Chwatson

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)

N/a 944

Cool picture, got there at the right time.
Or was it planned?

ausgeflippt951

Aw that's sick. I've always wanted to see a launch first-hand but...living in AZ makes that a bit difficult.

Mamooguy

Should've turned the car around, made it look like the flame was coming from some kind of tail-mounted rocket engine.

Wipeout

I missed the memo; didn't we just launch one a month or two ago? Sweet!

Chwatson

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.

Chwatson

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......

944obscene

Cool pic. The thread title suckered me in here. I admit.

P.S. I love your "location" there.

"Living in a VAN down by the RIVER!!!"

FRporscheman

Go Endeavor! I wish they would launch shuttles out of Vandenberg too...