Solid Rocket Booster Videos

A couple of days ago (I think it was Tuesday) I went to www.nasa.gov and
clicked on the view nasatv link. It was around noon, maybe a little later.
The video being shown was of one of the SRBs tumbling to earth. Right
before it splashed into the ocean I thought I saw the deck of a ship. Were
my eyes playing tricks on me or would the SRB have landed that close to a
pickup vessel?
The next video that was played was titled "Right SRB...." So I went back to
multimedia archives looking for the left SRB videos and there are none that
I can find. There are only right SRB videos listed.

alien

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:27:14 +0000, alien wrote:

A couple of days ago (I think it was Tuesday) I went to www.nasa.gov and
clicked on the view nasatv link. It was around noon, maybe a little later.
The video being shown was of one of the SRBs tumbling to earth. Right
before it splashed into the ocean I thought I saw the deck of a ship. Were
my eyes playing tricks on me or would the SRB have landed that close to a
pickup vessel?

Was it heading toward the SRB or away?

Did you like the underwater shots? I did.

The next video that was played was titled "Right SRB...." So I went back to
multimedia archives looking for the left SRB videos and there are none that
I can find. There are only right SRB videos listed.

Yeah, I couldn't find either of them? Do you have a link to the right SRB
vieos?

--
Craig Fink
Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/et...srb_camera.asx

Josey wrote:
http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/et...mai.com/18355/
wm.nasa-global/sts-121/right_forward_srb_camera.asx

In sci.space.history, Chuck points out how to use that link.

Meanwhile, the correct NASA page - which has the above link*and* the
links for the left SRB mov's is
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/index.html

The preflight pdf's are there, too, such as the press kit.

/dps

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:51:03 -0700, snidely wrote:


Josey wrote:
http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/et...mai.com/18355/
wm.nasa-global/sts-121/right_forward_srb_camera.asx

In sci.space.history, Chuck points out how to use that link.

Meanwhile, the correct NASA page - which has the above link*and* the
links for the left SRB mov's is
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/index.html

The preflight pdf's are there, too, such as the press kit.



The index is nice, thanks.

Isn't .asx a proprietary format of Microsoft not available on all
computers? A better format is RealPlayer's .ram, plays better on Linux.
http://mfile.akamai.com/18565/rm/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/real.nasa-global/sts-121/right_aft_srb.ram

The best format/resolution I've seen is the mpg version,
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/...b_fd01h_ra.mpg
All it needs is a good interlace filter to clean it up and it would be
really sharp.

MPG versions of the full length versions would be nice to see.

The Beatles, "Yellow Submarine", goes good with the splashdown and
underwater scenes of the R SRB aft (?fd01h?) camera. I counted at least 5
or 6 times that you could see the flames of the SSMEs as the earth spun
by.

--
Craig Fink
Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

"snidely" wrote in message
oups.com...

Josey wrote:
http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/et...mai.com/18355/
wm.nasa-global/sts-121/right_forward_srb_camera.asx

In sci.space.history, Chuck points out how to use that link.

Meanwhile, the correct NASA page - which has the above link*and* the
links for the left SRB mov's is
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/index.html

The preflight pdf's are there, too, such as the press kit.

/dps


Thanks for that link. The left views are there but they only show launch
and separation, no splashdown into ocean. I watched the right side videos
again. I wonder if what I saw was the parachute floating on the surface
while the camera was under water. Maybe I just got my timeframe cornfused?

alien