Space Shuttle Discovery's final ascent in entrancing HD

Space Shuttle mission STS-133's not even back on Earth yet, but our friends at NASA have already edited together this amazing HD video of Discovery's last takeoff and orbit before retirement. It's simply amazing.

There's something exceptionally graceful about the way the solid rocket booster separates from the orbiter. The whole video is almost unreal, like it's science-fiction not actual science.

(Hat tip to Michael for sharing!)