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Rocket made for the display "Space Panic" at the french convention Brick à Dole 2017.
The theme of the display being the "Space", it was obvious to make a reference to Tintin and his famous rocket.
Basically, I took the form, the color, the 3 "legs" of the Tintin rocket.
I voluntarily modified the top of the rocket with a cockpit to get close to the spirit "Lego Space"
Minifigs Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy are relatively faithful to the comic.
Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, built in Newcastle at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson and Company in 1829.
A common misconception is that Rocket was the first steam locomotive. In fact the first steam locomotive to run on tracks was built by Richard Trevithick 25 years earlier, but his designs were not developed beyond the experimental stage. Then followed the first commercially-successful twin-cylinder steam locomotives built by Matthew Murray in Holbeck for the Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds, West Yorkshire. George Stephenson, as well as a number of other engineers, had built steam locomotives before. Rocket was in some ways an evolution, not a revolution.
Rocket's claim to fame is that it was the first 'modern' locomotive, introducing several innovations that have been used on almost every steam locomotive built since. There have been differences in opinion on whom should be given the credit for designing Rocket. George Stephenson had designed several locomotives before but none as advanced as Rocket. At the time that Rocket was being designed and built at the Forth Banks Works, he was living in Liverpool overseeing the building of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. His son Robert had recently returned from a stint working in South America and resumed as managing director of Robert Stephenson and Company. He was in daily charge of designing and constructing the new locomotive. Although he was in frequent contact with his father in Liverpool and probably received advice from him, it is difficult not to give the majority of the credit for the design to Robert.
In 1862 Rocket was donated to the Patent Office Museum in London by the Thompsons of Milton Hall, near Brampton, in Cumbria. The locomotive is now exhibited (above) at the Science Museum in London in much-modified form compared to its original state. Such are the changes in the engine from 1829 that The Engineer magazine, c.1884, concluded that "it seems to us indisputable that the Rocket of 1829 and 1830 were totally different engines".
There's plenty of further info on the Rocket's engineering on multiple websites.
Giraffe image by pareeerica other Images by NASA
Textures by Skeletal Mess
This image is part of the NASA Remix Project
“He called me vermin! She called me rodent! Let’s see if you can laugh after five or six good shots in your freakin’ face!” ~ Rocket Raccoon
Kennedy Space Center. Florida.
Un des 5 moteurs F-1 à oxygène liquide de la fusée Saturn V.
Poussée par moteur de 1 522 000 lbs.
Le poids totale de la fusée Saturn V était de 6 000 000 lbs.
En 3 minutes, la fusée atteignait 6 000 mph à 38 milles d'altitudes.
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
My second visit to this ghost bike. The last time was in July 2022. Since that time, it has been replaced with another bicycle and the photo of Kyle added.
Warren, Michigan
The shape of this "Friends" handle bar reminded me of those old jet packs from the late 70's, and the fly-ins that were done at American football games. Thought they were sooooo cool, and had one of my wish-list as a kid for some time.
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This is build 27 of 52 for my "8x8x52" vignette project
While I was prepping my rocket and trying to watch the fun launches, David's rotary flamethrower roared right off the pad. Wow. (Best viewed large - click on photo)
Dale caught the action. Here’s a great slo mo video.
Launch sequence photos below.
One playground structure I've not seen before is a rocket ship. This one is nice and seemingly new. From this angle I feel like I'm about to walk onto the gantry for Apollo 11.
A view of the Alabama Space and Rocket Center as a storm was moving in. Taken using a lightning trigger on my Canon 5D Mark III and a 24-70 f/2.8L. Processed using Lightroom for initial RAW for contrast and color tweaks and then using Topaz Adjust and Topaz Detail to enhance the drama in the sky.
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962 when he launched in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft on an Atlas rocket,
Digging trough old stuff i came upon this picture i took a while ago. Eastbound 'rocket train' A43021-27 bound for Bécancour,QC is flying trough the Saint-Lawrence valley at track speed. Back in 2017 when sister terminal Montreal-11 lost the contract of AMT commuter trains, they came upon a massive shortage of employees for some reason, management took a decision to give back the 429/430 pool back to Joffre based crews (the job was ours before, but that's another story...) for 6 months or so, i briefly held the '429 pool' back in these days. I sure miss running trains at 65 per, that picture did bring back a lot of memories...
Bagot,QC
May 12th 2017
"The oil lens was focused on a starship lighter exposed by dawn in the basin below them. The tall eastern face of the ship glistened in the flat light of the sun, but the shadow side still showed yellow portholes from glowglobes of the night."
-from Dune, when Paul and the Fremen see the Padishah Emperor has arrived
That little description always got me thinking about some kind of 50s-style rocket that landed upright. In the years since I first read it, I've come to realize that I'm probably wrong (I didn't understand that the Thufir Hawat at the end is the same guy in the beginning until my second read), but I still loved the idea of a big rocket that just plops down on planets. You'd need some serious anti-gravity to do it, but hey, rule of cool.
Long story short, I've always been into the style, so this is the latest evolution of Awe's quasi-retro rocket series. The real thing wouldn't sit on its thrusters like that, but whatever.
One of two chrome hood rockets on a black 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air.
Factoid:
1957 Chevys are icons of the 1950s automobile styling. However, from a numbers standpoint, the 1957 Chevy wasn't as popular as General Motors had hoped. Despite its popularity, rival Ford outsold Chevrolet for the 1957 model year for the first time since 1935. The sales shift to Ford was partially due to that the '57 Chevy had tubeless tires--the first car to have them. This scared away sales to Ford as many people did not initially trust the new tubeless design.
{Nikon D3 / 24-70 mm f/2.8}
From this angle the beautifully proportioned Chrysler building looks like a giant space rocket poised for lift-off from its midtown Manhattan launch pad.
This morning its upper storeys were illuminated by strong dawn sunlight.
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Dames Rockets wildflowers adorn a small meadow every Spring at Spitler Knoll Overlook in the central district of Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
The wind was pretty steady and I struggled to get one keeper shot before the morning sun came over the hill. The wind always seems to blow on my days off work. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the wind? :-)
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The Rocket Brigade House on the newly restored Old New Quay at Whitehaven. When ships floundered on the rocks along the coast the rocket apparatus on a horse drawn cart was deployed to the scene whereupon rockets where fired out to the ship carrying lines. These were then used to setup a breeches buoy to rescue the crew and passengers. The Whitehaven rocket brigade attended dozens of wrecks and saved many lives.
Digging through the archives a bit...Caught a morning sunrise on the way into work at the rocket ranch one morning. Taken from Rocket Park at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.