If you are a space enthusiast, this is well worth 400 seconds of your time for the unique perspective it offers…like strapping a HERO Go Pro camera to a booster and getting it back.
From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay by NASA/Glenn a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. The sound is all from the camera microphones and not fake or replaced with foley artist sound. The Skywalker sound folks just helped bring it out and make it more audible.
Don’t you just love this place?
StuartMcL says:
July 27, 2013 at 9:15 pm
Thanks!
Why am I not surprised that a site advocating post-modern “science” also relies upon post-modern statistics, aka fuzzy math?
Where modern means the scientific method as practiced since Copernicus in 1543, then post-modern really means pre-modern, in which prevailing political, ideological (ie religious then, governmental now) pipers pay to call the tune.
Luther Wu says:
July 27, 2013 at 9:17 pm
I like it, but wish that more Warmunistas would dare to tread here.
Janice Moore ,
Thank you for that inspirational video. I never got to drop a big one myself, but I’ve patted quite a few on the nose.
Mike
The solid booster exhausts are about the brightest light I’ve ever seen. The really bad thing about a launch is that it’s over so darn quickly that if you sneeze, you miss it. All you have left are the booster smoke trails.
I’ve spotted them in a few places in the video.
1:35, 1:49, 2:48, 3:03, 3:39, 5:05
Sorry to be a bit of a moaner, but the first part of the video isn’t very good, is it? The cameras have been adjusted wrongly and tend to show a large part of the craft instead of the vista. The second part is good, but again the video pops up squares, but doesn’t say what we’re supposed to be seeing. Worth seeing though.
The Sound must have been filtered since the blast of 747 is 150 dB at a similar distance- if it was merely portionately adjusted down it would be a roar for the subsonic part of its flight path.
The first comment was WOW and that was my reaction exactly. Thanks
Small-minded comment, anti-American in values, and in terms of self-esteem, Islamic science excelled the west in scientific discoveries 1,000 years ago. We’re still using them today. The speculum that probably passes between your thighs every once in a while was invented 1,000 years ago. Ditto modern surgical tools in today’s NYC operating rooms.
Actually, it was Abu Ishaq ibn Jundub (died: 767)
It gives a whole new meaning to “being taken for a ride”.
The problem with the early Muslim contributions to science was that they were exectly that: contributions made in the first few centuries of the Muslim empires.
It came to an abrupt end when a very strict and pious Caliph of Baghdad declared that, basically, there were only two types of knowledge: that which was in contradiction to the teachings of the Quran and therefore the work of the devil and thus had to be destroyed, and that knowledge which was in agreement with those teachings and therefore surplus to requirement.
It led to what is called the “closing of the Muslim mind” and many subsequent centuries of stagnation and intellectual famine. The Muslim world never recovered from it, one can fear that it is incapable of recovering from it. In the meantime the Renaissance and the Enlightment propelled the West into modernity.
That’s why the Americans went to the Moon, and the Arabs did not.
A shipmate and I swam north from Port Canaveral’s turning basin to 39A to see Apollo 16 very closely as it was sitting on the pad, then security insisted that we return the way we came, about a ten mile swim.
About NASA political funding; it has become a technology demonstrator, no longer at the cutting edge of hard science. Liquidate its assets in favor of commercial space travel interests to fund an even bigger Super Conducting Super Collider.
Let NASA become the National Advanced SCIENCE Administration and rediscover science precisely.
Is Mr. Ed Zuiderwijk’s (July 28, 2013 at 3:46 am) comment an informative allegory for post-modern America, with our Federal Executive of D.C. declaring what is politically correct and acceptable to the demotic closed mind?
“GeoLurking says:
July 27, 2013 at 5:44 pm”
That’s covered by “Dino Cam”, a pink inflatable dinosaur. More reliable too!
The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley says:
July 27, 2013 at 11:18 pm
The cameras were installed for a closeup look at the shuttle and damage during takeoff and to help explain any future explosions. The designers were thinking of craft and crew, not you and me.
That they came up with fascinating stuff off-shuttle was a happy coincidence.
A couple other OT videos but interesting. A couple years ago folks associated with the ESO observatories in Chile’s Atacama desert produced some time lapse videos around the site.
This emphasisizes the VLT (Very Large Telescope) optical and ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) radio telescopes. The bright thing in the sky is the Moon. Sunrise washes out the whole image. The fuzzy things are the Magellanic clouds, as you folks in the southern Hemisphere know.
This is better known but only has the VLT
I wanna go on that ride!
For those who haven’t already seen it and want to see a possible future, try this.
Pretty cool in any case.
Totally righteous. That’s what NASA should be about, not telling us how we’re all doomed due to carbon dioxide, with water vapor making it three times worse….
Ok, that was freaking awesome!
That was cool!
I assume that the descent of the boosters was strictly ballistic? (But predicted.)
Gunga Din says:
July 28, 2013 at 11:52 am
Very well predicted. In the footage of the second SRB’s splashdown you can see the recovery ships in the distance. The SRBs were recovered, refurbed (with some twittering over the condidtions of the O-rings), and reused.
The Shuttle’s external tank also had a ballistic descent and, like the SRBs, tumbles to avoid a “knuckleball” reentry. On the first shuttle flights people wanted to verify the external tank tumbled at the expected rate, but it separated too far downfield to monitor readily. However, the large radio telescope at Haystack Observatory in Westford Massachusetts was able to use its radar mode to see two or three tumbles as the shuttle just barely made it above the horizon. It provided the first confirmation that the tank tumbled as expected.
I would never have guessed the shuttle made it above the horizon viewed from there.
That was very, very cool!! And, the comments are telling of our present state. I remember when we listened to the launch of Alan Sheppard’s flight when I was in school, it was important.
That clip is a cultural artifact produced by people who wanted with all their being to know the truth. It required the application of rigarous science to reveal the true state of nature. How telling that the camera angle is intended to collect data not an interesting view for an audience.
Many think we have lost our way, as do I. There was a time when I thought that science, in the true sense, not gee whiz pop entertainment, would prevail and we could indeed solve the problems of humanity. How profoundly wrong I was. Now all we can do is wallow in cultural pissing matchs and the like, which some could say is what the space program was all about too. But, for a brief moment in history, “we” did fly in space and land on the moon. It was great, and I am glad I was alive when it happened.
This WUWT site has kept my my faith in a better outcome, it’s important. Many thanks, Anthony
What a ride! WoW!