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Russian blogger and photographer Lana Sator has taken urban exploring to its rather frightening apogee when she sneaked inside the NPO Energomash factory, which makes liquid-propellant rocket engines near the Khimki Forest outside Moscow, and made her way to the top and the bottom of the abandoned-looking facility. More »
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It's like the Sons of Anarchy and Evel Knievel conceived a kinky lovechild while jumping over the Grand Canyon aboard rocket sleds. More »
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First, Iran elects a president whose sense of style begins and ends at Members Only jackets. Then, some operative tries to hire a washed-out used car dealer to assassinate a Saudi Arabian ambassador in the United States. And now Iran's attempt to put a monkey in space failed. More »
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With severe drought gripping much of central China this winter, authorities there didn't just sit back and let Mother Nature scrimp on the rain. They blasted it out of the sky, with thousands of rockets launched from pickup trucks. More »
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This is an illustration from physics professor Peter Alway's 1995 book Rockets of the World. That little black-and-yellow smudge in the second row, that's the V–2. Hit the jump for mega-size. More »
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Two Washington men were seriously injured Sunday after their home-built "rocket" — a barrel full of methanol and a match — exploded. They sat on the barrel, intending to ride it across the parking lot. Darwin loses again! More »
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GM's new ad for the Corvette makes a not-so-veiled swipe at the Obama administration, implying Chevy will keep building manned rockets even if — thanks to the President's budget cuts — NASA won't. It's brilliantly Amerigasmic. More »
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The dash of the ex-Emerson Fittipaldi, Pratt-and-Whitney-engined 1971 Lotus 56B turbine Indy car at last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Tachometers with percentage rings = 100 percent win. Photo Credit: F1Fanatic More »
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He drove his rocket car 150 mph in the 1920s. He founded the rocketeering society whose members put America on the Moon. He died a rocketeer’s death. His name was Max Valier. This is his story. More »
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Imagine sitting in the cockpit of an X-15 rocket plane at six times the speed of sound—one mile per second—and have this happen. Just a day at work in 1961 for test pilot Bob White. More »
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If you're anything like we were as kids eventually your mischievous dad handed you five pounds of bottle rockets with a subversive smile and told you not to blow your hands off.. well, you nearly wet yourself with joy, didn't you? What is it about pyrotechnics that makes young boys lose their minds with happiness? Why, the same thing that makes pyrotechnics attached to toy cars even better. This video comes from what may be the best Instructable ever made, though we're irked at it's improper name. Of course, seeing this makes us want to go out, buy and build Revell's 1966 El Camino model, attach three or four Estes E engines to the bed and be the first to attempt to put an Elco into orbit, falling satellite debris be damned! More »
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Oobject.com is one of those sites that should charge me by the minute. Why? Because whenever I check 'em out, I'm stuck for an hour. And in internet time, that's like forever. Englishrussia.com is the same way. Back to oobject.com, who doesn't want to pour over 13 Ferocious Oil Drill Bits? Or giant airship hangers? Or these insanely inappropriate rocket powered items. Let's see, we got rocket powered go carts, bikes, shopping carts, arms (yeah, an arm), toilets and of course a street luge. Yup, looks pretty complete to me. Father of the year after the jump More »
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We somewhat famously have angst regarding 'Bama. All chick-related crap aside, it is simply not our sort of place. And well, that's basically that, other than it feels vaguely threatening. However, as co-builder John Bossard pointed out to Iowahawk, "When you're from Alabama, rockets and pickup trucks just go together like cole slaw and barbeque, firearms and cornmash, sisters and wives." More »
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