Experience the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from the KSC press site

On February 24, 2011, NASA Tweetup ( http://www.nasa.gov/connect/tweetup/index.html ) participants (space "tweeps") witnessed the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-133) from the press site at Kennedy Space Center. This video gives a tweep's eye view of the launch. Appended to the footage of the launch itself are fragments of our excited chatter beforehand and our hyperventilations afterwards. There are better videos of the launch, not least NASA's ( http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision#p/c/724782A8B8BE3EE5/31/UpVClvUzhPA ). The purpose of this humble point-and-shoot montage to convey the exhilaration of seeing, hearing and feeling a launch so close (this is pretty much as close as it gets), among friends. ~Karen James (@kejames)

Rated PG for mild profanity.

My heartfelt gratitude to Stephanie Schierholz (@schierholz) and NASA (@NASA) for organizing this life-changing event for us and giving us the ultimate red carpet treatment. Thanks, too, to Rick Mann (@jetforme) for loaning me his very nice point-and-shoot when I lost my Flip video camera the day before launch, and to Andy Rechenberg (@therealdjflux) for letting me mooch his tripod.

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Science & Technology

[TheMtaTeam]

if your 800ft away the the launch pad the sound can kill you

[yancyscot]

Love love love this! Reminds me of watching my first launch as part of STS-132 launch tweetup! Hate that I wasn't there with y'all but we had a pretty good view on the causeway.

[shykers]

i love you guys and you enthusiasm!!!! thanks for this video!!

[litsci]

Sup with the annoying dude who keeps saying "Come oan, girl"?