Last Shuttle flight launched to Hubble Space telescope is this one, the STS-125 launched May 11th at 2:01 Eastern time. We were on the causeway which is the closest they allow the general public. It was 95 degrees and like 90% humidity and we were DYING out in the sun all day. It was sooo hazy and even with an incredible lens its hard to avoid the sketchy pix, but this is what we got:

Launch shot settings:
Canon 350D w 400mm f/5.6 lens and 1.4x TC
560mm
f/8.0
1/2500th sec
ISO 200

Sitting on the pad:


Few seconds after launch; "liftoff"!






We got to hang out at the KSC in the morning before we headed out to the launch:


apollo center:


Model of the control room during the apollo missions:




Model of an actual saturn v rocket. it was so tall!




Ive been to florida over a dozen times and lived here now for awhile and this is the first alligator ive seen since being here LOL


International Space Station center they had "pods" we could walk thru and see what the astronauts work and live in.


ISS model


Look familiar?


Some of the nations involved with the ISS


Model of actual Shuttle


Model of the rocket boosters


bird nests in the shuttle model

 

nice michelle

 

thanks for sharing the cool pics.

 

thx kev
glad to share, hopefully ill get to go again sometime hehe

 

Great photos brings back many happy memories of my trip there 9 years ago (was it really that long ago?) That Saturn V is a monster isn't it?

 

haha yeah! i feel so tiny compared to it! makes you realize how far away you really have to be when something THAT big still looks like those pix above. the sound wave after the launch was incredible, even being 6 miles away!

 

Interesting stuff. I might have to check this place out one day.