AS-202 Launch
#otd AS-202, the second Saturn IB launch vehicle lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 25, 1966. Primary mission objectives...
USS Z-39 Underway (1945)
#otd USS Z-39 DD-939 formerly German destroyer Z-39, underway off Boston, Massachusetts, on 22 August 1945. #ussz39 #dd939 #z39 #wwii...
M2-F1 Lfting Body Restoration (1997)
#otd M2-F1 lifting body aircraft on a flatbed truck after restoration at the Dryden Flight Research Center, 22 August 1997. #m2f1...
OV-103 Discovery returned to KSC (2005)
#otd Orbiter Discovery OV-103, atop SCA 747, following touch down at NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Aug. 21, 2005 after a ferry flight...
XV-15 testing (1978)
#otd The cover of Aviation Week Magazine (August 21, 1978) showing the XV-15 in the 40x80ft w.t. test for helicopter in take off mode at...
Undocking from ISS (2001)
#otd STS-105 Orbiter Discovery OV-103 just after undocking from the International Space Station backdropped by the darkness of space and...
End of STS-85 at the Cape
#otd The drag chute of the Orbiter Discovery OV-103 is fully deployed while landing on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center, August 19,...
Orbiter Discovery going for a Ride
#otd Orbiter Discovery OV-103 riding on NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the flight from the Dryden Flight...
USS Texas BB-35 (1942)
#otd USS Texas BB-35 off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 19 August 1942. #usstexas #bb35 #battleship #wwii #navalsafari #aviationsafari...
Aerial Resupply in WWII
#otd PB4Y-2 of VPB-119 drops supplies on emergency field at Changchow, 18 August 1945. These drops were intended to supply Navy coast...