Comments on: Aerial Photos of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Last Flight

By: TomcatTCH

TomcatTCH — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:49:29 +0000

I got to see it fly over Houston, but didn’t have the presents of mind to have a camera with me.

Thanks for posting these.

By: Andrew Tuohy

Andrew Tuohy — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:21:33 +0000

Thanks Bryan!

By: BWJones

BWJones — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:32:17 +0000

Whoa!!! Very nice capture Andrew!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:04:19 +0000

Very cool! But I wouldn’t worry about America’s dominance in space. We’ll be back. It’ll be interesting to see what non – government run space projects will look like.

By: Andrew Tuohy

Andrew Tuohy — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:59:12 +0000

No, just regular airspace restrictions and common sense (747 wake turbulence is very dangerous).

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:35:29 +0000

Next question. How do we get /our/ name on an SCA?

By: jpcmt

jpcmt — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:38:57 +0000

So were you flying the airplane with your knees while you took the pics? I thought texting while driving was bad! jk

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:57:19 +0000

Do you have to get special permission to fly within pitchertakin’ distance of the shuttle shuttle or do regular flight rules apply (whatever they might be).

By: DT

DT — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:36:27 +0000

I’ve been reading your site for a while, but you’ve inspired me to register and post… Great pics.

The morning that Atlantis landed on her last space flight, and the shuttle program’s last flight, I was bringing a section of helicopters up the intercoastal on a Log run for a detachment we were doing. As I’ve done several times, I asked the Shuttle Landing Facility’s tower if we could fly over the runway. Usually they would let me, but I wasn’t sure if they would this time since it was only a couple of hours after her landing. To my surprise (since Atlantis was still sitting out there), they gave us permission. This was just as they were beginning to tow her back to the building, so I ended up being right on top of them and getting a couple of pictures of the last shuttle being towed to the assembly building for the last time.

I just wish I had had my SLR with me. Unfortunately, all I had to snap the pictures was my iPhone.

By: JTF1228

JTF1228 — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:14:07 +0000

Seeing pics of that have always been really cool. Having had the wherewithal to plan for and take your own pics (from above, no less), is pretty damned awesome. I really wish I could have seen it in person…

As for the US leading the space race, it’s depressing that we specifically reduced the priority of the things that inspire us to dream, like putting a man on Mars. Yes, we put a rover up there, but it’s no where as inspirational as the thought of a man, like you or me, standing there and looking back towards earth with Old Glory in his hand…