Shuttle Launch Tonight

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Mar Sun 15, 2009 8:30 pm

That was another great launch! Dr. Ravenscroft thank you for all the info! It makes me wish Disney didn't tone down Mission Space!

MadEye · Post by **MadEye** » Mar Sun 15, 2009 8:54 pm

Dr. Ravenscroft wrote:
MadEye wrote: Wow. Imagine the look on tourists faces if that happened!!! Talk about a cool vacation.
Actually that location is for emergency re-entry not for when the shuttle is taking off. For an emergency abort during launch these are the locations:

Myrtle Beach, SC
MCAS Cherry Point, NC
NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, VA
Dover AFB, DE
Otis ANGB, MA
Pease ANGB, NH
NAS Bermuda

As for the launch I hope the bat that attached itself to the External fuel tank got away alright. I heard about that and thought "Man is he/she going to get one heck of a nasty wake-up call"

I know it's for emergency landings. Could you imagine the tourists thoughts when they hear their flights are delayed due to a space shuttle emergency landing!!! LoL

As for the bat. I was watching the NASA channel (yes I am a nerd/dork and proud of it!!) and it looked like something was flying away from the launch pad earlier today...

Here are some shots I took in no particular order. Click on the thumbnails and the details will show up... I promise. Click on it again at the ImageShack page and it will be a little bigger.

This one was a good ten minutes after. See what the sunset did to the smoke trail?

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Mar Sun 15, 2009 10:06 pm

I watched it tonight with my Dad, I wish I saw it in person and not on TV. Real neat stuff, LIke the pics

Post by **Len90** » Mar Sun 15, 2009 10:14 pm

Very impressive launch. It seems like most of the recent missions have had night launches. Great pictures MadEye!

elizabethswann · Post by **elizabethswann** » Mar Sun 15, 2009 10:33 pm

Wow, those are wonderful photos!

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Mar Mon 16, 2009 10:59 am

Nice pics!!!

I got a call from a friend who was riding the fairy from MK over to the Poly and saw the launch, he just had to rub it in!

emnbensdad · Post by **emnbensdad** » Mar Mon 16, 2009 2:21 pm

My in-laws called last night during the launch. They were able to watch it from their house in central Florida. Would love to see it take off once before they scrap the program.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Mar Tue 17, 2009 12:09 pm

MetalRage wrote:I can watch it from my house. Even though I live 2 hours away (west palm beach) it looks like a fireball at night! Its so cool

When I lived in Ft Myers we could see them from there. It was unfortunate, but I saw the Challenger live like that!