STS-125 Atlantis Viewing (Landing and Photos) Thread

• #20 by astrobrian on 28 May, 2009 21:51
•     Try half a weeks pay, very dangerous indeed
• #21 by Bubbinski on 28 May, 2009 23:57
• Uh yeah, the KSC gift shop is a place I never leave without a bunch of stuff!  I'd be broker than broke if I lived in Titusville, within easy reach of the KSC visitors center.
• #22 by astrobrian on 29 May, 2009 00:26
• Quote from: Bubbinski on 28 May, 2009 23:57

  Uh yeah, the KSC gift shop is a place I never leave without a bunch of stuff!  I'd be broker than broke if I lived in Titusville, within easy reach of the KSC visitors center.
  

  I caused the lady to drop jaw at the check out when she realized i wasn't kidding when I told her that it wasn't all for other family members, but for me alone    A great moment in life
  
• #23 by robertross on 29 May, 2009 00:39
• Quote from: Bubbinski on 28 May, 2009 23:57

  Uh yeah, the KSC gift shop is a place I never leave without a bunch of stuff!  I'd be broker than broke if I lived in Titusville, within easy reach of the KSC visitors center.
  

  
  Good grief. I think I need to look at getting a second job then...LOL. That place will be like going into a Snap-On truck...Lord help me. 
  
• #24 by Lewis007 on 29 May, 2009 12:49
• Some great pictures of the STS-125 SRB splashdown can be found at this site:
  http://picasaweb.google.com/EnnisCM/STS125BI134SRBRetrieval#
  
  The site mentions the SRBs are set BI-134, but I believe this should be BI-137, as the 134 set was used on STS-124. Looking at the date of the pictures (May 11), it shows that the pictures do correlate to the STS-125 launch.
  

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• #25 by rdale on 29 May, 2009 13:12
• The photo information on the right-side links says the pictures are from May 31, 2008 (launch of STS-124) and these are identical to the L2 pics of STS-125 booster splashdown too... Interesting...
• #26 by rdale on 29 May, 2009 13:23
• Confirmed by downloading them that they were all taken May 31, 2008 so were definitely not from STS-125...
• #27 by astrobrian on 30 May, 2009 01:16
• Quote from: robertross on 29 May, 2009 00:39

  Quote from: Bubbinski on 28 May, 2009 23:57

  Uh yeah, the KSC gift shop is a place I never leave without a bunch of stuff!  I'd be broker than broke if I lived in Titusville, within easy reach of the KSC visitors center.
  

  
  Good grief. I think I need to look at getting a second job then...LOL. That place will be like going into a Snap-On truck...Lord help me. 
  
  

  Only if it was a semi
• #28 by Orbital Debris on 30 May, 2009 04:26
• iamlucky - I would estimate that we were about 9 miles out from the east end of the runway (measuring with google earth)
• #29 by Lewis007 on 31 May, 2009 08:27
• Some nice landing pictures of Atlantis can be found on the following site (bottom of page); a nice addition to the few pictures which NASA released:
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_mumaw_photogrpahy/

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