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Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-104 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 12, 2001 to install the Quest Joint Airlock to the ISS. The Shuttle docked with the ISS on July 13 and performed maintenance to the station in addition to installing the airlock. The crew returned home on July 24, 2001.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS104-S-018
Date: July 12, 2001
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from SLC-4 on Vandenberg SFB, California @0607 PST. The early morning launch caused quite the light show.
On July 26, 2005, Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 mission launched on the first Return to Flight mission since the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. The years between the Columbia tragedy and the flight of Discovery were spent researching and implementing new safety improvements, including a redesigned external tank, new sensors, and a boom that allowed the astronauts to inspect the Shuttle for any damage. The crew’s objectives were to test and evaluate these new safety procedures in addition to conducting maintenance on the International Space Station. The crew also performed the first ever on-orbit repair of the heat shield of a Shuttle. The mission ended on August 9, 2005 when Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-05PP-1774
Date: July 26, 2005
Traction Off
Launch control Set
Rev
3...
2... ready
1... steady
Blaaaaaaaaast
Supercharged Infinity G35
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Digital
Exposure: 0.6 sec (3/5)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: -2/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Stagecoach Western officially launched their 27 new ADL E400 MMC's to the public on the 5th January at the Irvine Maratime Museum. Here 4 are lined up as part of an official photoshoot.
“Beach Launch” by Robert Cooke on Brackett’s Landing South in Edmonds.
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Fujifilm X100V + WCL-100X II.
The Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A on mission STS 41-B on February 3, 1984. Aboard the Challenger were astronauts Vance D. Brand, Robert L. Gibson, Ronald E. McNair, Bruce McCandless II, and Robert L. Stewart. The first untethered spacewalks with the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) were made on this mission. This dramatic air to air picture was taken by astronaut John Young who was monitoring the launch in the cockpit of NASA's Shuttle Training Aircraft.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S84-26294
Date: February 3, 1984
NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) launched on a Boeing Delta II rocket on July 3, 2002 from Cape Canaveral. The probe was lost after it ignited its solid rocket engine take it out of Earth's orbit and put it on a heliocentric trajectory. After the firing, no contact could be made with the probe. Telescopic surveys found three objects near the expected position of CONTOUR, leading scientists to believe that these objects were parts of the craft. CONTOUR was designed to make close fly-bys of at least two comet nuclei.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-02PP-1124
Date: July 3, 2002
Artist concept of SLS launching.
Image credit: NASA
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Space Launch System Flickr photoset:
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The unmanned Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:00 noon (EDT), May 14, 1973, to place the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit. The Skylab 1 payload included four of the five major components of the space station-Orbital Workshop, Apollo Telescope Mount, Multiple Docking Adapter, and Airlock Module.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-26913
Date: May 14, 1973
The Apollo 13 (Spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 2:13 p.m. (EST), April 11, 1970. The crew of the NASA's third lunar landing mission were astronauts James A., Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S70-34855
Date: April 11, 1970
No details given for this mini diorama seem at Model Mania, Locomotion, Shildon.
Very well modelled though.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 20 July 2019 alongside NASA astronaut Drew Morgan and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov.
The trio travelled to the Station in a Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft and will spend more than six months living and working in orbit.
Beyond is Luca’s second space mission – his first was Volare in 2013. During the second part of this mission, known as Expedition 61, Luca will become the third European and first Italian commander of the International Space Station.
The most recent European commander was ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during his Horizons mission in 2018. The first was ESA astronaut Frank De Winne during his OasISS mission in 2009.
During Beyond, Luca will support over 50 European experiments and more than 200 International experiments in microgravity. A number of these experiments, such as Grip and Grasp, are continuations from previous missions.
New experiments include BioRock, an experiment looking at the potential of microbes in extracting minerals from rocks on other planets, and NutrISS, which looks at the best strategies for monitoring and controlling changes in energy balance, metabolism and body composition during spaceflight.
Follow Luca's mission Beyond mission here and visit the blog for regular updates.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from Pad 39B on a ten-day mission with a crew of five NASA Astronauts and a Canadian Payload Specialist. The Photograph was taken by astronaut Steven R. Nagel from a Shuttle Training Aircraft. Mission STS-52 payloads onboard include the Laser Geodynamic Satellite II.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: GPN-2000-001876
Date: October 22, 1992
LAUNCH: RED FLAG-ALASKA 15-3 Fairchild Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II s/n 78-0696 USAF 25th FS "Flying Elvises", 51st FW, 51 OG Osan AB, South Korea (Squadron color bird) @ Eielson AFB, Fairbanks, AK
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center on February 24, 2011. This was the last mission flown by Discovery.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
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Date: February 24, 2011
The adventures I had with friends from alpha to closing are my favorite memories of LEGO Universe. We explored every world, discovered every unreleased fragment, and completed every achievement. This vignette depicts two friends on an adventure at the monument on launch day.
