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Mindblowing Space Shuttle video released

By T.K. Randall
March 16, 2012 · Comment icon 38 comments

Image Credit: NASA
NASA has released ultra high quality footage taken from the shuttle's rocket boosters during launch.
The footage shows in spectacular detail the ascent from ignition to the point at which the boosters are jettisoned with the curvature of the Earth and the black of space visible in the background. What sets this video apart however is the inclusion of audio which has been remastered by George Lucas' Skywalker Sound company, every rattle and whoosh has been cleaned up and can be heard in unprecedented detail. The footage is due to be included as an extra on a new NASA DVD commemorating the Space Shuttles.
Drop whatever you're doing and watch this. NASA has released videos shot from onboard the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters in the past, but you've never seen one prepared as masterfully as this.



Source: io9.com | Comments (38)




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Comment icon #29 Posted by MedicTJ 12 years ago
Oh good lord. Yes, we ARE on my turf. I've got my own home recording studio complete with a Tascam 24 track, Pro Tools complete, $2500 electronic drum kit, and over twenty different types of microphones.....anything from condensers to uni-directionals like SM-57's. And the professional I talked to.....(yes, I did talk to one)....can be found at www.endofstory.com Skot Reed is the one who runs that band and has worked with Ty Tabor from Kings X on MULTIPLE projects. He also produces and engineers several other projects. I produce and engineer my own stuff at home as well, and have done so for w... [More]
Comment icon #30 Posted by The Sky Scanner 12 years ago
Oh good lord. Yes, we ARE on my turf. I've got my own home recording studio complete with a Tascam 24 track, Pro Tools complete, $2500 electronic drum kit, and over twenty different types of microphones.....anything from condensers to uni-directionals like SM-57's. No offence but listing your kit list doesn't make this your turf at all. It's a average mixer, nice enough, but certainly not worth bragging about, Pro Tools anyone can get a copy of for next to nothing, and a $2500 electronic drum kit has about as much relevance to this discussion as me saying I have £3000 worth of pioneer CDJ's a... [More]
Comment icon #31 Posted by Chrlzs 12 years ago
Largely offtopic.. Oh good lord. Why do you invoke religion? I've got my own home recording studio complete with a Tascam 24 track, Pro Tools complete, $2500 electronic drum kit, and over twenty different types of microphones.....anything from condensers to uni-directionals like SM-57's. You would not believe how impressed I am with that stuff - it being so relevant. And the professional I talked to.....(yes, I did talk to one)....can be found at {link} Skot Reed is the one who runs that band and has worked with... I've sent a very polite message to 'Skot' pointing him at the thread, quoting y... [More]
Comment icon #32 Posted by mushymopman 12 years ago
Please remember that the audience here ranges from competent and well-informed to... er, well, anyway, please use smilies when joking. no need for smiles, i wasn`t joking, their are no stars visible on this video, as for the audience on this thread, they appear to be mostly blind and ignorent.
Comment icon #33 Posted by Czero 101 12 years ago
no need for smiles, i wasn`t joking, their are no stars visible on this video, as for the audience on this thread, they appear to be mostly blind and ignorent. Why should there be visible stars in the video...? ETA... Actually, the better question is why are you expecting there to be visible stars...? Cz
Comment icon #34 Posted by Chrlzs 12 years ago
no need for smiles, i wasn`t joking, their{sic} are no stars visible on this video, as for the audience on this thread, they appear to be mostly blind and ignorent{sic}. You weren't joking???? So, you honestly think stars should be visible in a video that is very obviously set for daylight exposure, as it must be for all the sunlit objects? Do take any decent camera out at night, leaving it manually set for daylight exposures (say 1/125, f8, ISO100), and come back and show us all the stars you capture. Seriously, that silliness has been raised in the past (do you not do any research before pos... [More]
Comment icon #35 Posted by Czero 101 12 years ago
Do take any decent camera out at night, leaving it manually set for daylight exposures (say 1/125, f8, ISO100), and come back and show us all the stars you capture. An even simpler experiment is to just go out on any clear night, stand under or near enough to a street light so that when you look up to the sky, the light is in your field of view, then count how many stars you can see with your naked eye. Not everyone has a camera, or one that can be manually set these days, but virtually everyone has at least one Eyeball Mk. I installed as original equipment from the manufacturer... Cz
Comment icon #36 Posted by psyche101 12 years ago
Well at least Saru liked it enough to feature it on the front page of UM this morning. Well deserved too, it is nothing short of awesome. What a trip!
Comment icon #37 Posted by Czero 101 12 years ago
@MedicTJ... You may want to have a look at the post on the Google+ page for Michael Interbartolo, the person who originally posted the clip (and the first place this video was posted). There are comments there where he confirms that the audio is authentic and from the cameras mounted on the SRB's, and that the "enhancements" done by Skywalker Sound were to clean up the ambient noise so that the sounds from the SRB's themselves was clearer. michael interbartolo - +Ross Taylor the cameras have mics, all the sound is from the ELVIS system the guys just enhanced and brought it out more than how we... [More]
Comment icon #38 Posted by Chrlzs 12 years ago
Czero, I thank you for the other example you gave of being under a street light.. We can also add looking out of a brightly lit kitchen window while the surroundings are still in your field of view, or looking up while at a brightly lit night event.. And what is even more damning to mushymopmans silly 'observation', is that all of these examples are using artificial lighting, which is many magnitudes dimmer than anything lit by sunlight. Anyway, mushymopman, feel free to come back and discuss, although this really belongs on the 'did we go' thread. If you wish to (sensibly) dispute what is bei... [More]


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