Date:Nov. 14
Mission: STS-126
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 7:55 p.m. EST
Landing Date: Nov. 29
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility
Description: Space Shuttle Endeavour launching on assembly flight ULF2, will deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station.

Rare anymore about once every three years they have a night shuttle launch.

Pretty impressive. We were lucky enough to see a night launch about three years ago. We were parked about 100 miles WSW of the launch site. When they fired the engines it lit up the whole eastern sky. We could hear the engines even that far away. Turned on the NASA channel while the launch was going on. We could still see a speck when they said the vehicle was 500 miles down range. Kind of a shame that launches nowdays are hardly more than another mundane occurance.
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We watched in on the NASA channel tonight. That just never gets old. I remember watching Columbia ilaunch in elelmentary school back in 1981.

We were in New Smyrna Beach a couple of years ago and got to see a rocket launch during the day and one at night. The night launch was amazing. The color at night was something I will not forget.

Who really gives a ####, IMO its just another Taxpayer sponsered government waste.:thumbsdown:

When I went to Florida oh.....atleast 15 years ago.....I got to see a dusk launch from my grandparents old place in Lakeland.

Dan, I totally agree way too much is on the Fed govt dime (Taxpayers) But in this case if you knew just how much of your everyday contacts had to do with nasa technology, You might reconsider, The insulation on your house, TV, Phone, clothing, medicine, microwave, computer. ect. it goes on and on. Last year I put a carbon fiber glove on and a guy held a blow torch to my hand, I felt nothing. The brakes on your car ect.

None of these missions pay off imediately but many pay off tons more than their initial cost, both in income and lives saved.

wow have a bad night...lol.....cant agree more

I agree with everything you are saying but the payoff. I say that we have east Asia pay for the space program and we take over the manufacturing. We are coming up with technology for others to build and profit from?

Does almost every thread have to turn into an argument. The man posted something about a visually enthralling night time shuttle launch, and someone pisses on it

I don't care what ya say. 37 million horsepower is way cool.

Chuck, also agreeing that so much of the stuff we develope is in many cases given to other countries too, use, profit from ect..