Nasa Footage: Shuttle's SRB's Drop to Earth from Space - Very Cool!

This footage is some of the coolest I have seen at the NASA.gov web site. This unaltered film and many like it are available to the public at NASA.gov.

This video also contains the actual sound from the camera which is mounted on this of the two Solid Rocket Boosters. The second SRB is visible in several frames as the two of them are released from the ascending shuttle, then descend into the atmosphere, through the clouds, the chutes open, then finally splash into the ocean. Very cool, almost unreal seeming.

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[gglen46]

dose it acualy fall back to earth i would think it will stay forever floating in space due to the zero gravity

[TallSky]

@gglen46 Good question - SRBs drop because the shuttle lets them go while they are well within earths gravitational pull. Actually, the shuttle itself remains in the pull, which extends a long ways,but the shuttle doesn't fall because of their high speed movement around the earth, which they maintain while up there. There is of course no air outside the tanks though, and you do not hear the rushing air around outside the SRB's until they have already fallen quite a ways.

[ethanpeirce]

This isn't a "fuel tank". It is a solid rocket booster.

[TallSky]

@ethanpeirce You're right - thanks. Correction made.

[Auggie56]

It is cool..

[TallSky]

@Auggie56 There is something strangely peaceful about this video. Every once in awhile I just come back to the NASA web sight and watch it, and it has a calming effect, so just decided to upload a copy here.

[TonyMcKayTV]

wow!  amazing