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lonestarflight · 4 months

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Cancelled Missions: Gemini IX rendezvous with the Pegasus 3

Concept art of a Gemini IX capsule rendezvous with the Pegasus 3 micrometeorite satellite.

"Gemini XI would see a dramatic increase in EVA complexity. The spacecraft would intercept the 10.5-ton Pegasus 3 satellite, which was due to be launched into low-Earth orbit on a Saturn I rocket soon after the GEPG submitted its report. Like its predecessors, Pegasus 3 was designed to assess the likelihood that spacecraft in low-Earth orbit would suffer meteoroid impact damage. To do this, it unfolded a pair of 4.3 meter wide by 29 meter long 'wings' containing a total of 400 meteoroid-detection panels.

Pegasus 1 shown during ground testing with its wings deployed

The Gemini Extravehicular Planning Group (GEPG) reported that discussions with NASA Headquarters and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center had already led to Pegasus 3 modifications for Gemini rendezvous and EVA mission. Pegasus 1, launched February 16, 1965, had achieved an elliptical 510-by-726-kilometer orbit, while Pegasus 2, launched May 25, 1965, had entered a 502-by-740-kilometer orbit. When launched on July 30, 1965, Pegasus 3 entered a near-circular 535-by-567-kilometer orbit. This made it a more readily accessible rendezvous target for Gemini spacecraft.

In addition, sixteen of Pegasus 3's meteoroid-detection panels had been replaced with removable aluminum meteoroid-capture panels and panels containing thermal control test surfaces. After rendezvous with the giant satellite, the Gemini XI spacewalker would use a Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit (HHMU) to jet over and remove the panels for return to Earth. The GEPG stated that '[d]etermination of the method of accomplishing this task. . .must still be accomplished.'"

HHMU

Due to setbacks and troubles with EVAs experienced by astronauts during Gemini IX and X, the ambitious plan to rendezvous with the Pegasus 3 and recover the meteoroid and thermal control test surface panels was cancelled. Instead, Gemini XI focused more on techniques for the Apollo missions. It performed the "first direct-ascent (first orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it 1 hour 34 minutes after launch; used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a record high-apogee Earth orbit; and created a small amount of artificial gravity by spinning the two spacecraft connected by a tether." The Pegasus 3 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on August 4, 1969.

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diabolus1exmachina · 11 months

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Innocenti C coupé

Born in Piscaia, Tuscany in 1891, Ferdinandi Innocenti started his business career by establishing a hardware store in Rome. The business grew, and in 1920 Ferdinandi established a factory in northern Italy in Milan, in the Lambrate district. The factory produced everything from soccer stands to railways, and the reconstruction boom in Rome in particular boosted demand.The factories suffered in the Second World War, but Innocenti had kept them up and running productively for wartime needs even through difficult times. After the war, the factories also started producing for the vehicle industry, inspired by military motorcycles. Enrico Piaggio had introduced the Vespa in 1946, and Innocenti introduced their first scooter, Lambro River by Lambretta, just a year later. The scooters became a huge success and were manufactured under license in Spain, India, Argentina, Germany, France and Brazil.At the end of the 1950s, another economic boom followed in Italy, and the working class could for the first time get their own car, such as the Fiat 500. Ferdinando's son Luigi had taken over as vice president of the company and began to explore the possibilities of manufacturing passenger cars. A cooperation partner was first found in Germany, and a small Iseria passenger car was born in cooperation with Goggomobil. However, production was very marginal until the early 1960s when Innocenti entered into a cooperation agreement with the British BMC and began to produce Innocenti Austins and Mini Minors under license.Innocent's first in-house model followed just a year later when it introduced the Austin-Healey Sprite-based 950 Spider. Encouraged by Innocenti’s first sports model, the collaboration with Ferrari also began, and two 186 GT prototypes equipped with the V6 from Maranello were completed, until Ferrari decided to bury the project in 1966.

Innocenti was not discouraged, and developed their own small Coupé model, which was presented later in the same year. Ghia used the earlier Spider model as the basis for the design, and Sergio Sartorelli, who has made a name for himself with models like the Karmann Ghia Type 34 and the Fiat 2300 S, was given the main responsibility for the design. The wheelbase was extended and the rear of the car was completely redesigned. Special attention was paid to the quality of the materials in the interior, and the GT spirit was also exuded by dashboard including five gauges, the oil pressure gauge was straight from the Ferrari 250 GTE. New Innocenti C was powered by BMC's A-series 1098cc engine, producing 58bhp with two SU carburettors – enough for a coupe with a curb weight of just 695kg.

