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Blasting Off Into the Blackness


I see a lot of rocket launch photos. It becomes increasingly hard to find them unique. Once in a while, a special one like the above comes along that pleases even my jaded eye.

The Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 carrying Expedition 25 Soyuz Commander Alexander Kaleri of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Scott J. Kelly and Russian Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka to the International Space Station.

Courtesy NASA/Carla Cioffi

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October 14th, 2010 by Rebecca Horne in Space | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “Blasting Off Into the Blackness”

  1. 1.   Tweets that mention Blasting Off Into the Blackness | Visual Science | Discover Magazine -- Topsy.com Says:
    October 14th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Ron Simon, Maggie, Sains & Teknologi, Al Poe, World Amazing Things and others. World Amazing Things said: Blasting Off Into the Blackness | Visual Science: I see a lot of rocket launch photos. It becomes increasingly ha… http://bit.ly/dovJu3 [...]

  2. 2.   Paul Says:
    October 14th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    Looks post-apocalyptic. Awesome shot.

  3. 3.   Rhacodactylus Says:
    October 14th, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    I’m almost possible I had an apocalyptic video game set here.

    ~Rhaco

  4. 4.   Post-Apocalyptic Rocket Launch Image : misterhonk.de Says:
    October 15th, 2010 at 3:16 am

    [...] discover honki · 15.10.2010 · Science, Baikonur, Launch, Rocket 0 Kommentare · 0 [...]

  5. 5.   JRes Says:
    October 15th, 2010 at 8:21 am

    Well, they had already have their apocalypse.

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