Amazing Space Shuttle Videos

Seth sends this link to amazing video. This one is forward looking (basically up along the shuttle during launch). It's also interesting because, after spashdown, you are looking down into the water and under water where you can see the parachute.

Subject: STS-121 Discovery -- Space Shuttle Mission
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:24:22 -0400

Booster cam on the recent shuttle launch. Somewhere past 3 minutes, the booster separates and falls back to earth.
Sometime around 6.30 minutes, the chute stabilzes the descent and at 7.30 minutes the booster hits the water.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts-121_front/index.html

Curt also sends this link. This video is backward-facing so you can see the trail and water during the ascent and you are looking down at the clouds and water during the descent. This is what it would be like to ride on the outside of the shuttle!

REAL Video- 12+ mins

http://mfile.akamai.com/18565/rm/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/real.nasa-global/sts-121/right_forward_srb.ram

Minute:

1:00 launch
1:30 Good view of Cape
3:00 SRB sep & tumble (blue, black, blue, black...)
5:30 Parachute must've deployed (no more black--all blue)
7:30 splash

These are additional videos pointed to in Curt's note.

Launch, SRB sep, descent, splashdown

7/4/2006 launch

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/Shuttle_Multimedia_Collection_archive_1.html