• Godspeed Discovery! NASA STS-128 Launch, August 29

    Posted on August 29th, 2009, 1:52 am by Thomas Sabo

    Beautiful night for a launch, perfect atmospheric conditions! This shot was taken from Tampa.  (Check out these spectacular lightning shots at the launch pad when it was scrubbed earlier this week click here )

    Discovery, STS 128 Launch

    Discovery, STS 128 Launch

    4 comments Places you should see

    3 responses to “Godspeed Discovery! NASA STS-128 Launch, August 29”


    • Stephenie

      August 30th, 2009 at 23:32

      Saw this on Flickr–great photo! I live in Sarasota and we drove up to a little farm in Manatee County to watch Discovery go up. It was a beautiful view there, too, the whole sky lit up orange. I saw your other blog on driving up to Space View Park. Launches always seem to get scrubbed when you decide to make the trip up there. The last time we drove there we did see it go up (I think it was Atlantis) but it was on the interstate about twelve miles from the launch site, since traffic was horrible. One day you’ll make it there and it will go up! :]

    • September 1st, 2009 at 02:04

      Thanks for the comment Stephenie :)

      The orange sky effect was very interesting, it holds across all of the shots I’ve seen posted from the launch. Must have been some atmospheric condition I guess.

      My wife said she remembered launches like this when she lived in Port Charlotte, lit the whole sky up. She hadn’t seen one like this since she was a kid.

      Man, I can’t even imagine driving all the way up there and having it launch when you were 12 miles away….that would kill me!


    • Carrie Lapp

      September 20th, 2009 at 21:14

      Great pic! Amazing color :)


    1 Trackbacks / Pingbacks

     Leave a reply