Photos from NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory Which Discovered the Uranian Ring System March, 1977

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Unless otherwise noted, all photos are by Doug Mink
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Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) at NASA Ames
KAO in front of blimp hangar at NASA Ames in California [highres]	KAO in front of its hangar at NASA Ames in California	KAO in front of its hangar at NASA Ames in California [highres]
KAO in its hangar at NASA Ames in California [highres]	KAO mission control panel	KAO getting packed for departure
KAO in its hangar at NASA Ames in California [highres]	Crew getting ready to leave for Australia
Instruments and Computers at NASA Ames
Ted Dunham and photometer at NASA Ames in California	"The Cave" computer room at NASA Ames in California	"The Cave" computer room at NASA Ames in California
En Route to Australia via Hawaii and American Samoa
KAO on the ground at Hickham Field in Hawaii	View from the KAO between Hawaii and Samoa [highres]	KAO on the ground in Pago Pago, American Samoa [highres]
The Occultation Flight, March 10, 1977
KAO on the ground in Perth, Western Austraila [highres]	Jim Elliot and his occultation shirt [highres]	Uranus occultation immersion happening [highres]
KAO interior with crew	KAO cockpit on the way back to Perth	Jim McLenahan at Mission Control on the KAO
Mission Control on the KAO [highres]	KAO on the ground in Perth, Western Austraila	Doug Mink, Ted Dunham, Tom Matheson, Jim Elliot [highres]
Back at Cornell, March 24, 1977
Snow on the Cornell Arts Quad	Our data reduction computer	Our data reduction computer
National Air & Space Museum, May 6, 1979

[Uranus Rings Discovery]