Monday Photo of the Week...

Though the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida is quite a way north east of us, we are able to see the night time space launches. So last night we went out just before the countdown began and took photos when Discovery appeared in the sky. It was just at sunset and the sky had darkened enough that we could see it. You can click to enlarge all the photos to full size.


This is the first photo I took-



Okay- that's a big fat lie-LOL! We are too far away to see it this closely, I snagged this photo off the Internet. The photos I got aren't near as impressive. This is what it really looked like in our area-


Here it is just shooting into the sky above a carport across the street from us.

Going higher...

And higher...

And higher...

And now it disappears into the heavens...

A few minutes later, this white cloudy looking area appeared.

And finally as night sets in all the dark sky shows is a white plume left behind. It wasn't a real cloud, there wasn't a cloud in the sky last night- perfectly clear. I assume this is just pollutants left by Discovery.

I couldn't help but think of all our tax dollars flying into space. Is it really worth it? I honestly don't know.

Peace-

Linda