#rocket engineer

Broken Slide, Moscow, 1982 © Boris Savelev, via Photo Espana.

When perestroika came about, dealers in the United States and Europe travelled to Moscow and Saint Petersburg in the quest for ‘authentic voices’. Secret City: Photographs of the USSR by Boris Savelev (Thames and Hudson, 1988) was the outcome of this effort and became the first monograph in the West devoted to an unofficial photographer from the now-defunct USSR. Now this exhibition is presented as a broader retrospective on Savelev up to today. It surveys the six decades in which he captured the everyday making—not only taking—photographs: from his beginnings in black and white with his Iskra 6×6 and his Leica, including his colour pictures in the 1980s with both Soviet Owarchrome and Western Kodachrome film, until his incorporation of digital technology

From Time Magazine, covering an earlier exhibition at the Michael Hoppen gallery:

Savelev, who spent his working life in the former Soviet Union as a rocket engineer, brings the same methodical eye to his photography and printing process.

Name: Agent Havok Home: Mauville, Hoenn Role: Rhythm Guitar and vocalist

The fate of the Space Shuttle Challenger is told in the massive fireball it ended up in and is a warning of the dangers of mixing rocket engineering with social engineering.

San Francisco, CA - On the 32nd anniversary of the Challenger disaster, NASA finally comes to terms with the high price for using its precious space shuttles for political agendas. On January 28, 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into flight, killing all seven crew members on board, including a schoolteacher and only the second black astronaut in history at that time, Ronald McNair. After the investigation, NASA concluded that an O-ring seal in the space shuttle's right solid rocket booster had failed at liftoff and that it was never designed to fly under extremely cold conditions. The morning of January 28 was particularly cold and the mission of the Challenger was politically significant, carrying not only a female schoolteacher, but the second black astronaut in U.S. history. But the Challenger mission was doomed from the start.

RELATED: NASA CUTS BLACK ASTRONAUT FROM SPACE MISSION FOR LACK OF SKILL

Challenger was originally set to launch from Cape Canaveral on January 22, 1986, but delays in the previous mission caused the launch date to be rolled back to January 23 and then January 24. But bad weather at the Transoceanic Abort Landing site in Dakar, Senegal, which is in west Africa, caused the launch to be pushed back again to January 25. Bad weather at Cape Canaveral on January 26 scotched the launch to January 27, but problems with an exterior access hatch and a stripped bolt on the Challenger pushed the launch to January 28. Forecasts for January 28 put temperatures at the usually balmy Kennedy Space Center at an unusually frigid 30 degrees Fahrenheit - the absolute minimum permitted for launch, with the Challenger never having been certified to launch at such low temperatures.

pharah didnt want torb to repair her armor because it would look “messy/scrappy.” but brigitte was like torbs apprentice: she has a similiar messy building style (as evidenced by her grease stains and work station)