San Diego, Calif. (Oct. 8, 2006) - Cars pass the starting point on the flight line during the SRT Coronado Speed Festival at Naval Air Station North Island. Over 200 racecars from 1925 to 1976 competed in 8 classes over the weekend. Speed Fest, held Oct. 7-8, is one of the many events taking place during San Diego Fleet Week. The San Diego Fleet Week mission is to pay tribute and thank San Diego’s military service men and women for “Serving America Twice” in the defense of our nation and as volunteers in improving the quality of our communities.
This replica of the 17th century ship Godspeed was under full sail when it cruised past the Statute of Liberty in New York harbor. A team from NASA traveled with the Godspeed to six East Coast ports during the summer with an interactive exhibit highlighting the connections between the adventurous men and women who settled in Virginia almost 400 years ago and NASA's plans to explore space and establish a presence on other worlds. NASA's exhibit gave an estimated 190,000 visitors the chance to make a personalized "space postcard," take photographs as an astronaut or settler and win prizes in a NASA trivia game. The Godspeed -- an 88-foot replica of the ship that brought the first English colonists to America -- acted as a floating museum, educating more than 456,000 visitors in six cities about exploration of the past.
San Diego (Oct. 14, 2006) - The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels, led by commanding officer Cmdr. Stephen Foley, perform aerial acrobatics during the 2006 Miramar Air Show at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The largest military air show in the country, the Miramar Air Show celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia (Mar. 15, 2005) - An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5), transports supplies for Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit Six (NEPMU-6) from Banda Aceh Airport in Sumatra, Indonesia, to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), after finishing their studies in the area. NEPMU-6 has been operating in Banda Aceh and conducted daily operations to assess health concerns including water, soil studies, and disease and vector control in displaced personnel camps.
Oct. 9, 2006 - Guided missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) steams along side the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in preparation for an underway replenishment. Stennis and embarked Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) are currently doing Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) off the coast of Southern California.
NASA's Active Aeroelastic Wing F/A-18 rolls into a hard left turn during a research flight in early December 2004 from the Dryden Flight Research Center.
A three-quarter view of the F-107A (Serial # 55-5120) on Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, California in 1959. It included a movable vertical fin with an area of 83.79 square feet, and a span of 11.02 feet. A Pratt & Whitney YJ75-P-11 engine with afterburner was installed. Two North American F-107 airplanes were flown at NACA/NASA High-Speed Flight Station starting November 1957 and continuing until September 1959. The F-107A was an aircraft possessing some interesting features that NACA wished to examine in detail. NACA acquired the first and third F-107As built.
The Kauai cave wolf spider is a mid-sized (0.50 to 0.75-inch) hunting spider that has completely lost its eyes as part of its adaptation to life in lava tubes. Instead of building webs, it chases and grabs its prey or may utilize sit-and wait ambush tactics. Unlike most wolf spiders that produce 100 to 300 spiderlings per clutch, the Kauai cave wolf spider is believed to produce fewer that 30 spiderlings per clutch. Newly hatched spiderlings are unusually large and are carried on the back of the female for only a few days.
Oct. 1, 2006 - A Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) fires during a Pre-Aim Calibration (PAC) fire aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). CIWS is the self-defense system that combines a 20mm Gatling gun with search and tracking radar to provide surface ships with terminal defense against anti-ship missiles. Essex is the Navy’s only forward deployed amphibious assault ship and is the flagship for the Essex Expeditionary Strike Group out of Sasebo, Japan.