Booster Camera Video of Atlantis Launch

Cameras mounted on the two solid rocket boosters that helped propel space shuttle Atlantis into orbit on July 8 provide unique angles of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center and their subsequent water landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.

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[BRAVAVICTA]

How do we go from having the badest ride on the block to buming a ride from our "friends".

[dacorsua]

that... is... the space shuttle buddy, the rocket boosters went down and the shuttle keeps going up

[Urarealjackass]

This just might be the coolest thing I've ever seen

[alextlbass]

It's people like you who know nothing about space exploration. Give it a few more years, and once again we'll have the best there is, even better than the Saturn V from the Apollo era.

[poiopop]

It broke the sound barrier ~40 seconds after launch

[bandsaw000o0]

This is a level of coolness that cannot be explained. Thanks for the video NASA!

[TheTboss77]

I cant believe how quick the ascent is.

[jrockett73]

It was the other booster falling.

[notorious megz]

yuhu 2:32  tht ws sm strnge thng. i gues it ws a small planet or star may be :Lp

[MultiFrapser]

it may be just moon or something

[ofwgktadgaflsukwtfwa]

some sound would be nice -_-

[joesingle]

Breathtaking!