Even though you may not live near the NASA Space Shuttle Launch Pad in Florida, I'm sure a lot of you have already watched a Space Shuttle launch on television. Usually the television cameras would be stationed at a safe distance, though with occasional close-up shots of the Shuttle courtesy of NASA. These launches don't really seem so interesting anymore once you've watched them so many times.
I came across this video of the final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery earlier this year but this time, viewed from a new angle--from an airplane more than 30,000 feet above ground! The video was taken by a passenger on board a flight from Orlando, FL, and shows the Space Shuttle as it broke the cloud layer and eventually surpassing the plane as it made its way to outer space. It was indeed a rare opportunity for the passengers and the crew onboard--everyone seemed to be in a good mood, even the pilots and the flight attendants. Towards the beginning of the video, you'd hear the pilot saying, "If you're on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Space Shuttle. If you're on the left side of the aircraft, you can see people on the right side looking at the Space Shuttle." Later on in the video, a flight attendant says something like, "We don't want anybody complaining that we're late--or else you wouldn't have been able to see that." Touche, Miss Flight Attendant, touche.
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