Slow motion shot of engine ignitions on the rear of Delta IV Heavy - NROL-91 as it successfully launched from Vandenberg SFB yesterday.
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NYTimes/CNN 1941: In what was billed as a response to the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt made a partisan attack against fascism, refusing to extend an olive branch to the domestic right-wing America First movement who has sided with Hitler.
Twins on a smaller stump - I imagine in a few decades either one will be gone, or they'll have merged somehow.
I really enjoy the greens in the background here too. Particularly the lichen on the tree to the right that looks like a reflection.
More detail on a non-intuitive fact from the Space Resources Roundtable talk this week: to out-compete Earth-launched rocket fuel, the rocket fuel made from lunar or asteroids resources does *not* have to be cheaper. In fact… /1