| Author | Message | ||
     Slaughter |
From the point of view of the booster - launch, climb, separation, reentry, splashdown. 8 minutes. Get a cuppa - have a watch: | ||
| Blackm2 |
That is freakin' awesome! Never realized that they are high enough to float around up there for a few minutes before the return. Pretty amazing. | ||
| J2blue |
Gawdang! I'm almost crazy enough to want to be a bug on that ride! That was cool seeing the velocity start to go up again as gravity started sucking 'er down. And then how long it took from when the bottom splashed down to when the camera went under! Very cool!!! | ||
| Ironweed |
Thank you, Slaughter. One of the benefits of being an old guy is the memory that goes back to the days of the Mercury program and Alan B. Shephard's sub-orbital 15 minute ride in 1961. I was not quite 14 years old then. I've had the massive good fortune to be a witness to all of mans efforts in space-hope to live long enough to see us put a man on Mars and bring him back....thanks again for posting that video. | ||
| Fb1 |
Most excellent, thanks Slaughter.  | ||
| Slaughter |
We've got a little aviation/aerospace mail group that is a couple dozen of us in industry, Military, NASA, National Air and Space Museum. Once a week we'll see something really cool, exchange books, plan visits. Kinda fun being e-pen pals like that. Yeah, I was in 4th grade when Glenn orbited, got the address and wrote NASA a letter. Got a signed picture back. | ||
| Blake |
Thanks Steve. Awesome, literally awesome! | ||
| 46champ |
Thanks Steve I just wish this had been published years ago. | ||
| F22raptor |
It looks a lot better IN the shuttle! | ||
| J2blue |
So many neat things. How about the mic job, one was air coupled the other was coupled to the booster body. The sounds of the latter while spinning above the atmosphere were really cool! And what about the pressure wave as the whole shuttle goes supersonic? Then there was the freezing of water vapor on the skin of the booster during re-entry. You just don't get all that cool activity from junior's estes rocket. | ||
| Dano_12s |
Steve,that was awesome! Thanks! | ||
| Etennuly |
Wow! Did you notice the Buell like torque curve? | ||
| Gunut75 |
Wow! Did you notice the Buell like torque curve?  | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Great footage!!........wish there was a voice to explain what all was going on...like what hit the water,just before the booster. | ||
| Blake |
For reference on the velocity, consider that a typical high powered rifle like a 30-06 can send a round out of its muzzle at around 3,000 feet per second, which in MPH is [(3000 FT/s)/(5200 FT/Mi)]*(3600 s/Hr)=2,045 Mi/Hr. |
