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Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, built in Newcastle Upon Tyne at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson and Company in 1829.
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Wheels are from Big Ben Bricks.
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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!
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!
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.
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 ;)
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
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.
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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
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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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.
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...
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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.