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Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: videoholic on September 29, 2002, 08:18:38 AM

They are mounting a camera to the external fuel tank this next launch.  They are mounting it so it is looking back towards the shuttle and the ground.

Holy shit this is going to be cool.  You will see the eart going away in the distance.  You may even see the shuttle speeding away on seperation if the tank gets seperated perfectly.

This is cool as hell.  I wonder if they will broadcast it live with the launch or if they are just recording it to playback once they recover the tank.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: Kurt Angle on September 29, 2002, 08:43:46 AM

I would love to see this!

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: videoholic on October 07, 2002, 03:54:47 PM

Since everyone was so excited about this I figure I\'d bump it back up with a pic.

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fa799.ms.akamai.net%2F3%2F799%2F388%2Ff84be64c3820ac%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2Fnews%2F1653271.jpg&hash=b1178120f4ba7d4fbbeb9f4d0a321a633d38e456)

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: Jerchel on October 07, 2002, 04:33:09 PM

I\'ll watch.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: Heat on October 07, 2002, 04:38:34 PM

I\'m gonna wank over it.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: videoholic on October 07, 2002, 05:43:17 PM

I\'ll watch?

Dude, it already happened.  That\'s why there is a pic attached.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: SwifDi on October 07, 2002, 06:40:45 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Heat
I\'m gonna wank over it.

Word.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: theomen on October 07, 2002, 09:00:54 PM

so when is it going to happen?  I wanna make sure I don\'t miss it.


j/k ;)

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: Kurt Angle on October 08, 2002, 06:51:25 AM

I saw it on TV this morning, absolutely amazing sight.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: on October 08, 2002, 03:26:17 PM

We have a local channel here which is just space stuff. I believe it is all real time, and I actually watch it every once and a while. Its really cool to watch it at night and imagine where it is :rolleyes: , at least my little brother gets a kick out of it.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: videoholic on October 08, 2002, 03:30:27 PM

You know you can watch it fly over with your naked eye if you want to.  I don\'t know about in your neck of the woods, but you can easily see it fly over in FL just before sunrise.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: kopking on October 09, 2002, 11:38:59 AM

cool, so is there the vid link for this anywhere??? i was interested, but seems someone deleted my post.....gggrrrrr

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: videoholic on October 18, 2002, 04:05:24 AM

Here is a link to the video from Nasa\'s website.

They cut away from it right before the side tanks blow off.  Bummer.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/video/shuttle/sts-112/real56/sts112launch_56.rm

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: fastson on October 18, 2002, 05:37:21 AM

Very cool.. Only takes 8 minutes for them to get in orbit? Pretty damn awesome.

Thanks vid.

Title: Camera mounted on the shuttle
Post by: videoholic on October 18, 2002, 06:34:22 AM

I just thought it was amazing seeing the earth just fade off into the distance.  Pretty famn cool.

Wish it held up longer though.