Comments on: Endeavour's last flight… seen FROM SPACE!

By: Space, what do we do now? ‹ Epic Dark Skies

Space, what do we do now? ‹ Epic Dark Skies — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:49:57 +0000

[...] retired, Endeavour, is seen below landing at LAX in September. None of the space shuttle fleet will ever fly again, marking the end of an [...]

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:33:14 +0000

Great images here and nice send off..

… But I prefer to remember the Space Shuttle Endeavour as she was in flight.

Like this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7ZBp4HXQA

Plus this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrtTjnw5hjk

(Don’t worry, your sound is {probably} working, be patient till 40 secs mark or so. The sound of Space Shuttle flying alone.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zjqiioCSE&feature=relmfu

Oh & also this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zjqiioCSE&feature=relmfu

The wonders we humans build and fly and safely land. 8)

By: George

George — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:46:24 +0000

@ #9 (Timothy from Boulder): Thanks for pointing that out, I was going to write a similar comment. By the way, it would be interesting to see “multiple color ghosts” in “an image [...] taken by [...] WorldView-1″. You know what I mean

By: Altair

Altair — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:02:35 +0000

What I find remarkable is the huge volume of attention given to the internment of America’s euthanized space fleet. It’s almost a morbid fascination of the nation’s knowingly watch itself sleepwalk off of a cliff.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:22:30 +0000

Speaking of conspiracy theories, I was reading The Book of General Ignorance today, and it seems the original moon landing deniers might have been the Flat Earth Society.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:23:53 +0000

@Timothy from boulder(#9)
You can’t see it in this picture(maybe it was lost during the rotation that Phil did?), but there is actually a reddish preimage on the shadow in some of the versions of this image. Does that make any sense?

Here’s an example of the photo with the red shadow pre-image.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/09/endeavour_from_space_wide.jpg

You can also see a little blue ghosting behind the red preimage of the shadow too.

By: ND

ND — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:54:23 +0000

“Rats, – I didn’t get 9/11 worked into that :-/”

Yeah, a real conspiracist would connect it to 9/11.

By: Regner Trampedach

Regner Trampedach — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:43:17 +0000

ND @ 14: Secret, blue, ghost-planes? I see them all the time! They are just very hard to make out against a blue sky… Elvis and the Loch Ness monster use them for their travels, together with the Martians who shot the faked Moon-landing footage on a sound-stage in Valles Marineris…
Rats, – I didn’t get 9/11 worked into that :-/
Cheers, Regner

By: Pics of the Space Shuttle Endeavour... from Space! - Toyota FJ Cruiser Forum

Pics of the Space Shuttle Endeavour... from Space! - Toyota FJ Cruiser Forum — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:02:15 +0000

[...] of the Space Shuttle Endeavour… from Space! Endeavour’s last flight… seen FROM SPACE! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Oh how I love technology… but this is the coolest picture I have seen in a long time! [...]

By: ND

ND — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:04:25 +0000

Thanks for the explanation of the imaging artifact, but I’m sure some people will come up with theories of secret government technology and a coverup to hide it.