Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Amanda














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070606-N-5345W-041 SUITLAND, Md. (June 6, 2007) - Retired Senior Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Scott Wood carefully restores a Saturn V F-1 rocket engine to its original condition at the National Air & Space Museum's Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility. Five F-1 engines were used on the stage one portion of the Saturn V rocket to launch the project Apollo missions into space in the 1960s and 1970s. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kristopher Wilson (RELEASED)


















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070608-N-5345W-096 SUITLAND, Md. (June 8, 2007) - Amanda Young, the National Air & Space Museum's specialist in early manned spaceflight and astronautical equipment, dons her gloves while preparing to inspect former naval astronaut Rear Adm. Alan B. Shepard's project Mercury spacesuit, worn May 5, 1961, when Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 orbiter and became America's first man in space. Shepard's suit, along with many other historically significant spacesuits, is currently stored in temperature and humidity controlled environments at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kristopher Wilson (RELEASED)





















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070612-N-2889B-001 ARTIC CIRCLE (June 12, 2007) - Ship's Serviceman Seaman Recruit Jamal Powell, left, and Seaman Recruit Stephen Harmon stand forward lookout watch aboard guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) as the ship navigates an ice field north of Iceland. U.S. Navy photo by L.t. j.g Ryan Birkelbach (RELEASED)


















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070612-N-3642E-067 NEWPORT, R.I. (June 12, 2007) - Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), The Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter delivers his opening remarks at the Current Strategic Forum held at the Naval War College. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shawn P. Eklund (RELEASED)


















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070611-N-8923M-092 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 11, 2007) - From left to right, Lt. Cmdr. Todd Holbeck, Lt. Cmdr. Alan D'Jock and Lt. Cmdr. Lindsey Graves give the final signal to launch a C-2 Greyhound, from the "Rawhides" of Carrier Logistics Squadron (VRC) 40, from the bow of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The three officers are shooters, and this marked the final time they will shoot an aircraft from Truman's flight deck. Truman is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Kevin T. Murray Jr. (RELEASED)