DLSLC From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 86 posts, RR: 1 Posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 3324 times:
Hello all,
I was just wondering if there are any Space Shuttle or any Rocket launch videos out there? I can't seem to find any. I would love some Space Shuttle videos especially. I'm looking mostly for a video that shows the Space Shuttles point of view during liftoff rather than a ground camera view. Any info would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Lurch From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 0 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3316 times:
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Thorny From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3309 times:
Quoting DLSLC (Thread starter): I'm looking mostly for a video that shows the Space Shuttles point of view during liftoff rather than a ground camera view. Any info would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Here is the website for the RocketCam people. The first video on the page is the External Tank camera from last year's Shuttle launch.
DLSLC From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 86 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 3280 times:
Hey thanks a lot! Both sites have awesome videos! Any more would be appreciated!
JBirdAV8r From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 4459 posts, RR: 22 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 3248 times:
Quoting Lurch (Reply 4): There is a Special video out their showing the view from an SRB at Seperation from the Shuttle Stack it is rearly amazing!
That's possibly some of the coolest Shuttle video I've ever seen!
N328KF From United States of America, joined May 2004, 6222 posts, RR: 3 Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 3171 times:
Though it's sort of creepy, the STS-51L launch is still fascinating.
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JBirdAV8r From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 4459 posts, RR: 22 Reply 12, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 3167 times:
Quoting N328KF (Reply 11): Though it's sort of creepy, the STS-51L launch is still fascinating.
Yeah, especially if you find the videos from angles that weren't shown on live TV. You can get a little bit of a better idea of the progression of events that way. TV cuts to several different views of the Shuttle right before the explosion, and it's the most common video of the launch, unfortunately.
DLSLC From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 86 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 3100 times:
Quoting Thorny (Reply 9): From the left SRB looking up...
In about the seventh second of this video, you see a lot of debris falling off, is this the foam that they talk about falling off that they are all worried about these days?
You can also see it falling in the video that is looking down.
Thorny From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 3093 times:
Quoting DLSLC (Reply 13): In about the seventh second of this video, you see a lot of debris falling off, is this the foam that they talk about falling off that they are all worried about these days?
No those are the "Tyvex covers" that cover the nozzles of the Reaction Control System jets while the vehicle is on the pad to keep rain out of them. These covers used to be plain old butcher paper, but NASA changed them when they found they could be a debris threat post-Columbia. The very low-mass Tyvex covers jettison while the vehicle is moving too slowly to pose a threat.
You can see one of them floating past Discovery's nose in this launch photo. It is casting a shadow on the nose just forward of the window in the round crew hatch.
JBirdAV8r From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 4459 posts, RR: 22 Reply 15, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3053 times:
Quoting Thorny (Reply 14): No those are the "Tyvex covers" that cover the nozzles of the Reaction Control System jets while the vehicle is on the pad to keep rain out of them. These covers used to be plain old butcher paper, but NASA changed them when they found they could be a debris threat post-Columbia. The very low-mass Tyvex covers jettison while the vehicle is moving too slowly to pose a threat.
One slight correction: those are Tyvek covers. It's basically the same stuff that they use to wrap new houses with.
DLSLC From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 86 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 3009 times:
Okay, good to know, wasn't aware of the covers, thanks!
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