Rocket Booster Video of the Space Shuttle Discovery Launch.

1. Denita TwoDragons
   January 2nd, 2007 at 5:47 pm

   My son has been doing his “Tumbling SRB Interpretive Dance” all day today…*LOL*

   –TwoDragons

2. aware
   January 2nd, 2007 at 7:03 pm

   cool! a different kind of google earth type view of the launch site.

   i like how the tinkly noises stop once it leaves our atmosphere. in space… no one can hear you tinkle!

3. aware
   January 2nd, 2007 at 7:09 pm

   oh wait… then halfway thru we get whooshy sounds, building building building… expecting to see a monolith and hear monkey chorus rising soon…

4. aware
   January 2nd, 2007 at 7:11 pm

   and just wondering, why does it spinnn so much? is the whole shuttle spinning like that? if so, why?

5. Denita TwoDragons
   January 2nd, 2007 at 7:26 pm

   The SRB is spinning because of the little rocket that fires as it’s being jettisoned, that pushes it away from the shuttle. It causes the booster to cartwheel as it falls to earth, until the drag chutes deploy. (You can tell when that happens because the image goes from “spinning” to “weaving drunkenly”…)

   –TwoDragons

6. Silent002
   January 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm

   Wow, thanks for that link, Denita and Neatorama, I’ve been looking for something like that for quite a while! This would be NASA mission STS-115, shame I missed the live launch of this Mission on NASA TV, but this video certainly makes up for it.

   I believe that the spinning of the Shuttle was something to do with targeting… I remember that it had to take off at an angle to get downrange quickly to catch up with the ISS, since the mission had to be postponed because of Safety concerns (Something to do with Oxygen and Fuel pressure gauges, right?).

   Anyway, I just found out that this video, and a few more, can also be found at http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52884. Thanks again for this!

7. Silent002
   January 2nd, 2007 at 8:09 pm

   Ah yes, I wasn’t sure if Aware was talking about the Shuttle or the SRB.

   You can also tell when the primary chutes deploy because there is a big white flash. The three main chutes deploy only around 30 seconds before splashdown, there’s another, smaller pop when they are released.

8. Denita TwoDragons
   January 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 pm

   Thanks for more shuttle-related coolness, Silent002! My son will probably spend the rest of the evening dancing the “Shuttle Dance” now…and then fall soundly asleep with visions of spaceborne rockets in his head… ^__^

   –TwoDragons

9. Alex
   January 3rd, 2007 at 1:49 am

   “Tumbling SRB Interpretive Dance” Hahahahaha! You should videotape that Denita!

10. Lasse
    January 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 am

    Absolutely amazing

11. H8
    January 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 am

    “Tumbling SRB Interpretive Dance” Hahahahaha! You should videotape that Denita!

    I second that, That would be a great video.

12. John
    January 3rd, 2007 at 10:29 am

    Great footage. I love the entire RocketCam program. I wonder if they had a camera on the main tank as well. I have seen footage from that before and it’s spectacular when they jettison that tank.
    Extra points for affixing a transducer to the spaceframe so we get all the nice creaks and pops from the SRB.

13. özi
    January 3rd, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    kubrick couldn’t have done it better himself.

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