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Shots from the recent shuttle launch.
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Blatantly stolen from wikipedia.
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>> Wookie !uU8FntzWkM
"The recent shuttle launch"? When did THIS happen?

More. :D
>> Anonymous
>>66456
yesterday.
>> Anonymous
>>66460
Heh, unfortunate timing. The news outlets barely gave it any coverage because of North Korea.
>> Anonymous
>>66461
All the major cable channels carried the launch live.

It must have just been the evening news that ignored it in favor of the DPRK missile launches.
>> Anonymous
>>66456
Standard shuttle launch, docking with the ISS, etc.
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hi2u
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they used to paint this thing, now they just coat it in primer to save 600 pounds
>> truranp
the shuttle had to do a belly flip in mid space so the space station could check the underneath for damage they noticed during the lanch
>> Anonymous
>>66883
If I recall correctly, they did that with STS-114 last year, too. At least they inspected it when the shuttle was getting closer to ISS.
>> Anonymous
Those orange, blue and white dots dots seen on space pics, for example on>>66872, are they caused by cosmic radiation that's just fucking with the CCD/CMOS of the camera?
>> Anonymous
>>66919
no, those are called "space dots", they're actually a type of particle/energy photon thing that you see when the sun emits them and they bounce off the magnetosphere.
>> Anonymous
>>66877
I know, its kinda retarded.
The paint on the surface of the tank might stop it chunking off the foam on takeoff.
>> Anonymous
>>66917

They did inspect it, but not very well.

They knew the orbiter was struck by insulation on launch, but they didn't bother to do a detailed inspection because they figured it had beed hit before with no problems. Just like they figured they'd launched in low temperatures with no problems back in '86.

The space shuttles are fairly robust machines, but even they are unable to withstand the lazy hubris of the decision makers at NASA.