Edward White Gemini 4 EVA Spacewalk

Edward White II Gemini 4 EVA Spacewalk. Ed White First American Spacewalker

Full Description: On June 3, 1965 Edward H. White II became the first American to step outside his spacecraft and let go, effectively setting himself adrift in the zero gravity of space. For 23 minutes White floated and maneuvered himself around the Gemini spacecraft while logging 6500 miles during his orbital stroll. White was attached to the spacecraft by a 25 foot umbilical line and a 23-ft. tether line, both wrapped in gold tape to form one cord. In his right hand White carries a Hand Held Self Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU) which is used to move about the weightless environment of space. The visor of his helmet is gold plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun.

Keywords: Edward White II Gemini 4 Gemini IV Extravehicular Activity EVA Tether Spacewalk Hand Held Self Maneuvering Unit HHSMU Ed White

Subject Category: Astronauts, Gemini-Program, EVAs-Spacewalk,

Reference Numbers: Center: JSC. Center Number: S65-30433, GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2000-001180

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The Hatfield Clan of the Hatfield McCoy feud

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The Hatfield Clan of the Hatfield McCoy feud. - The picture was taken in 1897 and appeared in the Iowa State Press dated February 11, 1899. The headline read "In a Careless Moment Devil Anse Allowed It to be Taken. -- The Hatfields Wrecked the Photographer's Establishment."

The photography show following members of the Hatfield-Clan:

Top row, from left to right: Rosa Lee Hatfield (daughter of Anderson), Detroit 'Troy' Hatfield (son of Anderson), Betty Hatfield (Caldwell) (daughter of Anderson), Elias Hatfield (son of Anderson), Tom Chafin (nephew of William Anderson), Joe D. Hatfield (son of William Anderson), Ock Damron, Shephard Hatfield (son of Cap), Levicy Emma Hatfield (daughter of Cap), and Bill Border (store clerk).

Second row, from left to right: Mrs. Mary Hensley-Simpkins-Howes (daughter of Anderson) with daughter Vici Simpkins, William Anderson 'Devil Anse' Hatfield, Levicy Chafin Hatfield (wife of Anderson), Nancy Elizabeth Hatfield (wife of Cap) with son Robert Elliott Hatfield, Louise Hatfield (daughter of Cap), Cap Hatfield, and Coleman Hatfield (son of Cap)

Front row, from left to right: Tennyson 'Tennis' Hatfield (son of Anderson), Levicy Hatfield (daughter of Johnse), Willis Hatfield (son of Anderson), and 'Watch' or 'Yellow Watch' ('Devil Anse's' coon and bear dog)

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Evolution cat to catcher

Title: Evolution of a cat-cher / lith. H.S. Crocker & Co., S.F. Creator(s): H.S. Crocker & Co., Date Created / Published: S[an] F[rancisco, Calif.] : H.S. Crocker & Co., c1889 Dec. 19. Medium: 1 print : lithograph.

Summary: Print shows a five panel illustration beginning on the left with a cat, sitting on its hind legs, playing with a ball of yarn, which evolves into a baseball catcher standing upright. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-18772 (digital file from original print) LC-USZ62-42417 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: PGA - Crocker--Evolution ... (C size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: 29167 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to an Act of Congress by H.C. Megerle, in the year 1889 in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.

Subjects: Cats--1880-1890. Baseball players--1880-1890. Evolution--1880-1890. Format: Lithographs--1880-1890.

SpaceX Dragon spacecraft

SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of access to space ultimately by a factor of ten. Their design and manufacturing facilities are located in Southern California, near the Los Angeles airport, and their propulsion development and structural test facilities are located in Central Texas.

With the Falcon 1, Falcon 5 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, SpaceX is able to offer light, medium and heavy lift capabilities. They are able to deliver spacecraft into any inclination and altitude, from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit to planetary missions.

The Falcon 9 is intended to be a fully reusable, 2 stage launch vehicle powered by LOX/RP engines. The first stage generates 765,0001bf of thrust (sea-level) using nine Merlin 1C engines, and the second stage generates 96,0001bf (vacuum) using a single Merlin 1C engine. Both stages use gimbaled engines for guidance. Like some vehicles in the Apollo program, Falcon 9 offers engine-out capability (for the first stage).

The Dragon spacecraft has a flexible cargo and crew configuration and is recoverable. Pressurized cargo will be transported inside the capsule while unpressurized cargo will be located in the “trunk.” The crew configuration will be able to accommodate up to 7 crew members per flight.

