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Looking straight down the flight deck of the brand new Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth..
Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) just getting airborne as it launches itself from a cactus perch. Image taken at Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora, Colorado.
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
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
More launch pics: SpaceX photographer Ashish Sharma's images are always great, from spacesuit portraits to rocket launches!
Ces flammes sont la raison pour laquelle un décollage de fusée, ça se regarde plutôt DE LOIN… ou alors, il vaut mieux être à l’autre bout de l’engin Superbe photo (comme d’habitude) d’Ashish Sharma.
Credits: SpaceX
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
With an international payload and crew aboard, the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from Launch Pad 39B, at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on June 20, 1996. Onboard for Columbia’s 20th flight were astronauts Terence T. (Tom) Henricks, mission commander; Kevin R. Kregel, pilot; Susan J. Helms, payload commander; and Richard M. Linnehan and Charles E. Brady, Jr., both mission specialists, along with payload specialists Jean-Jacques Favier of the French Space Agency (CNES) and Robert B. Thirsk of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts078-s-009
Date: June 20, 1996
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
I've run out of pieces again, but the launch base dimensions and frame is looking better and is getting a lot stronger.
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.
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
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
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Thursday, March 2, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev launched at 12:34 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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
**Full Disclosure: I have been working with the festival , but they have NOT paid me for this post.
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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
**Full Disclosure: I have been working with the festival , but they have NOT paid me for this post.
If you like my work click the "Follow" button on Flickr.
Other places to see my work rumimume.blogspot.ca/, Google+ google+, twitter
Test launch of the Lunar variant of the R-7 rocket. Obviously inspired by Shannon's "Battle for the Moon" theme.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft onboard, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Jointly developed by NASA and Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and United Kingdom Space Agency, SWOT is the first satellite mission that will observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface, measuring the height of water in the planet’s lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and the ocean. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
Early morning launch for the Phoenix Mars Lander.
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Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-07pd2182
Date: August 4, 2007
This boat launch is part of the Ram Light, located off the Ocean Point shoreline at Grimes Cove. Near Boothbay Harbor. It was built in 1883. Prior to its existence, the perilous rocks of Ram Island were marked by lanterns tended by local mariners.
They were crude and many times could not be seen beyond 100 feet. Now the light is visible for 13 miles.
Ram Light can be seen from a distance at Grimes Cove or closer by boat.
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
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)
Modern technology and the advent of the digital age has transformed photography over the past couple of decades. Furthermore, who would have thought even 20 years ago that anyone could buy a drone complete with camera to take aerial views from up to 400 feet above terra firma?
A couple of the regular flickr photters who attend the trips out now have these, first up was Bruce with his drone (called "Jim"!), now Rob has also taken the plunge an is alo producing some noteworthy work from the skies. Now, Rob's drone has been christened "Wee Brucie", and is seen here taking off and being remotely piloted by Rob at the Fan House entrance on the top of Hunt Cliff, between Saltburn and Carlin How, on the occasion of another outing to the North-East. Friday 20.10.17.
The launch was made to take the group photograph:
Ford Fiesta XR2 (Mk.1) (1981-83) Engine 1597cc S4 Crossflow
Registration Number A 202 YUX (Shrewesbury)
FORD (UK) SET
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The Mk.1 Ford Fiesta launched in 1976 was Ford Europes first multi-national front-wheel-drive automobile, and was available in both 3-door hatchback and panel van body styles. Originally developed under the Bobcat project name with a breif to have a wheelbase longer than the Fiat 127 (although shorter than some other rivals, like the Peugeot 104, Renault 5 and Volkswagen Polo), and with an overall length of less than Fords own Escort Final proposals for the new Supermini were developed by Tom Tjaarda at Ghia and approved for production in December 1973, with Ford's engineering centres in Cologne and Dunton (Essex) collaborating. with production going to Valencia, Spain, Daggenham, England together with Cologne and Saarlouis Germany. Fords marketing team had favoured the name Bravo, but were over ruled by Henry Ford II who prefered Fiesta, a name previusly used by GM on an Oldsmobile. Although not the first Ford vehicle to feature front-wheel drive (the 1960s Taunus produced by Ford of Germany laid claim to that title), the Fiesta is widely credited as being Ford's first globally successful front-wheel-drive model. UK sales began in January 1977, where it was available from £1,856 for the basic 950 cc-engined model. The car was initially available in Europe with the Valencia 957 cc and 1117cc engines and in Base, Popular, L, GL (1978 onward), Ghia and S trim, as well as a van
In 1980 a sporting derivative the 1.3L Supersport was offered in Europe using the 1.3 L (79 cu in) Kent Crossflow engine, effectively to test the market for the similar XR2 introduced a year later, which featured a 1.6 L version of the same engine . Black plastic trim was added to the exterior and interior. The small square headlights were replaced with larger circular ones resulting in the front indicators being moved into the bumper to accommodate the change. With a quoted performance of 0–60 mph in 9.3 seconds and a top speed of 105mph, the XR2 became the weapon of choice for many a likely lad - and lass
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Shot 03.07.2016 at Cars in the Park, Beacon Park, Lichfield REF 121-153
Launching a few weeks behind its twin Viking 1, Viking 2 followed suit and flew as an orbiter-lander pair to enter Mars orbit. The landers then separated from the orbiters and descended to the planet's surface.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: LRC-1975-07182
Date: September 9, 1975
The Glittering BRAZILICA Launch Took Place at Bem Brasil Restaurant, Liverpool On Thursday Evening,16th June 2011 ! Guests Were Treated To Delicious PITÚrinhas And Other Brazilian Cocktails Courtesey of Bem Brasil Management !
The Liverpool Carnival Company Samba Band and Lead Dancer Simone Reeves Were On Hand To Provide An Exciting Taste Of The Festival, Which Is Yet To Come To The Streets Of Liverpool In The City Centre !
The Launch Marked The Release Of The Festival Brochure, Which Can Be Picked Up Around The City And Can Also Be Viewed Online @ www.brazilicafestival.com.
BRAZILICA Is The UK's Largest Samba Carnival Event And Promises To Be The Highlight Of The Summer When It Stomps Into Liverpool From Fri 15 - Sun 17 July !
Make Sure You Don't Miss It !
Get Ready To Samba ! ! !
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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
**Full Disclosure: I have been working with the festival , but they have NOT paid me for this post.
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A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 2, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. SMAP is NASA’s first Earth-observing satellite designed to collect global observations of surface soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state. SMAP will provide high resolution global measurements of soil moisture from space. The data will be used to enhance scientists' understanding of the processes that link Earth's water, energy, and carbon cycles. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)