This 12-minute video [1] alternates between being stone boring, abstractly artistic, and damned thrilling: a camera mounted to the right SRB (solid rocket booster) of the Discovery (STS-121 [2]), from about a minute before launch to detachment at about three minutes in, to splashdown in the Atlantic at 7:30 or so, and then another 4-plus minutes
of floating underwater.
More videos can be found here [3]. But that page isn’t persistent. The underlying movies seem to be addressed 1 [4] 2 [5] 3 [6] 4 [7] 5 [8];
I believe #2 is the one linked above.
Interestingly, this was the 32nd flight of Discovery, and the 115th space shuttle flight. I really had no idea there had been so many.
(via Scott [9])
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