This has an almost an abstract look to it. It also reminds me of some of the early- and mid-20th Century desert SW/Santa Fe paintings with huge horizontal color blocks. Really cool.
This has an almost an abstract look to it. It also reminds me of some of the early- and mid-20th Century desert SW/Santa Fe paintings with huge horizontal color blocks. Really cool.
Did you or do you know who took that photo (maybe your dad)? Are you the guy in it or related to him? Might be a small world if so.
Did you or do you know who took that photo (maybe your dad)? Are you the guy in it or related to him? Might be a small world if so.
You know what that is, I assume? Pretty sure it's an unassembled early VELA Hotel experimental payload for the Ranger spacecraft from the early 1960s.
https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security-science/2020-summer/vela-feature.shtml
https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/vela.htm
Long ago I picked up some Honeywell testing instruments with Sandia Labs ID tags - at a Goodwill of all places. I’ve gotten rid of most of it, but still have one piece, a tube-driven signal amplifier. Presumably it was used to amplify signals from testing transducers that would be recorded to magnetic tape for later analysis.I did not (will be 40 next month). It was a picture from Sandia Labs back in the early 60's but I believe this one might have been in the late 50's. The gentleman in the picture is my Grandpa. Who to the best of my knowledge is one of the designers and builders of the VELA satellites. So you are correct that it is half of a VELA.
Here is another one of a half in the assembly stage:
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No idea why it is not posting the picture as an embedded image. Suuuuuper frustrating when it does this @#$^. Literally the same process for posting as the previous post. 🤷♂️
So you will have to click the attachment to see it. First world problems.
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