I didn’t know there were this many cameras on the shuttle, boosters, and tank. There’s enough angles to make the Bang Bros. look like high school sexting noobs.

This clip is pure gratuitous rocket ignition, blast off, and eventual orbit in detail unlike I’ve ever seen before. It rocks!

Well, if you consider after 4:00am night… Regardless, it’s the last night launch for the Space Shuttle program, ever. I bet it was beautiful sight first hand. We won’t ever see its like again.

When Endeavor punches through the clouds in the video, it almost looks other-wordly.

Good luck spacemen.

Few things are as stirring as watching a shuttle lift-off. The pinnacle of human engineering, able to carry tens of thousands of pounds of equipment and people into orbit.

The pure fury of the engines firing and slowly pushing the shuttle, fuel tank, and boosters off the pad is a modern marvel.

If things stay on track, we are entering the end of the age of the shuttle. This is one of the last few lift-offs, with the final flight scheduled for September of 2010.

Shuttle Atlantis lift-off on November 16th, just past 2:28pm. Photo courtesy of NASA

Watch the full lift-off here and be in awe.