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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Space Shuttle Rising
NASA ^ | May 25, 2011 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 05/25/2011 3:58:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

[Credit: NASA] Explanation: What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. If you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time last week, you could have seen something very unusual -- the space shuttle Endeavour launching to orbit. Images of the rising shuttle and its plume became widely circulated over the web shortly after Endeavour's final launch. The above image was taken from a shuttle training aircraft and is not copyrighted. Taken well above the clouds, the image can be matched with similar images of the same shuttle plume taken below the clouds. Hot glowing gasses expelled by the engines are visible near the rising shuttle, as well as a long smoke plume. A shadow of the plume appears on the cloud deck, indicating the direction of the Sun. The shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the International Space Station and is currently scheduled to return to Earth next week.

May 25, 2011

(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; science; spaceshuttle
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To: KoRn

LOL!


21 posted on 05/25/2011 6:48:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: TheOldLady; KoRn

Thanks TOL, that’s a good suggestion, I hadn’t taken the time to do it before.


22 posted on 05/25/2011 6:49:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: COBOL2Java

LOL!


23 posted on 05/25/2011 6:49:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv

24 posted on 05/25/2011 6:57:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: KoRn; SunkenCiv
Amazing and beautiful picture, BTW.

Sundial of the Gods.

25 posted on 05/25/2011 7:07:14 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Some video of Gemini 4 training, launch and mission. Looks like Ed white is riding a glorified floor buffer to practice his space walk.

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/7424-discovery-nasa-gemini-4-mission-launch-video.htm


26 posted on 05/25/2011 7:07:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

One of the best launch videos ever made. An ultra slow motion video of a Saturn V launch from the platform. Good stuff, whole platform in flames bouncing up and down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWeW5jj1DQ


27 posted on 05/25/2011 7:19:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: SunkenCiv

Beautiful as always.


28 posted on 05/25/2011 7:29:21 PM PDT by brytlea (If you don't know what APOD is you'd better find out!)
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To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv

29 posted on 05/25/2011 8:01:53 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.)
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To: JoeProBono

That’s probably what we were really shooting at. The ISS is just a cover story.


30 posted on 05/25/2011 8:03:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: cripplecreek

Nice!


31 posted on 05/25/2011 8:06:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: bigheadfred; JoeProBono

LOL Tough luck, Joe. Your UFO was overruled by a higher power.


32 posted on 05/25/2011 8:36:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: bigheadfred

33 posted on 05/25/2011 9:04:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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