It's not the most popular picture taken at the Wallops Space Facility this week - that honour belongs to Frogstronaut - but it's the most beautiful.
This false-colour image captured by a digital SLR camera of the Atlas V rocket launch late on Wednesday is a dramatic and stunning illustration of private space flight.
The rocket, which took off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia, is carrying the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares capsule destined for the International Space Station.
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The spacecraft will deliver about 1,300 pounds of cargo, including food and clothes, to the crew of Expedition 37 aboard the orbiting platform.
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