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Title: Go For Launch!
Post by: Wayout on July 19, 2010, 01:47:11 PM: From the Air and Space website.

Go For Launch!
"In this unique time-lapse video created from thousands of individual frames, photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and Philip Scott Andrews condense six weeks of painstaking work into three minutes, 52 seconds..."

http://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/videos/Go-For-Launch.html (http://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/videos/Go-For-Launch.html) :airplane:
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: Dichotomy on July 19, 2010, 01:57:34 PM: kewl
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: 68bigtex on July 19, 2010, 02:49:29 PM: Man that's cool how the lift the shuttle onto the tanks and rockets
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: oakranger on July 19, 2010, 05:54:57 PM: Quote from: 68bigtex on July 19, 2010, 02:49:29 PM
Man that's cool how the lift the shuttle onto the tanks and rockets

Yea, how much dose it weight? Quite impressive how they can lift it so high, move it and lower, with precision, onto the mail flue tank.
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: Dichotomy on July 19, 2010, 06:23:37 PM: Quote from: 68bigtex on July 19, 2010, 02:49:29 PM
Man that's cool how the lift the shuttle onto the tanks and rockets

Indeed I watched that and went 'dang'
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: 007Rusty on July 19, 2010, 06:33:43 PM: me 2 wow :aok

Quote from: Dichotomy on July 19, 2010, 06:23:37 PM

Indeed I watched that and went 'dang'
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: Lepape2 on July 19, 2010, 07:41:36 PM: Wow, I knew NASA takes care of his toys very much but not with so many people! Would be so great to be part of this.

BTW, anyone plays this simulator called "Orbiter (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/home.php)"?
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: soda72 on July 19, 2010, 07:54:46 PM: :x
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: avionix on July 19, 2010, 08:04:20 PM: Absofrigginlutley amazing!!!!! :x
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: Dragon on July 19, 2010, 09:28:37 PM: way cool. Thanks for the post. :O
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: Wayout on July 20, 2010, 06:48:24 AM: Quote from: Lepape2 on July 19, 2010, 07:41:36 PM
BTW, anyone plays this simulator called "Orbiter (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/home.php)"?

Just downloaded it and I'll give it a try, thanks for the link. :salute
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: StokesAk on July 20, 2010, 07:54:40 AM: That was a cool video! Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: curry1 on July 20, 2010, 10:18:04 AM: Quote from: Lepape2 on July 19, 2010, 07:41:36 PM
Wow, I knew NASA takes care of his toys very much but not with so many people! Would be so great to be part of this.

BTW, anyone plays this simulator called "Orbiter (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/home.php)"?

The sad thing is that all those people will be out of a job here shortly :(
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: trax1 on July 20, 2010, 10:42:56 AM: Very cool video, especially the end with the launch.

It's really sad that shortly here when the shuttles retire NASA will no longer be in the business of launching humans into space, and for the foreseeable future they have no plans to get back into it, I really wish they wouldn't of canceled the Constellation program, with that they were planning a return trip to the Moon & a trip to Mars.
Title: Re: Go For Launch!
Post by: Lepape2 on July 20, 2010, 03:42:46 PM: Quote from: Wayout on July 20, 2010, 06:48:24 AM
Just downloaded it and I'll give it a try, thanks for the link. :salute

Just don't be deceived by the low level of texture detail down on the ground on any planet. When you are in orbit, everything looks sharp and even sharper with add-ons. The original main directory is around 200mo... I have downloaded so much that its now 3000mo... Much like AcesHigh. Check out the DGIV, has the most realistic cockpit and crew management.

I'm done talking about this on this tread though.. Hijack Alert :eek: