Splash Down!
 

Go along for the ride on the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Booster. Real video and audio of a launch, ride up 28 miles, jettison the SRBs, then the fall back into the ocean. Awesome, man....

http://tinyurl.com/kktszrq

cool to see it break the sound barrier too

Keel vid

I'd like to see that at the Hutchinson Cosmosphere.

That was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!

Very cool. Thanks for sharing it.

I really like this video, too. It shows the "nod" that shuttles would do after main engine ignition. The SRBs only fire after it comes back to vertical:

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Love this picture, too:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...al_landing.jpg

Interesting to watch the shuttle flexing before and as it’s launching.

Sweet!

Florida baby :rockon:

Science bitches!!!

Amazing. I liked the metal groaning and frozen bits hitting it like hailstones up there at its apex.

I'd also assume that the slashdown area is off limits to fishermen, sailboats, etc. It'd be a bad day if those things came down on your head.

Very cool, nice find... i hope i'm still alive when space travel becomes affordable for the average joe.

Nice post GB :thumb:

Really impressive to watch. How far did that guy Frank Baumgartner fall from the hot air balloon?

2,000 MPH in 90 seconds and 3,000 MPH at 2 minutes. That's really cooking!