[Bean Counter]

Here are 2 stills from a very rare video that was shot onboard the ISS on September 6, 2006 as it passed over South Florida during the launch of Shuttle Atlantis.





What I find interesting is that this demonstrates how the shuttle launches almost straight up while on the SRBs, and once they come off when the shuttle is above the thickest part of the atmosphere, the trajectory flattens out and the real acceleration begins...

[fightinJAG]

Come to think of it, it was the ISS, not the shuttle, that we watched pass over our house. It was unbelievable.

[Malsua]

Those pictures were not taken from ISS. In the second picture, the SRB are still attached an almost the same altitude as the picture taker.

Cool pictures, not from the space station, they were taken via the NASA/JSC WB-57 high altitude research program.

[Always Independent]

Not doubting, but it looks kind of low for the ISS.

[Moonman62]

What I find interesting is that this demonstrates how the shuttle launches almost straight up while on the SRBs, and once they come off when the shuttle is above the thickest part of the atmosphere, the trajectory flattens out and the real acceleration begins...

Not only that, but the Shuttle dives back down toward Earth in order to pick up speed during part of its flight to orbit.