Rocket Collection (page 2)

Consolidated Liberator GRV FL927 / G
Consolidated Liberator GRV, FL927/G, fitted with rocket projectile sponsons and a Leigh Light under the starboard wing, under test at the Aircraft and Armaments Experimental Establishment

Remains of Stephensons Rocket, 1829. The Rocket, designed by Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) and George Stephenson (1781-1848), became famous after winning the Rainhill Trials

Korean War era North American F-86 Sabre combat aircraft in flight
F-86 JET FIGHTER PLANE. Korean War era North American F-86 Sabre combat aircraft in flight

Streamlined Rock Island Rocket - American train
Streamlined Rock Island Rocket of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Innovative (and futuristic) American diesel-electric passenger locomotive design built by the Budd Company

Sputnik 1 launch. Sputnik 1, the worlds first artificial satellite, being launched by an R-7 Semyorka rocket from Tyuratam military range (now Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan, on 4 October 1957

Explorer 1 in orbit
Explorer 1. Computer artwork of Americas first successful artificial satellite, Explorer 1, in orbit. Explorer 1 was launched on 31 January 1958

Vostok rocket, Moscow, Russia
Vostok (Russian осток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the humanspaceflight programme but later used for other sputnik

Spaceship to the Moon imagined in the 1870s
Projectile train to the moon, a suggested form of space travel, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from Shipwr
Engraving showing Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom)

Futuristic Rocket Car
THE SHAVER MYSTERY by Richards Shaver. A red rocket car speeds past strange stone carvings of monsters in a cave, evading the fire from a ray-gun

Chrysler Jupiter-C sounding rocket at Cape Canaveral on 8 August 1957 prior to the third and final sub-orbital test of a re-entry nose cone

Fireworks at Ryogoku by Utagawa Hiroshige (Edo series)
Fireworks at Ryogoku (Ryogoku Hanabi), No. 98 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) - (see: 10505423 for alternate version). Date: circa 1858

Launch of the Apollo 8 spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph, 1968
APOLLO 8: LAUNCH, 1968. Launch of the Apollo 8 spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph, 1968

Replica of George Stephensons Rocket Locomotive
George Stephensons Rocket Locomotive, built in 1829. Built for the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

XMM-Newton telescope deployment
XMM-Newton deployment. Artwork showing the deployment of the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope from its Ariane 5 launch vehicle. This large satellite was deployed on 10th December`1999

Launching of V2 rocket bombs by G. H. Davis
The launching of V2 rocket bombs during the Second World War: an official photograph and its explanation. On the left: a scene at Peenemunde, birthplace of the V2

Illustration of Apollo 11 journey from Earth to Moon

Smoke envelops the Delta II rocket
Cape Canaveral, Florida - Smoke envelops the Delta II rocket with the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, aboard as it launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Vickers Valiant second prototype WB215
Vickers Valiant second prototype, WB215, was fitted with Super Sprite rocket packs under each wing

Fairground Fun
A flying rocket ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach Funfair, Lancashire, England. Date: late 1960s

Sputnik 1 rocket track. Long exposure photograph of the night sky showing the track of the rocket that carried Sputnik 1, the worlds first artificial satellite

Overall view and cut-away of the Ariane 5 launcher
Ariane 5. Artwork showing an overall view (left) and cut-away view (right) of the European Ariane 5 launcher. Ariane 5 consists of a large first stage (lower 2/3rds of the central vehicle)

Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers, 1943
Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers, being reloaded by Red Army soldiers in September 1943, during World War II. At this stage in the war

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, Soviet engineer

Explorer 1 in orbit, artwork
Explorer 1 in orbit. Computer artwork of Americas first successful artificial satellite, Explorer 1, in orbit over Earth. Explorer 1 was launched on 31 January 1958

Kepler Mission rocket launch. Delta II 7925 rocket taking off to launch NASAs Kepler Mission. This mission is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars

KOREAN WAR: ROCKET. A U. S. Marine Corps 24-rail T66 rocket launcher being loaded on the Korean front, early 1950s
KOREAN WAR: ROCKET. A U.S. Marine Corps 24-rail T66 rocket launcher being loaded on the Korean front, early 1950s

Loading a V1 Rocket
Loading a V1 rocket into the launch pad. Use of these rockets accelerated after the start of the Second World War

Rocket Mail to I O Wight
Gerard Zucker demonstrates his rocket system for a postal service between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight, but his rocket travels only three kilometres

Stephensons Rocket
The Rocket as it took part in the Liverpool & Manchester Railway competition (which it won)

Diagram of the Rocket locomotive engine, 1829
A diagram of the Rocket locomotive engine, 1829. Manufactured by Robert Stephenson & Co for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Oct 1829. Date: circa 1900

Blue Streak at Woomera

ROBERT GODDARD (1882-1945). American physicist. Goddards first successful launching of a liquid-fuel rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts, 16 March 1926

Flight to the Moon by Jules Verne
Flight to the Moon. Artwork depicting a scene from the science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre a la Lune, 1865) by the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905)

World War II poster of a female factory worker building a rocket
Vintage World War II poster of a female factory worker building a rocket. It declares, Women in the war, We Can t Win Without Them

VERNE: FROM EARTH TO MOON. Colored engraving from a 19th-century edition of Jules Vernes From the Earth to the Moon

Launch of Vostok 1
The launch of the Vostok 1 spacecraft carrying Yuri Gagarin on the first manned flight in space. Launched on April 12, 1961, from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Artwork of an Ariane 5 rocket deploying a payload
Ariane 5. Artwork of an Ariane 5 rocket deploying its payload during a mission to supply the International Space Station (ISS, not seen here)

Artwork showing the Ariane series of launchers
Ariane launchers. Artwork showing the evolution of the Ariane series of European launchers. At far left is an Ariane 1 (first flight 24 December 1979)

Rocket engines
Zoom effect view of rocket engines mounted on a ballistic missile on display at the Air and Space Museum, Le Bourget, Paris. An example of the art in engineering and technology

Orbiting Carbon Observatory, artwork
Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) in Earth orbit, artwork. A NASA mission, the OCO was designed to make global measurements of levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

Historic-technical Museum, Peenemunde, Usedom, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK162
Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Rocket Whiskey
Rocket whiskey

Rocket Control Cabin
Control Cabin of a Space Rocket

The Rocket, locomotive of George and Robert Stephenson

Space Odyssey
Uma Gokhale

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"From Bloodhound to Saturn 5: Exploring the Fascinating World of Rockets" Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missiles: Unleashing power and precision in the skies. Palenque Xtraterrestrial: A rocket that transcends earthly boundaries, reaching for the stars. Man riding on a steam rocket: Pioneering dreams taking flight with daring innovation. George Stephensons Rocket - the pre-1923 replica: Honoring history's trailblazers who propelled us forward. Triumph Rocket 3 (2300cc): Roaring through roads with unmatched strength and style. Triumph Rocket 3: Defying limits, this motorcycle is an embodiment of raw power and elegance. Diagram of Ariane 5 rocket, side view: Decoding the engineering marvels behind modern space exploration. Cutaway Diagram of the V-1 Flying Bomb; Second World War: Tracing back to wartime ingenuity that forever changed warfare dynamics. First US manned space flight, 1961: A giant leap for mankind as we ventured beyond Earth's atmosphere. Illustration of US space rocket Saturn 5, second stage, mid-air: Witnessing humankind's quest to touch celestial realms unfold before our eyes. Schematic view of George Stephensons locomotive The Rocket of 1829 : Revolutionizing transportation with steam-powered wonders from yesteryears Gemini 7 in orbit .