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I love the little drips coming off the sides...
Pattern by Wild Olive.
ETA: Tutorial for crayon tinting found here.
The Lomography Sprocket Rocket, with its double-wide 35 mm film format, is certainly one of my favorites film cameras. This is a beautiful (and typical) Lake Michigan sunset, from 2017.
What is it about animals...or humans for that matter, that think the grass is greener on the other side? Rocket really wants to go into the neighbors yard...I think not! Little stinker is getting big and starting to feel good in his surroundings to where he wants to wander....I don't let him out without supervision even though my yard is fenced. I'm not comfortable with the little guy behaving!!! lol :) Have a nice evening everyone!
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Abused, Abandoned Jungle Dogs.
As you can see Rocky the Rocket Man is thrilled to see
me this morning. He needs a Rocket Man cape ............ ;-)
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Searching my Google Maps right before the Lousiana Border we found the.INFINITY Science Center that actually was on One side of the Highway and the Other Side is where the John C. Stennis Space Center was by appointment only and that was where the actual launch the Rockets. What we were in for was a brush-up of our space program and a real Rocket Scientist’s explanation of how a rocket works, which filled any remaining empty brain cells I had with a new understanding of the complexity of rocket engines, and the realization I won’t be building one soon. Our visit was on a Monday and the crowds were sparse till later in the afternoon
"Dominus"
The snapshot was taken in the game Rocket League and retouched in Photoshop.
The original snapshot:
Transworld Airlines (TWA) Headquarters
Kansas City, MO. USA
Everyonce in a great while I get a fabulous blue sky and some puffy white clouds in my hometown. On this day I was driving by the TWA headquarters and looked up and had to catch this image. The orange architecture, the shades pulled up and down, and the infmaous Moonliner atop the building just seemed like a magical fit. Everytime I visit Disneyland and see their version it makes me recall this one here in KC.
In 1956 Hughes added a 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) version of the Disneyland Moonliner, known as the TWA Moonliner II, atop the southwest corner of the TWA Corporate Headquarters' Building, located at 18th Street and Baltimore, near downtown Kansas City, MO. When Hughes and Disney ended their business partnership in 1961 after Hughes sold TWA, the airline's management removed the Moonliner II from its roof and sold it in 1962 to a local RV company called SpaceCraft.
SpaceCraft moved the now all-white Moonliner in 1970 to Concordia, MO, where it landed near the south side of Interstate 70, between Kansas City and St. Louis, MO, where SpaceCraft operated its assembly plant; it slowly rusted on that spot for more than 25 years. In 1997 a Columbia, MO lawyer, who collected Disney memorabilia, bought the deteriorating Moonliner II and then began a long, careful restoration process, eventually bringing it back to its 1956 condition and sporting its original red and white TWA paint scheme. The rocket is currently on loan to the National Airline History Museum at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, in Kansas City, MO, where it stands very near an original, fully restored to flight status, TWA Super "G" Constellation airliner; the Moonliner II is located about five miles from its original TWA rooftop location.
Moonliner III. In 1998 a new but scaled-down version of the Disneyland park's original Moonliner was added as part of the New Tomorrowland, complete with the familiar red stripes of the now defunct TWA. Today, this one-third smaller Moonliner is used to promote Coca-Cola "Delivering Refreshment to a Thirsty Galaxy"; it sits next to the building that once housed the "Flight to the Moon" attraction, which is now Redd Rockett's Pizza Port.
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Mike D.
A lashup consisting of six locomotives prepare to haul their train south out of Bush Yard in Jacksonville, shortly after the sun has set. In the lead are two YN2 four axle's, a very rare sight even in Florida.
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the successful launch of three Terrier-Oriole suborbital rockets for the Department of Defense between 2:30 and 2:31 a.m. today, Feb. 24, from NASA’s launch range on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The next launch from the Wallops Flight Facility is a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket between 6 and 9 a.m. on March 27. The rocket will be carrying the Rocksat-X payload carrying university student developed experiments.
