This is the view from the solid rocket booster on the Space Shuttle as it’s launched into orbit, and then the ride back to earth (with audio). The real money shot for me is at around the two minute mark when the boosters separate from the shuttle.
I also found this video which has a bunch of different angles…too cool if you enjoy this kind of stuff.
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Thanks Outlaw, I do love this stuff.
Here’s another view I found.
Amazing! 24,000mph! Unbelievable!
I do so love these things. Anything to do with aviation interests me. I got a plastic model airplane kit when I was 5 years old, and my grandpa helped me build it. I got the bug then. When I was 10, a friend’s dad took the two of us for a ride in his Piper Tri-Pacer, and the rest is history. I watched every single manned space mission live on TV, starting with the first Mercury launches, and all through the Apollo series. My mom let me play hooky to watch them. It was a wonderful time to be a kid, and to grow up with that sort of adventure.
Then came Carter and we crashed back to Earth. Low-Earth orbit crap. No more lunar missions, no manned missions to mars, just this crap-tastic space dump truck and Rube Golberg contraption floating topside. Don’t get me wrong, if I could go up there I would.
But we landed on the Moon 40 frikkin’ years ago. We ought to have had permanent bases on Mars by now. Someone has some serious ‘splainin’ to do.
Right on! And where the hell is my flying car?! At least a jetpack?
These are too cool for words. Yeah, TIm: I followed every flight from Shepard on. We got yearly supplements from World Book Encyclopedia, and as soon as they came in the mail, looked in the “Year In Review” section for their reports on the previous year’s flights. The night Apollo 11 landed, I was working as a bus boy at a restaurant on The Strip in Virginia Beach, and had to content myself with listening on the radio on the way back home – would have rather quit my job!
And now, I get to see these clips. What an age we live/lived in. And now, nobody in power has the balls to adventure forward. Heck, mankind has been exploring since they were chasing dinosaurs for dinner, and now all we do is wring our hands over snail darters and take hostages at the Discovery Channel because human beings are ruining everything!
Great to see you, Father Ron! A few days ago I was thinking about you and wondering how you are. Glad to “hear your voice.” And, good comment!
Indeed Padre… Perhaps we should consider letting the Jesuits take over the Space Program. They did pretty doggone well on the exploration scale some centuries back…….
Seriously……. isn’t it about time that we started checking out some of the rest of God’s creation? What a waste of our humanity, our potential, to stay stranded on this one little rock.
Oh, yeah, Tim: I forgot how the Spaniards (followd by everyone else) brought disease to the Americas (not that THAT was what you were saying – it’s just stream of consciousness!) and killed off so many of the aboriginals. As a result, with the current “thinking,” we should not explore anything any more because we’ll just kill whatever we find out there! I suppose their thinking is that no one should have ever come to the Americas, and everything else would be hunkey-dorey. We just would have stagnated as a species centuries earlier. It is part of who we are to be curious and to explore. I think it is a sign of our decay that we are prevented by the current crop of Luddites from being who we are supposed to be. I do wonder what they would rather us be. Some, like that Lee feller, just want us to die out. I’ll be 57 in a month, and sometimes I wish I were 75 and had only a few years left of watching us become, as the human race, regress into insignificance. Of course, as a Christian, I do really believe in the Second Coming and the new heaven and earth, but when I look around me, my only cry is “Maranatha!”
The Jesuits did pretty well actually. Thank God for them.
Fr Ron!! I’m glad to “see” you too! I prayed for you on mother’s day, remembering that your mom had recently died. I hope we get to see you a bit more around here.
Y’all don’t ‘member, alls we had ta do was beat dem rooskies ta da moon, an’ we done did it.
Hey! Ohms Law! I remember those formulas! Voltage = Current times Resistance……. Power = Current times Voltage, et al…..
Ohms Law indeed. Notice the emphasis on resistance. Where V is how much congress spends, I is how much we can afford to spend, R then is the resentment (resistance) to said lunacy.
When V falls close to I, R drops close to 1, or sanity if one prefers. And so on…..
Ya got THAT right!
interesting…