Anyone see the shuttle launch tonight?

[Curious Joel]

I don't know if you all knew, but tonight was the first night-time space shuttle launch in 4 years. It flew right up the Atlantic coast. My house is on top of a huge hill, and my room faces south. On a clear night you can just see the tops of the two tallest buildings in Boston. My whole family came into my room and we turned off the lights and we had the TV on with the pictures and info of the launch. About three and a half minutes after it took off, we saw an orange glow out in the southern sky.. it was the shuttle! We knew it wasn't a plane, because it was a steady orange, and it was moving in the right direction. It was a very, very cool experience!

[noncom23]

Cool!

[SuperGreg]

Originally Posted by Curious Joel

I don't know if you all knew, but tonight was the first night-time space shuttle launch in 4 years. It flew right up the Atlantic coast. My house is on top of a huge hill, and my room faces south. On a clear night you can just see the tops of the two tallest buildings in Boston. My whole family came into my room and we turned off the lights and we had the TV on with the pictures and info of the launch. About three and a half minutes after it took off, we saw an orange glow out in the southern sky.. it was the shuttle! We knew it wasn't a plane, because it was a steady orange, and it was moving in the right direction. It was a very, very cool experience!

Want to hear something really cool, I grew up in Orlando, FL. I remember a night time Apollo launch from the Cape. Talk about an amazing experience!!!!!!! Of course that was before you were born

[noncom23]

Originally Posted by SuperGreg

Want to hear something really cool, I grew up in Orlando, FL. I remember night time Apollo launches from the Cape. Talk about an amazing experience!!!!!!! Of course that was before you were born

[SuperGreg]

Originally Posted by noncom23

Ok smarty pants



December, 7 1972 The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:33 a.m. (EST), December 7, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft were astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. Flame from the five F-1 engines of the Apollo/Saturn first (S-1C) stage illuminates the nighttime scene. A two-hour and forty-minute hold delayed the Apollo 17 launching.

[SuperGreg]

Just sharing:

[noncom23]

Shoulda' known better, but it worked!
Thx Greg. Great pics!

[Wpcmac]

Wife and I watched it from the driveway in Orlando. Beautiful site.

[Thunder22]

Link to photos on dpreview:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=21209388


The rest are in his pbase.com account, link is in the dpreview thread.

amazing job.

[fln8tive]

We saw it go up last night...first the sky looked like a mini-sunrise and then you see what looks like a welder's torch arc up and the south. Saw the last night launch from Titusville....lit up the entire sky and you cannot imagine the roar of the engines....and the traffic jam back to Orlando....!