Last Night Shuttle Launch Makes for Beautiful Astronomy Picture of the Day

Susana Polo

Published: Feb 13, 2010 02:30 pm

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It safe to say that a lot of the people here are geeks. So, you may have already seen today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. If you haven’t, it’s quite pretty.

Waterway to Orbit was made by taking a two minute exposure of Monday’s shuttle launch from Ponte Verde, Florida, more than one hundred miles north of Kennedy Space Center. It was the last planned night-time launch for NASA’s space shuttle program.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Waterway to Orbit

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.