#Innocenti C coupé #Ferdinandi Innocenti #Enrico Piaggio #Goggomobil #British BMC #Ferrari #186 GT #Fiat 2300 S #Ferrari 250 GTE #Fiat 500

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hakkyouchannel · 4 months

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Night car meet at 7-Eleven ☆

#the sims 3 #ts3 #simblr #ts3 simblr #sim #hakkyouchannel #fr-s #toyota 86 #subaru wrx sti #nissan skyline gt-r #jdm #ford mustang #the outlier lmfao #did they import it?#there's a group that meets nearby IRL but i'm too scared to go

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untouchvbles · 29 days

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Toyota Celica SS-II (ZZT231)

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mci-writing · 10 months

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Thinking about CEO of Calsule Corp Trunks who’s off on a business trip for a week complaining to his s/o about how helplessly bored he is and how dearly he misses them not even a full day into him being gone,,,

Like he’s aboard the jet, phone on speaker and turned to the highest volume as he indiscreetly asks them to comfort them like this is his first trip away from home (it’s like the 20th trip within the past 3 months, please Trunks)

#trunks briefs x reader #trunks briefs #trunks x reader #this is specifically about gt Trunks the goober he is #also he totally flies back home every night just to be with his s/o #and he totally immediately calls them to complain as soon as he gets back there the next morning #‘They’re keeping me an extra day babe I’m so sorry 😢’ ‘Trunks you were too busy cuddling me that you missed a meeting-‘

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nicholask-la · 8 months

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From August, 2023

#car #Ferrari #Ferrari 250 GT cabriolet #unrestored #leica sl2 s #Pininfarina #monterey car week #original photography on tumblr #september 2023

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ap-kinda-lit · 7 months

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Vegeta, answering phone: Hello?

Bulma: What did you do?

Vegeta: Alright…but you can’t get mad at me.

Bulma: WHAT did you do?

Vegeta: Okay, first of all, I was minding my own business—

Bulma: Bullshit!

Vegeta: I was!

Bulma: And what exactly happened while you were “minding your own business”?

Vegeta: So, I was just chillaxin' in my room like a baller, then all of a sudden these shmucks kicked in my door, one of them yelled out “Get on your knees!” and I responded with “I’m not your mother last night!” And they took exception to that.

#s: Hellsing Abridged #incorrect quotes #incorrect dragon ball quotes #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dragon ball super #dbs #dbz #dragon ball gt #dbgt #db gt #Vegeta #Bulma #bulma briefs #hellsing abridged #hellsing ultimate abridged

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i-am-beckyu · 1 year

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Can we see the fireflies?

Now this has never happened before. I’ve been given many many fake fic titles before but never had the urge to write a full story from one. So everyone say thank you @a-xyz-s for deciding to discord dm me titles and somehow sparking an au I wrote in 2 hours at 1am.

cw: fear of the dark, death mention at the start, that’s it. It’s all fluff baby. just Fluff, fluff and more fluff.

word count: 1408

Tommy does not go outside at night.

He remembers that his parents once tried to take him outside. They were going to show him these things called stars, but that night was tainted by red splotches and screams.

He's never stepped outside at night since.

He's seen humans come and go and grown up with the little knowledge he has and moved around many times since then, but never at night. Even the walls at times without his little homemade lantern on can send him spiralling. But things are different now.

He’s got Wilbur now.

Gone are the night’s struggling to get through the dark walls for supply runs. Gone was the constant fear of something getting him from the shadows. And gone was the feeling of loneliness as he snuggled further into the mustard yellow sweater of his pseudo brother with a content sigh. As long as he was with Wilbur, the darkness could not hurt him.

Currently, the pair was looking at a random fact book. Tommy was curious to know more about the world and Wilbur had thought this would be a good way to help Tommy discover just that. Although, Tommy found the pictures were better than the words. Currently he was looking at a page about bugs and insects, his attention drawn to a weird image of what looked like a Bee and Moth put together.

“Hey Wilbur”

“Yeah?” The human lazily responded, gazing down at his friend using him as a pillow.

“What’s that?” Tommy pointed to the weird Bee Moth.

“Fireflies? Have you not seen them before Toms?”

“Fireflies? As in flies that are on fire?”

“Not quite.” He says with a chuckle

“Says here that Fireflies are beetles that can fly and have the ability to light up from a chemical reaction in their abdomens.” Wilbur said as he pointed to the caption on the page.

“So they can make fire blasts?”

Wilbur laughed at the smaller, shaking them from his comfortable position in the folds of fabric.

“Oops sorry.” they said apologetically.

“No thankfully they can not.”

Tommy scrunched his face up in annoyance.

“I think that’s a dumb name for a bug that can’t use fire then.”

Wilbur laughed once more, with a shacking of their head at the borrower's antics, while Tommy shot the human a glare. It was a reasonable assumption.

“To be honest, I’m surprised you haven’t heard of them before.” Wilbur went on.

“There’s tons outside this time of year.”

“Do you think we can go out and see them in the morning?” Tommy asked excitedly, the thought causing the borrower to jump at an opportunity of seeing these light up bugs up close.

The borrower watched the humans smile falter slightly at this however, causing them to stop in confusion.

“What’s wrong Wilbur? Won’t they be there in the morning?”

“See Tommy, um. I would like to say they would be but fireflies come out at night and are best seen,”

They pause.

