{"id":476,"date":"2013-07-28T04:34:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T04:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=476"},"modified":"2013-07-28T04:40:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T04:40:02","slug":"morgan-from-space-photos-from-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/other-related-topics\/morgan-from-space-photos-from-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan from Space \u2013 Photos from the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"ISS004-E-10408.

ISS004-E-10408. Raritan Bay Surrounded by New Jersey and New York with Connecticut. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since the first person went there on 12 April 1961, thus far only about 450 people have been in space.\u00a0 The space based photos of the Morgan, NJ area featured in this posting were taken by a few of those 450 people.\u00a0 Morgan, NJ is located at the southwestern point of Raritan Bay, south of the Raritan River and north of Cheesequake Creek.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"ISS006-E-37526.<\/a>

ISS006-E-37526. Raritan Bay Surrounded by New Jersey and New York with Connecticut at Night. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

These photos vary in altitude and times of the year.\u00a0 Not all have north at the top of the frame.\u00a0 Most show all of Raritan Bay and Staten Island and many show other near by states (New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts).\u00a0 All these photos were taken by astronauts while on the International Space Station.\u00a0 NASA\u2019s web site<\/a> also features some photos taken on the Space Shuttle.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little partial to the now retired Space Shuttle as that was the first aerospace system I worked on after graduating from Rutgers.<\/p>\n

\"ISS006-E-49273.<\/a>

ISS006-E-49273. Looking Westward over Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Raritan Bay is Clearly Seen to the West of Long Island. Also Clearly Seen are: Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, Delaware River, Hudson River, Long Island Sound, and Narragansett Bay. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

While it isn\u2019t inexpensive enough at the time of this writing for regular people to take trips into space, the time will come, perhaps before this decade is out (catchy quote), that taking a suborbital ride into space will be an affordable option for middle class family.\u00a0 If that does come to be a reality, we can all thank those \u201cEarly Adopters\u201d who made possible so many things we regular people were able to eventually afford.\u00a0 They buy products or services when they are new concepts and very expensive thus allowing for the product or service providing company to recoup some early research and development costs.\u00a0 They also provide early feedback which help make the products better.\u00a0 Among the products Early Adopters have helped provide for the rest of us include automobiles in the days of the horse and buggy, airline travel, personal computers, personal GPS devices, and digital wide screen televisions.<\/p>\n

\"ISS002-708-31.<\/a>

ISS002-708-31. Primarily Pennsylvania and New Jersey with Northern Delaware and Northern Maryland. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

The first company which appears to be close to offering sub-orbital, and eventually orbital, trips to space is Virgin Galactic<\/a>.\u00a0 Virgin Galactic, part of Sir Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Group (Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Records, Virgin Megastores, etc.), is finishing the development phase of its space transportation system<\/a> composed of SpaceShipTwo<\/a>, a space craft designed to carry six passengers and two pilots, and WhiteKnightTwo, the ferry ship which will transport SpaceShipTwo to an altitude of 50,000 feet.\u00a0 At this altitude, SpaceShipTwo will detach, ignite its rocket engine, travel at 2,500 miles per hour and climb to the sub-orbital altitude of 68 miles (international agreement defines \u201cSpace\u201d as starting at 62.1 miles).\u00a0 The trip will originate and return safely to earth (another catchy phrase) at Virgin\u2019s Spaceport America<\/a> location in New Mexico.\u00a0 The whole trip will be about 2.5 hours – all for only $200,000 \u2013 per person.<\/p>\n

\"ISS014-E-16761.<\/a>

ISS014-E-16761. Raritan River, Raritan Bay, and Arthur Kill. New Jersey: Sayreville (with Morgan), Laurence Harbor, Madison Park, South Amboy, Perth Amboy, Woodbridge, Fords, and Staten Island, New York. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

In June 2013, Sir Richard Branson announced that the first Virgin Galactic flights with paying passengers will begin in December 2013.\u00a0 Within two years, he announced that over 600 people will have flown \u2013 many more than have sojourned into space to date.\u00a0 There is said to already be hundreds of people on the waiting list including, reportedly, William Shatner who played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek TV series.<\/p>\n

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\"ISS015-E-9190.<\/a>

ISS015-E-9190. Raritan Bay with the 2.9 Mile Long Trident Shaped Pier at Naval Weapons Station Earle. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

These photos, taken in orbit by astronauts using hand held cameras, were obtained from \u201cThe Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth<\/a>\u201d NASA web site.\u00a0 This site contains nearly one million images – some of them quite amazing.\u00a0 Poke around the web site \u2013 especially using the \u201cCollections\u201d button.\u00a0 Should you be interested in obtaining a complete image of one of the images shown on this Morgan-NJ.org posting which makes it possible to zoom in with less distortion, perform the following steps:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Go to <\/span>http:\/\/eol.jsc.nasa.gov\/sseop\/mrf.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. In the big white box on the right under \u201c(If anything is entered here, then this search will be used rather than the one to the left.)\u201d, type in the image number of the image you want to obtain, e.g., \u201cISS004-E-10408\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the web page and click on the \u201cRun Query\u201d button.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. On the \u201cDatabase Search Results\u201d page to the left of the entry for the photo, click on the purple \u201cQuick View\u201d box.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. In the new window, scroll down and under the image, click on \u201cSee all metadata, images and captions.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. In the new window, scroll down under the image,\u00a0 Under \u201cLarge Images to Request for Downloading\u201d on the left of the entry for the photo, click on the \u201cRequest\u201d box.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Yet another \u201cThe Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth\u201d window will pop up which will provide \u201cHow to retrieve\u201d information. In item 1 under \u201cUsing a web browser\u201d, click on the link which starts with \u201cftp:\/\/eol.jsc.nasa.gov\/\u201d and contains the image name followed by \u201c.JPG\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. At this point, a request for the photo has been made to some computer at NASA to retrieve the image from the photo database and provide it to you in yet another pop up window.\u00a0 This may take a few minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. In this final window, if you do not see the photo, wait a few minutes and hit the refresh button in your browser.\u00a0 Repeat until you see the photo.\u00a0 When you do see the photo, go to the \u201cFile\u201d menu and select \u201cSave As\u2026\u201d to save the file to a location of your choice.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"ISS003-E-5388.<\/a><\/p>\n

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    ISS003-E-5388. September 11, 2001 Image of Raritan Bay Showing the World Trade Center Plume of Smoke Following the Terrorist Attack. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

    Originally posted on January 24, 2010.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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