Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Pics

[The Green Monkey]

I went up to Kennedy Space Center for the Discovery launch on Thursday and had a blast. Har har.

I didn't want to experience my first (and likely last) shuttle launch fiddling with my camera, so I just put it into the highest resolution and set the burst mode for 1 picture every second for 10 seconds with each button depression and just aimed from the hip and pressed the button constantly.

As such, I got plenty of pictures featuring nothing but blue sky, but also plenty of good ones. I ended up with somewhere in the neighborhood of 110 shots from the launch itself. Some have been cropped, some have been color-corrected, some have just been shrunk down. All the originals are ~2.5 MB and 3264 x 2448. Feel free to steal them, and if you'd like bigger/better copies of anything, I'd be glad to share them. Just shoot me a PM...

I've culled them down and put them into a slideshow which you can see HERE.

Anyway, they're pretty self-explanatory.

Enjoy!

 

[Wisco]

Must have been pretty great to experience in person. Looks pretty sweet.

 

[bluue13]

Air and space travel really is quite an amazing feat.

 

[Shamrocker]

That's pretty amazing. Unfortunately I've never experienced and likely won't experience a shuttle launch. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Gunpowder]

Thanks for sharing. The kids watched it on NASA TV. I teared up for some reason. Must be a hormonal imbalance.

 

[punk_lawyer]

Cool pics, bro. I would have probably found a way to add the nude female form to the pictures but I guess you are more of a purist than I am.

 

[Bayamos]

It seems that ever time they pouch a hole in the ozone, the weather keeps getting f'ked up. 100 years from now
they will being trying to fix all the holes, with Spackle. Thanks for sharing.

 

[TBaGZ]

I
'm gunna be crushed if I don't get up there to see one before they are done

 

[The Green Monkey]

Cool pics, bro. I would have probably found a way to add the nude female form to the pictures but I guess you are more of a purist than I am.

Thanks!

Sorry to disappoint, though I know you'll be pleased to learn that the docking procedure was successful yesterday. Here's a pretty neat time-lapse video of it.

 

[kona1000]

Cool. Space the final frontier.....

 

[anvil]

Thanks for sharing those mate, just awesome.

 

[Cigar2003]

Nice picture. I always wanted to see that in person.

 

[The Green Monkey]

In case anyone is interested, the registration to get into the lottery for the opportunity to purchase tickets for the Endeavor launch (scheduled for Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 7:48 p.m. ET) is open now until 3/9 at 5:00 PM, and can be found HERE.

 

[NavyWife]

In case anyone is interested, the registration to get into the lottery for the opportunity to purchase tickets for the Endeavor launch (scheduled for Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 7:48 p.m. ET) is open now until 3/9 at 5:00 PM, and can be found HERE.

Thank you SO much for that link. I have ALWAYS wanted to go to a launch (I was a space camp geek shhhh...trying to not let anyone know ) :whistling: I have no idea how I would get there but if they pick me and I can get tickets I will be there for sure!

Great photo even without the naked girl! Thanks for sharing.

 

[DePasta]

It is a cool thing to see. The coolest I ever saw was a night launch from the Gulf side. It was an incredible sight to see........