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STS-133: Last launch of the Shuttle Discovery
cmdrfire:
Anyone wanting a desktop background, go through and grab the original of this, it is sized appropriate for a monitor with resolution 1920x1200
Discovery by CmdrFire, on Flickr
Web browsers seem to display the image with a slightly blue cast, but should be OK once downloaded. Nevertheless I'll try to correct over the next couple of days. Was also thinking of making a background with the mission patch in the corner, thoughts anyone?
--- Quote from: Creatz on March 01, 2011, 06:54:22 pm ---i go to florida most years,regrettably had to postpone for this year due to a wedding in vegas.
Last year when i was there,i went to watch a shuttle launch that i was really excited about, something my friend goes nuts about
more than i do, none the less we was both excited to see a shuttle launch.
We checked the website to find the launch had been postponed to the following day........typical the day we fly home,so all we got to
see from orlando intational was the smoke trail :sad1:
awesome pictures though mate, will be referring my friend to this forum to come and have a look at them
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Even this launch was down to the last few seconds, Discovery launched 3 seconds before the window closed and the launch was nearly scrubbed because of a malfunction on the display on the Range Safety Officer's computer... I was only in Florida for like four days, specifically to see the launch, so a 48-hour scrub would have meant I missed it!
I had a good feeling that this was "the one" though since STS-133 has been postponed since November, so if they're rolling out to the pad they must've been confident.
If your friend clicks through to this set all of the pictures I've uploaded so far are there (including a couple of launch ones I haven't uploaded yet)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmdrfire/sets/72157626030874509/with/5490479000/
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: cmdrfire on March 02, 2011, 12:09:15 am ---
Anyone wanting a desktop background, go through and grab the original of this, it is sized appropriate for a monitor with resolution 1920x1200
Web browsers seem to display the image with a slightly blue cast, but should be OK once downloaded. Nevertheless I'll try to correct over the next couple of days. Was also thinking of making a background with the mission patch in the corner, thoughts anyone?
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....Offer a mission patch version as an additional option so that folks have a choice :happy2: (Perhaps that's what you were going to do anyway)
I can almost hear the noise when I look at that shot, Neo :notworthy:
VC:
cheers dude :drinking:
cmdrfire:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on March 02, 2011, 11:16:11 am ---
--- Quote from: cmdrfire on March 02, 2011, 12:09:15 am ---
Anyone wanting a desktop background, go through and grab the original of this, it is sized appropriate for a monitor with resolution 1920x1200
Web browsers seem to display the image with a slightly blue cast, but should be OK once downloaded. Nevertheless I'll try to correct over the next couple of days. Was also thinking of making a background with the mission patch in the corner, thoughts anyone?
--- End quote ---
....Offer a mission patch version as an additional option so that folks have a choice :happy2: (Perhaps that's what you were going to do anyway)
I can almost hear the noise when I look at that shot, Neo :notworthy:
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I'll make another one with the STS-133 mission patch and the NASA meatball, and try to eliminate that blue cast.
Incidentally, everyone - registration for viewing of STS-134 (last flight of Endeavour) opened today!
cmdrfire:
The fine people at NASA's systems engineering teams made this superb video of the ascent highlights on STS-133. Strongly recommend you watch in HD fullscreen...
Slightly higher res version here. It's about twelve minutes long, worth watching though.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=69829481
No video from me still, though I'm going to get on that now.
Just a reminder to everyone still interested in seeing a launch. Registration for STS-134 is only open until tomorrow. Google "Kennedy Space Center" and you can find the registration page there.
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