“In the dark.”

Tommy stiffened.

He’d have to go outside

In the dark

Alone…

“Tommy, I need you to breathe, you're okay.”

Tommy realized his breathing had picked up as Wilbur began to rub small circles on his back with their thumb to help calm him down.

Right. Not alone.

He’s got Wilbur.

“I’m not saying you have to go outside; I know how much you hate the dark, but if you’d like to see the fireflies I can always bring one inside to you.” Wilbur said soothingly as he comforted the younger.

Tommy considered it for a moment before asking.

“How would you do that?”

“Well, I’d go outside and catch one in a jar and bring it inside to you.”

Wilbur was quick to add that he’d let them out straight away after at the mention of the jar when Tommy had stiffened at the mention.

With the borrower's curiosity growing bigger by the second, Tommy decided that would be best and asked for the human to do just that, and was now waiting for the human to come back with a firefly, assuring them that the little guy would be fine.

After a few minutes, Wilbur returned with a jar in tow and one small passenger. He set the jar down on the table before Tommy who had a good look at the interesting beetle. It looked just like its picture, only: it wasn’t glowing.

“Um Wilbur, why isn’t it glowing like you said?”

“Well, if you want to see them glow Toms, I need to turn the lights off.” Wilbur gently stated.

“Would you like me to turn the lights off?”

Tommy contemplated a little before nodding. He’d made great progress with Wilbur. Not needing a light on in the house as often anymore, and he really wanted to see this thing glow. Wilbur proceeded to stand and within a few seconds, the light switch flicked, and the lights snuffed out, leaving a fluorescent yellow glowing orb of light.

“Wow.” Tommy quietly breathed in awe.

It was beautiful.

A twinkly little light of joy.

“Pretty aren’t they?” Wilbur smiled as they sat down leaning down, chin in their hands.

“They’re stunning.” Tommy stared at the little beetle as it flew about the jar. He never would have imagined such a creature as this existing.

“Quite so. There’s so many more outside too. They’re all over the place right now.”

Tommy snapped their attention to the human behind them, blue eyes wide in excitement.

“There’s more than one?!?”

“Hundreds of them actually.”

Tommy runs over and bounces onto the humans’ hand.

“SHOW ME! I NEED TO SEE THEM!”

“But are you sure? You’d have to go outside for that.”

Tommy falters slightly in his excitement as he glances at the single firefly on the table, the little creature residing to just hang out in the jar. He really wants to see more of them.

He turns to Wilbur, slight concern written across their face and smiles.

“Take me outside.”

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Okay so maybe he wasn’t quite ready to go outside yet. A lot of changing his mind and pacing on Wilbur’s palm definitely says a lot about how he’s feeling right now, but every glance at Clementine (because he decided they needed a poggers name for a poggers beetle) pushed him forward. The determination to see more of the little lightning bug out weighing his fears. That, and a patient encouraging Wilbur also by his side helping grow his confidence too.

Now they stood in the middle of the back yard with a bright flashlight, illuminating the surrounding area.

“You sure you’re ready for this?” Wilbur asked, bringing the borrower up to eye level to check them one last time.

“If its too much, I’ll turn the flashlight back on in an instant.”

The borrower took a deep breath in.

They were okay.

Sure it would be dark but he was with Wilbur and Wilbur would protect him.

He trusted the human.

“I’m sure.” Tommy said with quiet confidence.

“Turn off the light.”

With one final nod, Wilbur lifted Tommy up to his shoulder which he stepped onto to free up both the humans hands before they switched the light off with a soft click.

At first, it was pitch black.

Nothing but the darkness.

But then his eyes adjusted, and one by one, little lights began to brightly illuminate the air around them.

Hundreds of tiny fireflies floated up and threw the air, dancing about around and with each other, creating the most spectacular light show ever imaginable.

It was beautiful.

The pair sat in silence for a bit, simply marvelling at the spectacle, before Wilbur eventually spoke up.

“You doing okay?”

“Yeah.” Tommy responded as he watched a firefly fly right by him, zooming off to join one of its friends.

And surprisingly he was. It felt different to last time. The feeling of dread and fear replaced by child-like wonder and warmth, from the twinkling of each little creature doing its own thing. It was nice. It was safe. It was good.

“Do you think we could stay out here a little longer? I really like this.”

“Of course Toms. Anything for you.”

Tommy snuggled in closer to the human's neck, getting comfortable. He was quite content just to stay here forever. Here with his brother and watching the marvel of nature. His fear of the dark, finally fading from existence.

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oh my gosh. I am such a crime boys apologist. It’s all I write anymore. Help

Anyways, hope you enjoyed! I forced myself to finish it one night because I was afraid if I didn’t, it would just sit waiting for me to do something with it and I really liked this idea. It’s also been so long since I’ve just written only fluff. I mean we still have a dark tragedy at the beginning but its fineeee. We had suggested adoption times ^v^ Thanks for reading as always. Much love ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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