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NASA's InSight lander just hitched a ride to Mars on an Atlas V rocket! ETA: November 26, 2018. This was the first interplanetary mission to leave from California and it was a joy to watch it go! This is a long-exposure shot of the rocket streaking through the sky seen from about 85 miles away from the launch site at Vandeberg AFB. #NASA #InSight #Mars #ULA #AtlasV
The launch of U.S. Air Force cruise missile Navaho in 1957. Even though it never reached operational status before cancellation in 1957, Navaho research development contributed to the aeronautical research program. The heavy Navaho vehicle weighed 136,000 kilograms, capable of Mach-3 speeds, and used an improved V-2 engine, was boosted into the air by three liquid-propellant rocket engines of 135,000 pounds of thrust each. Variants of these engines were developed for Army's Redstone and Jupiter rockets.
26 June 1957
This photograph is part of the Shipbuilding on the River Tyne, 1960 - 1977 collection which was kindly donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
Taken by Ronald Sanderson, this photograph captures a view of the river probably taken from Hebburn, of The Ottawa launched into the river and being turned with the aid of the tugs in front of spectators. This photograph was taken in 1964. It is a 35mm slide.
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Today saw the long-awaited launch of the new MMCs for route 23, replacing a batch of 58-plated E300s. 26148 (SN67 WVS) and 26146 (SN67 WVP) took part in a small ceremony at the South Parade terminus this morning.
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC (B43F)
Stagecoach South (PM)
South Parade, Southsea
09 October 2017
More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched nearly 50 high-powered, amateur rockets April 15, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency's annual rocket competition.
For the past nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.
Student Launch is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges - a series of activities providing students access to the Artemis program. Through Artemis, NASA will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, missions that will help pave the way for future missions to Mars.
The 2023 launch event and award ceremony are available to view on NASA's Marshall YouTube and Student Launch Facebook pages.
For more information, visit: NASA Student Launch.
#nasa #NASAMarshall #MSFC #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #education #space #studentlaunch
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
201405290008hq (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
"Two NASA research rockets launched from Andøya Space on November 10, 2024, to study energy transfer between the lower and upper atmosphere. – The main scientific objective for VortEx 2 is to study how winds and energy from the lower parts of the atmosphere affect the upper parts, says Thomas Gansmoe, Director Sounding Rockets & Engineering Services at Andøya Space Sub-Orbital. -– The focus of the experiment is to figure out how gravity waves interact with each other, and how these interactions form vortices.
The two research rockets in the mission launched two minutes apart, and the first lift-off occurred Nov 10, at 21:36:00 UTC, reaching a apogee of 358 kilometers, while the second launch vehicle reached 144 kilometers." Source: andoyaspace.no/news-articles/nasa-vortex-2-launches-a-suc...
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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Clyde Marine's Beaver Bay flying a flag warning of the launching of Calmac's newest ferry - MV Glen Sannox.
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)
More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched nearly 50 high-powered, amateur rockets April 15, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency's annual rocket competition.
For the past nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.
Student Launch is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges - a series of activities providing students access to the Artemis program. Through Artemis, NASA will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, missions that will help pave the way for future missions to Mars.
The 2023 launch event and award ceremony are available to view on NASA's Marshall YouTube and Student Launch Facebook pages.
For more information, visit: NASA Student Launch.
#nasa #NASAMarshall #MSFC #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #education #space #studentlaunch
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
Aerothermodynamic Structural Vehicle 1 (ASV-1), part of the Aerothermodynamic/Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests (ASSET) Program, is seen being prepared for its September 18, 1963 launch from Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
I really like the following article, at the White Eagle Aerospace website, written by J. Terry White. Maybe that's why they disabled/blocked the ability to copy/paste from it:
"…the first ASSET flight test vehicle (ASV-1) successfully flew 1,600 nm down the Eastern Test Range (ETR) following launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Boosted atop a Thor launch vehicle, the hypersonic glider reached a maximum velocity of 10,900 mph (Mach 12).
The Aerothermodynamic/Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests (ASSET) Program was a United States Air Force flight research effort aimed at exploring hypersonic lifting entry. Programmatic objectives included evaluation of hypersonic lifting vehicle (1) reentry aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic phenomena (2) structural design concepts, and (3) panel flutter characteristics and body flap oscillatory pressures.
The basic ASSET vehicle configuration was a 70-deg delta planform wing with highly-radiused leading edges. The windward surface of this wing was flat and had a 10-deg break in slope roughly two-thirds of the way back from the nose. A blunted cone-cylinder combination was raked into the leeward surface of the wing to form the fuselage of the vehicle. The aft portion of the vehicle was terminated with a flat base region.
