Best Shuttle Launch Pic Ever! by cljohnston108

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Best Shuttle Launch Pic Ever!

POSTED BY: CLJOHNSTON108
UPDATED: Thursday, July 5, 2007 13:08
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Saturday, June 9, 2007 3:09 AM

And not just because it's carrying our beloved cargo!

http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=32370

Just look at how the sun is eclipsed perfectly by that tuft of plume!

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 3:17 AM

ZZETTA13

Great looking picture CLJ and the crew will soon be able to see some outta-is-world entertainment.

Z

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 3:26 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

Of course, there are other great images from the Space Shuttle era, and they've all been collected by this individual...
http://community.webshots.com/user/jbingham
(His other albums are equally breathtaking!)

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 4:46 AM

MAIII

here are my past mission photos that I pull from the internal NASA archive:
STS-121
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=ekhorlf.6a5nvn4v&x=0&y=-g6s7f8
STS-115
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=ekhorlf.1pn3qxwz&x=0&y=-mp68ty
STS-116
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=ekhorlf.2f0uy3dv&x=0&y=-8t1uox

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 4:52 AM

REDHEAD

I actually gasped! That is beautiful.

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 5:15 AM

DARKFLY

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 5:44 AM

ZZETTA13

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 6:14 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

The "Pipe View" is my favorite!
Here's Atlantis, heading off on STS-43 (8/2/91)...

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 6:22 AM

DARKFLY

brilliant pic, the Serenity one too,lol, don't suppose you could make a higher resolution of the Serenity take off pic

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 5:15 PM

ZZETTA13

Sorry Darkfly it was a cut and paste job. Had to reduce Serenity down so that it would fit on the launch pad. I'm afraid the picture wouldn't get any better or clearer if I enlarged it. Just wanted to convey the idea of our Serenitys finally heading up to orbit.

Z

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Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:53 PM

PROTOTYPE7

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
The "Pipe View" is my favorite!
Here's Atlantis, heading off on STS-43 (8/2/91)...

I would be really happy if someone could explain this pic to me. From the angle... I would say whoever took this amazing picture was vaporized into bits.
If it was a static mounted camera that's equally as cool...
I guess I'm just having trouble figuring out if it's real or not.

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Monday, June 11, 2007 9:45 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

Quote:
Originally posted by prototype7:
I would be really happy if someone could explain this pic to me. From the angle... I would say whoever took this amazing picture was vaporized into bits.
If it was a static mounted camera that's equally as cool...
I guess I'm just having trouble figuring out if it's real or not.

Everything you'd want to know about the cameras at Launch Complex 39 is on this (translated) French page...
http://tinyurl.com/2uovj8

All kinds of great views in this album of jbingham's...
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/2006482AdovwZDEFp

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Monday, June 11, 2007 12:55 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

Here's my version, Zzetta.
Hope you don't mind!

Used this screencap from "The Message": still-flying.net/images/themessage/index.php?image=themessage459.jpg

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Monday, June 11, 2007 1:25 PM

ZZETTA13

GREAT LOOKING PIC!! CLJ

Really cool. I love it

Z

Why should I mind? Yours is 50 times better. It's fantastic. Looks real. You did a GREAT job!!

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Monday, June 11, 2007 6:29 PM

COLORADOCOMPANION

Ok...was I the only one who saw this picture of the shuttle damage and yelled "What was that? Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram SHIP!?!?"

(Sending them wishes for a non-"interesting" return)

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:10 AM

DARKFLY

All the pics are great even the supposedly mock up pics of Serenity taking off, I still won't believe they are fakes no matter what people tell me

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:07 AM

MAIII

the mission continues to go well as the team works through the blanket repair options for procedures/tools and which EVA to perform the work on should be decided by the mission management team today. Swanny and Forrester are going for a spacewalk later today to continue work on the newly installed Truss and Solar Array Segment. Airlock egress is ~2 pm EDT.

Photo Gallery:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=ekhorlf.24ok35ob&x=0&y=-bjbomd

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:11 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:

awesome....

*jaw drops*Chrisisall

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:56 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

Here's the new version!
The first used a generic pic that just seemed to have the right angle & lighting.
Found a better one of the actual STS-117 launch!
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-117/html/sts117
-s-026.html

Got both versions posted in the Blue Sun Room.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:09 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-117/html/sts117
-s-026.html

*jaw drops all the way to floor*
I assume you work for ILM?

Pen and ink only Chrisisall

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:09 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I assume you work for ILM?

You flatter me! But, no.
Glad you like it, though!

And for Prototype7: Here's the "Pipe View" of our bird on this mission...

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-117/html/sts117
-s-038.html

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Friday, June 15, 2007 1:55 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

This is the last one, I swear!
Some'n was buggin' me about the angle of the engines and the exhaust in my first two versions, and then it dawned on me that I should've rotated Serenity another 3° counter-clockwise.
Just couldn't live with it like that.