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IC 405 (also known as the Flaming Star Nebula, SH 2-229, or Caldwell 31) is an emission and reflection nebula [1] in the constellation Auriga north of the celestial equator, surrounding the bluish, irregular variable star AE Aurigae.
Faye Flam (born c. 1964) [1] is an American journalist. She has written for Science Magazine and wrote two weekly columns for The Philadelphia Inquirer, including one on sex and one on evolution.
The NASA seal was created in 1958 by George Neago, a staff industrial artist who worked at the Lockheed Missiles Division in Palo Alto, California.James Modarelli was the manager of the Lockheed Missiles Division's Reports Department in 1958 and Neago's supervisor.
Launch Complex 34 (LC-34) is a deactivated launch site on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.LC-34 and its companion LC-37 to the north were used by NASA from 1961 through 1968 to launch Saturn I and IB rockets as part of the Apollo program.
During the Apollo program the need for a flame deflector was a determining factor in the design of the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. NASA designers chose a two-way, wedge-type metal flame deflector.
Gary Michael Gabelich (Croatian Gabelić; August 29, 1940 – January 26, 1984) was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) with the rocket car Blue Flame on October 23, 1970, [1] on a dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah.
Pad 39A launch history; Status: Active: Launches: 197 (12 Saturn V, 82 Shuttle, 92 Falcon 9, 11 Falcon Heavy): First launch: November 9, 1967 Saturn V SA-501: Last launch: February 4, 2025
The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, is an emission nebula in the constellation Orion.It is about 1350 light-years away. [1] At that distance, the Flame Nebula lies within the Orion B cloud of the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.