Night Launch again
Nov. 14th, 2008 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI watched the live online feed of the launch of space shuttle Endeavour, lucky enough that it didn't happen while I was at work. That did put the liftoff at night, but that was interesting in its own way; I got a sense of how quickly the solid rocket boosters gutter out to glowing coals after they stage away, and then a long tracking shot of a lone point of light in the night sky before things shifted to the external tank camera and some strange, almost auroral light effects.
It's been a good number of months since the last mission, which launched just before the Phoenix probe landed on Mars. This one just followed Phoenix being swallowed by Martian winter, although I suppose the last flight to the space telescope was postponed because of a malfunction with the telescope itself. Now for the addition of crew support equipment to the space station and work on one of the solar panel wings, which sounds challenging.
It's been a good number of months since the last mission, which launched just before the Phoenix probe landed on Mars. This one just followed Phoenix being swallowed by Martian winter, although I suppose the last flight to the space telescope was postponed because of a malfunction with the telescope itself. Now for the addition of crew support equipment to the space station and work on one of the solar panel wings, which sounds challenging.