#space center Houston

[timmurleyart]

Snoopy in space. 🚀🪐🐶🇺🇸

[godallaswriter]

Escape the Bounds of Earth: Visit Space Center Houston

Have you ever dreamed of traveling to the moon? If so, learn about the history of NASA and the space race. A new era of international cooperation is dawning.

[eathenet]

Mullethead & Hambone Take the Backroads to Houston

Mullethead & Hambone Take the Backroads: A Houston Adventure Gone Hilariously Sideways Mullethead, a Texan with a hat full of outlandish ideas, an outdated map, and Hambone, his best friend, were restless. San Antonio’s familiar twang was starting to sound like a lullaby, and they craved an adventure. This time, however, the allure of the open road beckoned. Houston, the sprawling metropolis,…

[im-fostering-it292]

Houston, we have arrived. :)

[lonestarflight]

"An overall view of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Mission Control Center, during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Gemini-7 spaceflight."

Date: December 7, 1965

NASA ID: S65-60037, S65-60039

[a-typical]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits inside Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston after having completed its final cryogenic testing on Nov. 18, 2017.

Engineers tested this alignment process in the cryogenic, vacuum environment of Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center during about 100 days of cryogenic testing. The environment of the chamber simulates the frigid space environment where Webb operates, and where it collects data of never-before-observed portions of the universe. Inside the chamber, engineers fed laser light into and out of the telescope, acting like a source of artificial stars. The test verified the entire telescope, including its optics and instruments, worked correctly in this cold environment and ensured the telescope would work correctly in space.

[nctrnm]

#NowPlaying: "Houston We Have a Podcast: Space Biology" by NASA

[feuer-bluete]

I made a rookie mistake tonight. During bedtime I gave my nephews ( 5 and 8) my Laika plush and told them how Laika was a dog we sent into space!

The older one then said he doesn't believe me and I said we can check it tomorrow.

Now i am sitting here, thinking about how to not tell them Laika's end.

[autumngracy]

They have a mural in the Johnson Space Center painted by Alan Bean, with moondust from his space suit incorporated into the paint :')

[tranquilitybase11]

Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott leave Kennedy Space Center for Houston Texas following their Gemini 8 mission  

[peapod20001]

The best part of my icon and header is those are my pictures!! I took them!! On my phone!!

[michaelgabrill]

Johnson Space Center Ignites STEM Passion at Houstons Japan Festival

From Sept. 6-7, 2024, NASA’s Johnson Space Center brought the excitement of space exploration to the annual Japan Festival at Hermann Park in Houston.   The lively cultural event featured traditional food, dance, martial arts, and more, while Johnson’s booth attracted attendees with interactive space exhibits and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities.   Johnson employees […] from NASA https://ift.tt/hitwLCr

[softmenace]

The Fly Me To The Moon movie was actually pretty good!

[texaragan]

Friday, May 31. More NASA. Houston, Texas.

[lonestarflight]

"Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, during the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. When this photograph was taken a live television transmission was being received from Apollo 9 as it orbited Earth."

Date: March 4-12, 1969

NASA ID: S69-26301

[a-typical]

Since many materials change shape when they change temperature, a test team from Ball Aerospace worked together with NASA engineers at Marshall’s X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) to cool the mirror segments down to the temperature Webb is experiencing in deep space, -400 degrees Fahrenheit (-240 degrees Celsius).

Cryogenic testing of the primary mirror segments began in at Marshall’s XRCF by Ball Aerospace in 2009.

The change in mirror segment shape due to the exposure to these cryogenic temperatures was recorded by Ball Aerospace Engineers using a laser interferometer. This information, together with the mirrors, traveled back to California for final surface polishing at Tinsley. The mirrors’ final polish was completed in June of 2011.

By the end of 2013, all the flight primary mirror segments, as well as the secondary and tertiary mirrors would be at Goddard. The mirrors were stored in special protective canisters in the cleanroom, awaiting the arrival of the flight telescope structure.

Inside a massive clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic arm to install the last of the telescope’s 18 mirrors onto the telescope structure.

James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Seen in Full Bloom

Once the mirrors were completed, the science instruments were integrated into the telescope. While at Goddard, the telescope also underwent environmental testing – both acoustic and vibration – to ensure it would be able to withstand the rigors of launch. That successfully completed, the telescope was sent off to NASA Johnson in Houston, Texas, for tests of the optics and instruments at cryogenic temperatures. NASA Johnson’s Chamber A is the only thermal vacuum chamber NASA has that is large enough for Webb!

Once the telescope reached orbit, engineers on Earth made adjustments/corrections to the positioning of the Webb telescope’s primary mirror segments to bring them into alignment – to ensure they would produce sharp, focused images.