AWESOME!!! STS 115 Booster Separation and Splashdown Cam

[franciesfinds041]

totally amaziing

[misium]

Wow, could be one of youtube's most cool videos.

You can see that on 45km there is quite some air to spread sound (completely surreal!) and create the resistance but the sky is completely black and "spacey".

Pity there is a skip at 4.02.

[oomblikkies]

wow - awesome but all those sounds make it very spooky

[Helsingfors]

What height did they release?

[demonikreaper]

150,000 feet, or 28.4mi (45km)

[beaker2000]

That is so friggen cool!

[Nina22star]

people! what is that on 2:40? Like a thunder? or smoke?? anyone knows what's that?? It's weird!

[bry3500]

Thats smoke from the launch

[Babylongone]

wow nice trip :)

[Babylongone]

wow

[Dezarus2100]

NASA is so cool!!!

[DrivenMind]

coolest thing I've seen all week.

[xxluanneharperxx]

what? dont get that,,,,, :S

[Reynard13Fuchs]

Too long of a trip for Somalis, plus, the coast guard might have a nice word or two with them.

[graymonday]

love the inside outside deformation of the camera, the black and white bending on each other.

[planetdanarama]

This is sooooo awesome. 5 stars indeed

[dagwoodsystems]

Cools points:

1. Boosters spin at the same rate

2. Metal "groans" as it expands and contracts

3. At 2:30; squiggly wisp coming up from the Earth is the smoke trail from the launch.

4. At 4:00; parachutes deploy in stages to avoid ripping. Rope levers control the diameter.

5. Splashdown at 4:35. Chutes look like jellyfish as they collapse in the ocean.

6. At 5:25; some nosecone thing lands in the water as well (upper lefthand side).

[tomcornwall83]

Yea :D

[Thesniper21]

That was really cool.Why can't they invent an emergency earth reentry vehicle for space station inhabitants. They just need a metal can and some parachutes I would think.

[JouMasePurse]

imagine your in a yacht on the ocean and WHAM! this piece of tin hits you.

[bry3500]

LOL

[Reynard13Fuchs]

or your a whale watcher in the ocean and you see a blue whale come up then...WHAM!

there would be silence for 5 minutes

[kirkmach32]

And then the whale huggers would sue the shit out of NASA for negligence

[JouMasePurse]

NASA would call it an 'act of God'

[kirkmach32]

Close, but you're off a bit. NASA believes in, and reveres, Horus and other mythical gods. They schedule space events and activities precisely around the alignment and calendar appearances of various stars and constellations. God doesn't fit in.

[JouMasePurse]

maybe that's why the shuttles blow up going up and burn up coming down

[kirkmach32]

Maybe.

[demonikreaper]

Oh yeah, you're right. You know, I've gotta' say, I definitely believe that NASA is a religious organization.

[stemajor7]

Amazing video. I wonder what was cut out at 4:00?

[speeddemon1092]

they cut out the re-entry, probably because the cam had to go behind a shield and there would have been nothing to see for the 3 minutes it was entering the atmosphere. It would have been a bad thing for that cam to get torched..... wait, that would have been freaking awesome!!

[AlexanderTBS]

no no and again no. Reentry heating is when Shuttle is entering atmosphere with around 7500-8000 m.sec - here we have relatively low speeds (around 2000)

[knight01022]

Holy crap that is sick

[UNDINALSONGS]

I thought sound doesn't travel through a vacuum??? Or was it not quite outside our atmosphere???

[bry3500]

Sound increases as atmosphere gets dense. sound may be from inside spent booster , not outside.

[NamelessTurtle]

There is no air. The sound travels through the material the microphone is attached to, it doesn't need to travel through the empty space.

[kalisz1974]

@UNDINALSONGS It was never outside of our atmosphere

[endimion17]

@UNDINALSONGS It's not vacuum. Solid rocket boosters are separated at around 44.5 kilometers. There's plenty of gas there, though you couldn't breathe it as it's at a quite low pressure and low in oxygen.

Also, the microphone is probably picking mechanic vibrations, too. The whole shuttle vibrates heavily during launch.

[rfuriati]

Maravilloso testimonio de lo que sucede allá arriba con estos ingenios tecnologicos

[satweavers]

It's interesting how long the two strap-ons remain synchronously parallel while tumbling back into the atmosphere. The audio is a very nice addition, too. Hearing the atmosphere get thicker, the stresses on the airframe. Glimpses of the launch exhaust in the far distance. Cool stuff. Thanks for posting.

[jesusabel715]

extraoirdinario video

[Flyinguy]

Absolutely great! I love that transonic resonance... it's eerie.

[blwalla]

the sound's probably from the metal body of the booster flexing...imagine free falling that fast going from extremely hot, from the booster fire, to extremely cold, from space, back to extremely hot, from atmosphere reentry...absolutely amazing, imagine if you could get in a completely heat resistant suit and parachute from that high!!!!

[blueronin]

excellent post, sounds kinda like darth vader. creepy

[raztabear]

Friggin awsome!! :D

[retr0dreaming]

AWESOME!!!!

[retr0dreaming]

Awesome footage!!!! the sound is unreal!!

[motorbreath22]

where is that sound coming from, its very freightening

[rowlodge]

wish the news would show it more often i like science stuff like this but dont have the mathematical mind for it...dammit!

[jestan01]

Outstanding footage indeed! It's the first with sound for me; it had my heart racing. Too bad the video didn't start at launch. Thanks for posting it with sound.

[KanskjeKommerKongen]

Wooow what a ride (((: Very nice Bry!

[Area51Productions]

Awesome footage, this ones going in my favs for sure, thanks for uploading these mate, excellent stuff! Anymore?