IGW // THE ARCHIVE

The IGW archive.

Photographs and clips from IGW's own coverage.

A Starship vehicle climbing away from its pad on a brilliant violet exhaust plume, condensation streaming back along its stainless flank and black-tiled nose and flaps, above huge clouds of orange- and grey-lit smoke.

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A launch arcs over the beach at night in a long exposure, the trail bending downrange.

A launch over the beach, long exposure

A close view of the base of a three-core Falcon Heavy at the moment of liftoff, the engine clusters of all three cores burning into a wall of flame and exhaust beside the launch structure.

All three cores lit as Falcon Heavy comes off the pad

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy climbing on a bright column of flame well above its launch tower, with a wide sheet of dust and pale smoke rolling out across flat coastal ground and water in the foreground.

Away and climbing, dust rolling out across the flats

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy in powered flight against a deep blue sky, seen head-on with the ship's forward and aft flaps in silhouette and a violet plume streaming from the ring of lit engines at the base.

Full stack in flight, engines lit against a clean blue sky

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The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher at night under a deep blue sky.

The Space Launch System under a deep blue night sky

A stainless-steel Super Heavy booster standing on its launch mount with a dark, heat-shield-tiled Starship above it, seen from ground level under a clear blue sky. The launch tower rises at left with its two arms reaching across toward the vehicle.

The stack on the mount, alongside the tower's arms

An auditorium stage with a lectern bearing the NASA insignia, set against a large mural of the lunar surface with the same insignia, a US flag and two other flags behind it, a small rocket model on the table and a dark screen to the side showing spacecraft imagery. Rows of empty seats fill the foreground.

The stage set and the empty seats before a NASA briefing

The upper stack beside the tower, NASA red on white

A pale blue sky filled with thin, dappled cloud, with the top of a grey steel lattice tower just entering the bottom-left corner of a vertical frame.

Thin cloud over the top of a steel tower

The aft end of a rocket climbing away, three engine bells burning pink and violet beneath a dark stage sheathed in streaming condensation. A lattice lightning tower and the pad's guy wires cross the pale blue sky at right.

Three engines and a violet plume, seen through the pad's guy wires

The upper section of a tall steel lattice launch tower against a clear deep-blue sky, with a long hinged arm extended out to one side and a lightning mast on top.

Tower and arm, hard against a clear blue sky

Two children, one in a blue flight suit, sit on a wall at a viewing site giving a thumbs-up.

Two children give a thumbs-up at the viewing site

Spectators under umbrellas at a waterfront viewing site, a United States flag flying above them.

Umbrellas beneath a United States flag

A rocket standing at its pad in flat hazy light, a payload fairing at the top and a second rounded nose cone lower down and offset, with vapour venting from its side, a tall lattice service structure alongside it and a water tower at the left of the frame.

Vapour drifting off a rocket standing ready at the pad

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy stand at the launch tower with white vapour venting along the vehicle and pale plumes rising from the pad below, seen from across flat green scrub with tall cumulus cloud piled up behind.

Venting at the tower with the cloud stacking up behind

Victor Glover in a blue NASA flight suit, wearing sunglasses.

Victor Glover in a blue flight suit

Victor Glover in the orange launch and entry suit, helmet ring open, smiling.

Victor Glover in an orange launch suit

Spectators on a paved waterfront under a cloudy sky, flags flying above them.

Waterfront spectators beneath a cloudy sky