From launchpad to splashdown in nine minutes.
With sound! Quite an amazing trip they took.
From launchpad to splashdown in nine minutes.
With sound! Quite an amazing trip they took.
Coooooooool!
just watched that embedded at another site.....VERY cool.
Love it.
GoPro?
That may have been the $244,000.00 version of the new GoPro.
Came with the extra-G suction cup mount.
Excellent.
Here's what happens after it lands in the ocean. Gives a good sense of scale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbtulv0mnlU
In reply to Keith Tanner:
Ha! I watched the same link afterwards. I was curious about the recovery. I knew it was by ships but I didn't know they pump the water out and tow it in. Pretty cool.
Dad is a civil and structural engineeer, now retired. Two of the cooler things he worked on were the shuttle's solid rocket booster retrieval system at the Cape and some stuff on King Bay Naval Submarine Base in SE GA. I got lots of NASA promotional goodies as a kid. Somewhere, I have one of the tiles used to test the shuttle's heat shield. The dredging at King's Bay meant dad would take walks at lunch and bring home the coolest fossils: shark's teeth 4 & 6" long and as wide as your hand, whale vertebrae, etc.
Keith Tanner wrote: Excellent. Here's what happens after it lands in the ocean. Gives a good sense of scale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbtulv0mnlU
Pretty cool!
And that one dude must be the only commercial diver in the world to use split fins!
Spitsix wrote: link We have a booster right down the street from my work!
the link shows a fuel tank...
M'eh. . . 0 to 60 seconds in 4-ish seconds. Yawn.
ZOO wrote: M'eh. . . 0 to 60 seconds in 4-ish seconds. Yawn.
yeah, but it goes 0-17,000mph in 9 minutes...
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