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I saw this the other day. Good luck to the guy selling a car that I don't think was popular when it was new, not running, for that much.
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676229992.jpg A famous photo shows the control room at Kennedy Space Center on the day of the historic Apollo 11 launch packed with hundreds of men in white shirts and skinny black ties — and, among them, a single woman sits at a console. As Apollo 11 began its flight to the moon on July 16, 1969, 28-year-old instrumentation controller JoAnn Hardin Morgan became the first woman ever permitted in the launch firing room, which is locked down in advance of a space flight. Morgan, who was the first female engineer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, would go on to have a 40-year-long career at NASA. While she encountered challenges along the way, including being "the only woman there for a long time" and spending the first 15 years working "in a building were there wasn't a ladies rest room," Morgan says that "I had such a passion that overrode anything else, the lonely moments, the little bits of negative. They were like a mosquito bite. You just swat it and push on." Born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1940, Morgan was inspired to pursue a career in space exploration when she saw the takeoff of Explorer-1, the first satellite launched by the United States. "As a high-school kid who liked math and science, I thought, 'This is going to change the world I’m living in,'" she recalls. Her space career began with an internship at age 17 with the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics at University of Florida, she went to work at Kennedy Space Center as an aerospace engineer in 1963. While Morgan had worked on the all of the previous Apollo launches as a junior controller, she had never been allowed in the firing room during the liftoff phase. Shortly before the Apollo 11 launch, she received a promotion to senior controller and her boss wanted her to be on the console for the launch. As she later learned and recounted in an interview: "My immediate supervisor had spoken with Karl Sendler, the director of information systems... and said, 'I want to put JoAnn on console for liftoff. She’s my best communicator. I get clear information about how things are going. She’s also very disciplined.'" In her role as instrumentation controller for the launch, Morgan was responsible for monitoring guidance computers at the Central Instrumentation Facility and the lightning and fire detection systems at the launchpad. She also had to monitor the command carrier for interference from ships or submarines trying to block commands from flight control or send commands to Apollo 11. Morgan recalls that this was of particular concern as the Soviet Union had tried to interfere with command transfers during previous Apollo missions using an offshore trawler and submarine. Fortunately, the Apollo 11 mission was a stunning success with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landing the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the moon in a feat broadcast to millions of people worldwide. Following Apollo, Morgan worked on a variety of projects at NASA including developing algorithms for a Mars mission trajectory. She also received a Sloan Fellowship, which allowed her to earn a master's degree in preparation for a management role at NASA. She was made the Chief of the Computer Services Division in 1979, becoming the first female senior executive at Kennedy Space Center. While her career in NASA lasted over 40 years, she still thinks back to that groundbreaking day in Firing Room No. 1 and the historic moon landing that came after: "[After the launch] my job was done, and there was nothing I could do to contribute to the activity of the lunar module going down on the moon. So I got to enjoy watching it," she reflects. "[My husband and I] got a bottle of champagne, and turned the TV on. After we watched the landing, my husband reached over and said, 'Hon, you’re gonna be in the history books.'" http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676229992.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676229992.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676229992.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676229992.jpg |
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THE ROARING TWENTIES The 1920s was a fascinating time.....on both sides of the Atlantic as radio amateurs re-wrote radio science and proved "short waves" was a valuable means of long distance communication. At the end of 1923 British and East Coast Americans made "first contact" on frequencies and equipment that "professionals" had laughed at. Then in January 1924 British radio amateur Gerald Marcuse (G2NM) made the first contact with the West Coast, proving beyond any doubt that short waves could circle the world...and the rest as they say "is history"... And yet such amateurs are often forgotten in the pages of history. (photo from the book "The World at their Fingertips" by John Claricoats G6CL) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676322092.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676322092.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676322092.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676322092.jpg An aqueduct bridge built by the Romans in 3 B.C. still exists 8 kilometers (5 miles) to the west of Aosta, Italy. Known as Pont d’Aël, it measures 60 meters (198 feet) long and stands 66 meters (217 feet) above the Grand Eyvia river. The water channel at the top of the aqueduct is 2.26 meters (7 feet) wide. The bridge featured an enclosed maintenance passage below the waterway. A modern hiking trail utilizes the ancient aqueduct to cross over the river gorge. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676322092.jpg The Persian Carpet Flower - Edithcolea Grandis. |
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Amber waves of grain? CHECK Purple mountains majesty...ok close enough CHECK And of course, the flag that was up when the song was made... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...d?format=1500w |
