On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:45:45 -0500, "Darkwing"
theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote:

I was sent this email, it said these were from the Int'l Space Station which
I dispute. Yes the photos are very high but IMO a photo from the space
station would show the curvature of Earth

It does look curved to me!


as well as the sky being to blue

You really can't see "sky" very well from the ISS.

in these photos. Still a very neat picture!

Anyone know what aircraft these were taken from?


IIRC, this was discussed here just a shor while ago.

I would say that these are from an airplane, and not that high.

The AF and NASA have used a number of different airplanes to obxerve
launches at different times, going back to the days when I was
involved in Atlas flight testing ('61-'62).

Most of the ones I remember were some version to the 707/C-135.

More recently, since the foam problem, NASA has intensified their
photo coverage including from aircraft. I don't remember what type.

I think at some time, some version of the U-2 has also been used, as
well as some supersonic ones.

If no one has the specifics and you tell me that you spent five
minutes on Google looking for this, I will look myself and see if I
can find out.

Henry H.

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