The Apollo 16 command module Casper is on display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a JATO ( Jet-Assisted Take-Off ) unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died gloriously on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour.

" Forrest J Ackerman is interred at Glendale Forest Lawn with his wife Wendayne " Rocket To The Rue Morgue " Ackerman.

George Stephenson College, founded in 2001 on the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, is named after him, with the student union bar being named The Rocket.

Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of his Rocket steam engine and the Skerne Bridge on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.

This proposed rocket is dubbed " Ares ", which would utilize space shuttle Advanced Solid Rocket Boosters, a modified shuttle external tank, and a new Lox / LH2 third stage for the trans-Mars injection of the payload.

In the pilot episode of the series, Bryce is enlisted by evil network CEO Ned Grossberg ( Charles Rocket, another non-original cast member ) to investigate the mental patterns of unconscious reporter Edison Carter, to determine whether or not Carter has discovered the secrets of the " Blipverts " scandal.

Ned Grossberg is a recurring villain on the series, played by former SNL cast member Charles Rocket.

Clan Arena is a further modification that provides team play using Rocket Arena rules.

He is nicknamed " The Rocket.

In 1924, Tsiolkovsky also wrote about multi-stage rockets, in ' Cosmic Rocket Trains ' Mass ratio is, for any ' burn ', the ratio between the rocket's initial mass and the mass after.

Rocket propulsion has been implemented successfully by the Soviet Union for example in the VA-111 Shkval, and has been recently revived in Russian and German torpedoes as it is especially suitable for supercavitating devices.

* April 24 – China's first satellite ( Dong Fang Hong 1 ) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket ( CZ-1 ).

Huntsville, also known as " Rocket City " because it is a major center for space technology and rocket development, simultaneously named Ed White Middle School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for his Apollo 1 crewmates.

" Rocket Summer " is a short vignette which describes Ohio's winter turning briefly into " summer " due to the extreme heat of the rocket's take-off, as well as the reaction of the citizens nearby.

1st December 1967: The first ground experimental nuclear rocket engine ( XE ) assembly, is shown here in " cold flow " configuration, as it makes a late evening arrival at Engine Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station, in Jackass Flats, Nevada.

The Hydra 70 rocket is a weapon derived from the Mk 4 / Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket developed by the United States Navy for use as a free-flight aerial rocket in the late 1940s.

The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket ( VASIMR ) is an electro-magnetic thruster for spacecraft propulsion.

Rocket Ship Galileo is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947, about three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the Moon.

His first recording, " Rocket 88 " with the Kings of Rhythm credited as " Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ", in 1951, is considered a possible contender for " first rock and roll song ".

Haley began his rock and roll career with what is now recognized as a rockabilly style in a cover of " Rocket 88 " recorded for the Philadelphia-based Holiday Records label in 1951.

The DF-31 is China's newest road-mobile, solid-fuel ICBM developed by the 4th Aerospace Academy ( now Academy of Rocket Motor Technology / ARMT ).

The JATO Rocket Car is an urban legend that relates the story of a car equipped with JATO units that is later found smashed into a mountainside.

Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who Sold the Moon, whose copyright date shows that it was written in 1949, although it wasn't published until 1951, the year after Destination Moon came out.

The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

Rockets boiler was of the more highly developed form, with the separate firebox and a blastpipe for draught, rather than Seguin's cumbersome fans, but Rocket was not the first multi-tubular boiler, although it remains unclear just whose invention it was.

Following the move to Portland, Alexakis placed an ad in The Rocket seeking a bass player and a drummer to form a new band.

The Hunt rifle fired what he called the " Rocket Ball ," an early form of caseless ammunition in which the powder charge was contained in the bullet's hollow base.

In 1996 the legend was further embellished with references to the year of manufacture of the car and G-Forces and to the form which was widely circulated via email ( 55 % of all postings on usenet which included " JATO Rocket Darwin Award impala " also included " g-forces ").