Credit: NASA/Alison Stancil
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The site selected for Woomera was on a stony gibber plain with the small Arcoona Creek nearby. Apart from the pioneering pastoralists the other crucial pioneers of this region were the police troopers who covered vast areas with deadly terrain and hazards and the mail contractors who struggled through adverse conditions to get the weekly mails through to the sheep station managers and workers. By the time of the Tarcoola gold rushes in 1893 the mail contractors were using carriages and carts instead of just horses. They took paying passengers with mails. One famous mail contractor was Norman Richardson who personally knew all of the 100 or so early pastoralists. He also established some leaseholds himself. The harsh conditions and remoteness of the region was broken by 1915 when the first stages of the Transcontinental railway line to Kalgoorlie reached Tarcoola almost on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain. South Australia contains about one quarter of the Nullarbor Plain. A slow mixed train began travelling to the workers camps along the line in 1915 with materials for the line and with goods for people working and living along the line. Deserted Pimba, where the branch line to Woomera was built, was a busy workers camps during World War One.
Woomera Township. Population 130.
Woomera grew like a mushroom, almost overnight. In 1946 the Australian Chifley government and the British government wanted to act with speed to establish a long-range weapon research station. Chifley also created our security space agency ASIO in 1949. Six years later 500 houses had been built at Woomera and the government town had a population of around 3,000 people. All town residents had to take an oath of secrecy to live there as “the eyes and ears of the world” and its spies were focussed on the town and the missile programme. The residents were basically stratified according to the Mess that they attended which included the Senior Officers, Officers, Sergeants, Staff and Junior Staff Messes.
The sentry gate to Woomera was at Philip Ponds named after Philip Hierns whose family settled at Gumeracha in 1852. Next to the Philip Pond is Hiern Hill used as a survey point. The Hiern family also had the Hiltaba station in the Gawler Ranges. In 1885 the government built a 60,000 gallon underground water tank for the use by all travellers and pastoralists at Philip Ponds. This was the site selected for the rocket range with most of it taken from part of Mt Eba sheep station (established in 1874 by Price Maurice). This selected site offered a largely uninhabited range to the north west coast of Western Australia a significant distance of 3,000 miles or 4,830 kms. Britain had considered low populated areas of another former British colony - Canada but they had few hours of sunshine compared with that of central and western Australia. The lands where Woomera township was established were Kokatha lands. Their territory ranged from Ceduna, across the Gawler Ranges to Woomera.
The cemetery is a couple of kms outside of the town and is the burial site of Len Beadell. Just north of the cemetery (5 kms from Woomera) are the Philip Ponds Station ruins and waterhole and the Philip Ponds cemetery. This tiny cemetery has six graves but only two headstones. It was here in 1947 that Beadell camped with some other army personnel to look for a site for an airstrip. The homestead was in good condition then but is now a deserted ruin. Nearby is the Arcoona Creek which flows from near Woomera towards Lake Torrens. Near the lake it forms a series of periodic wetlands between Roxby Downs and Woomera when rainfall is high. Arcoona sheep station is less than 30 kms from Woomera on the way to Roxby Downs. Arcoona Station (meaning underground water) was established in 1876 by Andrew Wooldridge and covered over 4,900 square kms. He sold part of it to Charles Burney Young who created Andamooka station. James Gemmell took over Arcoona station in 1902 and added Norman Richardson as partner in 1906 and it was sold by both in 1909. The station was sold in 1947 to the Estate of Sir Sidney Kidman. It covered almost 4,000 square kms by then. After floods the Arcoona Lakes can support over 150,000 birds (until the water dies up) including ducks, swans, Cormorants, Coots, Terns, etc. There is no public access on to these leaseholds. Philip Hiern, the fifth son of Henry and Grace Hiern was an intrepid bushman and accompanied G.B. Richardson in 1869 when Richardson found good natural waterholes here and called it Philip's Ponds.
