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Luminous Tracking :::::  NASA Crows Landing  :::::  Launch Control Trailer  :::::  March 2013

Luminous Tracking ::::: NASA Crows Landing ::::: Launch Control Trailer ::::: March 2013

Inside one of the NASA Launch Control Trailers from yesterday’s post.  Inevitably, they were heavily vandalized and parted out, but there were a few interesting scraps still in there, like this control panel, with its glow-in-the-dark graphics.  Before opening the lens, I saturated it with a very powerful light, which activated the phosphor. Then I opened the lens, and over the space of a few minutes, the glowing words burned in.  I also skimmed the face with cool white light, and hit the electronics behind with red.  Totally dark environment, very cramped, dusty and spidery.  Not for claustrophobics.

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