Woman Captures Endeavour Journey to Cosmos on Her iPhone

During a flight from New York City to Palm Beach, Hoboken, NJ resident Stefanie Gordon used her iPhone to take pictures as well as record a short video of Endeavour’s launch as the shuttle zoomed above the clouds to escape Earth’s atmosphere.

As reported by Mashable, the plane’s captain had noted there was a chance passengers would see the shuttle’s launch, and while other passengers were taking photos of the event, none gained near as much attention as Stefanie did.

The reason? She had the inspiration to upload her works to Twitter as soon as her plane landed, a move that attracted thousands of new followers on the timely-messaging service.

“I don’t have that many Twitter followers, and I basically tweet about sports,” Gordon tells Mashable. “I really didn’t expect it to go as viral as it did.”

According to TUAW, she was getting so many @mentions that she had to block them so that the iPhone didn’t drain its battery.

After sharing the images along with the 18-second video of the shuttle’s trip towards the Cosmos, she also started getting calls from ABC, CNBC and the BBC.

Gordon, who is currently unemployed, looks forward to working in the industry again. She is an event planner by profession, and has experience in the social media.

She recently tweeted her LinkedIn resume as well and, now that she has well over 4,000 followers, chances are she’ll be getting back in the saddle sooner rather than later.

Endeavour took off at 8:56 am EDT (1256 GMT) May 16, 2011, from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, on its last mission.

Dubbed STS-134 and manned by six astronauts, the craft will spend 16 days in space with the purpose of carrying out an advanced experiment, as well as to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).