When the Woomera Prohibited Area was created in 1946 another huge area was also created on the Western Australian coast from just south of Broome almost to Port Hedland. This was where the long-range missiles were expected to touch down. The Woomera prohibited area had to be surveyed and Len Beadall (1923 – 1995) from NSW was selected for this arduous task in difficult arid country. He had enlisted during World War Two and stayed on in the Army after the war doing survey work. In November 1946 he was asked to postpone his retirement from the Army to undertake the Woomera survey. He was sent to choose the selected area and then survey it. His first task was to survey the site for an airport. Another first priority was the construction of a water pipe line from Port Augusta to Woomera. A RAAF Squadron was sent to build a temporary air strip and the first plane landed in June 1947. The proposed town was named in 1947 by one of the English planners once he saw woomera in an Aboriginal dictionary. For the Dharug Aboriginal people of the Sydney region the word meant “spear launcher.” Nothing could be more appropriate. The Woomera long range rocket facility is now the RAAF Woomera Range Complex. It covers 122,000 square kms of which parts are SA Crown land, Federal Crown lands, some is pastoral lease and some is mining tenancies. The area of the Woomera Prohibited Range was roughly the size of England and Wales combined. Sargeant Len Beadell began his survey on what is now the corner of Dewrang and Booromi Streets where a monument is situated. After the initial survey Beadell stayed on until he left the Army in 1948. He then became an employee of Long Range Weapons establishment. After the first surveys Len Beadell began building bush roads through the deserted areas with his first being the Gunbarrel Highway from Northern Territory through part of SA to Western Australia in 1955. It began at the Stuart Highway near the NT and SA border. This area had been first explored by Ernest Giles in 1874. The Gunbarrel Highway is 1,347 kms long and enabled weather stations and other rocket range work to occur along its length. The first track that Len Beadell surveyed was to a secret location for an atomic test at Emu field in 1952 with two British nuclear tests there in 1953. Thereafter nuclear tests were conducted at Maralinga. Len Beadell moved his family to Salisbury so that his trips in the bush could be interspersed with flights from Woomera airfield to Edinburgh RAAF base airfield to visit his family. The new Salisbury Library which opened in 2019 is the Len Beadell Library. Len’s and his wife’s ashes were interred in the Woomera cemetery. Len published six books on his explorations and exploits. He has been described as the last Australian explorer.
The work undertaken at Woomera was backed by work undertaken at Weapons Research Establishment at Penfield near Salisbury. The efforts of both towns were like symbiotic organisms dependent on the other. The British were bombarded by German rocket missiles during World War Two and they wanted to advance their knowledge by developing new long-range missiles. The German rocket missiles in 1944 were the first to go into space and then descend without noise or warning on the British below. It took these rocket missiles about 5 minutes to reach England from Germany. After the European War ended the Americans dropped their atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Science was advancing weaponry quickly. The British government was not concerned greatly about cost just speed of development. Russia had the remnants of German missiles and England wanted to beat them in new developments in the Cold War Age as the United Soviet Socialist Republics developed their first nuclear test in 1949. Woomera, the joint Australian British range was soon the second busiest rocket and space range in the world after Cape Canaveral in Florida. The original aim to develop long range missiles was supplemented with nuclear/atomic tests. The first long range missile the MkI Jindivik or Bloodhound occurred in 1952. It was developed and refined over the next 14 years to enable it to carry nuclear bombs as well. Later came the Black Knight rockets from 1957. Ten rockets were fired by the Joint British-Australia group in Woomera followed by 20 from the USA NASA programme and 258 Skylark (the later rocket 1969 to 1978) rockets for various countries including Australia, Britain, USA, Germany etc. Some projects were very secret but others were reported in the Australians press. We heard and read about Black Knights, Thunderbirds, Skylarks, Blue Streaks etc. The British government’s nuclear test program was conducted at Maralinga, Emu field in SA and Montebello Island near Exmouth in WA. Maralinga is 570 kms from Woomera in the Anangu Aboriginal lands. Between 1953 and 1973 the British exploded seven nuclear tests at Maralinga. The first two, relatively small nuclear tests in SA were conducted at Emu Field (8 to 10 kilotonnes) in 1953 which is about 650 kms north west of Woomera. Emu Field tests were followed by 3 bigger tests in Montebello Island (25 kilotonne). The largest tests all occurred at Maralinga from 1956 ranging from 10 kilotonnes to 26.6 kilotonnes. Britain has never disclosed where they got the uranium for the tests and research, but the SA government built a Uranium Treatment Plant in Port Pirie in 1955 to provide yellow cake to Britain and the USA. This facility closed in 1962 and it was a possible source of Britain’s uranium for Woomera tests. The Anangu Aboriginal people were forcibly removed from the area and moved to near Fowlers Bay and then Yalata. Both white workers and some of the Anangu people left behind later suffered from radioactivity diseases such as cancers and skin diseases and blindness. Anangu people still living near Maralinga reported a “black mist” descended on their country after a test on 15th October 1953. The history of the nuclear tests lingers on with the Anangu people. They officially received the partially safe test sites region back from the Federal government in 2009 with full return of the testing region in 2014. Tests just a couple of years ago show that some soil particles are still highly radioactive sixty years after the tests. Weathered soil particles broken down by the sun can still release radioactivity. The test range program at Woomera officially closed in 2000 and the remaining population there now number around 150 to 200 people. Despite the opening of Woomera township to the public one eight of South Australia is still a prohibited area with no public access, except for the Stuart Highway to Alice Sprigs and the main road to Roxby Downs and Andamooka. Number 20 Squadron is still based at the Woomera RAAF Base and does ongoing testing of war material and training for war fighting.
