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posted 06-05-2010 10:25 AM               

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A beautiful view of the launch of Shuttle mission STS-51A on November 8, 1984, taken by astronaut John Young from the Shuttle Training Aircraft.

Ed Hengeveld

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posted 06-07-2010 04:09 PM               

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Nice. I wonder if they would still launch with a cloud layer like that. A little hard to tell the coverage in the photo but looks like a broken layer. But from my trip to STS-130, I think they needed at least 4-5,000 foot ceiling for RTLS.

Anyway, technical rules aside, that's a pretty picture!

posted 06-10-2010 08:43 AM              

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Ed, an amazing and beautiful photo.

I wish I had a 16x20 or a 11x14 high resolution copy of it to frame. I just do not know how to accomplish it.

You astound me all the time!