space pics

[treehack]

from another site I frequent
http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm

thought some of you may like them

[DOOG]

Very impressive..

What camera do they use these days..?

Was a specially adapted Hasselblad for the Apollo missions IIRC

Thx for sharing.

[Eric Mc]

That's a couple of missions ago now.

I think they use digital SLRs as a matter of course now.

It allows them to download pictures to Houston during each mission. This is important when assessing any possible damage to the heat shield of the orbiter.

[oldskool]

Nikon D2XS is currently the weapon of choice up there...

http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/news/2007/0822_nas...

[sstein]

Why move this to Photography & Video, surely some people in the P+P would be interested in these as well??

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Stuart

[sgrimshaw]

They were good the last time someone pointed them out too ...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...