The research and experimental station was established in 1947 and the town was laid out in 1949. Building advanced at break neck speed in Woomera. By 1953 there were 500 houses completed and in 1958 work began on two storey flats for single workers. As early as September 1949 the first multi denominational church opened in a building provided by the Federal government. In August 1952 the Federal government gave land grants and £3,000 for a Catholic, an Anglican and a multi denominational Protestant church. The town then got its Catholic Church 1953, its Anglican Church 1953 and the United Protestant Church building started in 1954 and opened in 1956. Soon after other community facilities opened – the first Post Office in 1949, the first cinema and theatre early 1950s, sporting facilities, shops, the Primary School (1950) and the Higher Primary School (1951), the important 44 bed hospital (1958) and the tavern and Mess buildings and blocks of two storey accommodation for single women and single men. The hotel was named the ELDO after the European Launcher Development Organisation which was formed in 1962 for Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, West Germany and Italy for space rocket research and launching. Ten launches were fired at Woomera for ELDO between 1962 and 1970. The EDLO Hotel was built in the mid 1960s.
Some interesting buildings remaining in Woomera: starting on the corner of Banool and Dewrang Avenues are. -
The open air missiles museum on two corners, the Woomera theatre on one and the back of the former shopping centre on the other. The first wooden cinema building came from Port Pire to Woomera in the early 1950s. The stone Woomera Theatre was built in 1963. Behind it are public toilets and the heritage museum, café and shop. Along Dewrang Save opposite the heritage centre is the War Memorial, further along Dewrang is the former Post Office (1954) and on the next corner is the Department of Defence Offices. If you turn left here into Kotara Crescent is the Courthouse and the current police station. A tin and wooden Courthouse opened in 1949. This brick one opened in 1974. Next to it is the current Police Station built around 1970. At the end of this crescent is the Eldo Hotel (European Launcher Development Organisation).
Back at the intersection north along Dewrang Ave beyond the open air museum is the former 1950s St Barbara Anglican Church which became the town museum but is now empty. Behind it is the United Protestant church( originally Presbyterian) built in 1956 which is now the RAAF Base Chapel.
Directly opposite The RAAF Base Chapel is the Woomera Area School with the Latin motto of Et Scienta Et Sapienta –Knowledge and Wisdom. The primary section we built in 1950 and the High School added in 1951. In 1954 when the Duke for Edinburgh visited the school it had 550 students.
West of the intersection in Banool Ave is St Michael’s Catholic Church built in 1953. It has since been replaced by a new church. Only the stumps for the early church remain with a mural on what was once the interior wall.
In the open air museum you can see several rockets, missiles and aircraft etc. They include the Black Arrow missile in front of what was the Anglican Church. It was launched from 1969 to 1971. In Breen Park you can see more RAAF aircraft, the famous Blue Streak missile crash ruins, the Sea Slug missile, the Black Knight missile, the Blue Steel missile, a bomb etc.
red eyes have shed
tears of sorrow
let us not forget tomorrow.
many died in that rockets red glare
how can we dare, how can we dare.
despair, let us care.
Let us care please share that care oh we must dare.
either share or despair, it's all up to you.
красные глаза пролили
слезы печали
Давайте не будем забывать завтра.
