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Two birthday parties - thumbs up to puppet shows, Adrian the magician and winter sunshine.

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Run, Forrest, Run!

Surprisingly I do still think it's a great movie - perhaps because I first saw it end-to-end a month ago, on a flight between Johannesburg and London. And not only because hearing "All Along the Watchtower" in the 'Nam scene gave me Battlestar Galactica flashbacks.

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SRB Camera snapshot - STS-125Awesome camera footage from 6 of the cameras attached to the two Solid Rocket Boosters and external propellant tank of the Shuttle - from lift-off to splashdown in the ocean - on mission STS-125.


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

 Camera 2 (SRB Lr Intertank):

  • 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


I'm Amazed

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"

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