Shuttle Launch Pics

[kbkline]

Just thought I would share some of these with you guys. I'm a huge space fan. I've been to Cape Canaveral a few times and could spend days in the NASA facility with no problems. I was fortunate enough to get to see the engineers put together a piece of the ISS the first time I visited. I've been to the space center in Texas as well.

I went to the next to last shuttle launch. It went flawless and was the most beautiful thing (besides the wife :thumb that I've ever seen. Little did I know that I got some pics of the boosters separating until after I got back to where I was staying and brought it up on the PC. Enjoy

Just clearing the tower:

Here's a good pic of it turning

I hope you can see this (you may have to enlarge it) but this is where the boosters separated

 

[Revell-Fan]

WOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!! That is COOOOOL!!! I'm a big shuttle fan, too. These pics are great and I can imagine how they look in full resolution. Well done! Thanks for sharing!:thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

[kbkline]

I have a nice camera and I was trying to take pics with one eye and looking at it with the other lol. It's something I'll never forget

 

[Revell-Fan]

I believe so. I think there is only one sight topping it all: the launch of a Saturn V.

 

[kbkline]

Now that would be a sight! Somewhere I have a packet of Apollo pics that my dad got for me when I was very young. I use to look at those things for hours on end

 

[DWest]

Great photos! I wish I could have seen a shuttle launch but it never worked out, I did get to do the astronaut training experience which was a lot of fun even if we did crash on landing. Our "pilot" drifted off the runway and plowed up a lot of real estate....lol.

 

[zathros]

Very nice sequence of photos. I always wanted to see a Shuttle launch, but it ws never possible. Just too far away. I did catch a glimpse of it in orbit one night zooming over head while an astronomer friend was over and told taught me how to see it. Just a dot of light. If you blinked, you would miss it.

 

[Rogerio Silva]

I'll never get tired of space and technology. Thanks for the pics, they're great!

 

[micahrogers]

Only launch I saw I wish I could forget... Challenger's last launch my ship was in the debris field I could hear the pieces hitting the water thru my gear...

 

[Revell-Fan]

What? You were there? Gee... That was terrible. I watched it in the news. I had just finished my little Revell shuttle model and couldn't believe what I saw.

 

[micahrogers]

Radar tracked it's accent, my Sonar gear picked up the shockwave as it broke the Mach, then our radar guys went nuts, went from one track to hundreds.... then just a minute later I heard the pieces hitting the water.... my whole group got re-directed to look for survivors, then later to find and recover wreckage...

 

[Revell-Fan]

Thank God you and your group weren't hurt by the debris falling down.

 

[kbkline]

Were you above or below water?

 

[micahrogers]

Above water we were about 5K outside the actual impact zone.