Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Galileo launch on Soyuz
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- Reason
- File from German Aerospace Center, high resolution, one of a rare shots showing a launch of Arianespace Soyuz, with some great features and composition. It's a historically significant photograph, showing the first launch of Soyuz outside of the former Soviet Union territory. And finally: We have a huge deficit of non-US featured pictures in Space categories - if passed, that would be the first featured picture from Europe's spaceport.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre, Galileo (satellite navigation), Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz, Rocket launch
- FP category for this image
- Space/Getting there
- Creator
- DLR, German Aerospace Center
- Support as nominator – SkywalkerPL (talk) 22:47, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support I like the contrast with the "Hollywood" NASA launch shots; this is more "Have we got 5 mins while I fetch my camera from the car?" Belle (talk) 01:28, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support - A little blurry at full size, but irreplaceable. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:44, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support - Per Chris.--Godot13 (talk) 03:26, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support Hell yeah... Chris Woodrich nails the reason perfectly... gazhiley 10:18, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:39, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support -- DreamSparrow Chat 04:23, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support --Jobas (talk) 09:42, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support --Yann (talk) 22:52, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:Galileo launch on Soyuz, 21 Oct 2011 (6266227357).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:53, 30 August 2015 (UTC)