On June 7th, 2007, a Delta II rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, carrying with it the Italian Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite. And while the rocket was careening towards space, Staff Sgt. Eric Thompson (who was moving in the decidedly opposite direction) managed to snap this amazing photo.
At the time, Staff Sgt. Thompson was the instructor with the 532nd Training Squadron based out of Vandenberg. Knowing full well that a rocket launch was going to be happening on June 7th, he planned his skydive to coincide.
Everyday we come across some stunning photography, but it isn't everyday that you come across a coincidence when a sky-driver and a rocket are in the same photo. To me that is truly a capture that is only once in a lifetime.