Gene DiGennaro wrote:

It was definitely a cool video. Makes ya wish NASA did this or had this
capability on every mission from STS-1 on up. Crying shame it took the
loss of an orbiter and her crew to give us these vids.



They'd started using the ET camera prior to the loss of Columbia,
although they didn't say much about it at the time, the reason was that
they wanted to film the ascent was that they were trying to get info on
the foam shedding that was going on.

Pat