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Topic: STS-109 launch (pictures inside!)
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42985
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-01-2002 04:41 PM
   
I was shooting with a new camera and without the benefit of any additional lenses so I only captured a few good shots (there's room for improvement) but I thought I would share a couple...  If you look carefully at the next shot, you'll see there are three distinct contrails -- the large one with the glow is Columbia, the smaller two are the SRBs separating!  I am told that the two SRB contrails seen here was unprecedented. We could follow their path all their way down...  Pink! 
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rjurek349
Member Posts: 1190
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 03-01-2002 05:08 PM
Robert -- GREAT pictures. Thanks for sharing. The last one is, I think, my favorite. Regards, Richard PS: Any word yet on the Brandenstein signed items? Just checking ;-) |
astronut
Member Posts: 969
From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 03-01-2002 07:08 PM
Roberto,
Love 'em...the 1st one really grabbed my attention and the colors on the last one are beautiful.------------------
Happy trails,
Wayno |
uzzi69
Member Posts: 181
From: Richmond, IN USA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-01-2002 08:13 PM
Incredible pictures, Robert !!!!!!!
I wish I were there....Regards, Bill uzzi69 |
disglobes
Member Posts: 594
From: Orting, WA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-02-2002 08:04 AM
Hi Robert
Where were you at the launch. I was at the static test site. This was my first launch and I if my pictures turn out I will have the same shots that you have. I wish I would have known you were there too.Charles |
Ben
Member Posts: 1896
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-02-2002 01:56 PM
Great photos Rob! And great seeing you again. I had an awesome time at this one, much better than my first. Chatting with Rob and a few others on the lawn helped pass the two hours before launch. And boy, absolutely stunning spectacular launch! That will be hard to beat.Let me post mine separately. -Ben |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 03-02-2002 02:32 PM
Lucky guys.....
Great SRB shot, that is awesome!
Tom
(Very, very far from KSC in Seattle)  |
Space Nerd 4 Ever
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posted 03-02-2002 03:11 PM
Beatiful, Spectacular, Amazing, Mind Blowing, Better than any sale at your favorite fast food restuarant! |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 03-02-2002 09:16 PM
If you had binoculars could you actually see the SRB's under the chutes, or were they too far away? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42985
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-02-2002 11:22 PM
Sorry I missed you Charles, I was at the press site... Tom, I didn't have binoculars but my guess would be that the SRBs would be too far away to see. |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-07-2002 02:53 PM
Your photographs are wonderfull. If your not a professional photographer i think you are in the wrong business. Simply wonderfull. All are excellent. Especially the last one. |
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