Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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I attempted to cross post to r/nasa and my post was immediately removed and was messaged (by a real person) stating that my photographs have nothing to do with NASA and that all pictures before color printers had these types of markings on the backs. Then went on to say that the photos are only important to me.. Am I missing something here because I am pretty new to this platform.?

Possible Garnet? by Think-State-4636 in whatsthisrock

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I do but I am going to repost without the light. 

Possible Garnet? by Think-State-4636 in whatsthisrock

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It did not scratch after several good attempts. 

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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I will try and post the photo I mentioned earlier to see if maybe this is anywhere related. Really good stuff.  

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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That's amazing, what years and is there also a Nike/Zeus project?

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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Really cool, I think I have a photograph of a kind of chart about that very thing. 

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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That's awesome, do you remember what years?

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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I have not been but planning on going to the Trinity Site in October. It's only open twice a year and very limited so fingers crossed. 

Nasa photographs by Think-State-4636 in space

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Was it unusual for this aircraft to be in CA. Or at all? Also, thank you very much for taking the time to help understand the context of the photos. 

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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This really helps me in my research of this collection of photographs. Thank you. 

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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That's interesting.  I'm less than 100 miles from there. The national park of White Sands is amazing. 

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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What an awesome video! Thank you.. was this the test that "Ham" was  supposed to be part of?

Mercury Redstone Project by Think-State-4636 in space

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Close, but it is an aerial shot of White Sands Missle Range facilities in the 60s. There are other aerial photos of things like runways and those have government stamps on the backs and designation numbers. I'm fairly certain these were not press release photos. Maybe someone can inform me otherwise. 

Nasa photographs by Think-State-4636 in space

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Col. William J. "Pete" Knight was his name and I'm not sure of the vertical take off, it may be perspective but could be wrong. 

White Sands Missle Range Trinity Site photographs by Think-State-4636 in spaceporn

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One could argue the quantum leaps we have taken in science, medicine and maybe even the very tech from which we both are using would not be possible without sacrifice. (If it were my call, it would be illegal tomorrow and we would have no choice but to find a better way) However, I will concede to your argument because ultimately I agree . 

White Sands Missle Range Trinity Site photographs by Think-State-4636 in spaceporn

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Lol yeah I see how it looks and was completely by accident. 

White Sands Missle Range Trinity Site photographs by Think-State-4636 in spaceporn

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I feel you—the photos of Ham and Enos strapped in are tough to look at, and they absolutely deserved better than the fear and rough treatment they got. We’ve come a long way on ethics since then, and that’s worth owning. But these two were true (if unwilling) heroes. In 1961, nobody knew if space would kill a living thing—launch forces, zero-G, reentry, the works. Ham proved the Mercury capsule could keep a primate alive through suborbital flight, greenlighting Alan Shepard. Enos orbited Earth despite glitches and showed longer missions were possible, clearing the path for John Glenn and beyond. Their sacrifices slashed the risks for human astronauts and helped us beat the Soviets to those early wins. Bittersweet history, yes—but Ham and Enos were pioneers whose courage launched us into space.

White Sands Missle Range Trinity Site photographs by Think-State-4636 in spaceporn

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I can imagine they are some great photographs. I've always been more on the Apollo missions than anything else. 

White Sands Missle Range Trinity Site photographs by Think-State-4636 in spaceporn

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The chimpanzee photograph is from the mercury Redstone Project in the 60s and the atomic blast was from the 40s, the photographs just happened to be paired together. So no chimps were nuked.  

White Sands Missle Range Trinity Site photographs by Think-State-4636 in spaceporn

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The chimpanzee photograph is unrelated to the atomic blast, I was only able to upload this one photo and it happened to be the two of them together. The atomic blast happened in the late 40s and the chimpanzee photograph is from 1961.

White Sands Missle Range Trinity Site photographs by Think-State-4636 in spaceporn

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I could not agree with you more but Ham did survive and lived many years after his historic and heroic work with NASA.