Under the wings of a rocket
General July 14th, 2006
You know me, and you know I get excited about shuttle launches. Even though I was out and about two weeks ago, I was listening to the launches getting scrubbed (what a funny word - why not say postponed or delayed?) on Sirius radio. I finally was able to watch the launch with Tony and Telemecha, and the replays in STL on Mom’s TV.
I’ve been pumped that the main point of this most recent mission (landing Monday,) is to test the safety improvements to the space shuttle. This means lots of new video and still picture captures of the shuttle and all of its components. I know that thanks to the Internet, NASA is going to release a large amount of this media to the public domain. Then we can see all the nifty things people do with thousands megabytes of multimedia of the shuttle.
Anyway, today I found this. It’s a streaming video of the ascent and descent of one of the solid rocket boosters as seen from a camera mounted near the top of the SRB. You get to see the launch, exiting the atmosphere, the separation from the shuttle, and its spiraling end-over-end drop back down to the ocean, ending its tumultuous ride with a peaceful float in the ocean.
Very, very, very cool. Go watch it.
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