notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

BBC Television Centre floor plan, as sold on this t-shirt by Red Bubble. Lovely.

Usually I can use Google Image Search or Tineye to find the source of a photograph, but this one’s eluded me. Still, I somewhat like it and it goes with some others I’ve posted recently, so here it is. (via, via)

(Source: gnoth)

bebba:

A series of photos entitled “Contrasts” by Amelie von Oppen.

I don’t often reblog pictures from Tumblr Radar, but when I do they’re high-contrast black and white multiples. (It’s worth clicking through for more like that.)

A lunar panorama by Surveyor 7, the last of the unmanned landers sent by the US before the manned moon programme (via).

Wikipedia:

On Jan. 20, while the craft was still in daylight, the TV camera clearly saw two laser beams aimed at it from the night side of the crescent Earth, one from Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, and the other at Table Mountain at Wrightwood, California.

Philip Scott Andrews: Last Days, 2011. (via letsdolaunch)

Screenshots from the demonstration video / sales pitch from Leica’s ForensicMap Pro “crime and crash mapping and animation software”, via chriswoebken.

Bullet points from the product page:

• Full, direct support of Leica Geosystems scanner data
• Integrity of evidence is assured by a protected database which tracks all changes
• Complete 2D and 3D CAD drawing tools
• Smooth integration with manual measurements, total station, GPS and Evidence Recorder data
• Powerful forensic animation features allow creation of compelling reconstructions

An illustration of the Vanguard 1 satellite, launched in 1958, by turkeychik.

The image was used in Alice Gorman’s article in The Conversation, Saving space junk, our cultural heritage in orbit:

One of the most significant pieces of “space junk” is the US satellite Vanguard 1. Launched in 1958, this satellite is now the oldest human-made object in space.

Historians argue that the infrastructure set up for Vanguard 1 – including tracking stations in Australia – shaped all subsequent US space programs. That’s a lot of cultural significance packed into an aluminium sphere the size of a grapefruit (as USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev disparagingly called it).

Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao for Harlem in upper Manhattan.

(I’ve seen the proposal for a dome over Manhattan, but these cooling-tower like structures are new to me.)

letsdolaunch:

Donna Plotner

Plotner (who later married and took her husband’s name) posed in Gus Grissom’s suit in the 1960s. When this photo appeared for sale on eBay in 2006, it caused some confusion:

Has anyone ever seen photos of women wearing Mercury spacesuits?

My first thought was to respond that it had to be Jerrie Cobb or one of the other “Mercury 13” ladies. But then I saw the photos.

I don’t recognize her. Maybe some of our more “senior” members will recognize her.

Why would NASA allow a model of uncertain provenance to pose in a bespoke B. F. Goodrich spacesuit?

The Collect Space forums never did find the answer, but Bob Crowe did:

 ”The images (and there were a lot of them) were shot on June 10, 1965 and the requestors were R. Crowe and J. Riehman with three entries for Project: Sentinel, Advertizing and TRW advertizing (yes, spelled like that). Another name mentioned was Don Stoehr. Since Williams knew that Bob Crowe was editor of the employee news paper “SenTineL” back then he immediately went to the Archives files and there in the July 2, 1965 issue were several of the photographs and the mysterious blonde woman was identified as Donna Plotner, executive secretary to Frederick W. Hesse, Vice President of Operations at that time.

The “mystery” featured in the last NNG has been solved. A note from Donna (Plotner) Bane who looked so appealing and mysterious in Gus Grissom’s space suit cleared it all up. Turns out Donna, who is now living in Oregon, married Don Bane (now deceased), also of TRW and they eventually left and went to JPL. She well remembers the day of the photo shoot and the difficulty she had in fitting her small frame into Gus Grissom’s even smaller suit.

(I wonder if there’ll ever be a better quality version of this photograph online than the roughly 270x370 image used here? Probably not. Perhaps it would take finding the July 2, 1965 issue of SenTineL.)

(Source: sohologramic)

One of the radomes at RAF Flylingdales under construction. Edited from this Flickr post of a page of Jonathan Glancey’s book, Lost Buildings.