Rocket Collection (#36)

GLONASS satellite launch
Satellite launch. A Proton-M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 25 December 2008. The rocket is carrying three GLONASS (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System) satellites

Ariane 1 rocket, the first of a series operated by the Arianespace launch consortium as Europes first satellite launch vehicle

Moon rocket launch, 1950s artwork
Moon rocket launch. Artwork published in Germany in the 1950s, showing the launch of a rocket on a journey to the Moon, a feat that would be achieved in 1969

Soviet Moon exploration, artwork
Soviet Moon exploration. Cartoon showing a rocket and a crescent Moon forming the hammer and sickle symbol that signifies the Soviet Union (USSR)

Russian moon launcher
Scale model of the N1 launcher. At left is a 1/10th scale model of the entire N1 vehicle, at right is a 1/5th scale model of the upper stage without its launch shroud

Launch of Proton-K rocket
Proton rocket launch. Launch of a Proton-K rocket on 26 October 2007. The rocket is carrying three GLONASS-M global positioning satellites into orbit. The Proton-K rocket first flew in 1967

Natter manned rocket, World War II
Natter manned rocket. This is a German Bachem Ba 349 (Natter) rocket aircraft, captured by the US Army towards the end of World War II

Propellant pipe
Pipe component used in aerospace products, such a rockets, to deliver propellant from a tank to an engine. An example of the art in engineering and technology

Motors of a Soyuz rocket
Soyuz rocket engines. View of the exhaust nozzles from the engines of the first and second stages of a Russian Soyuz rocket launcher

Mission to Mars, artwork
Mission to Mars. Computer artwork of a manned Orion crew exploration vehicle (lower left) approaching its mission rocket in orbit around Earth

Soyuz TMA-12 launch, April 2008
Старт РКН "Союз-Ф" с международным экипажем 17-й экспедиции на МКС. Площадка старта - 2, космодрома "'айконур"

R-1 Soviet rocket engine. The R-1 (SS-1 scunner, of SA11) was a Soviet copy of the German V-2 rocket. Construction of the missile began in 1947 under the orders of Stalin after the Soviets captured

White Sands Missile Range, USA
White Sands Missile Range. View from Highway 70 across the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA. This site covers almost 8

Voskhod 2 spacecraft launch. Launch of the Soviet Voskhod 2 spacecraft carrying Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov. Voskhod 2 was equipped with an inflatable airlock

Future space shuttle, artwork
Future space shuttle. Artwork of a potential future NASA space shuttle in orbit around the Earth, with an inset artwork showing the rocket system used to boost this spacecraft to orbit

Soyuz Soviet rocket carrying a Progress transporter. Soyuz was an expendable carrier rocket that was used by the Soviet Union to launch spacecraft as part of the Soyuz programme

Intercosmos 3 on the launchpad. Intercosmos was a space exploration program of the Soviet Union designed to include members of the military forces from allied countries of the Warsaw Pact (155-1991)

Soviet monument to Yuri Gagarin
Soviet monument commemorating the first manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin on 12th April 1961. Gagarins flight lasted 108 minutes

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket pioneer
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Statue of the Russian rocket pioneer Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). Although he never built a working rocket

Soyuz 13 rocket launch. Launch of the Soviet Soyuz 13 spacecraft carrying Pyotr Klimuk and Valentin Lebedev. Soyuz 13 was the Soviet Unions first dedicated science mission

Soviet monument to Gagarins landing site
Soviet monument marking the landing site of the first manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin. Gagarins flight of 12th April 1961 lasted 108 minutes

Gagarins landing, commemorative plate
Gagarins landing. Commemorative plate marking the landing site of the first manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin. Gagarins flight of 12th April 1961 lasted 108 minutes

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, artwork
W1-4 Gagarin portrait on white background Yuri Alekseyevich 9 March 1934 Ôé¼" 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut

Launch of an early rocket model by the American Rocket Society (ARS). ARS was founded on 4th April 1930, by a group of science fiction writers including G

Launch of Vostok 1 spacecraft, artwork
Launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft carrying Yuri Gagarin on the first manned flight in space, April 12, 1961. Vostok-1 made one orbit of Earth

Vostok 1 capsule separation, artwork
Vostok Capsule Separation Gagarin before landing. Like all manned Soviet spacecrafts the capsule has to separate from a service module

Vostok 1 spacecraft in orbit, artwork
Vostok 1 spacecraft in orbit. Computer artwork of the Vostok 1 capsule that carried Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) on the first manned flight in space, in orbit around the Earth

Tiling rocket launch, 1930s
Engineer R. Tiling, the Rocket inventor from Osnabrueck, Germany, started three of his aluminium rockets from the Berlin Airport Tempelhof

Armed military jet on aircraft carrier (Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum, New York)

Tiling rockets, 1930s
Engineer R. Tiling, the Rocket inventor from Osnabrueck, Germany, started three of his aluminium rockets from the Berlin Airport Tempelhof

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky on a Soviet stamp
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), Soviet rocket pioneer, commemorated on a Soviet stamp for his 100th birthday (1957)

Soyuz A-2 rocket nozzles
Soyuz rocket nozzles. This Soviet and later Russian launcher, part of the R7 family of rockets, was introduced in 1966, and many variants have been developed since

Endeavour shuttle launch, mission STS-126. Space Shuttle Endeavour launching from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Jules Verne commemorative stamp. This airmail stamp, published in the Gabonese Republic (Gabon) in 1970, marked the 100th anniversary five years earlier of the publication of From the Earth to

Luna 3, Soviet postcard. The postmark and stamp (both at upper right) show the Luna 3 spacecraft and the date (7 October 1959)

Frau im Mond artwork
Frau im Mond. Artwork of a Moon rocket, representing the story told in the film Woman in the Moon (German: Frau im Mond). This science fiction silent film, released in 1929

Korolyovs designs for Soviet rockets
Korolevs designs for Soviet rockets. Hand-drawn rocket designs and notes by the Soviet engineer Sergei Korolev (1907-1966)

Ares V rocket, artwork
Ares V rocket, computer artwork. This is a depiction of what this cargo launcher will look like when launching from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Globalstar satellite preparation
Globalstar communications satellite launch preparation at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. These four satellites are being loaded onto the Soyuz-Frigate rocket ready to be launched into low earth

Parma ham and avocado salad, prepared with rocket leaves and served on a plate with a fork. Parma ham is the name of a cured ham (prosciutto crudo) produced in the Parma region of Italy

Luna 1 launch vehicle, diagram. Diagram of the upper-stage launch vehicle (rocket) used to place the Luna 1 unmanned probe (round, upper centre) in space

Space shuttle main engines. Also seen are the reaction control system thruster pod (white with black circles), the rudder and speed brake (top centre)

Marooned astronaut, space art
Marooned astronaut. Space art showing an astronaut left marooned on an alien world as the rocket he arrived on launches into space

Luna 1 spacecraft model (centre) in the upper-stage launch vehicle (rocket) used to place it in space. Its five antennae are shown here

Luna 2 commemmorative stamp. Soviet postage stamp dedicated to the Luna 2 unmanned space probe, launched on 12 September 1959

Luna 1 commemmorative stamp. Soviet postage stamp dedicated to the Luna 1 unmanned probe, launched on 2 January 1959 (date at upper right)

Christmas on the Moon, space art
Christmas on the Moon. Space art showing a family next to a Christmas tree on the Moon. In the background is a habitation dome, and a rocket is ascending into space

Launch pad model, Guiana Space Centre
Launch pad model. This launch pad, at the European Space Agencys (ESA) spaceport, the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), in Kourou, French Guiana

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