Why I Write, Part 12
I pulled this down from one of the message boards where I lurk. I think it came from NASA via Warren Ellis’s site, but I’m not privy to the latter and can’t locate it on the former. Anyway, it’s beautiful: a shuttle launch photographed from the International Space Station.
posted by Paul McAuley at 11:33 pm
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That's just fantastic!
Sigh . . .
We do some pretty crap stuff, as a species, but we can do this too...
As it happens, I did some googling to see if I could find a higher-res version of the same picture...and it turns out it probably wasn't shot from the ISS after all, but a chase plane:
http://digg.com/space/Space_Shuttle_Launch_as_seen_from_ISS_220_miles_up
Sorry, the cut and paste on the URL didn't work. But if you google on '"shuttle launch" from ISS' it's the fifth one down.
Still a cool picture though...
Thanks Al - I'm not the google-master you clearly are.
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