NASA Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 Night Launch 8/28/2009 view NASA Causeway 6.5 miles

[bahrest2]

lightspeed



[tel030]

wonder what the fish thought!!

[K8MCL]

And we have sunrise...

[Apjooz]

Did someone mention binoculars and the flash hurting his eyes? Ouch. :(

[ziggyboi1995]

I was in Daytona at this launch and it lit up the sky like day. In the morning, I could see the SRBs in the water, and being retrieved.

[amgen52]

@ziggyboi1995 Really, from 140 miles out? You have good eye's...

[ziggyboi1995]

@amgen52 No, not really actually. We could just see the flame from the SRB and in the morning we saw two little black poles sticking out of the ocean.

[amgen52]

@ziggyboi1995 Very interesting because if you went out on the recovery ship 140 miles out, you cant even see the state of Florida....

[nasa439]

i was on STS-128 the shaking is bad

[batie1980]

Whoop whoop, yeah! USA! USA!.......Fucking yanks!

[dinoloverist]

Cool that it lights up the night sky!

[jasonlawley]

Wow, that was absolutely amazing.

[chan625]

That was HOT n Golden!



[Alexfor2002]

That was amazing, Would do anything do be able to witness a Shuttle launch!(befoer its too late) :'(

[ACDCsuperfan91]

It's like a solar eclipse but backwards

[2011LEGOFAN]

1:57 WOW THE SUN IS UP AT MIDNIGHT!

[iEskabar]

wow liftoff gave me shivers

[DrMasaki]

2:01 looks like there was a nuclear explosion

[mschaefer221]

haha, I hate to be the only one commenting on the camera rather than the launch, but did you have any special settings for that shot? or did you do some editing with software afterward? that has to be the best black I've seen from an HD digital camcorder...

And also, that was an awesome video. ;) loved the brightness as it launched.

[jeffostroff]

@mschaefer221 Yes I had the camcorder settings set to the lowest sensitivity possible. I did not edit the volors or anything in the video, you are looking at the raw video. I used a Canon Vixia HF10 high def camcorder. They have better models out now. I know I did not use auto exposure mode, I set exposure away from default 0 to probbaly -6 or even lower. That probbaly helped make the black blacker, plus great camera gives lower video noise to begin with.

[MightySaturn5]

@mschaefer221 I was about to say the same thing -incredible contrast ratio! ...anyway have a great day and take care.

[NecroKillerOfficial]

its like a nuke!

[KnightInBrightArmor]

There was a bright light and then it was gone.

[strongankit]

geez that a nuclear weapon explosion? lol soooo bright

[saleens3514me]

2:50 damn thats freaky

[abahawas]

at 2:00 is the best

[corcorankevin1]

this video is spectacular. people's reactions etc

[ivke32]

i like

[rhymeandreasoning]

that was so cool and beautiful..made me cry!!!

[MrKizzler99]

Ahhhh, reminds me of good ole Half Life.

[TheSupernova77]

wow, just awesome! lucky people..

[riyal50man]

is justin bieber on it..?

i hope so

[MegaUlduar112]

I C THE LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

[Uniformcid]

you mad night into day?

[MrHeroAndroid]

pause at 2:07 looks like a nuke lol

[vlweb3d]

IT'S LIKE RIDING A NUCLEAR BOMB !!!

[kmentt]

Amazing how night turns day!! most certainly one of the great spectacles of modern times.

[satbir15]

OWls must have been like WTF

[johanito2000]

what!!!!!! how beautiful is this? thanks for sharing!

[pizza14fer]

1:57.....  "and light was made"..

[kycruisecrazy]

Is this worth it? How much did you pay? Was it LOUD? Thanks for posting.

[slaxxxer]

Americans are so fucking loud

[AshleyCanSing]

That was AWESOME! Like, MORNING AT NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[350z350zify]

do you have to take a bus here?

[TNtrainboy15]

How early do we have to be to the causeway to be able to get a front row spot?

[jeffostroff]

@TNtrainboy15

The Kennedy busses must arrive at the Causeway spot 3 hours before the launch. As the busses arrive, there's sort of a mad dash for the front spots along the yellow tape, but the busses keep lining up behind you arriving about every few minutes. So the trick is ge toff your bus, have one or 2 runners to quickly move down the yellow tape before th eother busses arriv ebehind you and stake your ground.

[joelibermann]

wow that was bright.

[Loves2diareah45]

putting christ back in christmas?? HAHAHAHAHA

[frother]

@Loves2diareah45

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.

[mrACEinator]

@frother where does the tide go in and out?? you cant see it

[bamsb90]

@Loves2diareah45 Yes, sir. Problem with that?

[mr23monkey]

Awesome!

[battybarbi]

I lived in Florida for 14 years and we would go to the beach to watch the launches (Ponte Vedra or St. Augustine). I was never lucky enough to be this close. Every time I am there visiting during a launch it gets scrubbed. One day maybe I'll catch one.

[vincnet11]

I couldnt even see that thing flying it was just so bright you dont know where the thing went?

[snarfala]

Absolutely amazing! We're 40 minutes away and it's still pretty bright. I can't imagine how awesome it was to be that close!

[S8clothing]

1:56

[topdogg8812]

It sucks i was there for the original launch date but they scrubbed it 10mins before launch and I wasnt able to make it back but I did see it from Gainesville on a completely dark stretch of 441. My parents couldn't see it from Miramar that night though.

[jeffostroff]

We were at that first date also, left empty handed. We started driving up from FT. Lauderdale the next night, and my friend's wife called us when we hit Boynton Beach, that they scrubbed due to Hyrdogen. We only lost a 1/2 hour that night. Third time was the charm! The reason parents could not see it in Mirimar is the shuttle immediately turned north and rode a flatter trajectory up the eastern seaboard. Normally I can see them from FT. Lauderdale if they head more upward than sideways.

[elbigjim]

good video man... captured the sound very nice.

[imsirius2]

Very cool video Jeff. Thanks for posting it.

[xtremspl]

Thanks for the video response.

Your camera is cleaner than mine. I have already looked into swapping the ccd chip with an HD one. It will take some work (an insane amount of work), but I want to keep the killer zoom and portability of my Sony. My first priority really is getting a Canon 40D for times like this and mainly for my telescope.