Kerry Decker TV Show: 2nd Space Shuttle Launch (1981)

[stelian95]

wow ! amazing quality, for that year...no comet-tailing...

[EV150]

Were you at the Challenger disaster launch?

[keeleeng]

This is gold!!

[flatsignedbooks]

Boy, things sure have changed!

[psychoclown579]

nice vid kerry

[thomasking55]

That's some great video kit and they are proud to be using it. I have a 3/4" toploader in my videos and I'm thrilled to see another!

The 3-tube must have been worth some money...

[heine71]

The Second Space Shuttle was to have been about 5 days but it was cut back to 2 days with a Saturday landing.

[pianodon]

Kerry, neat show. What is the opening theme song?? I know RISE was the closer. Thanks for some great video.

[KKD1247]

Its called "Peepshow Percussion" by an old rock group, The Lovin Spoonful.

[gibsyboy]

Thanks for posting this really jealous man wished i was at all those launches

[KKD1247]

Thank YOU! I'm still looking for my video of the first shuttle launch - STS-1. I also went sometime with just a 35mm camera; no video. I surprised myself how many times I went.

[uwtitanfan]

Excellent job shooting the launch with that telephoto lens.

What kind of camera did you use? What kind of tube(s) did it have? I was expecting to see all kinds of comet tails coming off those SRB plumes.

And was that a crosspoint-latch switcher I spied in the into?

[CapeCanaveral321]

This is great. If you have any more shows recorded around space missions such as this, please post them.

[KKD1247]

HI. Thanks for watching. Yes, I have just uploaded 2 more shows from the Cape: Apollo 17 and the Apollo-Soyuz mission. I also recorded the first Space Shuttle on video from 1981...but gotta find it.