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These photos were taken on March 27, 2012 when NASA Launched 5 rockets in 5 minutes.
NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. Tracking the way the clouds move can help scientists understand the movement of the winds some 65 miles up in the sky, which in turn will help create better models of the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y.
Beaded rockets by Leslie B. Grigsby
Get blasted with “The Rocket” cocktail shaker (available in my Thinx Gifts shop).
Did somebody get you an Amazon gift card this year? Lucky you! My Thinx Gifts Amazon store happens to accept those (and has all the same after-Christmas sales too!).
Chinese Space Children Posters collected by Retronaut. Click on the images to see their translations.
It’s okay to play your food with these kitchen utensils from my Thinx Gifts Amazon store.
There’s plenty of gear to outfit your future astronaut with in my Thinx Gifts Amazon store.
Paintings of vintage space toys by Morgan Carver
Some pieces from artist Rik Allen’s wonderful blown glass Spacecraft Series
From his artist statement:
Existence can be a myopic affair, focused on the immediate and the practical. We live our lives unaware of the true ways of the world. What lies beneath the surface of everyday? What collection of intricate quantum clockwork winds the mainspring of the universe? Those few that do gain access to those secrets – figures such as Nicola Tesla, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein – are isolated spelunkers into a vast hidden world, able with a single discovery, invention, or mode of thought, to pull back the veil of the visible and reveal in wondrous awe the true nature of Everything.
Rik Allen’s current body of work mines that rich vein between the outward mysteries of creation and the inward journeys of the human imagination. What began several years ago as an exploration of the iconic rocketship in its purest form has evolved into a contemplation of the role of individuals in our finite world, all in relation to the infinite complexity and vastness of the cosmos. We are each explorers on a journey through existence and Allen’s sculptures evoke this introspection and conveyance – spacecraft captained by lonely cartographers mapping the inky black seas between us all, organic vessel-creatures harbouring spores of complex knowledge bound for undiscovered mental landscapes, or sentient mechanical emissaries propagating our viral truths through the fabric of being.
Photos from the Expedition 32 launch in Kazakhstan on July 15, 2012. It carried Expedition 32 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide to the International Space Station.
These cool rocket prints by Danny Haas are available for purchase at Society6.
Some awesomely retro highlights from the NASA Apollo Mission Events archive.
Selections from the photography book Full Spectrum Dominance by Simon Norfolk.
Excerpt from the book:
A dialectic cuts through the world of modern rocketry. The launch vehicles are massive cans of metal and industrial fuels; yet the satellites and missiles themselves are infinitely delicate packages of microchips and sensors. The workaday limits of rocket science are conjointed to a world of weightlessness and omniscience. Satellites and missiles are born in worlds of utter secrecy – clandestine factories and closed military bases – and live out their lives in the soundless black or deep space, silently listening, watching and processing. (Who would have thought that space so totally empty would make such a wonderful place to hide; to observe unseen?)
But there is one moment in their lives when they bellow their existence with a ground-trembling, exuberant din that lights the night skies like a second sunset: the 45 seconds or so it takes for them to lift from their launch pads and disappear thousands of miles downrange. They may have feet of clay, but their heads are truly in the stars.
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