I've run out of pieces again, but the launch base dimensions and frame is looking better and is getting a lot stronger.
Watched a beautiful night launch of the Russian Progress-MS10 cargo vehicle while #ISS was flying right above Baikonur. Destination: us at the International Space Station.
Konnten einen beeindruckenden Nachtstart des Russischen Raumtransporters Progress-MS10 beobachten als wir direkt über Baikonur hinwegzogen (siehe 2. Bild links unten, danach rechts oben). Ziel: wir ISS. Letztes Foto zeigt Wiedereintritt der 1. Stufe
ID: B 402D7774
Credit: ESA/A.Gerst CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing mission in this composite image released by NASA. The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifted off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., at 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 69PC-0397
Date: July 16, 1969
Transdev Blazefield - CityZap
Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse 2
1871 - ML06ZAP
Seen by Piccadilly Gardens on the launch event a day before the short-lived Manchester to Leeds CityZap service started.
Taken 04/11/2017
The Space Shuttle Atlantis streaks skyward as sunlight pierces through the gap between the orbiter and ET assembly. Atlantis lifted off on the 42nd space shuttle flight at 11:02 a.m. EDT on August 2, 1991 carrying a crew of five and TDRS-E. A remote camera at the 275-foot level of the Fixed Surface Structure took this picture.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 91PC-1438
Date: August 2, 1991
From the Launch Party in March. for the livestock festival in Niagara Falls on July 22nd. The festival highlights local music, art & artisans, as well as craft beer and a wellness area. If your in the area & your interested, check it out at .https://livestockniagara.com
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Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. (EDT) July 4, 2006, to begin the two-day journey to the International Space Station. During the 12-day mission, the crew tested new equipment and procedures designed to increase the safety of space shuttles, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the space station. The shuttle was the first U.S. human spacecraft to launch on July 4.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS121-S-027
Date: July 4, 2006
From the Launch Party in March. for the livestock festival in Niagara Falls on July 22nd. The festival highlights local music, art & artisans, as well as craft beer and a wellness area. If your in the area & your interested, check it out at .https://livestockniagara.com
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Test launch of the Lunar variant of the R-7 rocket. Obviously inspired by Shannon's "Battle for the Moon" theme.
Watched a beautiful night launch of the Russian Progress-MS10 cargo vehicle while #ISS was flying right above Baikonur. Destination: us at the International Space Station.
Konnten einen beeindruckenden Nachtstart des Russischen Raumtransporters Progress-MS10 beobachten als wir direkt über Baikonur hinwegzogen (siehe 2. Bild links unten, danach rechts oben). Ziel: wir ISS. Letztes Foto zeigt Wiedereintritt der 1. Stufe
ID: A 56A1367
Credit: ESA/A.Gerst CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Early morning launch for the Phoenix Mars Lander.
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/launch/index.html#.WYC...
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-07pd2182
Date: August 4, 2007
201405290007hq (29 May 2014) --- The Soyuz TMA-13M rocket is launched with Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA on May 29, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Suraev, Gerst and Wiseman will spend the next five and a half months aboard the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
The Zvezda Service Module, onboard a Russian Proton Rocket, soars high above the launch tower at 12:56 a.m. (EDT) July 12, 2000 from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. The stack lifted off from pad 23 at launch complex 81. Zvezda will orbit Earth for two weeks as flight controllers prepared for its rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station, on July 25, 2000. Once docked, Zvezda became the third major component of the station, joining Node 1 or Unity and the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) or Zarya.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: JSC2000-E-18579
Date: July 12, 2000
This rocket was launched from Ny Ålesund, Svalbard in early December to study the upper atmosphere. I was present as part of the team and took the opportunity to try a rocket launch shot on large format film. This was done on my Tachihara with Fuji Provia 100F film. The exposure was started about two hours before launch at f/8 to expose the sky, star trails, and distant landscape. About 30 seconds before launch I stopped the lens down to f/16 to expose the foreground lit by the rocket like a giant flash. I'm fairly proud of getting this on large format film since there's no way to meter or do any kind of test exposure.
Camera: Tachihara 4x5 field
Lens: Caltar-S 135mm f/5.6
Film: Fuji Provia 100F
A huge bulk freighter departs from the the Red Port. Its cargo is tonnes of Red Leicester. These massive blocks will be honed by skilled artisans into the correct shape and then included in @lego sets. Remember this the next time you find an extra 54200 1x1 slope in your bag of pieces!
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1:00 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)