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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.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, automotive designers had a fascination with airplanes. They often worked aeronautical allusions into their designs.
For example, the tail lights on the 1959 Chrysler Imperial look like jet engines with the afterburners set at full throttle. Zoom!
Rod Run to the End of the World, Ocean Park Washington, September 7 & 8, 2019.
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.
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 ;)
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Rockets & tootsie pops in a bowl.
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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.
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.
I’ve got some rocket seeds with me in space, and they will be returning to Earth in March. Schools can grow them for a special mission called Rocket Science with RHS Campaign for School Gardening and the UK Space Agency. Apply now for your pack at: schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/Competitions/Rocket-Science-Ap...
Credits: ESA/NASA
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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,
And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Ah, no no no
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 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.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY
The Rocket Thrower is a massive bronze sculpture designed by Donald De Lue (1897–1988) for the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65. ~ www.nycgovparks.org/parks/flushing-meadows-corona-park/mo...
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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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What do you do when the whale pops up half in and half out of frame? Crop it so it hopefully works at least a little. This juvenile rocketed straight up towards the boat out over the Bremer Canyon and I wasn't quite ready for it as evidenced by not having the whale completely in frame, but I liked the moment too much to scrap the photo entirely.
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.
We're here visiting Rockets.
Spaceman is taking it all in ahead of taking up position in the rocket and blasting off.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from southern California on September 28, 2025 at 7:04 pm local time with 28 Starlink satellites headed into low Earth orbit. The dots of light in the bottom of the photo are the booster rockets falling back to Earth. Photo taken with a Canon R5 and Canon 100-500 lens.
Kalyan WDM-3D hauled Mumbai bound Super fast Express aka Rocket jets out of Honnavar tunnel
Sharavati, Honnavara KA
the playa floods each winter.. go down,and it gets moist. The rocket blast here kicked up mud clods onto the neighboring rail. At BALLS 25.
You wanna fight? I'll give you a fight.
Wait. What? I can't fight with a freaking piece of fungi!
I Am Groot
Okay Groot, I'll just throw it at them, and how's that going to work out?
By igniting the first of some 50+ rockets all lined up in a bracket, they explode like machine-gunfire..... and this is how the sky above the church looks like!!!
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For 9 days, each day another trade/profession will pay for shooting off the hundreds of rockets. the first ones at 6am - then 12 noon - then7pm.... and the Rocket-Castle at 11pm at night.
Saturday was the Bricklayer's turn, always the loudest day of them all!! I went to the yard behind the church from where they'll be launching the rockets. This aparently is not for the public, it's a dangerous undertaking and the gates were closed behind the coheteros. And i was locked in with them, nobody has told me to leave... they let me take pictures!!!
All of a sudden i noticed 5 men were lighting up cigarettes, then the "supplier' brought bundles of rockets and the coheteros started lighting them with their cigarettes, one after the other, holding them between two fingers until they had catched fire before letting go. This is a dangerous and critical moment, because almost instantly after ignition, a huge fire beam would shoot from the rocket to the ground as the rocket was launched... hand-held!!! A total of 1300 rockets were shot up into the air, in a 30-minute time frame, accompanied by a concert of ringing church bells.
Most rockets were launched, as you see here, bare handed!! Others were launched all lined up and stuck in some wooden- or metal frame support. Thus, by igniting the first one, some 50+ rockets would explode simultaneously... like machine-gunfire, Wow, what an experience!!!! - I took a few hundred shots (in brackets), just to catch that beam of fire, but neither the fire-beam, nor the explosions of the rockets up in the blue sky showed up much on my images taken in broad daylight, just a lot of smoke. I will look for a night shot in my archives, where the beam of fire is very visible and impressive.
This rocket was launched from Ny Ålesund, Svalbard in early December to study the upper atmosphere. I was present as part of the team and took the opportunity to try a rocket launch shot on large format film. This was done on my Tachihara with Fuji Provia 100F film. The exposure was started about two hours before launch at f/8 to expose the sky, star trails, and distant landscape. About 30 seconds before launch I stopped the lens down to f/16 to expose the foreground lit by the rocket like a giant flash. I'm fairly proud of getting this on large format film since there's no way to meter or do any kind of test exposure.
Camera: Tachihara 4x5 field
Lens: Caltar-S 135mm f/5.6
Film: Fuji Provia 100F