The John P Stapp Air & Space Park

This is the John P. Stapp Air & Space Park outside the New Mexico Museum of Space History as viewed from inside the museum on one of the upper floors. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure of 1/60 seconds at f/11, ISO 200 with a polarizer.

Little Joe II

This rocket assembly was used to test the Apollo launch escape system (LES) which was designed to pull the Command Module away from a failing rocket either on the launch pad or through the first stage burn. The tests were done at White Sands Missile Range which is adjacent to Alamogordo, New Mexico. This display is at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo. The LES is the white tower at the tip of the conical Command Module. This image was taken at 24mm focal length with an exposure of 1/80 seconds at f/11, ISO 200 with a polarizer.

Rockets & more rockets!

These rockets of various types sit outside the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo New Mexico. In the foreground on the left is the red rocket sled that Col. John Stapp used to experiment with high accelleration. A Lance missile (the white rocket at left of center) and an Arobee rocket sit in the middle of the frame and in the back on the right is the mightiest liquid fueled engine ever built - the F-1 engine which powered the Saturn V first stage with 1.5 million pounds of thrust! This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure of 1/100 seconds at f/11, ISO 200 with a polarizing filter.