Launch pictures!
Jul. 27th, 2005 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ad_exiaBack from a successful launch! (And a mostly-successful trip down to Cocoa Beach to see it.)
Have been awake... ::counts:: 38.5 hours. Woo. So going to bed at 2-ish today. Real report to come tomorrow, but for now...
PICTURES!
Our sophisticated viewing location, aka Julian's car pulled alongside the Beeline. ^^;
The first picture! I didn't get any pictures with the flame coming out the bottom (was too busy "ooh"ing and "aah"ing and once it cleared the trees the SRBs didn't burn much longer anyway), but I did see it!
Discovery climbs higher
The SRBs have detached and we can't see the shuttle anymore because it's not creating smoke any longer
The final trail left behind
But what's this? It looks like smoke rings in the sky. It's actually the point at which the shuttle went from sub- to supersonic, and the smoke trail got flattened in the wake. Pretty neat!
That's it for pictures (sorry they weren't too exciting). Story to come later when I'm not all @.@.
Have been awake... ::counts:: 38.5 hours. Woo. So going to bed at 2-ish today. Real report to come tomorrow, but for now...
PICTURES!
Our sophisticated viewing location, aka Julian's car pulled alongside the Beeline. ^^;
The first picture! I didn't get any pictures with the flame coming out the bottom (was too busy "ooh"ing and "aah"ing and once it cleared the trees the SRBs didn't burn much longer anyway), but I did see it!
Discovery climbs higher
The SRBs have detached and we can't see the shuttle anymore because it's not creating smoke any longer
The final trail left behind
But what's this? It looks like smoke rings in the sky. It's actually the point at which the shuttle went from sub- to supersonic, and the smoke trail got flattened in the wake. Pretty neat!
That's it for pictures (sorry they weren't too exciting). Story to come later when I'm not all @.@.
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Date: 2005-07-27 10:48 pm (UTC)But that's okay. I've "embraced my dorkdom" and all that. ~_^