Two minutes and 47 seconds into the July 4 launch of the space shuttle Discovery, NASA engineers at Cape Kennedy realized four pieces of external foam on the fuel tank had fallen away and may have ...

From video camera to driverless shuttle vehicle Date: November 12, 2014 ... The initial video thus plays the role of a virtual track that the vehicle must follow when it travels in autonomous mode.

With $100 million of equipment at their disposal, they supplied everything from small film cameras to the enormous ROTI, with its telescoping 100-inch to 500-inch focal length, that could track a ...

The pictures, taken with a Nikon-880 digital camera on a tripod, reveal what appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage, but the photographer, who ...

Some riders have said that’s what they would expect from a private transport but not a shuttle.” “Another reason we track the flight numbers is for contact tracing,” he explained.

In addition to transporting video from the camera to the control room, the POVs facilitate robotic control of the camera shuttle, which is unique in its ability to move both laterally and vertically.

Atlantis astronauts step out on the first of five risky spacewalks to repair Hubble Space Telescope. The will replace a 15-year-old Wide-Field Camera and data processing computer.

New Orleans - A video camera on the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank will record the launch planned for 2005, including any flyaway foam of the sort that led to last year's Columbia ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — Officials at Pensacola International Airport have launched a new live shuttle tracker. According to a PNS news release, travelers will now be able to track airport ...