Discovery's Rainbow
Credit: NASA, Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)
Posted on 09/02/2009 5:19:17 AM PDT by sig226
Explanation: Just one minute before midnight EDT, Friday, August 28, the Space Shuttle Discovery began a long arc into a cloudy sky. Following the launch, a bright and remarkably colorful trail was captured in this time exposure from the Banana River Viewing Site, looking east toward pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. On STS-128, Discovery docked with the International Space Station Sunday evening. The 13-day mission will exchange space station crew members and deliver more than 7 tons of supplies and equipment. Of course, the equipment includes the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).
I saw this one yesterday. Very cool picture.
Cool picture!
The bright spot about halfway up the arc looks really cool. It’s from the passage through a cloud, but it adds some dimensionality to it that I can’t explain.
Very cool picture.
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