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A new addition to shots from The Garden set is the launch of STS 126. Actually shot a few feet out of the yard in the street but I still call it a Garden shot. This is the first launch that I was aware of since arriving in this state. Its been about two decades [...]
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This shot was much much more relevant a year ago. But in celebration of Discovery’s final launch a few days ago, I’m posting this. (I was probably gonna post it soon anyway; after going through older pictures recently) But it’s the plume after Discovery’s Night Launch on April 5, 2010. I almost didn’t even take [...]
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I wanted to watch the launch, so I just turned my camera on video and held it off to the side hoping I’d get something without looking – no tripod, just shaky and excited hands. This is not perfectly framed, but it did manage to capture the moment and it afforded me the ability to [...]
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the third stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with several solid rocket motors attached sits on NASA’s Space Launch Complex-2. The Delta II will carry NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite into space. NPP [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is image (3) of (4) in the "NASA Train" series. The NASA-owned, ATK-operated train departs Utah for the Kennedy Space Center to deliver the final set of Reusable Solid Rocket Motor segments which are planned to serve as the Launch on Need segments for NASA’s final space shuttle launch. Image credit: NASA/ATK [...]
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