Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Galileo launch on Soyuz

Galileo launch on Soyuz, 21 Oct 2011
Voting period ends on 30 Aug 2015  at 22:47:23 (UTC)
 * 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... gaz hiley  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)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 22:53, 30 August 2015 (UTC)