Absolutely mindblowing video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch

http://io9.com/5893615/absolutely-mi...-during-launch ^ | NASA

[MindBender26]

Drop whatever you're doing and watch this. NASA has released videos shot from onboard the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters in the past, but you've never seen one prepared as masterfully as this.

For one thing, the footage was shot in high definition, so the image is exceptionally clear. But what puts this video head and shoulders above most other rocketcams is the sound. The audio has been remastered by the folks over at Skywalker Sound (yes, that Skywalker Sound), and the final product is nothing short of incredible.

[Huskrrrr]

0-300 mph ion 20 seconds. Not too shab!

[dragnet2]

Impressive video, however the shuttles orbited the earth about 22,000 times and at the end was relegated to resupplying the ISS...

One of the biggest successes IMO was the repair to Hubble.

[Cyber Liberty]

flr

[The Duke]

... WTF did we the taxpayer get for the billions and billions and billions of dollars NASA spent?

Maybe we got that n-core mini-laptop computer you're typing on? Maybe we got this Internet that allows us to communicate in near real time and saves us countless hours of flying around the country? Maybe we got rocketry science incorporated into the weapons that protect us every day.

Or maybe all NASA ever did was plant a few dreams in the heads of a few young people? Maybe into the head of the next Albert Einstein(?)

Nah, nothing to see here. Move along!

[Graewoulf]

Great find! Thanks! Bookmarked.

[optiguy]

Thanks for posting!

[whd23]

PS; .....and Obama pissed it all away!

You do realize that the Shuttle was canceled under G.W. Bush, right?

[E38]

bump

[bobby.223]

Well said D. Also to consider, the employment of hundreds of thousands of Americans for all of those years in all of the related to NASA fields/areas. Incalculable to total that ‘plus’ for the USA I suppose but you get my thoughts I’m sure.

[vmivol00]

You forgot velcro and Tang.

[JDoutrider]

Just watched... Outstanding!

[Idaho_Cowboy]

You forgot velcro and Tang.

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And memory foam mattresses.

[hattend]

Bump to watch later

[Vince Ferrer]

Very nice. Here is my favorite:

Space Shuttle Atlantis

[The Duke]

I know that I took my own experience as a NASA engineer to NORAD to model the flight patterns of incoming ICBMs so that we could recognize an incoming attack. No real value there.

Everyone I worked with at NASA (except for the ones who worked themselves to death "doing space") fanned out to major corporations around the country.

And, let me also say, those NASA folks worked their *BUTTS* off - I can't count the endless unpaid nights I spent working on the SMS simulator to make sure we made the next liftoff schedule - all for about $16/hour (for the hours that found their way to a time card).

[Miss Behave]

Wow, MindBender...that just bent and blew my mind. Thanks. Super cool.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Captain Beyond for the ping, and thanks U-238 for this one:

Orbiter Autopsies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2868358/posts

An “extra, extra” ping to the APoD list members.

[cripplecreek]

Apollo 11 launch in super slow motion. Very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iXa3S09MVIk

[rawcatslyentist]

I Dld the Booster Cams a few weeks ago. Got it in my TV rotation playlist. This looks like a keeper too!

Thanks

[rawcatslyentist]

>"WTF did we the taxpayer get for the billions and billions and billions of dollars NASA spent?"

Hours upon boring hours of the floating people channel?