The video is 35 minutes in length, so being the obsessive I am I flagged the times of the more interesting moments as well as the switch to each camera.
Interesting times, camera 1 (SRB Left Aft):
- 2:24 -
detach
- Much
tumbling
- 5:07 -
you can see something else falling into the atmosphere and starting to burn up
(the other SRB I assume)
- 5:30 -
start to stabilise, or at least less flipping end over end
- 6:15 - in
cloud
- 6:50 -
glimpse the deployed parachutes (looking up)
- 7:07 -
splash
- This
camera has a microphone, so make sure
you have audio enabled - eerie stuff
- 7:17 - camera view starts
- 7:48 -
detach (watch an SRB rotate in sync with us)
- Amazing
views and eerie sounds - the white specks are apparently unburned propellant
- 10:30 - quick view of a smoking SRM entering the atmosphere, more atmospheric noise now
- 11:30
skip to upward view of deployed chutes
- 11:50 -
splashdown, and we fall over. Gurgling.
Camera 3 (SRB Left Forward, facing down):
- 12:08 -
launch at t-10 (facing down, great launch view)
- 14:30 -
detach
- Camera
view is unfortunately fogged :(
- 17:03 -
view clears somewhat, beautiful Earth views
- More
stable now, view mostly down.
- 18:20 -
some puffs / fire from the exhaust, this thing is still burning
- Parachute
deployed?
- 18:30 -
ocean through the clouds
- 19:15 -
splash, fall over, cool
Camera 4 (SRB Right Aft, facing up):
- 19:40 -
footage starts of launch
- 21:58 -
detach, bye bye shuttle
- Rest of
video cut short
Camera 5 (SRB Rt Intertank - like the other intertank camera
has a microphone feed):
- 22:22
starts
- 22:56 -
detach
- Beautiful
falling / tumbling views of earth
- 25:25 -
things get noisy
- 26:05 -
mic feed stops, view mostly down now
- 26:40 -
skip to parachute deployment, facing up, looking almost straight into the sun
- 27:12 -
splash. Get to see the chutes falling into the sea and collapsing
Camera 6 (SRB Right Forward):
- 28:18 -
footage starts, probably the best launch footage of the down view
- 30:41 -
detach
- View
fogged :(
- Sun-earth-sun-earth-etc
:)
- 33:17
clearer view briefly, more stable
- 34:35
parachute? Ocean incoming
- 35:17 - splashdown, splash reaches camera
Key in the door, the moment I've been longing for
Before my bag hit the floor
My adorable children rush up screaming for a kiss
And a story they're a gift to this world
My only claim to glory
I surely never knew sweeter days
Blows my mind like munitions
I'm amazed
-Faithless, "Bombs"
Before my bag hit the floor
My adorable children rush up screaming for a kiss
And a story they're a gift to this world
My only claim to glory
I surely never knew sweeter days
Blows my mind like munitions
I'm amazed
-Faithless, "Bombs"



Cobham - my escape