Similar
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Kennedy Space Center Director Bill Parsons addresses guests and attendees in the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building high bay in the ceremony commemorating the bay's transition for use by the Constellation Program. At right is Russell Romanella, director of the International Space Station/Payload Processing Directorate at Kennedy Space Center. Other representatives from NASA, Lockheed Martin, Space Florida and the state of Florida also attended. Originally built to process space vehicles in the Apollo era, the O&C Building will serve as the final assembly facility for the Orion crew exploration vehicle. Orion, America's human spaceflight vehicle of the future, will be capable of transporting four crewmembers for lunar missions and later will support crew transfers for Mars missions. Each Orion spacecraft also may be used to support up to six crewmembers to the International Space Station after the space shuttle is retired in 2010. Design, development and construction of Orion's components will be performed by Lockheed Martin for NASA at facilities throughout the country. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-07pd0195
FLICKRMEATBALL. NASA public domain image colelction.
OSIRIS-REx Transport from PHSF to VIF
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Flotation devices are attached to the top of the mockup Orion crew exploration vehicle before the testing in the open water at the Trident Basin at Port Canaveral, Fla. The mockup vehicle will undergo testing in open water. The goal of the operation, dubbed the Post-landing Orion Recovery Test, or PORT, is to determine what kind of motion astronauts can expect after landing, as well as outside conditions for recovery teams. Orion is targeted to begin carrying humans to the International Space Station in 2015 and to the moon by 2020. Orion, along with the Ares I and V rockets and the Altair lunar lander, are part of the Constellation Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2009-2561
NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLIE BOLDEN BRIEFS MEDIA ON NEW NASA BUDGET 2010-1603
STS-135 Atlantis Landing (201107210030HQ)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians attach the payload fairing holding the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, spacecraft to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The two spacecraft are designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis KSC-2012-4381
TITUSVILLE, Fla. - Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, technicians use a crane to lower the payload faring containing the two Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, spacecraft on to a transporter to be moved to the launch complex. NASA’s RBSP mission will help us understand the sun’s influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time. RBSP will begin its mission of exploration of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts and the extremes of space weather after its liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Liftoff is targeted for Aug. 23, 2012. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp Photo credit: NASA/ Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-4340
NASA Around Marshall. NASA public domain image colelction.
Related
Astronaut U.S. Senator John Glenn
Astronaut John Glenn poses in Mercury Space Suit
Astronaut John Glenn at preflight breakfast
Official portraits of Astronaut John Glenn
Mercury Project Astronaut John Glenn
Astronaut John Glenn, suited, during altitude chamber test
Astronaut John Glenn leaving crew quarters prior to launch
Astronaut John Glenn leaving crew quarters prior to launch
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. in his Mercury spacesuit
Astronaut John Glenn being Honored
Summary
Full Description: On February 23, 1962, President John F. Kennedy honors John H. Glenn, Jr. at Hangar S, Cape Canaveral, Florida, after his historic three-orbit mission aboard Friendship 7.
The Space Race began with a shock to the American public when the Soviet satellite Sputnik was launched in 1957. United states created NASA accelerate U.S. space exploration efforts and launched the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. The Soviet Union was first again when it puts the first human, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, into a single orbit on April 12, 1961. Shortly after this, on May 5, the U.S. launched Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight and reached its orbital goal on February 20, 1962, when John Glenn made three orbits around the Earth in the Mercury capsule. The Mercury space capsule was a pressurized cabin produced by McDonnell Aircraft and carried supplies of water, food, and oxygen for about one day. Mercury was launched on a top of modified Atlas D ballistic missiles. The capsule was fitted with a launch escape rocket to carry it safely away from the launch vehicle in case of a failure. Small retrorockets were used to bring the spacecraft out of its orbit, after which an ablative heat shield protected it from the heat of atmospheric reentry. Finally, a parachute slowed the craft for a water landing. Both astronaut and capsule were recovered by helicopters deployed from a U.S. Navy ship. The Mercury project missions were followed by millions on radio and TV around the world. Its success laid the groundwork for Project Gemini, which carried two astronauts in each capsule and perfected space docking maneuvers essential for manned lunar landings in the Apollo program announced just a few weeks after the first manned Mercury launch.
NASA Photo Collection
- Lawyer's work prompts NASA to delay Hangar S demolition
- John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7
- Hangar S on demolition list - NASA Spaceflight Forum
- President Kennedy honors Glenn - Flickr
- How Florida Became the Temporary Center of Space Travel
- X \ Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (ExploreSpaceKSC@)
- File:Astronaut John Glenn being Honored - GPN-2000-000607.jpg
- Project Mercury - Wikipedia
- 2,988 John H Glenn Jr Photos & High Res Pictures - Getty Images
- 190 John Glenn American Astronaut Orbits The Earth Stock Photos ...