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kittystalker — One Discovery at a Time
Published: 2005-07-16 02:19:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 4909; Favourites: 162; Downloads: 794
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This is one of the by-products of being involved in a National Competition with NASA. In this rare opportunity, we got to see the shuttle Discovery first hand while it was being moved back to the assembly building at Cape Canaveral.Related content
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Wonderful 
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Got my print ordered! Amazing photo of a truly amazing thing.
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thank you!! I appreciate it
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Just found your gallery and I just want to do a lazy, 11:00 at night, once and done "YOU'RE AN AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHER!", rather than do it on the dozen or so pics I'm about to fav before I +watch you. 
TTFN!
-Kan0a
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You're awesome! thank you for this
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I remember having a little toy model of this when I was a kid. I loved the whole concept of the fuel tanks being let off and would simulate the launch all the time.
Great capture. It really brings back memories. I would love to be able to see a real one some day.
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Stunning photo, the saturation, lighting, cropping, its all perfect.
One of the best photo's I've seen, super work.
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Thank you! It had some major corrections as it was shot though an orange window
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Oh wow! 
RWT
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That so makes me want to put a coin in front of it like you do with trains..
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gorgeous shot <3 I absolutely love Discovery!
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woa!!!! you were there to see columbia space ships explose .... history
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I saw the shuttle just before the launch.
Didnt get any nice photographs though.
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wow! Wonderful shot! That must have been an amazing experience!
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great pic... i love the fact that the transport moves like 6 (maybe less?) mph... awesome
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and it crushes those rocks to a pulp! I mean really, those big rocks that are on the ground get pulvarized by the shuttle to something resembling beach sand.
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I love this photo. Great dry atmosphere and a real feeling of hesitation and anxiety--I can almost feel the heat and the tension right before takeoff. Awesome not only in technical aspects, but emotional as well--I haven't gotten a strong feeling out of a photograph like this in a very long time. Wonderful.
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What a rare opportunity to get such a great shot of the space shuttle Discovery at such a close range! Excellent composition and great capture. You mention that there are offices in the Crawler!?!? The walls must be very heavily fortified and very thick so as to offer protection to the people in those offices located below the shuttle. Or mayhap, the offices are just on the farside of the structure away from the portion that the shuttle rests on. Always wanted to see a shuttle launch but I'm not much for waking up early in the morn to get up and see one. Tis always a joy when one hears about a successful launch and landing
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And they have to retrofit the thing after every launch!
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Absolutely amazing
I will give a lot to photograph such a thing too
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great shot! i was supposed to be there that day (much farther away though). did you miss the launch too?
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Yeah, it got delayed. sigh~
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This has to be one of the best photos of the shuttle ever!
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Oh my god, could that picture be any clearer? awesome shot, really momentus of mankinds greatest inventions, gigantic utility carts to bring back and forth the likes of shuttles and 5 millions pounds of piping hot burritos. Besides the colors, my favorite element in this picture are how tiny everything else looks.
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that is quite awesome - i want one for my backyard - very cool you got to get that close thanks for sharing - i got booted out of space camp before i even got there
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i will fave this firstly as i dig this and secondly as my way of acknowledging how much of a bloody lucky bastard you were to get this close - well done
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wow...
simply wow.
I remember a trip to florida where totally by accident we came across a park where they had a Saturn V rocket set up. I don't remember which Apollo mission it was representing, but seeing it was amazing.. just simply stunning to see that massive rocket towering above me.
I imagine this must have been something like that.. only better 'cause it's actually functional XD
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Awesome shot. I love the variety of colours (shuttle, ground, sky) and the way it appears to have just grown out of the grass like a puff ball after rain.
Impressive
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do you know how fucking lucky you are to be so close to the Space Shuttle!? I've been to NASA and we went past the giagantic build it was being worked on in last year but I didn't get to see anything!
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Exceptional photograph. I love it. Those crawlers go about 2 miles an hour... I'm just so awestruck by this photo. I LOVE IT!! The quality is exceptional. Its clear, vivid colors and perfectly centered orentation really make this a perfect photo!! This is very very lovely!
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She looks different than I remember... definately the a US shuttle, but different.
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I have a friend who works at NASA who sent me some pictures of it. This is a really sweet picture. It looks almost fake.
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Amazing composition! I love the way the space shuttle looks as if it is glowing.
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