STS-124: Discovery Viewing

[K8B]

This is the first picture to I've uploaded... more to follow after they are edited and cleaned up a bit. This is from the Causeway (near the bridge between the two sections of causeway) on the far side of the bridge. Lens was big enough to catch the SRB sep and fall away - stay tuned for those beauties

[lmh3]

This is the first picture to I've uploaded...


This is FANTASTIC, thank you!

I was on the causeway today, too. There's no other word to describe it but AWESOME!

Lisa

[psloss]

Cute photo from the Orlando Sentinel; saw the link on NASAWatch:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/06/a_very_cool_pho.html

[Scorpius]

just seen iss and the discovery and her et below her from north england, awsome

I saw them too from Devon, extremely bright and passed directly overhead here - an incredible sight!

Not sure why the most exciting shuttle sighting opportunity just after launch was not flagged up on NASA's HSF site.

[Bruce]

STS-124 was my first launch viewing, so I decided to watch it with my own eyes, and not miss the action behind a camera. I've attached the one shot I took of Discovery on the pad (taken from the causeway, so 7 miles away).

I'm keen to get photos/videos of the launch. So if anyone is happy to email me some, they will be very appreciated (my private use only).

edit: thread was reopened, so my new thread has been combined with this one.

[Ronsmytheiii]

Not a new image, just touched up yours:

[Bruce]

Thanks for the cleanup.

[K8B]

Not sure how this thread got unlocked. On June 2nd it was locked... and that is why I did not post any more pictures... and like magic - it's unlocked.   

Here are the other pictures. They originals are high res and you can really zoom in... but these are limited for the forum.

[K8B]

The view you had was very similar to ours, you had to have been near us, where were you in relation to the bridge & first set of port-o-lets (loos)? We were against the rope, one of us in a chair and the other on a blanket... we were the first ones in that area. (PM me & we'll have to sort out how near we were)

I just reread your post & didn't realize it's a new thread (I guess they've moved it to the old one - which is why I was confused about the lock/unlock stuff)

It was a beautiful launch. We saw the STS-117 from the causeway and only 51 weeks before STS-124... what a rush!! 

STS-124 was my first launch viewing, so I decided to watch it with my own eyes, and not miss the action behind a camera. I've attached the one shot I took of Discovery on the pad (taken from the causeway, so 7 miles away).