1. 21:04 21st Mar 2012

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    Reblogged from samclifford

    Tags: AwesomeNASASpacevideoniceUSA

    samclifford:

    crookedindifference:

    jtotheizzoe:

    What it was like to be a solid rocket booster on the Space Shuttle

    WHOA.

    This new video from NASA shows you exactly what it would be like if you were strapped to one of the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters and given an HD video camera to hold. It’s a wild ride.

    As these cannons of chemical fire thrust the shuttle through the lower atmosphere, you can see the ground zoom away, the sky begin to fade into the darkness of space, and even the exact point where the shuttle breaks the sound barrier on its way to orbit (~1:10!).

    There’s a speedometer in the upper right and some amazing sound remastered by Skywalker Studios. This is the best trip you’ll take all Thursday (or really any day).

    (ᔥ io9)

    It’s funny because, working in the space industry, some of the beauty to this video has been stripped. I can’t help but wonder what kind of qualification program you would have to subject that little camera to that would allow you to strap it on the side of a booster for a manned spacecraft. I wonder what it’s environmental test plan looks like or what kind of bizzarre requirements made it into its technical specification. I automatically start thinking about the costs associated with qualification of the hardware and who got the contract to build this for NASA.

    Whatever, it’s a cool video. Hey NASA, keep doing shit like this. Make the public care again.

    America: the nation that put men on the moon but fought so long against action on global warming. Get your shit together.

    This video is just so much awesome.

     
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      woah
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      This video is just so much awesome.
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      It’s shit like this that reminds me why I’m doing what I’m doing.
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      Things I will never get over…I will never hear the SRBs ripping the sky in half agan. They launched the last shuttle in...
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