The Cellar - View Single Post - July 25, 2011: Final shuttle return to Earth

SPUCK · 07-25-2011, 05:24 AM

That was my first thought too. But. The shuttle isn't running engines that you'd see as yellow that high out on the climb. Also it's not really that steep. It's a shot that's massively foreshortened because it's taken sort of from behind the descending shuttle.

07-25-2011, 05:24 AM	#7
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	That was my first thought too. But. The shuttle isn't running engines that you'd see as yellow that high out on the climb. Also it's not really that steep. It's a shot that's massively foreshortened because it's taken sort of from behind the descending shuttle.