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American railroad men work on firebox and boiler of a big transcontinental U.S. locomotive, WWII (34624747601)

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers secure NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probe A, enclosed in a protective shipping container, onto a flatbed truck at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The twin RBSP spacecraft will be transported to the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center where Applied Physics Laboratory technicians will begin spacecraft testing and prelaunch preparations. Nitrogen will be pumped into the canisters during transport to provide the proper environmental control for the spacecraft. The RBSP mission will help us understand the sun’s influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time. The RBSP instruments will provide the measurements needed to characterize and quantify the plasma processes that produce very energetic ions and relativistic electrons. The mission is part of NASA’s broader Living With a Star Program that was conceived to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system, and in particular those that generate hazardous space weather effects in the vicinity of Earth and phenomena that could impact solar system exploration. RBSP is scheduled to begin its mission of exploration of Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts and the extremes of space weather after launch. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled for August 23. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2631

American railroad men work on firebox and boiler of a big transcontinental U.S. locomotive, WWII (34624747601)

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Lot-3762-5: U.S. Railroads Engage in All-Out War Effort. American railroad men work on the firebox and boiler of a big transcontinental U.S. locomotive in a western U.S. repair shop. Every piece of available equipment has been rushed into war service by U.S. railroads which employ more than 1,200,000 highly trained men and women. Locomotive boilers like this one frequently haul trains a mile and half long on 2,000 mile trips over America’s western plains and deserts. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2017/05/19).

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National Museum of the U.S. Navy
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