Posted on 05/25/2011 3:58:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
[Credit: NASA] Explanation: What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. If you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time last week, you could have seen something very unusual -- the space shuttle Endeavour launching to orbit. Images of the rising shuttle and its plume became widely circulated over the web shortly after Endeavour's final launch. The above image was taken from a shuttle training aircraft and is not copyrighted. Taken well above the clouds, the image can be matched with similar images of the same shuttle plume taken below the clouds. Hot glowing gasses expelled by the engines are visible near the rising shuttle, as well as a long smoke plume. A shadow of the plume appears on the cloud deck, indicating the direction of the Sun. The shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the International Space Station and is currently scheduled to return to Earth next week.
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LOL!
Thanks TOL, that’s a good suggestion, I hadn’t taken the time to do it before.
LOL!
Sundial of the Gods.
Some video of Gemini 4 training, launch and mission. Looks like Ed white is riding a glorified floor buffer to practice his space walk.
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/7424-discovery-nasa-gemini-4-mission-launch-video.htm
One of the best launch videos ever made. An ultra slow motion video of a Saturn V launch from the platform. Good stuff, whole platform in flames bouncing up and down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWeW5jj1DQ
Beautiful as always.
That’s probably what we were really shooting at. The ISS is just a cover story.
Nice!
LOL Tough luck, Joe. Your UFO was overruled by a higher power.
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