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10/23/2007 07:23:49 PM · #1 |
No Floridians have shuttle launch photos to share from today...? Tsk tsk. Guess I'll have to post my old one again... :)
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10/23/2007 07:29:49 PM · #2 |
I so want to plan a vacation around the shuttle launch one year. Kinda hard to do though.
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10/23/2007 07:30:13 PM · #3 |
Maybe their saving them for the photojournalism challenge.
I bet I'm right, I bet I'm right :) |
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10/23/2007 07:30:26 PM · #4 |
| I bet we will see at least one in the photojournalism challenge coming up! |
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10/23/2007 07:31:00 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by rex:
I so want to plan a vacation around the shuttle launch one year. Kinda hard to do though. |
I did. I got there. They canceled. |
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10/23/2007 07:33:00 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Nikolai1024:
Originally posted by rex:
I so want to plan a vacation around the shuttle launch one year. Kinda hard to do though. |
I did. I got there. They canceled. |
That is what I am worried about. I have family in Ft. Myers. M aybe one year I will plan a vacation down there around the time the shuttle launches if it gets cancelled then I swim in my Mom's pool for a week.
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10/23/2007 07:34:55 PM · #7 |
we were supposed to see a rocket launch once while in FL. But the weather kept it from happening. It launched the day after we left.
I plan on catching a Shuttle Launch someday.
Originally posted by Nikolai1024:
Originally posted by rex:
I so want to plan a vacation around the shuttle launch one year. Kinda hard to do though. |
I did. I got there. They canceled. |
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10/23/2007 07:39:43 PM · #8 |
Maybe they're saving their pics for either From the Ground Up or Distance! ;)
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10/23/2007 07:54:08 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
we were supposed to see a rocket launch once while in FL. But the weather kept it from happening. It launched the day after we left.
I plan on catching a Shuttle Launch someday.
Originally posted by Nikolai1024:
Originally posted by rex:
I so want to plan a vacation around the shuttle launch one year. Kinda hard to do though. |
I did. I got there. They canceled. |
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Maybe we should plan a GTG around a shuttle launch?
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10/23/2007 08:07:53 PM · #10 |
[thumb]603943[/thumb]
Edit Date SEPTEMBER 8, 2006
I was right seat in my friend Sue's airplane when we saw the shuttle launch. This was taken just northwest of Fort Lauderdale through the glass and prop.
Message edited by author 2007-10-23 20:10:04.
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10/23/2007 08:49:07 PM · #11 |
[thumb]603950[/thumb] Launch, [thumb]603951[/thumb] Seperation, [thumb]603952[/thumb] Trail
Pics from todays Discovery launch. We hear the sonic boom here, when they pass over on the way to landing at the Cape.
STS 120 Nasa Site
And related to the proposed GTG:
Launch Viewing Tickets Site
Message edited by author 2007-10-23 21:11:34.
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10/24/2007 10:30:37 AM · #12 |
Not my photo, but one taken from orbit by one of the ISS astronauts of the shuttle launch. I think it gives an interesting Point of View. You'll need to expand it to see the shuttle boosting to orbit. |
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10/24/2007 11:00:18 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:
Not my photo, but one taken from orbit by one of the ISS astronauts of the shuttle launch. I think it gives an interesting Point of View. You'll need to expand it to see the shuttle boosting to orbit. |
Do you have a link to the original of this image? I'd rather pull it off of Nasa's page...
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10/24/2007 11:06:00 AM · #14 |
| I'd like to see that shot as it appears on a NASA site, too. It's an amazing shot, but part of me is having a hard time believing it's from the ISS. It just doesn't seem like it was shot from a high enough altitude to really be from that vantage point. Looks to me more like it was shot from a jet. |
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10/24/2007 11:38:53 AM · #15 |
AHA!!!
Real picture. Inaccurate description. Read here:
//www.snopes.com/photos/space/shuttlelaunch.asp#photo
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10/24/2007 12:04:24 PM · #16 |
That would have been my guess :) My first thought was that it would have been quite a remarkable coincidence that the ISS was passing over at exactly the time of the shuttle launch in the first place.
The ISS zips across the horizon fast enough that it's only visible for about 3 minutes when it passes over, so that would have been quite a piece of timing in the first place. And the shot itself obviously just didn't look like it had the altitude.
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10/24/2007 12:16:55 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
[thumb]603952[/thumb] |
Dang Waddy I wouldn't have figured you would have that much of a view from there.
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10/24/2007 12:54:32 PM · #18 |
I saw a launch back in June while on holiday. Amazing sight.
Funny how it looks like it`s going up at an angle, when really it`s the earth turning away from it.
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10/24/2007 04:06:20 PM · #19 |
Good catch  dwterry and  alanfreed.
You can't trust any picture anymore! And I was fooled by this one. However, it is a real photo and it does indeed show a unique perspective on the shuttle launch. |
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10/24/2007 04:24:16 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:
Good catch dwterry and alanfreed.
You can't trust any picture anymore! And I was fooled by this one. However, it is a real photo and it does indeed show a unique perspective on the shuttle launch. |
I love the picture and was hoping to download a full size version of it. I didn't even think about the perspective until Alan brought it up. It's amazing what kinds of things snopes.com knows about. :-)
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