West Palm Beach, FL – A bird’s-eye view of the space shuttle’s historic penultimate journey is getting hundreds of thousands of views online after a New Jersey woman recorded it from her airplane seat.
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Thirty-three-year-old Stefanie Gordon of Hoboken shot the photos and video Monday on a flight to West Palm Beach, Fla.
She posted them to Twitter shortly after landing and they’ve been viewed hundreds of thousands of times since. They’ve landed in newspapers and television broadcasts worldwide and made a minor celebrity of Gordon, who shot the images with her iPhone.
Gordon says she had just awakened from a nap on the flight from New York when the pilot announced the shuttle might come into view. She says she had no idea her work would make such a splash.
She will probably be in trouble for using her cell phone during the flight.
Guess you are not aware of airplane mode
Cool its a shame she can’t copy write the picture
I happened to be in the dentists office when the shuttle launched and they had it on. Part of the fascination (other than the projection that “it could have been me on that plane” first person impression of the thing) is that the Television feed cut out once the shuttle hit the clouds, and didn’t pick up until much later with a much worse view, so this is seems to be the only video of that part of the shuttle launch from outside of the shuttle (they had a camera on the fuel tank facing the shuttle which didn’t really show very much).
You would think there would be a 100 mile no fly zone around the shuttle launch, and not just 3-5 miles like seen in this photo