Your favourite Shuttle image

[omegamogo]

This could actually be a good way for NASA to earn cash when the Congress starts cutting <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br />

 

[ozspace]

Took this picture myself.

 

[rhodan]

Very, very nice, ozspace!<br />

 

[star_sirius]

Yay! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="0" color="#10bdee"><strong>A dazzling bluish luminosity from A distant south pacific.</strong></font><p><br /><img id="cb51e87e-8221-424c-8ff2-78c95122196c" src="http://sitelife.livescience.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/11/15/cb51e87e-8221-424c-8ff2-78c95122196c.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" /></p> </div>

 

[star_sirius]

.......oops! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="0" color="#10bdee"><strong>A dazzling bluish luminosity from A distant south pacific.</strong></font><p><br /><img id="cb51e87e-8221-424c-8ff2-78c95122196c" src="http://sitelife.livescience.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/11/15/cb51e87e-8221-424c-8ff2-78c95122196c.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" /></p> </div>

 

[strandedonearth]

I'd have to say that is one of my favorite pics; it shows just how huge the Shuttle is compared to Mir.

 

[nacnud]

Was that image taken by a Soyuz as it relocated from one MIR port to another?

 

[Swampcat]

I like this one: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[para3]

Love that Redneck Shuttle. Anyhoo. My favorite picture hasn't happen yet. My favorite picture would be of myself in one of those pretty orange suits, strapped in a seat aboard the Atlantis during a launch. <br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong><font size="3" color="#99cc00">.....Shuttle me up before I get tooooooooo old and feeble.....</font></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><font size="4" color="#ff6600">---Happiness is winning a huge lottery--- </font></strong></p> </div>

 

[kane007]

I like this, on approach to ISS.

 

[kane007]

Getting closer to the ISS, I think it was assembly flight iss005e.

 

[kane007]

And my all time pic - not exactly of a shuttle but from the shuttle. I think it might have been STS113?

 

[rhodan]

Wow! Amazing pics! Thanks for sharing those.

 

[kane007]

Can get most of these - at much higher resolutions - from NASA and the rest of the gallerys.

 

[rhodan]

Bookmarked it! Thanks again.

 

[crix]

Has anyone ever seen a picture taken of the stars with a handheld camera from either LEO or the lunar surface?? I have never seen one.<br /><br />Awesome pics. I really like the one on the top of this page, ISS approach.

 

[bobw]

Swampcat's booster separation ranks right up there, no doubt. I don't think I have ever seen<br />a bad picture of the orbiter, though <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />This one and its brother were right next to the velvet Elvis paintings at a gas station in Detroit.<br />I like this picture because it reminds me of the way Columbia looked on the pad when the <br />airliner flew really close on my trip to watch the liftoff. All those years ago; and I remember<br />staring out the window, awestruck, as though it was yesterday.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[crix]

That SRB seperation pic is a photoshop creation. Look at the cute, fluffy smoke rising out the tops of the SRBs as if they are just sitting still. There's a million artifacts in that picture to prove that it isn't real. I don't think you could put a camera anywhere on the ground to get this angle at the moment of SRB separation, especially with such a zoom and with so little atmospheric effects.

 

[bobw]

I was wondering what kind of plane they used. LOL Even so, it is a very nice picture. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

<font color="yellow">"That SRB seperation pic is a photoshop creation."</font><br /><br />Well done, crix. It had me fooled. I didn't think about how they got the picture. NASA's pretty good at such things, but it would take some doing to get that image. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[shuttle_rtf]

>I like this, on approach to ISS.<<br /><br />That is one of the best images of an orbiter in space. She's not approaching the ISS as such on that image. It's part of the rendezvous R-bar Pitch Maneuver, where she does 360-degree pitch maneuver (below the ISS) so they can take images of the orbiter's TPS for engineers on the ground to look over for any damage.

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Columbia's HSM-03 Launch, through low cloud, dawn launch. STS-109.<br /><br />Image taken from a reader's video recording in the crowd on our video section. Really beautiful launch.

 

[lampblack]

<font color="yellow">It seems that Shuttle and Mir met over New Zealand more than once. <br /><br />I saved a super-quality geology mag cover, (packed away now, for future framing,) that was the ultimate photograph of Mir. In the background was New Zealand, and I am willing to bet, without looking at it... the same bay. </font><br /><br />hmmm... seems a bit much for coincidence. I wonder if one of the Russian ground stations is in the vicinity? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[tuckerfan]

My favorite is one taken on the last <i>Columbia</i> mission, looking out towards the tail section with the Moon clearly visable behind the tail.

 

[earth_bound_misfit]

Definately dodgey, Quite cool, though it should've been done better. The sky cloning to cover stuff is a give away too. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p>Wanna see this site looking like the old SDC uplink?</p><p>Go here to see how: <strong>SDC Eye saver </strong>  </p> </div>