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Amazing Skywatching Photos: Shuttle Discovery in Space for the Last Time
Space.com ^ | 08 March 2011 | Tariq Malik

Posted on 03/09/2011 10:42:50 AM PST by Robe

Skywatcher Rob Bullen of Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England caught this snapshot of shuttle
Discovery as it approached the International Space Staiton on Feb. 26, 2011.
Discovery was flying its final mission, STS-133.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discovery; space; spaceshuttle

1 posted on 03/09/2011 10:42:53 AM PST by Robe
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To: Robe
Wonderbread has offered to buy it, put wheels on it & use it as a breadtruck(what it was originally designed for anyway).
2 posted on 03/09/2011 10:46:26 AM PST by de.rm (It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see)
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To: Robe

NASAToy


3 posted on 03/09/2011 10:47:18 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: de.rm

I thought another group was interested in it: Helms Bakeries

That’s one hell of a photo!!!!!


4 posted on 03/09/2011 10:50:06 AM PST by Loud Mime (If it is too stupid to be said, people will listen to it, if sung - - Voltaire)
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To: Loud Mime

I got one hell of a cellphone camera!


5 posted on 03/09/2011 10:54:35 AM PST by de.rm (It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see)
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To: Loud Mime

Go to the source, scroll down, and you can see a photograph of a spacewalk taken through a hand guided telescope.


6 posted on 03/09/2011 10:58:20 AM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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