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.

Wyalusing is also home to The Rocket Courier founded in 1887, is a newspaper that is printed once a week.

After the April flight, 79 specially printed postcards marked in German with " Flown in Instrument Rocket " bear stamps from the flights.

While Metra does not specifically refer to any of its lines by a particular color, the timetable accents for the Rock Island District line are printed in " Rocket Red ".

The Rocket Courier covers the surrounding Wyalusing area, as well local towns nearby.

Heinlein's first novel published as a book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was initially rejected because going to the moon was considered too far out, but he soon found a publisher, Scribner's, that began publishing a Heinlein juvenile once a year for the Christmas season.

Two Rocket Propelled Grenades slammed into the helicopter, shutting down one of its engines, the electric system, and the hydraulic systems and causing Petty Officer First Class Neil C. Roberts to fall out of the open ramp.

The blastpipe worked well on the multi-tube boiler of Rocket but on earlier designs with a single flue through the boiler it had created so much suction that it tended to rip the top off the fire and throw burning cinders out of the chimney, vastly increasing the fuel consumption.

A Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team was also named after him, the Rocket de Montréal, playing out of the Maurice Richard Arena ( in 2003 this team moved to Prince Edward Island becoming the P. E. I.

The Rocket Propulsion division also lives on as MOOG ISP ( In Space Propulsion ) and operates out of the original site in the Wheatfield, NY facility, as well as the Gravity Gradiometer division, operated by Lockheed Martin.

Jack Nerrad wrote in Driving Today, " the Rocket V-8 set the standard for every American V-8 engine that would follow it for at least three decades [...] With a displacement of 303 cubic inches and topped by a two-barrel carburetor, the first Rocket V-8 churned out at 3, 600 rpm and 263 pound-feet of torque at a lazy 1800 rpm no mid-range car in the world, save the Hudson Hornet, came close to the Rocket Olds performance potential ..."

Rocket signed off each week by saying " Good night and watch out.

The Dead Boys evolved out of the band Rocket From The Tombs and were originally called Frankenstein.

In the 1930s Daisy Outdoor Products came out with a Buck Rogers Rocket Pistol ( 1933 ), Disintegrator Pistol ( 1934 ), and Liquid Helium Pistol ( 1935 ) that sold in record numbers.

As Jim Ransom, Rotary Rocket consultant, pointed out at the demise of the company, this was more than could be said for Lockheed Martin's X-33, which had a budget 30 times larger.

With GM tossing out the 400 cubic-inch limit for intermediates and the 4-4-2 now coming standard with the larger 455 cubic-inch Rocket V8 from the big Oldsmobiles and previously used in the 1968-69 Hurst / Olds, Olds discontinued the 400 engine entirely and also offered the 455 as an option in the Cutlass S models and the Vista Cruiser wagons.

But Laver won one more tournament ( including small 4-man events ) than Rosewall ( 11 to 10 ) and above all Rocket was clearly superior to Rosewall in minor direct confrontations, defeating Rosewall 13 times out of 15 making thus a 1964 Laver-Rosewall win-loss record of 15 – 4.

Atlantis was mated with the External Tank and Solid Rocket Booster stack and was rolled out to launch pad 39A on 12 November 1985.

" Despite their later falling out that would result in a change from Sedaka's record label from Elton's Rocket Records to Elektra, Elton has been credited by Sedaka as being responsible for his breakthrough back into the U. S. pop music scene.

The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster rockets, for example, are equipped with explosive charges so that the boosters can be destroyed in the event that they go out of control on launch and endanger a populated area.

The team infiltrates a U. S. military compound to root out a Soviet double-agent, who ultimately turns out to be the creator of the Rocket Reds ' combat armor.

After a brief conflict, Zatanna and the others are informed by teenaged superheroine Rocket that Kimiyo's perceived abduction was actually a misunderstanding caused by the Shadow Cabinet's mission to seek out her help in dealing with the cosmic vampire known as Starbreaker.

Rocket Red declares the newly formed team as the new Justice League International, prompting Booster to figure out that Max Lord manipulated them to be together.

It was awarded the title of " Best Puzzle / Trivia / Parlor Game " from Game Critics Award, beating out ChuChu Rocket!

" Rocket 88 " came out with the group credited as Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats and went on to sell half a million copies, reaching the top of the Billboard R ' n ' B charts in June 1951.