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Went to the linked article - and found another interesting writeup about the Space Shuttle's "trail" of light that appeared after it was launched on April 5.

Maybe you already posted about this.

If not, that is very interestig also. Here's a picture from that article:

Space Shuttle trail

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From that article about the space shuttle "cloud":

SHUTTLE CLOUD: On April 5th, space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral at the crack of dawn. The shuttle began its journey in darkness--the sun was still below the horizon--but moments after it left the pad, Discovery burst into high altitude sunlight and proceeded to put on an extraordinary show. University of Florida astronomy professor Howard Cohen describes what he saw from his home in Gainesville, more than 130 miles from the Cape:

"The launch began in typical fashion- a brilliant, yellowish glow rising out of the southwest gradually morphing into a white contrail. Impatient observes might have thought that was it. But then an amazing contrail, the likes of which I have never seen before, rapidly appeared around and following the shuttle's path. For a short time it resembled a comet streaking across the dawn sky." He took this picture using his Canon EOS 5D:

Photo from that article