NASA Discovery Launch

[Jefe]

Delayed twice this week due to weather and a faulty valve, finally launched late last night, if you are going to watch the stream you have to watch from 26-34 mins. They show the moon, 0 gravity, other very cool stuff!:

NASA TV

Lowspeed:

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570

Short:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IIbW6wxaM"]YouTube - sts 128 space shuttle discovery 28 08 09[/ame]

 

[FEARED]

kinda sad to see these go into retirement.

 

[Jefe]

Pics from Tampa:

 

[Callaway Cobra]

Very cool pictures!

 

[Prodigy SVT]

Bad Ass, that never gets old! Amazing that we have been doing that for well over 40 years.

 

[Jefe]

Amazing how fast it goes from 4 miles from Kennedy Space Station to 200 to 400. About 5 mins in they were doing 14k mph. 26 mins in is awesome!

 

[cobra_4]

I never get tired of watching a space shuttle launch. I've saw a couple of them launch in the day time from up the beach aways but never a night time launch. That would have to be awesome to watch in person:rockon:

 

[BreBar21]

It was very cool. It never gets old watching one of those. I took a couple pictures last night as well. I'll try to remember to pull them off the camera and post them.

 

[04MystiCobra]

I've always wanted to go see a night launch!

 

[Kevins89notch]

Pics from Tampa:

http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9067-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-2.jpg
http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9076-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-3.jpg
http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9079-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-4.jpg
http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9082-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-5.jpg
http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9088-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-7.jpg
http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9097-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-10.jpg
http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9100-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-11.jpg
http://www.sharpshuttermedia.com/gallery/d/9103-2/DiscoveryShuttle82909-12.jpg[/quote]

Yup, that looks like what I saw while driving home last night from work. :rockon:

 

[CO_SVT]

Great pics, would have been awesome to see in person!

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

I wasn't able to get photos of it but here's one my friend did, 3photos edited into one.

 

[supercarkiller]

nice pic! still amazes me too this day.

 

[wvmystichrome]

Awesome pics guys. Thanks for sharing. I want to take my daughter down there next year for one of the final blast offs.

 

[97CasperCobra]

Awesome pics guys.....I'm going to try and go to the launch in Nov. I have family in Florida who saw the launch last night...one of my things I wanna do in my life is to see a launch.

 

[GBNFG 03 DSG]

Wow!

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Unfortunately any other launches you will have to watch during the daytime, since this was the last night launch ever. :nonono:

 

[Mayo5]

Watched it live on tv last night, was pretty cool.