Occultations

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

SAO Telescope Data Center

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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

SAO Telescope Data Center [Uranus Rings Discovery] Occultations