Almost don't look real, But fucking superb!

Quote:

A fisheye view captures the launch of a 19-story Lockheed-Martin Atlas 5 rocket with the Inmarsat 4F-1 communications satlelite at 4:42pm EST, March 12, 2005. This lens was destroyed by the very launch that took the 13,000-lb satellite into geosynchronous orbit.

 

2nd pic is sooooo cool!

Sarah

 

I love that last one.

 

awesome

 

Awesome pics!

 

Did you know that NASA's current plans are for the Space Shuttles to be retired in 2010, after nearly 30 years of service?

I liken the Space Shuttle to Concorde - way ahead of its time with no credible competition even now, and retired way before it should be/have been.

steve

 

awesome pics, we had a good look around them when we went to Cape Canaveral,eye opening it was.

 

awsome pics !!

 

That last one is brilliant


30 years is enough service for the shuttles, remember they are really complicated bits of kit and the older they get the more expensive they are to keep running properly.

I mean, my old sega megadrive had more computing power than one of them

Next step are space planes with 100% reusable parts.

 

Awesome Pics, tiffs got nowt to come

 

Funky pics

 

Looks like a ginger with a hard on

 

Very smart.

 

Wow AWSOME there lovely pic's mate ,

 

Awesome pics! Oh I do love space travel.

I bet the chap was working the cameras by remote or very good zoom lenses as he'd be toast by the looks of some of them.

 

They were done by remote

 

It's just the sort of views that you'd love to see with your own eyes.......but also be the last thing you'd ever get to do before burning up!

On my last offshore trip, I had our guys going outside to see the space station going overhead! lol

 

At launch, if you are within 400 feet of the pad, the heat will kill you. If you're within 800 feet the sound will kill you.

I learned that when I went to Kennedy in July.

 

I think TBH most people with common sense would know that

 

It goes over quite often, there is a nasa website that tells you the exact time for your location. ITs really big and bright and moves really fast.

 

what!? ..............chuck norris could get closer than that

 

the pics are amazing, love the 2nd one

 

There was a guy at my work did the exact same, when he knew it was going over he would try and get everyone outside

 

bog off...i didnt know sound could kill you....genuinely.

 

I guess its probably more the shockwave rather than the sound that would kill you.

You just need to go to santa pod to see the jet car to realize how powerful a shock wave can be. You can feel that thing getting onto the start line from halfway down the strip.

A big firework gives off a bang big enough to feel in your chest.

Imagine one of them fuckers...

 

They are absolutely awesome - love the last picture, doesn't actually look real like you say!!

 

amazing pictures.

 

Its the heat in the shockwave that kills, not the shockwave its self.

 

Are you telling me NASA lie?

 

Yeh that was the website that I got the info from.

I spotted the station by accident going over my house one late night I was outside. I thought it was a international plane @ 35,000' or whatever then I noted how flipping fast it was going in comparison to the speed planes go over my house.
I checked the site in the morning and sure enough it was that. Cool as fluff (I'm a bit anal when it comes to things like that)

 

Look here for more amazing images:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

 

Amazing, a feat engineers and scientists to be proud of.

 

I'm going by Nuclear shockwaves, Although probably different..

 

 

Some nice pics there. You could spend ages on Airliners looking at pics.

Anyone got the link to find out when the space stations are going over?