For Your Astronomers: History of NASA Rocket Launches Through Photos [27 Pictures]

[DaveP]

Link: History of NASA Rocket Launches through Photos



BUMPER V-2 LAUNCH @ KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – JULY 24, 1950



SPACEX LAUNCH @ KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – MAY, 25 2012

[localzuk]

That set shows exactly why NASA is right to push out its logistics work to private companies like SpaceX. All those STS missions, where's the new stuff, the boundaries being broken?

Now that SpaceX and the like will do the 'FedEx' type work, they can focus on the funky stuff again.