Wait, remember when I said that Zolt Levay has the coolest job in the world, making images from Hubble data? Scratch that, now Mike Massee at XCOR Aerospace has the coolest job in the world: Taking awesome photos of methane rocket engines!
Best of all, you can even get silver halide prints of the sci-fi looking test firing. That's courtesy of Mojave Air & Space Collectibles, an interesting little company that's popped up to fill the niche of people looking for memorabilia from the many new private space programs that are starting to take off.
You explained well about methane rocket engines! Thanks for giving information
Woo! Someone sent me your URL this morning in an email. The funny thing is, I always thought it would be great to have Zolt's job, ever since I learned he had creative interpretation over the colors of the final image based on different channels of wide spectrum imaging. Paint the stars!
Cheers,
--Mike
That is an awesome photo - looks like some kind of crazy ray gun or something.. like a weapon of the future.. that's what I thought it was at first - something out of a video game...
Oh well, too bad! But I agree that's a cool job and cool photo. Thanks for the previous mention.
Cheers,
Zolt