yay!
Damn! That's cool!!
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
Amazingly cool
Awesome.
Thats sweet pucture pollux,amazing really.
Impressive...
Nice pics Fancy!
KJ
KJ
Cooooooooooooooooool
Thats pretty awesome.
Nice find +1!
Are you sure? Those are cool pics, but that looks too low to be taken from the space station ... too close to earth, and not enough curvature of the earth ... here is Florida from the Space Station:
I would guess those are from a Low Earth Orbiter, or high-altitude flyer.
I would guess those are from a Low Earth Orbiter, or high-altitude flyer.
Now that you mention it, the vapor plumes left by the boosters do look a little large to be accurate. Fancy, are you pulling a "Fancy"?
KJ
KJ
Aliens maybe ?
looks like it was pasted over the cloudes or something to that nature.
It looks real enough, but I thought the altitude was low, also.
coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
hmm that looks like it was taken from a very high flying aircraft, not so much the space station, kind of low isnt it?
I live so close to the space center that I can see them go up so it isn't too special to me. But still those are some cool pics.
I can tell you categorically that these pics are NOT taken from the ISS.
NASA has a chase plane in the air for all launches, but I don't deny the images aren't great. Probably the best seat in the house.
The NASA website has some mind blowing launch footage in it's archives.
If you want to see something awesome go here:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal … hives.html
and watch the video titled:
STS-121 Right Aft Solid Rocket Booster Video
Not much happens until the booster seperates about a quarter of the way into the video, but I promise you it's worth waiting for. Just beautiful.
Any of the external tank vids are interesting and definately worth watching until splashdown.
My favourite (english spelling) shuttle statistics?
0 - 700 mph in 50 secs
0 - 3000 mph in 1 min 50 secs (!)
0 - 11,000 mph (and 80 miles) in 6 mins 30 secs
0 - 17,000 mph (nearly orbital velocity) in 8 mins 30 secs
NASA has a chase plane in the air for all launches, but I don't deny the images aren't great. Probably the best seat in the house.
The NASA website has some mind blowing launch footage in it's archives.
If you want to see something awesome go here:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal … hives.html
and watch the video titled:
STS-121 Right Aft Solid Rocket Booster Video
Not much happens until the booster seperates about a quarter of the way into the video, but I promise you it's worth waiting for. Just beautiful.
Any of the external tank vids are interesting and definately worth watching until splashdown.
My favourite (english spelling) shuttle statistics?
0 - 700 mph in 50 secs
0 - 3000 mph in 1 min 50 secs (!)
0 - 11,000 mph (and 80 miles) in 6 mins 30 secs
0 - 17,000 mph (nearly orbital velocity) in 8 mins 30 secs
do they still use a U-2 for that? i know they decommed the sr-71's for being too expensive, i can't remember the publicized operational ceiling for the U2 but i do know they practically have on space suits as well
nice pics
Nice. When can I pay to go space?
yeah even i thought from the first picture it was taken from a high alt plane... Space station is too high up to see stuff that close
Whatever it is it still looks cool.