NASA - Space Shuttle Launch

german engineering at its best

German engineering???

Nothing German here buddy.

Werner Von Braun and his team of 4000 German engineers are the ones who brought this tech. to USA. They're the one who sent Americans to space and to the moon so they get the credit. Google it.

Yeah i forgot about him.

They were brilliant technological pioneers, exploiting death camp labor and using it to kill London civilians aside, but this wasn't his engineering. By your logic I could very well call BMW's assembly lines American engineering at its finest, a product of Henry Ford.

It's SOO fricken Awesome, The power of the thrusters are just AMAZE and man, the light is just WOW, just as you see it from above the shuttle with like a massive 'tail' of Light it's just brill, cheers for posting

i tot for a sec there the space shuttle is going down...scary..

Looking closely, it appears it _does_ sink briefly before it goes for liftoff.

It's not actually sinking. If you look closely, after the engines ignite, the Shuttle rises briefly before coming back down.  When the main engines ignite, the entire stack rocks toward the tank and SRB's, and then back to vertical. This causes the Shuttle to rise briefly and then return to its original position before being released.

This is STS-66 with Space Shuttle Atlantis on Nov. 3, 1994-the ATLAS 3 mission.