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rocket frog, Silverstoneia flotator oppure Allobates talamancae
small frog, not bigger as a nail :-)
piccola rana, grande come un'unghia...
parco nazionale corcovado, costa rica
iso 1600, f/7,1, 1/60, a mano libera, without tripod
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.
WV2158/2025
Coloured pencils & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.
Anne Bonny (1702-1782) was an Irish-American female pirate who operated in the Caribbean Sea in the early eighteenth century. She and her crewmate, Mary Read, were known as the only two female pirates in the Western world. She attracted the attention of authorities, authors, the press, and society of her time through her daring and unconventional lifestyle. During her short but productive piracy career, she made a name for herself as one of the most notorious pirates of her time. Although she never captained her own ship, she achieved considerable fame and a lasting legacy as a female pirate at a time when Western society frowned upon women who abandoned their assigned social roles. (wikipedia)
Rockets launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, are tracked by antennas across the globe, including three from ESA’s Estrack network.
ESA’s 15-metre antenna in Kourou mainly tracks satellites, but is also used to receive engineering data during selected rocket launches.
The 4.5 and 35 metre antennas in New Norcia, Australia, track rockets delivering their spacecraft into polar, low-Earth, geostationary, lunar and interplanetary orbits, as well as unusual missions such as the Galileo constellation of navigation satellites.
The 5.5-metre antenna on Santa Maria island in the Azores archipelago, Portugal, was originally built to track launches of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), but now tracks Galileo launches.
Credits: ESA
Sprocket Rocket, Ilford HP 5+, Rodinal 1:50
My friend Gloria, 96 years old, WWII veteran, with her protest sign from the Vietnam War.
jsc2021e062804 (December 3, 2021) --- NASA Astronaut Candidate Anil Menon, one of 10 new NASA astronaut candidates, was announced during an event Dec. 6, 2021, at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
Having been in the park at Benalla, this rocket ship with slide attached is a favourite for children. Built in the '60, it has been heritage listed.
I don't remember when I bought this signed postcard of Dave Stevens' "Rocketeer" character Betty. It's one of my treasures, though.
Dave Stevens died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 52. A real shame. He was a gifted artist - arguably the best of his generation of comic artists - and from all accounts a warm and well-loved man.
Seen in 2012 as the centrepiece at a roundabout near Bispham as part of the Tram 732's restoration that wasn't quite finished is "Rocket"
Starlink Group 7-9
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX
LAUNCH STATUS
Success
Tue • Jan 2nd, 2024
7:44 PM - 10:02 PM PST
Type: Communications
Launch Cost: $52,000,000
A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.
Rocket science in progress. I found this fence/gate in Disney California Adventure Park at Disneyland. This was behind the washrooms near 'Soaring over California' ride in a flight themed area of the park. I took this picture thinking to put a print on my son's door when he is older.
Got a commission to make something similar to The Rocketeer. I didn't have all the right parts available so it's a tad different and turned out to be WAY more of a scratch build than the other, but I'm much happier with the outcome. It's much more detailed than the first one, and I used a couple of painting techniques picked up from looking at Will's work, like the masking to make the paint look peeled.
But yeah, as much as I'd like to keep this one, it's getting sent off tomorrow or so.
In a field belonging to the National Trust that is unsurprisingly called the "Rocket Post Field"
It is a replica of a rocket post, which would have been used for training coastguards in rescuing sailors from stricken ships near the coast.
I neglected to take a shot of the information sign - however I found Gary Hadden's walk blog, and he had kindly typed out the information on the sign in full, tothehills.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/20090828_rocket-post-..., well worth a read, if you are interested.
From www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6TK4F_the-rocket-series-2-r... "Firing a line from the cliff or shore in foul weather took a great deal of skill and in order to perfect this art the coastguard set up practice posts close to the coastal villages where they stored their apparatus. These 'rocket posts' were once a common feature along our cliff tops. Usually set in a field a short distance back from the cliff the post was topped by a metal crow's nest reached by simple step holds up the post. During practice sessions a coastguard would man the crow's nest to act as a mariner on a stranded vessel. The rescue team would then fire a line from 2 to 300 yards away to which was attached a heavier rope. If the shot was successful, the heavy rope was hauled in and secured and a breeches buoy attached. In a real life situation this would then be used to haul the crew, one at a time, to the shore."
Also see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeches_buoy
This is my Grandads retirement present from 'The Lads' where he worked. It's a handmade metal rocket created in the workshop at a local rocket testing facility which is still there today. I don't know much about what he did there as he retired back in 1973 when I was just one, but this sentimental piece that sits on a window sill at my parents house is a fond reminder of him.
HMM! Theme: Metal
Gardena, CA. I admit that I've probably spent less than $50 dollars on dry cleaning in my entire life of many decades. NIkon Z6, Tokina 16-28mm 2.8
Shot for Cars X Hype, full feature here: carsxhype.com/2013/04/17/rocket-science-james-rocket-bunn...
An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen on launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Monday, January 6, 2014 in advance of a planned Wednesday, Jan. 8th, 1:32 p.m. EST launch, Wallops Island, VA. The Antares will launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Among the cargo aboard Cygnus set to launch to the space station are science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware.
More info: 1.usa.gov/1bOZdEG
Launch viewing info: bit.ly/1lNX15X
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Photographer: “Think rocket thoughts”
So we did… in a spontaneous reaction of curiosities…
I organized an ad-hoc gathering of rocketry enthusiasts:
• Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic
• Peter Diamandis, X-Prize
• Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures and Zero-G board member, now CEO of Planetary Resources
• Kimbal Musk, SpaceX
• Me, geek hobbyist wannabe
Group portrait by Art Streiber with a Hasselblad H3D at TED, all rights reserved.