Photo by Steve Jurvetson, Creative Commons 2.0
I never know what’s going to turn up in my Flickr stream given the range of people I follow. Tonight it was this photograph of a XPRS rocket launching in the Black Rock desert taken and made by Steve Jurvetson, an engineer and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The rockets have computers onboard that deploy the parachutes and record data (and a host of other functions I assume). Images are captured from various angles using remote tripods. There’s one in the foreground of the photo above. Be sure to check out this page and watch the videos as the rocket shoots up and returns back to the ground. For more rocket goodness, see his entire set which include some incredible night photos too.
