Matthew Rigdon's World » nasa http://matthewrigdon.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:27:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Electrifying Shuttle Photo http://matthewrigdon.com/2009/08/06/electrifying-shuttle-photo/ http://matthewrigdon.com/2009/08/06/electrifying-shuttle-photo/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:35:29 +0000 matthewrigdon http://matthewrigdon.com/?p=119 National Geographic has a new set of Space Photos up. You can check out a beautiful picture of lightning arcing through the clouds while the shuttle Discovery is rolling out to the launch pad. Stunning!
Shuttle Lightning

]]> http://matthewrigdon.com/2009/08/06/electrifying-shuttle-photo/feed/ 0 Cool photos of the Space Shuttle http://matthewrigdon.com/2009/07/30/cool-photos-of-the-space-shuttle/ http://matthewrigdon.com/2009/07/30/cool-photos-of-the-space-shuttle/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:23:13 +0000 matthewrigdon http://matthewrigdon.com/?p=115 The Sacramento Bee is hosting a series of photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour‘s recent mission to the ISS. There are some really great shots. Check it out, space geeks.

My favorite photo is this one:
Space Shuttle

The shuttle has such amazing texture up close. You don’t see any of that in the long shots on the pad or at liftoff.

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