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Up in the sky

by Mimi Skelton | 7, Add your Comment | Feb 9, 2010

St. Simons Island — This is David Beard’s photo of the space shuttle taken from the St. Simons beach very early Monday morning.

It was very cold, clear, and dark. There were lots of stars and a little quarter moon hanging in the northeast. Then, at 4:14, the horizon over the ocean started glowing orange, like a fast sunrise, and then the shuttle appeared and made this slow rise and arc toward Darien.

It was amazing.

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Mimi Skelton

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http://www.billyhoward.com Billy Howard

That is an awesome photograph! Thanks for sharing it.
http://www.tompoland.net Tom Poland

Fantastic!
Shelley Hice

Beautiful photograph David and great description Mimi…Thank you.
jingle

wow!
Janet Ward

I came home in the wee hours after celebrating the Saints win. But my sister, who was at the launch site, called me to alert me of the launch. So I came out on my back porch at 4:00 and set up my Mac to NASA’s countdown site. However, I had my sister on the phone, and I could hear the real countdown, which was about 30 seconds ahead of the computer countdown. So I saw it go up. And up and up and up. It looked like the ISS, if you bother to watch that as it goes by (www.spaceweather.com can give you satellite flyby info). It wasn’t as pretty as David’s photo, but I saw it nonetheless. And I will be in Canaveral for the next launch — May 14 or so.
Cliff Green

Thanks Mimi for David’s fabulous photo.
Kathleen

Beautiful photo! Wish I’d been there.

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