Space Shuttle Endeavour On Launch Pad In Lightning Storm (PHOTO)

Hours before the space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off for its final flight, NASA tweeted a striking photo of the space shuttle at the launch pad in the middle of a storm.

Lightning bolts can be seen around the Endeavour as it waits on the launch pad.

NASA writes of the photo, "The space shuttle Endeavour sat on Launch Pad 39A as a storm passed prior to the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure, Thursday, April 28, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour launches on the STS-134 mission on Friday, April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT. During the 14-day mission, Endeavour and the STS-134 crew will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank."

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Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Comments

[Guest211]

09:25 PM on 05/03/2011

I like this one better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNr2qBtETmk

[portfolio]

10:13 AM on 05/01/2011

why did obama allow the lightning storm?

[ebanks84]

07:17 AM on 04/30/2011

Amazing picture that is saying so much!

[modernman55]

12:24 AM on 04/30/2011

Epic.

[OMG1]

04:53 PM on 04/29/2011

Sweeeeeeeet!

[carlgt1]

04:07 PM on 04/29/2011

proof that god is displeased with the liberal Space Shuttle! ;-)

[rvp21040]

03:44 PM on 04/29/2011

Excellent photo. Two of my favorite things; the Shuttle and thunder storms.

[TicTucTo]

03:39 PM on 04/29/2011

Science is fun.

[Ryan Cariño]

03:27 PM on 04/29/2011

It reminds me of colony LV-426

[RaceCondition]

12:44 PM on 04/29/2011

That's a gorgeous photo.

[Michelle Jackson]

12:39 PM on 04/29/2011

Wow