Nothing like the smoking ruins left behind after a rocket smashes to Earth on a fast, steep reentry course. I love this set of images showing the results of the Russian Soyuz rocket’s return to Earth in April of this year. Recently uncovered by Dark Roasted Blend, the images show the rocket’s burning tear through a field of grain, and then close in on the blackened husk of the reentry cone itself.
Imagine riding in that sucker down to Earth at like a zillion miles per hour.
There’s something so poignant about this rocket’s blistered skin. It’s like this machine loved its human companions so much that it came back down to Earth just for them, even though it died in the process.
