NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Night Launch STS-128

This space shuttle night launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 on Friday August 28, 2009 at midnight on launch pad LC-39A. At Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, FL.

I shot this space shuttle at night video of STS-128 to capture the phenomenon during a space shuttle launch at night in pure dark night time skies, while making the entire city of Titusville, FL glow like it is sunrise, and to many people it looked like an atomic bomb blast.

We were situated inside the Kennedy Space Center with VIP tickets to see STS-128 on the NASA Causeway filming this space shuttle night launch through 6 miles of humidity. This is the closest that non-NASA related are humans are allowed to the launch pad during a space shuttle launch.

This video from Cape Kennedy is not meant to track this night launch of the space shuttle STS128 all the way up through the sky, but rather to just show the change of lighting at the launch pad and for miles around. The launch of Discovery STS-128 took place at midnight, but the brightness looks as though its at sunrise for several seconds after space shuttle liftoff.

If you want to see a day time launch, here is our other video Last Space Shuttle Launch Ever! STS-135 Atlantis July 8, 2011:
https://youtu.be/HW5DVc-dCmg

At 2:40 into the video you can hear the rumble from the liftoff arrive, and crowd screaming sounds like they are riding on a roller coaster. If you have never been to a NASA night launch, then you need to get to one first chance you get, they are spectacular. It is so thrilling to see a rocket launch at night, but because of their huge size, the space shuttle night launches take the cake. Make sure when you hear of of an upcoming NASA rocket launch, drop what you are doing, get tickets, and get yourself to that NASA launch!