Shuttle launch

[Wabbitt]

Here is some video of the launch on Sunday. We went to Jetty Park to the obersvation platform. One of the closest viewing sites to the pad.

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[Rhiannon]

wow, that would have been so cool to watch :D Not many people can say that they watched a launch like this :D

[Kragon]

I heard a bat got a free ride there lol

Space shuttle Discovery blasts off with bat stowaway - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/03/18/bat.shuttle/index.html)

[Wabbitt]

We had a good time. We saw one earlier this year, but we were much farther away. The traffic getting home was a disaster;)

Um, it may have been late last year...whenever the damn thing went up!

[ragamuffin]

Awesome, bet the sound was spectacular too. Ive seen it glowing at night as it passed overhead, but never up close.

[Augerdog42]

Cool video. I've seen it from St Augustine beach once, that was cool. I have also seen it from all over Florida. My best view to date was at 22'000 feet the same night Wabbit shot his video. I wish I had a video camera in the plane

[Wabbitt]

Cool video. I've seen it from St Augustine beach once, that was cool. I have also seen it from all over Florida. My best view to date was at 22'000 feet the same night Wabbit shot his video. I wish I had a video camera in the plane

For sure...I'd have liked to have seen that video. We had a good view...have some good pics of the booster separation, but on the video, all you could see was just a bright blur:mad:
It's the second launch I've seen from Jetty Park...the last one was from a different pad, and we could see the whole thing from the beach...that was pretty awesome!

[Augerdog42]

At 22,000 feet it was like we were even with it when they seperated. Awesome view of seperation