Rocket Booster Video of the Space Shuttle Discovery Launch.

My son has been doing his "Tumbling SRB Interpretive Dance" all day today...*LOL*

--TwoDragons

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!

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

"Tumbling SRB Interpretive Dance" Hahahahaha! You should videotape that Denita!

Absolutely amazing

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

I second that, That would be a great video.

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.

kubrick couldn't have done it better himself.