ROCK's May, 2009, Launch

The bright blue sky provided a beautiful backdrop for the white smoke from the rockets. The light breeze helped us feel cooler, but made for some long walks to recover rockets.

A number of impressive scale models were flown. Ryan's Space Shuttle made a nice flight.

Ryan also flew his Atlas 5.

Carl's Delta IV made another amazing flight.

I managed to capture a series of still images that capture the flight from the Delta IV's lift-off through staging.

Ryan's Gemini Titan flew on a two-motor cluster.

Carl's Saturn V looked good both before its flight, and, in spite of an interesting flight profile, after.

Additional photos from the launch can be viewed in the Payload Bay Gallery.