Shuttle Launch Pics

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kbkline

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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

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Just clearing the tower:
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Here's a good pic of it turning
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I hope you can see this (you may have to enlarge it) but this is where the boosters separated
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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!:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::thumb::thumb::thumb::wave:
 
I believe so. I think there is only one sight topping it all: the launch of a Saturn V.
 
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.
 
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. :)
 
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...
 
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.
 
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...
 
Thank God you and your group weren't hurt by the debris falling down.
 
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