Very cool.

Love the "Hooooly smokes... Luh kud ih!"

I guess they couldn't get the tripod through security...

...would have been more exciting if it were a surface to air missile.
Still pretty neat though.

wicked. surprised how close the flight paths are from the shuttle launch. Don't let the "terrorists" find out about this... Oh wait, you can't start a war over a space shuttle going down...

It's amazing to me how big the sky is and how long it takes to get out into space, but when you see pictures from space, our atmosphere looks like an onion skin. I love stuff like that.

Gah! Why did the video stop there? The video is 109 seconds long, starting a few seconds after liftoff. The solid rocket boosters detach at 126 seconds and it's a beautiful sight.

look at it.....its soooo cool...look how fast it's going. Look at it.... it's soo cool.....do you see how fast it's going...

looks like it picked up more speed once the atmosphere began to thin out.

Damn! They say airplanes are the only way to travel, but I say find a way to use space shuttles to replace airplanes for international flights. The flight would be over before they could offer pretzels!

Video BRUTALLY cut short !!!! The PAIN !!!! Why!???

Damn cool though... one of the coolest launch vid ever.

>> ^SSIops:
looks like it picked up more speed once the atmosphere began to thin out.
Damn! They say airplanes are the only way to travel, but I say find a way to use space shuttles to replace airplanes for international flights. The flight would be over before they could offer pretzels!



Well, thinner air helps, but the trick is that the higher it goes, the more fuel it's spent, so the less it weighs, so the same thrust will push it faster.

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Was that Jack Black?

would be a nice * kids sift minus the HOLY SH*TS

"This is your captain speaking; please don't look out to the right side of the craft or you'll likely join me in shitting yourself."

That thing's as fast as a spaceship!

Imagine being seated on the left side of the plane? That would suck such huge balls...

> Imagine being seated on the left side of the plane?

Maybe the plane was going backwards?

Ho jeeze! Canadians have discovered the secret of air flight, eh! Those hosers will be over here in no time! Hide the back-bacon!

>> ^StukaFox:
Ho jeeze! Canadians have discovered the secret of air flight, eh! Those hosers will be over here in no time! Hide the back-bacon!


LOL I only see "Canadian Bacon" when I'm in the states, so I don't know where it comes from. Restaurants only really serves bacon strips... and its hard to find back bacon in the supermarket.

See another angle of the launch also filmed from the sky, but via parachute rather than plane.

Man... the wing