Science Art: ECHO 100′ Satellite Inflation Tests, 1958.

28 August 2023 grant Featured, Science Art 0

Scientific illustration in the form of a dramatic black and white photograph of a highly reflective sphere in the middle of a vast hangar lit by horizontal rows of lights so long, they seem to radiate out from a point of convergence somewhere behind the inflatable spacecraft.

Scientific illustration in the form of a dramatic black and white photograph of a highly reflective sphere in the middle of a vast hangar lit by horizontal rows of lights so long, they seem to radiate out from a point of convergence somewhere behind the inflatable spacecraft.

A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.

I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.

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