Josh Hopkins

@spacejosh.bsky.social

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Designer of spacecraft and writer/editor in the space industry. History buff, rocket geek, orbits nerd, asteroid enthusiast, airship and aviation fan. Allergy warning: posts may contain puns.

A cluster of iridescent blue rocket plumes from seven rocket engines burning methane and oxygen, against a pitch black background, from a night-time launch of the first New Glenn heavy lift rocket by Jeff Bezo's company Blue Origin.
A large four engine M-130 sea plane with the Pan Am logo on the nose flies out over San Francisco Bay, over an incomplete Golden Gate Bridge, on its way to cross the wide Pacific Ocean.
Left to Right: Larry Bell, Eric Springer, Glenn Martin, Donald Douglas, in front of a large wooden biplane Martin Bomber at the company factor in Cleveland in the 1920s. Springer was the only one of the bunch who wouldn't go on to have an aircraft company and famous airplanes named after him.
Glenn L Martin piloting a biplane looks on as "Tiny" Broadwick, the famous "girl parachutist" prepares for a stunt at an airshow circa 1913. Tiny Broadwick helped invent aspects of the modern parachute, and she was later made an honorary member of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Glenn L. Martin, wearing warm clothes and flying goggles sits in an open frame biplane between an exposed 8 cylinder engine and a forward canard on struts. As Princess Leia would later say "You came here in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
A giant sea plane painted red and white sits in a lake in British Columbia.