STS-125 Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis
This video was created by Benjamin Higginbotham on May 12, 2009
Posted in: Atlantis, Featured, Launch Events, Shuttle Launches, Space Shuttles, STS-125, Video
The launch even of OV-104 on its final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. HD satellite provided by PSB Satellite… Thanks PSB!
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spacevidcast press:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/how-to-follow-the-shuttle-launch-on-the-internet/
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/space-shuttle-launch-4488/
great launch!!
This video has also been used by the french newspaper lemonde website
http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/video/2009/05/12/atlantis-en-route-pour-une-mission-mecanique-de-luxe_1191815_3244.html
AWESOME!
I watched this in computer class- our teacher was really nice, and she even put it on the SmartBoard with the sound up full blast!
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Big Thanks to everyone who helps to give us those awesome videos! Watching the launch in HQ is so much better than some pixelized mini webstreams!
It was such a privilege to be able to see this launch in person! We had to be bussed in to the KSC at 9am, and spent from 12pm to the launch out on the NASA causeway in the sun and heat (90 degrees and humid, almost no breeze, uuuuuggh) but it was worth it for the 3 spectacular minutes of the launch we could experience from the ground. The flame from the SRBs is like the sun, it’s shocking how bright it is, and when the soundwaves finally hit us coming across 6 miles of water, it was like the best fireworks show EVER, you could feel it in your chest. Absolutely amazing, I hope I’m lucky enough to travel to Florida for another launch before the shuttles are retired next year. Here’s to hoping! Go Atlantis and Hubble!!
Got to see this launch from the VAB (vehicle assembly building). It was spectacular. Incredibly bright, tremendously loud, and very brief.
This video has better images than what I was able to see from 2 miles away, but it doesn’t come close to matching the sound intensity.
I think *everyone* should see a shuttle launch live at least once in their life. Not much time left, either! The video will always look better, but the experience pales in comparison to actually being there.
Great to see this happen because the James Webb telescope will see only in the infrared and will not be able to observe in visible light (the same stuff we see with). Hubble is now (and will be for years to come) the only large visible light telescope in space. The two telescopes will compliment each other, rather than one being a replacement for the other.
It will be awesome to have those two fine instruments working as a team!
The story of Hubble (5 part documentary on youtube):
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD87E4018D121883
Hey, B and C? I think something’s wrong with the chatbox, it keeps not letting me enter, saying I’ve been banned for impersonation or something.
Yeah, UStream seems to have banned Mibbit again. We have switched back to the original Ustream flash chat, I’ll get Mibbit running again as soon as I can.
AWESOME!