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stmoritzer 11-29-2006 06:13 AM

Shuttle launch captured from Space, amazing
 
astronaut #1: " they launched"
astronaut #2:" yupeee, the new playboy magazines and more beer is on the way !!! "


http://serv2.imagehigh.com/imgss/449...lelaunch01.jpg

http://serv2.imagehigh.com/imgss/449...lelaunch02.jpg


they are supposed to be taken from the ISS, would be a conicident to fly over Florida at the exact time (or perfect timing :wink:)
or a very high flying airplane and some PS to show the dark,deep space LOL

RC45 11-29-2006 06:20 AM

If you fly at 30,000 feet at day break you also see that dark band of night in the east - so you wouldn't even need photoshop to see that.

Remember there are all sorts of airborne support vehicles monitoring the launch - so it could be real.

Is the ISS in such a low orbit?

Erez 11-29-2006 06:25 AM

8) 8) 8) awesome pictures!

Zot09 11-29-2006 06:39 AM

Wow, that is pretty freaking cool! Thanks for those amazing shots Stmoritzer!

cooperluke 11-29-2006 06:42 AM

Amazing shots! 8)

You took them yourself??? :lol: JK

TopGearNL 11-29-2006 06:52 AM

Those shots are amazing! 8) :D

Thanks!

stmoritzer 11-29-2006 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RC45
If you fly at 30,000 feet at day break you also see that dark band of night in the east - so you wouldn't even need photoshop to see that.

Remember there are all sorts of airborne support vehicles monitoring the launch - so it could be real.

Is the ISS in such a low orbit?

the ISS is on a quite low orbit, about 200 miles (330-350km), the height is changing over the time and they have to push teh ISS to a higher orbit.

However, they can make quite some close pictures. One of the best I've seen is that one

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/...011e11260.html

the ISS/Shuttle is just above central Switzerland, one can clearly see the lake of Zürich and the runways of Zürich airport :shock:


Having had a second look, I would say it's taken form a plane

TopGearNL 11-29-2006 07:47 AM

Quote:

one can clearly see the lake of Zürich and the runways of Zürich airport
Thats incredible :shock:

dutchmasterflex 11-29-2006 10:20 AM

Cool stuff.. never seen the launch from that perspective before.

BADMIHAI 11-29-2006 11:05 AM

I'm sorry, but I highly doubt that was taken from a space station. It looks a lot more like the view from a regular airplane flying at 10-12000 m. 300 km is a lot lot higher than that.

Chaos in 1983! 11-29-2006 02:24 PM

Whatever it was taken from...it´s an amazing pic!

saadie 11-29-2006 03:43 PM

beautiful pics thanks stmortizer ... 8)
the pictures are from some sort of airplane.

spanky 11-29-2006 07:29 PM

Great link St Moritzer!!!! :good:

Would be awesome to see those things launch whilst you were up in the air like that!

RC45 11-29-2006 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saadie
beautiful pics thanks stmortizer ... 8)
the pictures are from some sort of airplane.

Yes - maybe one of the NASA/Air Force planes that are airborne to observe and document every laucnh that takes place ;)

TNT 11-29-2006 07:42 PM

yeah the angle looks all wrong to be from outerspace. prob. a safety plane, after all the problems they have had.


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