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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)
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
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
Artist concept of SLS launching.
Image credit: NASA
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After its press launch at Oldway Mansion, Devon General centenary livery Scania 15893-WA13GDX ran together with Devon General open top Leyland Atlantean MSJ499 (ex 925GTA) to Paignton Bus Station, where soon after 15893 entered service for the first time in Torbay on route 22 to Dawlish Warren.
15893 pictured at the end of Hyde Road from the top of 925.
Company: Stagecoach Devon
Registration: WA13GDX
Fleet Number: 15893
New: 2013
Chassis: Scania N230UD
Bodywork: Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 H77F
Location: Hyde Road, Paignton
Exposure: 1/640 @ f9 400ISO
Date: 30 April 2019
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
Submarines are kind of cool to wander around in. This was the front of an older (non nuclair) submarine. What you're looking at is the torpedo launcher.
btw: submarines are very tripod unfriendly :)
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
a modern homage to the classic space 6870 space probe launcher. modified from 60431 space explorer rover and 60430 interstellar spaceship
Full Description:The Space Shuttle Columbia on Pad 39A during the picture-perfect ascent of sister ship Discovery after lift off of STS-31. This was the first time since January 1986 that there was a Shuttle on each pad, which are separated by 1.6 miles. Discovery, carrying a five-member crew and the Hubble Space Telescope, lifted off at 8:34 a.m. EDT, April 24. Columbia, with its Astro-1 observatory, was scheduled for launch in May.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-90PC-0610
Date: April 24, 1990
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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Double-crested Cormorant taking off from a salt marsh near Mountain View, Ca this morning.
This is probably my favorite bird in the SF Bay Area; it is a powerful swimmer, it's reflective eyes assist with hunting prey down along the bottom, and the distance it travels underwater and the time it stays down is quite impressive. This morning I caught the Pelicans waiting for the Cormorants to stir things up, and then feed up on the surface.
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These now dormant rails were once used to launch boats into the resevoir. Today they serve as a nice lead into the picture.
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
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.
One of the challenges when building Airwolf was the ventral missile launcher. I wanted to have it properly retractable and covered by a sliding door. Instead of my normal photo-series, I shot a quick video to demonstrate the functionality.
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 Ã…lesund, 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
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
On display at the Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham to members of the public, press and the mayor were the six new Sapphire specification Enviro 400s recently delivered to Gillingham for dedicated use on route 101 from Sunday 7th September 2014.
Here seen departing from the display back to its home garage is ARRIVA Kent & Surrey 6475 YY14 WFX which carries the Sapphire livery along with branding for route 101. Wednesday 3rd September 2014.
Six new vehicles (6473-6478) are to be supplemented by a further four of the current batch of route 101 dedicated E400s (6450-6453) which are currently being refurbished at Alexander Dennis in Harlow to Sapphire standards, all ten will carry route 101 branding. A further two E400s ex-ARRIVA The Shires (6471-6472) have been transferred to Gillingham and whilst they are also refurbished to Sapphire specification will be unbranded and officially spares.
ADL E40D - ADL Enviro 400
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On June 11, 2008, a Delta II rocket carrying the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched from Cape Canaveral. Its mission was to explore the extreme universe.
Credit: NASA/Jerry Cannon, Robert Murray
Image Number: KSC-08pd1637
Date: June 11, 2008
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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)
Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much greater importance. When the Vanguard rocket exploded on the pad in December 1957, the ability to orbit a satellite became a matter of national prestige. The ABMA (Army Ballistic Missile Agency) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, in cooperation with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, launched a Jupiter rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket consisted of a modified version of the Redstone rocket's first stage and two upper stages of clustered Baby Sergeant rockets developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Credit: NASA
MSFC Negative Number: 0100074
Image Number: MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C
Date: January 31, 1958
Launch of IWMF mobile security app, Reporta. Event hosted by International Women's Media Foundation at the Newseum on Friday, October 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tony Powell)
The scene from the Cape Canaveral AFS where we watched SpaceX successfully launch its #CRS6 Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Bound for a five-week mission to the ISS, #Dragon #NASASocial
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft stands atop Launch Pad 39B at sunrise at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of launch. United Launch Alliance (ULA) under a collaborative partnership with Boeing, built the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) upper stage of the SLS rocket that will propel Orion to the Moon. Photo by United Launch Alliance
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)