Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Space Shuttle Rising

NASA ^ | May 24, 2015 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

Explanation: What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. Sometimes, if you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time, you could have seen something very unusual -- a space shuttle launching to orbit. Images of the rising shuttle and its plume became widely circulated over the web shortly after Endeavour's final launch in 2011 May. The above image was taken from a shuttle training aircraft by NASA 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 US Space Shuttle program concluded in 2011, and Endeavour can now be visited at the California Science Center.

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: NASA]

[SunkenCiv]

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[fieldmarshaldj]

Back when we still had a space program and not a Mohammadan outreach one.

[Chaguito]

And a worthwhile visit it is at the California Science Center. Awesome is the word.

[Flick Lives]

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....”

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds fun. Watching the online vids of various launches is as close as I’m likely to get though.

[Chaguito]

If you ever DO get to Los Angeles, forget Disneyland and go to the Science Center in Exposition Park. Through September there is an exposition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a great Imax movie of Jerusalem. The rest of the Science Center is hands on experiments in various technological areas.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Chaguito]

Of course, you’re welcome. Your stuff is some of the best on FR. It’s always a good feeling to see your posts as relief from the...intense... stuff that goes on.

[ComputerGuy]

One of your best, Civ.
Your posts are my mostest favorite.

[1217Chic]

So sad no space program ):

[TheOldLady]

The US Space Shuttle program concluded in 2011

And that is a crying dang shame. I am disgusted with NASA's new job, Moose limb outreach.

Gang, we have a lot of undoing to do once we get rid of the slimeballs who are destroying America and our freedom and way of life.