Similar
Karlskrona outer naval port shipyard-related objects %s
STS053-238-036 - STS-053 - FARE experiment
S42-46-003 - STS-042 - Student Experiment 81-09 during STS-42
S120E006706 - STS-120 - Flyaround view taken by the STS-120 crew prior to docking.
STS106-351-020 - STS-106 - Fisheye view of Node 1 and PMA2 taken during STS-106
NASA SHADOW SHIELD EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS - Glenn Research Center History
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, workers check the underside of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft before it is lowered onto a stand. The satellite will survey the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, creating a cosmic clearinghouse of hundreds of millions of objects, which will be catalogued, providing a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the universe. Launch is scheduled no earlier than Dec. 10. Photo credit: NASA/Doug Kolkow, VAFB KSC-2009-4745
STS075-391-012 - STS-075 - Radiative Ignition and Transition to Spread Investigation (RITSI)
S134E009949 - STS-134 - Close-up view of Docking Target
Related
Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program
Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program
Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program
Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program
pia13449, NASA Gemini program. NASA public domain image colelction.
Magnetoplasmadynamcis, NASA history collection
Apollo Project, NASA history collection
SAFETY POSTERS, NASA history collection
Space Station - early, NASA history collection
Gemini, NASA history collection, NASA Gemini program
Summary
Gemini Rendezvous Docking Simulator suspended from the roof of the Langley Research Center's aircraft hanger closing in on its Agena target. Francis B. Smith wrote in his paper "Simulators for Manned Space Research," "The rendezvous and docking operation of the Gemini spacecraft with the Agena and of the Apollo Command Module with the Lunar Excursion Module have been the subject of simulator studies for several years. [This figure] illustrates the Gemini-Agena rendezvous docking simulator at Langley. The Gemini spacecraft was supported in a gimbal system by an overhead crane and gantry arrangement which provided 6 degrees of freedom - roll, pitch, yaw, and translation in any direction - all controllable by the astronaut in the spacecraft. Here again the controls fed into a computer which in turn provided an input to the servos driving the spacecraft so that it responded to control motions in a manner which accurately simulated the Gemini spacecraft." This is a photograph of "the Gemini spacecraft approaching the Agena target in a final docking maneuver.
NASA Identifier: L63-8864