Rocketobsessedperson - If It's Not A Rocket, It's Not Awesome Enough

The ultimate short field landing.

It’s sleeping in the oven! :D

You know where the source is by now.

And now we have the Apollo 8 launch. These were the first guys outside the Low Earth Orbit, flying right by the Moon. You can see the stage separation from outside, this time from the better angle and in color. Dem J-2 cluster though...

The S-Ic was running on RP-1 (airplane fuel)/liquid oxygen mixture, thus the orange bright flame. S-II on the other hand used liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen mixture, which means the exhaust (water vapor) is invisible.

Around 1:28 you can see the vapor cone around the front of S-II, which appeared when the rocket was passing through the sound bareer, and disappeared shortly after.

After stage separation you can see that first stage engines are still glowing orange. The center engine however isn’t - is was shut down thirty seconds before (around 2:40) to avoid oscillations.

At the end of the video you can see the interstage separating, which was done to reduce the spacecraft's mass.

VF-101 Grim Reapers!

No matter the year or time, guys will be guys.

Navy tradition, Every time a plane landed on the wrong carrie, it was tradition to graffiti it before sending it back

What's the best comeback/burn you've heard ever?

Nancy Astor: “If you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee.”

Winston Churchill: “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.”

Instructions to attach a Space Shuttle to the 747 carrier aircraft. You have to love NASA’s sense of humor.

And this time a S-Ic  S-II separation from the FREAKING APOLLO 11! The same rocket that put men on the Moon! This time from the external perspective (also known as “staying on the ground, NOT GOING TO THE FREAKING MOON!”).

As before, expect fanboying and trivia below.

You can see the first stage (S-Ic) cutoff, as a sudden decrease in the size of the exhaust plume. At that time, only four outboard engines were firing, the center one was shut down as expected, to prevent pogo oscillations (oscillations + rockets != good_things)

The big explosion was just the stage separation. Using explosives to separate huge stacks of explosives. Surprisingly a good idea.

Even though the S-Ic engines were already shut down, they still produced some leftover exhaust, which you can easily see