'83 top speed: 130, '87 top speed 17,000 mph?????
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haha, gotcha
sorry for the bad pic. i was screwing around and then oh shi----the sky just lit up
(PS for those of you that don't know, Endeavour was contracted out in 1987)
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yep, there was a launch earlier in '08. as for the pic, it was a very cloudy night. the ceiling was MAYBE 3500 feet, so from the time you could see the sky start to glow as it lifted off until the time that it broke through the cloud cover was, at best, 15 seconds. you could see the shuttle itself for maybe 8 seconds. i remember when it launched last year on a perfect, cold night. that was intense.
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fyi that was 2:28 in the morning, not 6:30 am like it looks. it's crazy how the shuttle literally lights up the entire sky. i'm going to go watch The Dish and Apollo 13 now......