многие погибли в том, что ракеты красные блики
как мы можем осмелиться, как мы можем осмелиться.
отчаяние, давайте заботиться.
Давайте заботиться, пожалуйста, поделитесь этой заботой о, мы должны осмелиться.
либо доля или отчаяние, это все зависит от вас.
ojos rojos se han derramado
lágrimas de dolor
no olvidemos mañana.
muchos murieron en que los cohetes deslumbramiento rojo
¿cómo podemos atrevernos, cómo podemos atrevernos.
desesperación, vamos a preocuparnos.
Por favor, compartamos ese cuidado oh debemos atrevernos.
ya sea compartir o desesperarse, todo depende de usted.
röda ögon har skjul
tårar av sorg
Låt oss inte glömma i morgon.
många dog däri raket röd bländning
Hur kan vi våga, hur kan vi våga.
förtvivlan, låt oss ta hand.
Låt oss bry vänligen dela den omsorg Oh vi måste våga.
antingen dela eller förtvivlan, det är upp till dig.
hóng yǎn jīng yǐ jīng tuō luò
bēi shāng de yǎn lèi
ràng wǒ men bú yào wàng jì míng tiān。
xǔ duō rén sǐ zài nà huǒ jiàn hóng sè xuàn guāng
wǒ men zěn me néng gǎn ， wǒ men zěn me gǎn 。
jué wàng ， ràng wǒ men guān xīn 。
ràng wǒ men guān xīn ， qǐng fēn xiǎng zhè zhǒng guān xīn ò ， wǒ men bì xū gǎn yú 。
yào me fēn xiǎng ， yào me jué wàng ， zhè yí qiè dōu yóu nǐ jué dìng。
红眼睛已经脱落
悲伤的眼泪
让我们不要忘记明天。
许多人死在那火箭红色眩光
我们怎么能敢，我们怎么敢。
绝望，让我们关心。
让我们关心，请分享这种关心哦，我们必须敢于。
要么分享，要么绝望，这一切都由你决定。
rote Augen haben vergossen
Tränen der Trauer
vergessen wir nicht morgen.
viele starben in, dass Raketen rote Blendung
wie können wir es wagen, wie können wir es wagen.
Verzweiflung, lassen Sie uns kümmern.
Lassen Sie uns darauf achten, teilen Sie bitte diese Sorge oh wir müssen es wagen.
entweder teilen oder verzweiflung, es liegt an Ihnen.
punaiset silmät ovat irtoa
murheen kyyneleitä
Älkäämme unohtako huomista.
monet kuolivat, että raketit punainen häikäisyä
Kuinka me voimme uskaltaa, miten voimme uskaltaa.
epätoivo, olka amme huolta.
Olka amme välitä, kerro siitä, että meidän täytyy uskaltaa.
joko jakaa tai epätoivoa, se on kaikki sinun.
κόκκινα μάτια έχουν χύσει
δάκρυα λύπης
Ας μην ξεχνάμε αύριο.
Πολλοί πέθαναν σε αυτή την κόκκινη λάμψη των πυραύλων.
Πώς μπορούμε να τολμήσουμε, πώς μπορούμε να τολμήσουμε.
απόγνωση, άσε μας να νοιαζόμαστε.
Ας μας ενδιαφέρει να μοιραστούμε αυτή τη φροντίδα.
είτε μοιράζεσαι είτε απελπίζεσαι, εξαρτάται από σένα.
kırmızı gözler döken var
keder gözyaşları
Yarını unutmayalım.
birçok roketler kırmızı parlama öldü
Nasıl cesaret edebiliriz, nasıl cesaret edebiliriz.
umutsuzluk, bize bakım sağlar.
Bize cesaret gerekir bu bakım oh paylaşmak lütfen bakım edelim.
ya paylaşmak ya da umutsuzluk, her şey size kalmış.
A Rocket to The Moon
The Riviera
Chicago, Illinois
October 18th, 2009
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Rocket launch of the Space X Thuraya 4-NGS from launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS. FL. This a launch of a communications satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAEbased Yahsat. This was taken from the boat launch in Sebastian, FL.🚀
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all my friends and relatives ask to see the Rocket Man when they come to visit...hopefully he'll survive a few more decades..
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