propellant motor for its journey to Pluto. New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, reaching lunar orbit distance in just nine hours and passing Jupiter 13 months later. The New Horizons science payload, developed under direction of Southwest Research Institute, includes imaging infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a multi-color camera, a long-range telescopic camera, two particle spectrometers, a space-dust detector and a radio science experiment. The dust counter was designed and built by students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The launch at this time allows New Horizons to fly past Jupiter in early 2007 and use the planet’s gravity as a slingshot toward Pluto. The Jupiter flyby trims the trip to Pluto by as many as five years and provides opportunities to test the spacecraft’s instruments and flyby capabilities on the Jupiter system. New Horizons could reach the Pluto system as early as mid-2015, conducting a five-month-long study possible only from the close-up vantage of a spacecraft. KSC-06pp0104

STS-134 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

STS-127 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

Minotaur I Rocket Launch at NASA Wallops

STS-117 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

STS-134 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

Aquarius SAC-D Launch (201106100018HQ) DVIDS722956

Space X Crew-1 Preflight (NHQ202011130002)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Taken from the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39A atop twin columns of fire, creating rolling clouds of smoke and steam in its track. Launch of the STS-133 mission was at 4:53 p.m. EST on Feb. 24. Discovery and its six-member crew are on a mission to deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the International Space Station. Discovery is making its 39th mission and is scheduled to be retired following STS-133. This is the 133rd Space Shuttle Program mission, the 35th shuttle voyage to the space station and Discovery's final mission. For more information on the STS-133 mission, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/. Photo credit: NASA/Jeff Marino KSC-2011-1662

code Related

MA-6 - LIFTOFF, NASA Mercury project, NASA Gemini program

pia13449, NASA Gemini program. NASA public domain image colelction.

Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program

Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program

WINDMILL PROJECT AT NASA PLUM BROOK STATION

Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program

Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program

NASA Orion Program. NASA public domain image colelction.

McDonnell- Gemini, NASA Gemini program

LIFTOFF, NASA Mercury project, NASA Gemini program

description

Summary

S61-01205 (29 July 1960) --- Launch of the unmanned Mercury Atlas-1 (MA-1) spacecraft for a suborbital test flight of the Mercury capsule reentry, which did not achieve orbit. The Atlas exploded 65 seconds after launch. Photo credit: NASA

label_outline

Tags

johnson space center gemini program gemini liftoff mercury project high resolution mercury capsule reentry mercury atlas 1 test flight photo credit nasa
date_range

Date

29/07/1960
create

Source

NASA
link

Link

https://images.nasa.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

label_outline Explore Gemini Program, Photo Credit, Gemini

TRAINING - ASTRONAUT GLENN, JOHN - AEROMEDICAL LAB - CAPE

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-12 - ASTRONAUT TRAINING - UNDERWATER - MD

Gemini VI Mission Image - Rendezvous with Gemini VII

SPACECRAFT (INSPECTION) - ASTRONAUT JOHN W. YOUNG - MISC. - CAPE

Gemini 3 final inspection, NASA Gemini program

Marshall Space Flight Center, Saturn Propulsion & Structural Test Facility, East Test Area, Huntsville, Madison County, AL

Gemini XII Mission Image - Agena

Gemini XII Mission Image - Solar Eclipse

A one-of-a-kind F-15 Eagle called ACTIVE (Advanced Control Technology for integrated Vehicles) in flight over the desert (viewed from above the aircraft), will start test flights in September 1994

Astronaut Edwin Aldrin practices work task aboard KC-135

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - EXTRAVEHICULAR (EV) EQUIPMENT & SUIT - MSC

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's completed Orion spacecraft begins its trip from the Launch Abort System Facility to Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Orion spent many months in Kennedy's Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building undergoing final assembly. Hundreds of employees who work there signed the banner that states, "I'm On Board!" In doing so, their signature indicated they did their part to ensure mission success. After arrival at the launch pad, United Launch Alliance engineers and technicians will lift Orion and mount it atop its Delta IV Heavy rocket. Orion is the exploration spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to destinations not yet explored by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. It will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. The first unpiloted flight test of Orion is scheduled to launch Dec. 4, 2014 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, and in 2018 on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2014-4423

Topics

johnson space center gemini program gemini liftoff mercury project high resolution mercury capsule reentry mercury atlas 1 test flight photo credit nasa