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Johnson Space Center

Read more on my reflections of visiting Johnson Space Center after NASA Social graciously asking me to participate in a cross-site day of celebration of 50 Years of NASA and the upcoming landing of Mars Science Laboratory

63 photos·2012

Ed Van Cise (@Carbon_Flight) welcomes us to Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Room which will include support for M — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/5 · 1/10 · ISO 800

Folks are very excited to listen and watch the fine folks oversee the operation of the International Space Station — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/3.2 · 1/30 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·12mm · f/3.2 · 1/30 · ISO 800

We got some special access to the Apollo Mission Control Room — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/3.2 · 1/20 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/3.2 · 1/15 · ISO 800

I only wish my own status reports were so easily color coded — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/5 · 1/20 · ISO 800

Before there was e-mail and before there was internet composed of "tubes" there was real tubes of pressurized airing del — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/2.8 · 1/60 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/2.8 · 1/60 · ISO 800

The very coveted Flight Directory station — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/2.8 · 1/60 · ISO 800

Me as flight director? I like the ring of that — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/2.8 · 1/60 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/2.8 · 1/200 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/4.5 · 1/30 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·200mm · f/4.5 · 1/50 · ISO 800

International Space Station docking alignment thing-a-ma-jig; it is tiny! — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·70mm · f/4.5 · 1/25 · ISO 800

Chillin' — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·110mm · f/4.5 · 1/13 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·135mm · f/4.5 · 1/13 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/6.3 · 1/25 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·13mm · f/6.3 · 1/15 · ISO 400

Pronounced ki-boh, or "hope" in Japanese — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/6.3 · 1/20 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/6.3 · 1/25 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/4.5 · 1/25 · ISO 800

Critical Space Item indeed — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/5.6 · 1/1250 · ISO 100

Simulation of commanding a spacecraft on the moon of Phobos with Mars out the viewport — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/2.8 · 1/30 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·13mm · f/4 · 1/40 · ISO 400

Working prototype of a Moon rover — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/4 · 1/15 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/4 · 1/80 · ISO 400

NASA! — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/4 · 1/40 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/4 · 1/30 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/4 · 1/30 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/4 · 1/25 · ISO 400

Sub-pressurized chamber (the only one of its kind in the world) that allows NASA to understand the effects of varying ox — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/4 · 1/30 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/6.3 · 1/20 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/6.3 · 1/6 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/6.3 · 1/250 · ISO 800

Note that the lettering is backward — Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/6.3 · 1/80 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/6.3 · 1/80 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/6.3 · 1/20 · ISO 800

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·200mm · f/4 · 1/60 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·165mm · f/4 · 1/60 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·170mm · f/4 · 1/200 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·70mm · f/4 · 1/80 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·70mm · f/4 · 1/80 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·70mm · f/2.8 · 1/80 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·116mm · f/2.8 · 1/125 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·200mm · f/2.8 · 1/50 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/2.8 · 1/60 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/2.8 · 1/125 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/2.8 · 1/50 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/2.8 · 1/160 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/2.8 · 1/30 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·12mm · f/2.8 · 1/160 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/2.8 · 1/125 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·11mm · f/2.8 · 1/250 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·16mm · f/2.8 · 1/160 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/5.6 · 2 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/5.6 · 5 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/5.6 · 2.5 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/4 · 1/4 · ISO 400

Aug 2012·NIKON D7000·35mm · f/5.6 · 2.5 · ISO 400

saturn v first stage — saturn v first stageOct 2012·PerfectionV700

Oct 2012·PerfectionV700

Oct 2012·PerfectionV700

Oct 2012·PerfectionV700