photo info

NASA's C-141 jet was named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper and outfitted with a 36-inch telescope. It operated until 1995 and is now decommissioned.

Location: Mountain View, California

Date: April 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds

ID Number: #0A622153


  Other photographs in the "yuri night world space party apr07" collection:

Hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield, usually a staid government installation, but lit up this evening for Yuri's Night World Space Party

moffett-federal-airfield-hangar

World Space Party at NASA Ames to celebrate anniversary of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight on April 12, 1961

world-space-party-yuri-gagarin

One of three hangars at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, pressed into service for Yuri's Night and World Space Party

nasa-ames-research-center-party

Multimedia artist Peter Foucault's Robot Drawing Machine #8, with two line-drawing robots that respond to applause, on display at Yuri's Night space party

peter-foucault-robot-drawing-machine

NASA's Quiet Short Haul Research Aircraft, QSRA, built from C-8 Buffalo and used to research short-takeoff aircraft design, on display at Yuri's Night party

nasa-quiet-short-haul-research-aircraft

World Space Party 2007, a science and dance combination, to celebrate anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight on April 12, 1961

world-space-party-2007

A global earthquake early warning system, which measures changes in rock conductivity, a joint venture of NASA Ames and QuakeFinder, at Yuri's Night

global-earthquake-early-warning

Yuri's Night World Space Party at NASA Ames, to celebrate Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight, looks eerily similar to annual Burning Man festival

yuri-night-world-space-party

Windmill on display at Yuri's Night World Space Party at NASA Ames looks like a kaleidoscope when spinning

windmill-kaleidoscope

Light bulb art project, with bicycles and color-shifting bulbs, on display at Yuri's Night World Space Party at NASA Ames

light-bulb-art-project-yuris-night

 

Keywords: gerard-kuiper-airborne-observatory / Volume: 1ds-16

Declan McCullagh is a photographer who lives and works in San Francisco, California. His images are available for licensing and for purchase as signed custom prints.

Photographs and text are copyright © 1989-2007 by Declan McCullagh. All rights reserved. Privacy policy.

Valid CSS!

NASA's C-141 jet was named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper and outfitted with a 36-inch telescope. It operated until 1995 and is now decommissioned.