NASA's First Launch Football as NASA's eighth space shuttle

as NASA's eighth space shuttle launch lit up the Florida sky at 2:32 a

These images seek to reinvigorate the genius of the Blues and give praise to the pioneering Prometheus-like "thieves' who stole this energetic and powerful expression at the crossroads

Date:7/18/08

View spanning mouth of San Francisco Bay

Significance: The Auditorium Building designed by Adler and Sullivan and built 1887-89

NASA's First Launch Football as NASA's eighth space shuttleA new chapter in space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla: the Bumper 2, an ambitious two stage rocket program that topped a V 2 missile base with a Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then record altitudes of almost 250 miles, higher than the International Space Station's orbit. Launched under the direction of the General Electric Company, Bumper 2 was used primarily for testing