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so, the neighbor of my house-sit runs up to the door on Sunday night, and he tells me the shuttle is about to take off. I ran out and saw it, and before the trail could go away, I took a shot or two. If I ran back in to get the camera, I'd have missed the thing itself, and I'd rather have seen it than to "get the shot".
In our trip to Florida the pilot announced that we would be able to see the Space Shuttle launch. We first saw a very bright light emerge from the clouds. The picture doesn't really capture the colors and size of the smoke trail.
As the Space Shuttle Endeavor approached the space station this week, crew members on board the station snapped this shot. Clearly visible through the windshield is the very latest in NASA-issue gear. (Source: NASA. Original available here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts123...
The space shuttle Atlantis went streaking by my house on its final launch...I just happened to be out with my camera, but unfortunately didn't have my long lens on!
I just returned from a one week holiday to DisneyWorld and the Kennedy Space Center, with my son and his family.
As a teacher of math and science, I often included a unit on space travel. I was lucky enough to be a part of NASA training for teachers, and it was wonderful to see this shuttle and actually go onboard.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.