Launch Date: 8 September 2000
Time: 08:45:47
Pad: 39-B

All images were taken from the Banana Creek viewing site 3 miles from the pad

35mm Camera

Minolta X-700 35mm camera, 420mm lens, Fuji 100 film
Scanned with a Minolta QuickScan 35+

enlargement from photo above

Video Camera

Panasonic AG-456 S-VHS camera, 12x zoom lens
Stills captured with a Matrox Rainbow Runner

Digital Camera's

RCA CDS-4190 and Olympus D-460

A shadow cast by the exhaust plume

Launch audio
MP3 audio file - 128kbps 44kHz
2.2MB

Click on the link above to hear what the launch sounded like from the Banana Creek
VIP viewing site. Clip starts at T-10 seconds and plays through SRB seperation.

Some events you will hear during the clip:
-SSME ignition at 00:20 (it took the sound ~15 seconds to reach the site)
-SRB ignition 00:25-00:26. Note the dB drop as the SRB's ignite
-the applause at 01:17 was for the shadow cast by the exhaust plume (see photo above)
-the applause at 02:20 was for SRB seperation