This physical form was pretty much the same throughout the remainder of the series, save for a brief flirtation ( during episodes # 205: Rocket Attack USA and # 206: Ring of Terror ) with a slim cylindrical gumball-machine head to try to reduce the screen area Servo's head obscured.

* Gold Rocket — Narrow erect form with golden colouring, slow-growing

Rocket from the Tombs was a Cleveland-based group that eventually fragmented: some members formed The Dead Boys, while David Thomas and guitarist Peter Laughner joined with guitarist Tom Herman, bass guitarist Tim Wright, drummer Scott Krauss and synthesist Allen Ravenstine to form Pere Ubu in 1975.

The Empire also uses experimental artillery in the form of the Helblaster Volley Gun, a carriage mounting several barrels similar to a repeating Handgun but on a larger scale, as well as the Helstorm Rocket Battery.

Pitchfork's breakup led to the formation of two new bands: Reis launched Rocket from the Crypt while he and Froberg simultaneously recruited bassist Mike Kennedy and drummer Mark Trombino, both formerly of Night Soil Man, to form Drive Like Jehu in August 1990.

In 1990, the second generation's last year, a historic event occurred — the Oldsmobile ' Rocket ' V8, having been a unique Olds-designed engine around in some form or other since the 1949 model year, was dropped.

Rocket jumping has appeared in several games in a variety of forms, sometimes as a form of Emergent gameplay.

A Liquid Rocket Booster has fuel and oxidiser in liquid form, as opposed to a solid rocket or hybrid rocket.

Due to the success of Rocket, O ' Connor reunited with his former bandmates Sparks and Lauterio and recruited guitarist Luke McAuliffe to form a complete band, and the foursome toured North America throughout the summer of 1996.

Mad Mod's aged form made a cameo appearance in " The Lost Episode " as one of the audience in the orchestra and last seen fleeing when Punk Rocket strikes.

Oldsmobile's Rocket V8 engine was the leader in performance, generally considered the fastest cars on the market and by the mid 1950s their styling was among the first to offer a wide, " open maw " grille, suggestive of jet propulsion.

" Rocket launch technologies " generally refers to the entire set of systems needed to successfully launch a vehicle, not just the vehicle itself, but also the firing control systems, ground control station, launch pad, and tracking stations needed for a successful launch and / or recovery.

According to a 1980 Time Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, allegedly Soviet non-Slavs, including Jews, Armenians, and Asians were generally barred from senior ranks and from joining elite or strategic positions in the Air Force, Strategic Rocket Forces, and the Soviet Navy because of doubts regarding the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

Several major rock stars set up their own independent labels-The Beatles with Apple Records, The Rolling Stones with Rolling Stones Records, and Elton John with Rocket Records, but they generally failed as commercial ventures or were swallowed up by the majors.

According to a 1980 TIME Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, Soviet non-Slavs were generally barred from joining the Strategic Rocket Forces because of suspicions of loyalty of ethnic minorities to the Kremlin.

The Budweiser Rocket was a 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era Blue Flame land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine that has been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land, driven by Stan Barrett and designed and built by William Fredrick.

Bottle Rocket received generally mixed to positive reviews from film critics.

It was also the final year for the Holiday hardtop coupes and sedans, along with the 455 Rocket V8 and the optional airbag system that would generally become universal on production cars and trucks some 15 years later.

The album opened to generally positive reviews, with George Heaney of AllMusic calling the record " another fine outing from the Rocket Summer.

According to a 1980 Time article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, non-Slavs were generally prohibited from joining elite or strategic positions in the armed forces like the Navy, Strategic Rocket Forces and the Soviet Air Force because of suspicions of the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

During the Soviet period it was generally ranked third in importance of the Soviet services, behind the Strategic Rocket Forces and the Ground Forces.

In 1991, The Rocket introduced its Portland, Oregon edition, which generally simply mirrored the Seattle-version, with only the concert listing pages offering different contents.