Besides containing all the functions required to support crew or pressurized cargo, Dragon also contains much of which might be found in a typical "service module", including reaction control thrusters, GN&C, command & data handling, telemetry & communications, ISS proximity operations sensors, power & thermal control, entry, descent, landing, locator & emergency equipment and environmental control and life support sub-systems. The Dragon spacecraft design is structurally identical for both the cargo and crew configurations, the only difference being the internal outfitting and some subsystems. For cargo launches the inside of the capsule is outfitted with a modular cargo rack system designed to accommodate pressurized cargo in standard sizes and form factors based on the Space Shuttle Mid-deck Locker Equivalent specifications. For crewed launches, the interior is outfitted with crew couches, controls with manual override capability and upgraded life support. Keeping the cargo and crewed versions of Dragon similar minimizes the design effort.

The basic configuration for each launch is that at the top of the stack is the Dragon spacecraft. Below this is an unpressurized sleeve (the 'trunk') which serves to support the pressurized capsule during ascent and also contains a truss structure designed to hold unpressurized cargo.

After berthing with the ISS and delivering cargo or crew, Dragon is re-loaded with crew or down-cargo. Once reloaded, Dragon is un-berthed, departs the ISS and performs a de-orbit bum, jettisons the unpressurized section, and performs a guided re-entry and splash-down under parachute. SpaceX will perform ocean recovery, delivering crew and/or cargo to NASA.

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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Great Serbian-Croatian inventor (later nationalized American), pioneered concept of Alternating Current, the system of electricity used throughout the world.

Publicity photo of Nikola Tesla sitting in his laboratory in Colorado Springs in December 1899. Photo was taken by Dickenson V. Alley, photographer at the Century Magazines. The laboratory was built in 1899. Tesla sent a copy of this photograph to Sir William Crookes in England in 1901.

This image is a Multiple exposure. The photo is cited as a double exposure by Carl Willis and Marc Seifer. Tesla's Colorado Springs notes identify the photo as a double exposure. To give an idea of the magnitude of the discharge the experimenter is sitting slightly behind the "extra coil". I did not like this idea but some people find such photographs interesting. Of course, the discharge was not playing when the experimenter was photographed, as might be imagined!

Conversely a copy of the original photograph was collected by Leland I. Anderson who sold the collection to Tesla Wardenclyffe Project. They now claim copyright. Note that the version in that archive includes a hand written note added in 1901 printing which doesn't appear on the more widely available image.

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Cessna 402C from "Wings" TV series COLOR IMAGE

Cessna 402 C from "Wings" TV series FREE COLOR IMAGE. The Cessna 401 and 402 are series of 6 to 10 place, light twin, piston engine aircraft. This line was manufactured by Cessna from 1966 to 1985 under the name Utiliner and Businessliner.

The series "Wings" takes place primarily at the fictional Nantucket airport Tom Nevers Field. Until 1976, the real-life island was the site of the United States Navy's Tom Nevers Naval Facility, later the home of the Nantucket Hunting Association. The Club Car (a real restaurant on Nantucket) is also often featured on the show.

The airplane for the show was a 1981 Cessna 402C one of which was C/N 402C0507 #N121PB, still flying with Cape Air.;

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William Ross Wallace

William Ross Wallace was born at Lexington, Ky., in 1819. He practiced law in New York after 1841, and contributed occasionally for magazines. He died at New York, May 5, 1881. Wallace had the sense of literary patriotism and the gift of rhetoric, rather than natural poetic inspiration. His poems, however, are in their way praiseworthy. Among them, Of Thine Own Country Sing is characterized by its breadth and vigor of treatment, by the clear and well-proportioned presentation of his theme. This piece recalls some of the shorter poems of Coleridge.

"The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World" is a poem by William Ross Wallace that praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change in the world. The poem was first published in 1865 under the title "What Rules The World".

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IMAGE CREDIT: Meditations in America, and other poems Author: William Ross Wallace. Publisher: C. Scribner, 1851. Original from: the New York Public Library. Digitized: Nov 29, 2006. Length: 143 pages.

TEXT RESOURCE: American song: a collection of representative American poems, with analytical and critical studies of the writers. Editor: Arthur Beaman Simonds. Contributor: Arthur Beaman Simonds. Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1894. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Feb 27, 2009. Length: 310 pages. Subjects:American poetry