{"id":295,"date":"2009-05-11T19:25:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:33:08","slug":"sts-125-shuttle-launch-from-vab-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/sts-125-shuttle-launch-from-vab-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"STS-125 Shuttle Launch (from VAB roof)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked at the NASA press site today in support of STS-125, the final Hubble servicing mission. The press site was really busy for this mission. Usually I escort media personnel to various locations for various reasons. To my surprise, today I was asked to escort some of the press photographers to the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to photograph the launch. Wow! What an opportunity! It was a great launch and it went right on time. Here are some photos that I took from the top of the VAB. Click on each thumbnail for a larger version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/01-STS125-VAB-roof\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=2371&amp;g2_serialNumber=4\" alt=\"STS-125 from VAB roof\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/02-STS125-VAB-roof\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=2375&amp;g2_serialNumber=4\" alt=\"STS-125 from VAB roof\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/03-STS125-VAB-roof\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=2379&amp;g2_serialNumber=4\" alt=\"STS-125 from VAB roof\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/04-STS125-VAB-roof\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=2383&amp;g2_serialNumber=4\" alt=\"STS-125 from VAB roof\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/05-STS125-VAB-roof\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=2387&amp;g2_serialNumber=4\" alt=\"STS-125 from VAB roof\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos-new\/index.php\/SpacePhotos\/06-STS125-VAB-roof\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/photos\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=2391&amp;g2_serialNumber=4\" alt=\"STS-125 from VAB roof\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked at the NASA press site today in support of STS-125, the final Hubble servicing mission. The press site was really busy for this mission. Usually I escort media personnel to various locations for various reasons. To my surprise, today I was asked to escort some of the press photographers to the roof of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,108],"tags":[76,81,36,278,217,32,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}