What happens when a NASA shuttle launches

The best of the best in film & high def of unseen NASA videos. It pays tribute to the shuttle program, people involved with the launches and give a view to pictures that were used for only engineering purposes. This is what happens when a shuttle launches.
This is a 45 minute video with commentary by NASA engineers explaining all the technical details.
Pretty fascinating.

Photographic documentation of a Space Shuttle launch plays a critical role in the engineering analysis and evaluation process that takes place during each and every mission. Motion and Still images enable Shuttle engineers to visually identify off-nominal events and conditions requiring corrective action to ensure mission safety and success. This imagery also provides highly inspirational and educational insight to those outside the NASA family.

This compilation of film and video presents the best of the best ground-based Shuttle motion imagery from STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Rendered in the highest definition possible, this production is a tribute to the dozens of men and women of the Shuttle imaging team and the 30yrs of achievement of the Space Shuttle Program.

The video was produced by Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center.

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Photos from the International Space Station

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Photos from the International Space Station
The photographs take by astronauts aboard. LikeCool has a bunch more photos up.





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The Midnight Sun on Mars

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The Midnight Sun on Mars

This panorama mosaic of images was taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on board NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander. This mosaic documents the midnight sun during several days of the mission.

The foreground and sky images were taken on Sol 54, or the 54th Martian day of the mission (July 20, 2008). The solar images were taken between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., local solar time, during the nights of sols 46 to 56. During this period of 11 sols, the sun’s path got slightly lower over the northern horizon, causing the lack of smoothness to the curve. This pan captures the polar nature of the Phoenix mission in its similarity to time lapse pictures taken above the Arctic Circle on Earth.


The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)
(credit: MarsPhoenix on Twitter)

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