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Pedal To The Metal - News That Moves You (BETA) » News » February 2010 » Astronomy Picture of the Day: Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on: 02/09/2010 01:52 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]



Recently I was lucky enough to see a night launch from a couple hours away, but this photo shows it up close and personal and in rich detail, a rare glimpse of a night launch from up close. In this photos, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off in yesterday's early morning hours from Launch Pad 39A in Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). A night launch, useful for reaching the space station easily during some times of the year, frequently creates vivid launch imagery. The shuttle, as pictured above, is framed by an enormous but typical exhaust plume ejected as the shuttle's powerful rockets began lifting the two million kilogram space bus into Earth orbit. Endeavour's mission, labeled STS-130, includes the delivery of the Tranquility module to the space station. Tranquility will provide extra room for space station astronauts and includes a large circular set of windows designed to bestow vastly improved views of the Earth, the night sky, and the space station itself. A huge 3000X1996 is available at the source link. Beautiful!



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