Columbia Dawn
 

http://cellar.org/2002/columbiadawn.jpg
From the Astronomy PoD:
"Trailing a thick column of exhaust, the Space Shuttle Columbia blasted into the twilight morning sky on March 1, its thundering rockets briefly flooding a cloud bank with the light of a false dawn. The event marked the start of the ongoing eleven day mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble's upgrades include the installation of new solar arrays and a new camera. Columbia's crew is scheduled to complete the work today in the last of five space walks. Columbia's launch also marks the first flight of the oldest operating space shuttle after receiving extensive upgrades itself, designed to increase its capabilities for missions to low Earth orbit. The shuttle landing is expected at Kennedy Space Center on March 12."

It's almost sexual I think.

Re: Columbia Dawn
 

I'm glad to see that they relaunched Columbia. I hadn't heard anything about it in quite some time, and was wondering if they laid it to rest.

They were showing some video from the helmet cam (or cams) of an astronaut on the morning news this week. And it wasn't the slower speed that I'm used to seeing...it was very vivid and detailed. I thought it was pretty neat.

NASA TV on the Internet
 

If you have broadband, check out streaming NASA TV. The 300kbps stream is showing at 30frames/sec!

I was watching them repair the Hubble live while the shuttle was flying above my head :D

THAT is pretty cool. Thanks Buckshot.

Just think of all the future IotD's Tony could pull from there... though resolution is probably a little low. Maybe if it were 1024x768 :)

Stunning. Absolutely stunning.

And it looks sooooo cool.

Argh, am I the only one getting a "red x" on this? Been that way ever since the day it was posted and I've tried checking it out a couple of times since too.

Of the image you mean? I've made a local copy so that it will stick around.

Thanks Undertoad! I can see it now, what a gorgeous shot.

It really looks like they're creating life there in the clouds, awesome.