My Uncle sent me these pics of the Space Shuttle Discovery launch taken from the International Space Station last September. He wasn't on the space station at the time, in fact he's never been on the space station. Not only is the space shuttle captivating, but all the hang glider pilots out there will appreciate the cloud streets parallel to the coast. I can't wait to see some of those fair weather cumi's out here in Colorado.
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That's a great photo, but I suspect it was taken from a plane. Altitude looks more like 10 to 20 km (35-70000ft) than the ISS' 350km.
Sure enough:
(from www.snopes.com/photos/space/shuttlelaunch.asp)
"The above-displayed photographs do capture the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis (NASA Mission STS-115) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 9 September 2006. However, the pictures were not (as claimed in the accompanying text) taken from the International Space Station (ISS), which would be at a considerably higher altitude than shown here, but rather from NASA/JSC WB-57 High Altitude Research aircraft."
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