a place to discuss about man's endeavour to conquer the last frontier. hope the moderators and members do not mind this imposition.
starting with a picture from NASA's this day in astronomy.
Discovery's Dawn
Image Credit & Copyright: Craig Crawford
Explanation: On April 5, visitors to Kennedy Space Center saw these colorful clouds, twisting and drifting through dawn skies. Of course, the clouds were rocket engine plumes from the predawn launch of the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. Their layered colors are created as they reflect the reddened light from the still rising Sun. Fittingly, denizens of the space center's rocket garden are lit in the foreground. At the far left is a 1960s vintage multistage Atlas-Agena rocket. Together on the right, are Mercury-Redstone and Mercury-Atlas rockets.
p.s. how do I resize the image ?