Launched on April 5th and having landed on April 20th, Discovery’s flight STS-131 marks the longest mission for the orbiter. During the six week that photographers Scott Andrews, his son Philip Scott Andrew, and Stan Jirman spent in and around the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, they took thousands of photos of the staff preparing Discovery for the mission.
The photographers condensed their shots into a glorious four-minute time-lapse video that chronicles Discovery’s trip from the processing facility to the pad, and eventually to the launch itself. It’s quite amazing to watch – there isn’t any audio on the clip,so we’d suggest Black Sabbath’s Into the Void as a good accompaniment. Check out Go For Launch! below.
BONUS: While we’re on on the topic of NASA, two of their satellites have been monitoring the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The movement of the spill has been captured in images which since been compiled into a time-lapse video. See that after the jump.
[via Neatorama | Space Fellowship]
10 replies on “Go For Launch: Awesome NASA Time-Lapse Video”
Wow just wow thats a freakin’ awesome video ! Who ever made is very very patient and determed. Awesome Job. I never got to know how a space shutlle gets at the station .. well no i have more info on that .. Thanks,
It’s very cool. I particularly loved the “rollover” bit to get it vertical. I’m sure there must have been some tense moments there, one would hate to drop it.
Incidentally, have you seen NASA’s time-lapse video of the oil spill? I’ve updated the post to include it.
that oil spill clip is scary… the oil covered sea surface is creating it’s own micro climate.
kind of indicative of what happens on a global scale, although i’m sure some republican member will dispute that ;)
The Big Picture has done a post on the sea birds caught in the oil. It’s tragic.
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very appropriate :D
A blog has created BP billboards from some of tweets from @BPGlobalPR. Check out I Ride The Harlem Line.
In case you missed it, we also did a post on Greenpeace’s new drive to redesign the BP logo.
i’m not entirely sure why the fixation on BP. it’s not like they actually wanted this to happen (loosing a 3rd or your stock is not ideal), plus they are not the only one’s involved in deep sea drilling, nor are they more environmentally insensitive than say Shell or Chevron.
the other fact to keep in mind, is that while BP commissioned the well site with the blessing of the US government, it was actually Haliburton (think Bush & Co.) who were actually responsible for construction, drilling and maintenance of Deep Horizon.
it’s typical of the way the world works, find a scape goat before you become it. all parties should take the blame for this and share the costs, most of all the US gov for the quick blame and the slow response to the clean up.
o and for allowing offshore drilling near a coastal nature reservation… not that offshore drilling should’ve been allowed in the first place!
I suppose you can thank social media for the BP fixation at the moment. The writer (or writers?) behind BPGlobalPR have made some cash off the spill but also donated $10 000 to the relief projects of the Gulf Restoration Network.
Thinking about it in the way you put it, wouldn’t the U.S. government also be indirectly responsible for the Gulf War oil spill?
i know BP’s pr department haven’t exactly done them any favours, but i just find it somewhat skewed that a single entity is to blame for this. What Shell are doing in the Niger Delta is possibly on a par with BP’s snafu. It just doesn’t grab the headlines like an oil spill on America’s stoep!
btw i’m not out to defend BP. i just believe that this is a systematic failure, and BP are taking the brunt, whereas other parties are getting off scot-free.
the gulf war oil spill was disgusting, but again, you cannot apportion blame solely on the US. the Iraqi’s have on a couple occasions set wells alight… plus there’s the fact that in war, the environment doesn’t even feature as an issue!
sigh.
I get your point and it would be great for all those involved not only to be accountable for the part they had to play in this mess to to contribute to fixing it. Waiting for the day that will actually happen is another story so I see where the “sigh” is coming from.