There were two (2) types of ASSET flight vehicles. The Aerothermoelastic Vehicle (AEV) variant was flown to investigate windward panel flutter characteristics and body flap oscillatory pressures. A pair of these vehicles were flown. Each weighed AEV weighed 1,225 Ibs and was launched into a suborbital flight path by a Douglas Thor booster.
The Aerothermodynamic Structural Vehicle (ASV) variant was flown to determine external airframe surface temperature, heat flux and pressure distributions in hypersonic flight. These data were used to evaluate materials and structural concepts under reentry conditions. A quartet of these vehicles were flight tested. Each ASV weighed 1,130 Ibs and was boosted by a Thor-Delta launch vehicle.
ASSET vehicles were boosted to altitudes between 168 KFT and 225 KFT depending on mission type. AEV entry insertion velocity was roughly 13,000 ft/sec while that for ASV shots varied between 16,000 and 19,500 ft/sec. ASSET performed hypersonic flight maneuvers via a combination of aerodynamic and propulsive controls. The windward-mounted body flap was the lone aerodynamic control surface while a set of 3-axis attitude control thrusters were located in the vehicle's base region.
The first flight of the ASSET Program (ASV-1) took place on Wednesday, 18 September 1963. ASV-1 lift-off occurred at 09:39 UTC from Cape Canaveral's LC-17B. Due to booster availability issues, a Thor DSV-2F launch vehicle was used for this mission rather than the higher energy Thor-Delta DSV-2G. Insertion altitude and velocity were 203,200 ft and 16,125 ft/sec, respectively. The ASV-1 mission was highly successful with the exception that the vehicle was lost when it sunk in the South Atlantic during recovery operations.
ASV-1 represented the first time in aerospace history that a lifting vehicle configuration had successfully flown a double-digit Mach number reentry trajectory. Five (5) more ASSET vehicles would fly before completion of the flight research program. The sixth and last mission occurred on Tuesday, 23 February 1965.
The ASSET Program garnered a wealth of first-ever hypersonic vehicle aerodynamic, aerothermodynamic, aerothermoelastic and flight controls data. This priceless information and the valuable experience gained during ASSET contributed significantly to the design and flight testing of the PRIME SV-5D and Space Shuttle Orbiter.
Strangely, only one of the ASSET flight test articles was ever recovered successfully. In particular, ASV-3 was recovered following its 1,800 nm suborbital flight down the Eastern Test Range on Wednesday, 22 July 1964. The recovered airframe is currently on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio."
From/At:
www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/hypersonic-asset/
I'm going to leave the following for a while longer, because I'm pretty damned torqued:
I HAD MY USUAL INFORMATIVE, VALUE-ADDED DESCRIPTION HERE - ABOVE, WHICH I HAD TO YET AGAIN, PAINSTAKINGLY FINAGLE - WITH A LINK TO ANOTHER PERTINENT & INFORMATIVE WEBSITE (BELOW).
HOWEVER, SINCE THE PART-TIME “DEVELOPERS”/IT SUPPORT BUFFOONS AT FLUCKR CONTINUE TO BE COMPOSED OF STONED (LIKE “MANAGEMENT”), INCOMPETENT & LACKADAISICAL MORONS, AND IT WENT "POOF".
AND NOW THERE'S THE UTTERLY PATHETIC MOBILE UPDATE. OBVIOUSLY NOT MEANT FOR IPHONES...A TOTAL, COMPLETE, UNMITIGATED FLUCKING DUMPSTER FIRE. WHAT THE FLUCK ARE YOU FLUCKING STUPID FLUCKR FLUCKSTICKS DOING?!?!?!?!
GET YOUR FLUCKING SNOT/RUNNY-NOSED HEADS OUT OF YOUR COLLECTIVE (DUMB) ASSES!!!!!!!!!!
FLUCKR HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY MEDIOCRE - THE MOBILE APP ESPECIALLY - FOR AWHILE, BUT AGAIN, CONSISTENTLY AT LEAST. HOWEVER, NOW YOU FLUCKING FLUCKR ASS-CLOWNS HAVE MANAGED TO MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY ABYSMAL!!!!!
AND I'M PAYING FOR THIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
UN-FLUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!
space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/asset-asv.htm
The same photo:
space.skyrocket.de/img_lau/thor_dsv2f_2.jpg
Both above credit: "Gunter's Space Page" website
looks fun! I remember when I was a child and my dad use to throw me in the air everytime we went to the beach... It was freak'in awesome!
Sneaking around the Corner to take a look at the Secret Launch Site ~ Downtown, Kansas City, Missouri USA
See the pilot shots where they step/jump off and on the ship in order to take command through the ship channels, thought you'd like to see how the loser to the dock at Roatan disembarks passengers for touring the island. Notice, they're launching their lifeboats.
Sort of cool to see them actually do this when it's not an emergency. Hope to never see it in an emergency.
