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The ‘red rocket’, Fowey on the site of a former lighthouse, is a navigation aid and the light is visible for 8 miles. It has recently had a fresh lick of paint which has lifted it's spirits!
I didn't even know that I got the squirrel in the photo until today!!!! 😂 Made me laugh...Rocket lives to catch one!!! LOL
Not the best photos, but Stephenson's original Rocket Steam Engine makes its return to Manchester for the first time in 180 years in Manchester's Industrial Museum.
The first public railway line in the world was the Stockton and Darlington railway, which contrary to it's name ran from Stockton to Shildon. It opened on the 27th of September 1825. This means that the 27th of September 2025 marked the 200th anniversary, which called for big celebrations at Darlington and Shildon.
One of the attractions at the Locomotion National Railway Museum at Shildon was a reconstruction of the famous "Rocket" built by George Stephenson in 1829. It was NOT the first steam locomotive in the world, but it was incredibly fast and strong for the time, winning the famous Rainhill Trials and setting the course for railways to develop into the backbone of transportation in the industrialized world.
Day 218. While my husband was doing jobs outside, I was moving furniture and doing important things such as this. And in-case there is any doubt, I'm not claiming to be a rocket scientist :-)
Possibly my favorite figure of 2016 right here. A factory made prototype Boba Fett like the one originally pictured by Kenner. And yes, the rocket really fires ;)
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When you're exploring icy worlds at cryogenic temperatures, skis can often be more effective than wheels or treads. This little rocket-propelled skidoo is perfect for those times when you need to go fast at ground level and have a lot of room to slow down. Like the ice flats of planet Krysto.
FebRovery episode 10. Double digits at last; I've been singularly uninspired this year and haven't managed to keep up my normal amount of rovers. Ah well, there's always next year!
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.
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.
Mission NG-19 - An Antares rocket jumps off pad 0A at the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. Its task is to carry a Cygnus spacecraft full of supplies and experiments to the ISS.
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“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
My hand-painted Rocket Dog boots, they must be about three years old but I've never worn them as they are too tight. 😒
ANSH 125 (2) footwear
Weekly Alphabet Challenge 'immaculate' theme. 35/52
EXPLORE #88, May 17/09
I like different lol This is NOT your usual Magnolia shot ...Here's the centre of a Magnolia Blossom...Doesn't get much closer than this...........Looks kinda phallicy to me ;)
Best viewed LARGE. Happy Sunday everyone.........
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft arrives at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, Saturday, September 26, 2020, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 14th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The CRS-14 Cygnus spacecraft is named after the first female astronaut of Indian descent, Kalpana Chawla, and is scheduled to launch at 9:38 p.m., Thursday, October 1, 2020 EDT.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Terry Zaperach)
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The National Space Centre, Leicester. England.
A great bit of theatre that everybody enjoys. It is of course not a real rocket but a cleverly crafted smoke and lighting illusion with sound.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V launched the new satellite — called the Advanced Extremely High Frequency 4 spacecraft, or AEHF-4.
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.