What was all the debris flying around?

Neon Knight wrote:

On some of the video of the shuttle before launch, there appeared to be
alot of debris flying around. Any idea what that was? I thought maybe
birds but it looked like alot of white specks being blown around by the
wind.

Probably waves breaking on the water in the background.

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:55:42 -0500, Neon Knight wrote:

Vandar wrote in
:

Probably waves breaking on the water in the background.

No, it wasn't that, it was pretty high up in the air. Some of the shots
showed it to be as high as the shuttle itself. It looked just like a
bunch of paper being blown around by the wind on both the left and right
side of the shuttle (but back in the distance.)


Probably the "butcher paper" that covers the RCS nozzles to prevent
rain getting in while on the pad. I saw them flapping around the
nozzles in the nose RCS in some of the views prior to launch.

Brian