Sunrise at 2 in the morning? (vid)

[DAS BOOT]

yeah I know its bad vid quality... but its badass I am glad I caught one at night.

http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/ff...5d018a6173.htm

[98Camaro3.8]

Re: Sunrise at 2 in the morning? (vid)

Cool vid Eric. Where were you at? I was on the island in the middle of the 402 bridge. Had an excellent view. Combined with a few 12 packs, we had a lot of fun waiting for it. Just sucked waiting 45 minutes to get moving with the traffic after the launch.

My Location

[firebird19_99]

Re: Sunrise at 2 in the morning? (vid)

nice wish i could see those in person

[DAS BOOT]

Re: Sunrise at 2 in the morning? (vid)

I don't know the exact spot, but seen the last 2-3 launches at it.

I take the road that goes past TICO air field, hit US1, then head north, then there is a hotel. I park in the grass somwhere then walk throught he hotel and they have a huge grassy area by the water.

In Person you can see the launchpad itself better, I would have had a better view with my 15x optical zoom camera but the battery died, so I quickly busted out the 3x one and didn't even zoom in to catch it.


But was amazing, hear the countdown then see the engines ignite, and the fireball just grow and takeoff lighting up the world.



I hadn't slept at all all weekend I was dieing, I wok up at 1:45, we got in the car hauled *** and made it there ~5 min before the launch. I love speeding out to launches(hit 100 more then once :) )

got stuck in traffic for like 30 min or so.

[00 Silver 6]

Re: Sunrise at 2 in the morning? (vid)

thats pretty badass, im sure it looked even better if you were there

on a side note... im really happy that NASA is staying with the shuttle program even after the failure awhile back. after that happened i was almost positive they were going to ax the whole program and focus on unmanned launches for awhile... especially with the way our world is today, where everything has to be 100% safe all the time or it isnt acceptable in the public eye

[DAS BOOT]

Re: Sunrise at 2 in the morning? (vid)

The shuttle program is axed....


only like 5-6 launches left ever...

[StrtRacer98]

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I thought they said they werent going to do a night launch ever again?


why is it axed? no more space shuttles?

[Byrd14]

Re: Sunrise at 2 in the morning? (vid)

why is it axed? no more space shuttles?