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Left ankle appears she was hobbled like in the movie Misery. You guys missed the right hand craw.CRAW, CRAW! The right thumb looks like a toe and the left hand fingers are as long as her head is tall. Its a mess of a twisted picture. |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676386558.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676386558.jpg The "Randall Tire Co." gas station and garage in Vinita, Oklahoma on old Route 66, circa the 1930s. It is at 237 S. Wilson St. and was built in 1931. It was a Wilco, H. F. Wilcox, Tulsa gas and oil company gas station. The gas then was 11 cents per gallon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It has a distinctive facade with irregular stone that gives it a castle-like appearance, with a sawtooth parapet. Its windows are framed with bricks. We believe it is currently an auto parts store. Historically, Vinita is the second oldest town in Oklahoma and was the first in the State to have electricity. It is called "America's Crossroads" US highways 60, 66, and 69 crossed Vinita. Some see Vinita as Will Rogers hometown, but he was born close by on the Cherokee Nation near present-day Oologah, OK. He did go to college at Willie Halsel College in Vinita but made Claremore, OK his home. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676386558.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676386558.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676386558.jpg The RAYDAC (Raytheon Digital Automatic Computer) Technician performing a memory integrity check during the construction phase of the 30-bit RAYDAC computer on August 2, 1952. Designed for use in Project Hurricane, this four address binary machine built by Raytheon was installed in July 1953 at the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California. Cooled by liquid freon, the 5,200 vacuum tubes consumed 28 kW of power. It had 18,000 crystal diodes, 1,152 words of 36-bit 305 µs acoustic delay line memory, and 630 relays. With a 3.77 MHz clock and 54-bit instructions, addition took 38 µs, multiplication 240 µs, and division 375 µs, excluding the memory-access time, with 5-bit check numbers (Hamming type error detection) for self-checking arithmetic. The 18.6 m² computer required 4 operators, 14 maintenance, 25 mathematicians, 5 clerks, and had 4 coders in training. According to the specs, the purpose of the machine was data reduction and general large-scale computations. |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676388498.jpg An aerial view of Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California (USA), with three docked aircraft carriers on 25 August 1971. The carriers are the USS Ranger (CVA-61) (in dry dock), USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), and the USS Hancock (CVA-19) (left). http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676388498.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676388498.jpg UNIVAC 490 Real-Time System at NASCOM Network Switching Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A. (1965). Designed by Seymour Cray, it consisted of two 30-bit central processor units with 32K core memory each, using 13,819 transistors and 37,543 diodes each, FH880 drums, IIIC Mag tape units and a 1004 card processor and printer. Prior to the advent of NASCOM, the 1957 Minitrack network largely relied on 30 bits/sec teletype lines for tracking the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, and Explorer. As NASA developed more advanced satellites in the early 1960s, the capability for telecommand grew, and Minitrack was no longer sufficient. Network technologies used in NORAD and SAGE defense systems contributed to the development of NASCOM which formed in 1964 under the administration of the Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition which tied together three tracking and acquisition networks: the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN), the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and the Deep Space Network (DSN). Communication links consist of landlines with 60 WPM full-duplex 33 ASR teletype circuits, submarine cable, HF radio and even Continuous Wave (CW). There are three basic Communication Line Terminals: low speed (300BPS), medium speed (1600BPS); and high speed (2000-4800 BPS). Above 4800 BPS, a Communications Control Unit (CCU) is used. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676388498.jpg El Reno, OK late 1940s http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676388498.jpg Following those blueprints precisely? |
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But then one died early and the remaining one bought it over, and removed the house.. Stuff like that.. In Holland they have similar evolutions of ground plots, the thing happens when the farmer dies, and he has more sons, and he cuts of a bit of land to build house for his kids. or in they cut up the land in 2, and both build a house, than they have kids and they do the same again. In Holland they have entire towns like this http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676442474.jpg But the houses look much different, typically a lot nicer the farm houses at least http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1676443022.jpg A lot has to do with religion... Belgians were catholics, house sober on the outside, close the curtains, hide your riches on the inside. Dutch were protestants.. clean tidy house on the outside, open curtains so everybody can look inside how you live a sober life or whatever. Modern day Belgium is a mess full of houses of various designs, all scattered you can have a housing estate with a modern house, than a hacienda style, classic red brick, then a wood frame house, there is no limit to anybodies imagination or style, a dream for chitty architects In Holland they create a housing estate, First thing they do is open a coop for all the future owners to deal with the housing project.. Get all houses built in same style with same mailbox, same roof same window colors. And the sillyness is that somebody buying a big 2 under a roof house with double garage.. has to be in the same coop as retired folks who get a social house in the project. Obviously the big owners have busy jobs no time for the coop, and the retired wankers are numerous and keep the coop meetings flooded with stupid arguments.. And they decide what color window frame the big owners end up needing to install. |
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