Shuttle Discovery Sunset Launch STS-119 – March 15, 2009 Satellite Beach
Got a chance to see another Space shuttle launch while visiting my family this past weekend. This was a rare sunset launch for the shuttle – on it’s way to the space station.
Shot from the beach in Satellite Beach, Florida which is about 25-30 miles south of the launch pad.
The rumble from the booster rockets and shuttle engines can be heard about 2:30 in for a few seconds.
My niece was the one talking up a storm to her daddy.
“Up up and AWAY!”
Commander Lee Archambault leads Discovery’s crew of seven, along with Pilot Tony Antonelli, and Mission Specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata on mission STS-119 to the International Space Station.
The STS-119 crew members are flying the S6 truss segment and installing the final set of power-generating solar arrays to the International Space Station. The S6 truss will complete the backbone of the station and provide one-fourth of the total power needed to support a crew of six.
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