June 16, 2025 - SpaceX Launch at 8:39 PM during twilight Blue Hour at Huntington Beach Pier. Photo Shoot with Kristina M., and Jon Racasa.
There are three "Benchmarks," commissioned in 2005 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the City of Peterborough, on the banks of Little Lake. This Benchmark, titled "Launching Pad," is designed by Michael Fortune of Lakefield. Imagine yourself sitting in a giant slingshot, ready to be launched out over the blue waters of Little Lake!
Leo Carillo, CA.
I don't get to use the 70-200 2.8 IS lens that I bought at a pawn shop last year very often, but I'm always blown away when I do. I'm mildly sunburned, but it'll be worth it if this gets me a job in Fiji shooting Reef girls.
St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Launching, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The cemetery was established in 1820, and abandoned in 1860. Many of the headstones are just simple plain rocks.
A microscale rocket launch facility for Decisive Action on MOCpages. Like it at www.mocpages.com/moc.php/363320 and help me rule the world! MwaHaHaHa *cough* Thankyou.
Expedition 42/43 crew members Terry Virts of NASA, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov, and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti wave farewell to family and friends, as they depart the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
This shot is from the same heritage site.
In 1954, the government of Egypt decided to build the Aswan Dam (Aswan High Dam), an event that would flood a valley containing treasures of ancient Egypt such as the Abu Simbel temples. UNESCO then launched a worldwide safeguarding campaign,...
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A racer launching during the 2008 Mopar Power Festival at New England Dragway. Epping, NH. Photo by Walt Felix - Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi w/Quantaray 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens, F/5.6, ISO-400, 1/1000 sec.
This was made so I'd have a clear picture to use as thumbnail and so on. The pictures taken outdoors were a bit cluttered.
Strait of Messina. The fisherman throws the harpoon to spear fish. The ancient and strange craft, now only a few specimens. It is called "FELUCA"..
Tinsel TV characters with some of the city centre policing team.
Greater Manchester Police has launched its Christmas campaign today as part of ‘GMP Christmas’, tackling crime and protecting vulnerable people over the festive period.
This year’s online Advent campaign sees a festive cast take over usual TV programming with the launch of Tinsel TV. A new video will be released every day from 1 December, which sees Rudolph, Snowman and a Big Bad Wolf join Santa and his helpers as they host a series of TV programmes with crime prevention advice for the residents of Greater Manchester.
GMP is encouraging people to think about how they might keep themselves safe, and to consider what their present to, or presence within, their community, family or friendships might be.
At the same time, the campaign will showcase the promises that GMP makes to the public at Christmas and all year round, using a mixture of law enforcement and public engagement to protect the local communities.
Operationally, high-visibility patrols will be in place across the region to detect and deter criminal activity, as well as providing reassurance and assistance. There will also be 12 high-profile days of action which will tackle the traditional spike in crime usually seen during this time of year.
Purse bells and other crime prevention tools will be handed out to shoppers in town centres to keep thieves at bay, and police are also maintaining a strong presence around car parks to help prevent items being stolen from vehicles.
The Christmas drink and drug drive operation, which also starts today (1 December 2015), will continue throughout the month and officers will be testing motorists around the clock and reinforcing the ‘none for the road’ message.
In addition, officers and cadets will be delivering hampers to the elderly and those in need, and the public will be given a live insight into the world of policing on one of the busiest days of the year – Mad Friday.
Assistant Chief Constable John O’Hare said:
“This time of year is a busy one for the force and our colleagues across the emergency services, and we have been thoroughly preparing for the festive period.
“Our top priority is making sure that the people of Greater Manchester enjoy Christmas in the safest possible manner.
“It can be a very busy time of year, but we are asking the public to take some time to have a think about what their Christmas present might be to their community or family. Whether you promise to visit an elderly relative or neighbour, or volunteer to be the designated driver for friends on a night out, we can all do our part to keep ourselves and others safe this season.
“This Christmas, GMP will be present to tackle criminals and protect the people of Greater Manchester. We hope our neighbourhoods can embrace the spirit of community this Christmas and share their presence, too.”
Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said:
“Christmas brings out the best in Greater Manchester people – the majority of whom are generous and warm-hearted. I hope people will tap into that festive community spirit and look out for older friends and neighbours who perhaps need a little help and company this year.
“There will always be those who want to spoil the party for everyone, so please take care of yourself and your friends when you’re out enjoying yourselves, and make sure everyone gets home safe and sound.”
People can post their Christmas promises online using one of the GMP templates, available at www.gmp.police.uk.
People can also visit the website to check out the daily videos giving seasonal crime prevention advice, or follow #GMPChristmas on social media for the latest police activity throughout December.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
201405290005hq (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
Portsmouth Guildhall, The launch of new buses on The Star routes 7 & 8, they will be in service 25.01.2020.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying NASA's DART spacecraft.