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The Best View of the Endeavour Launch

Erik Hayden 4,198 Views May 16, 2011

The long-delayed, but successful, launch of the Endeavour has provided spectators with plenty of awe-inducing photos from professional photographers at the Kennedy Space Center site. But the one that we were most taken with was snapped by an amateur from what appears to be a window on a commercial airplane close enough to the shuttle's launch.

On Twitter, @stefmara shared this photo of her view of the space shuttle's final mission (she's got more angles here):

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