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11-29-2006, 06:13 AM
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Shuttle launch captured from Space, amazing
astronaut #1: " they launched"
astronaut #2:" yupeee, the new playboy magazines and more beer is on the way !!! "
they are supposed to be taken from the ISS, would be a conicident to fly over Florida at the exact time (or perfect timing  )
or a very high flying airplane and some PS to show the dark,deep space LOL
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11-29-2006, 06:20 AM
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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?
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11-29-2006, 06:25 AM
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8) 8) 8) awesome pictures!
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11-29-2006, 06:39 AM
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Wow, that is pretty freaking cool! Thanks for those amazing shots Stmoritzer!
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11-29-2006, 06:42 AM
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Amazing shots! 8)
You took them yourself???  JK
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11-29-2006, 06:52 AM
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Those shots are amazing! 8) 
Thanks!
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11-29-2006, 07:10 AM
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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?
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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
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11-29-2006, 07:47 AM
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one can clearly see the lake of Zürich and the runways of Zürich airport
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Thats incredible :shock:
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11-29-2006, 10:20 AM
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Cool stuff.. never seen the launch from that perspective before.
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11-29-2006, 11:05 AM
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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.
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11-29-2006, 02:24 PM
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Whatever it was taken from...it´s an amazing pic!
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11-29-2006, 03:43 PM
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beautiful pics thanks stmortizer ... 8)
the pictures are from some sort of airplane.
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11-29-2006, 07:29 PM
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Great link St Moritzer!!!! :good:
Would be awesome to see those things launch whilst you were up in the air like that!
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11-29-2006, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by saadie
beautiful pics thanks stmortizer ... 8)
the pictures are from some sort of airplane.
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Yes - maybe one of the NASA/Air Force planes that are airborne to observe and document every laucnh that takes place
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11-29-2006, 07:42 PM
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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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