Shuttle Launch - March 15, 2009

This photo is from David's phone camera.  The colors became distorted when it went to our photo account.

A 2nd pic from David's phone camera

My camera.  If you look closely, you can see a small light dot close to the tree on the left.  That is the rocket booster.

Here it is again.  This photo was taken 1st - so the rocket booster is more centered in this shot.

This was one of the few evening shuttle launches where we were actually home.  We live approximately 50-60 miles from Kennedy Space Center.  When we are aware that a launch has gone off during the day, we will wander outdoors and hope for no cloud cover.  If all is well, we can clearly see shuttles and rockets.  Daytime lift offs are unfortunately not the best opportunity for good pictures, so this was exciting!  

Evening launches are an amazing sight to watch!  We knew this would be the case, but didn’t even think to bring our camera with us when we went outside to look at the latest launch.

Once we could see the shuttle approach the top of the tree line, I thought about the camera.  David had his camera phone with him and took a couple of photos with it, while I ran inside for the camera.  By the time I got back, the rocket booster had separated from the shuttle and was aiming at the ground.