PBS: What We’re Watching: NASA’s Accidental Video Art
NASA posts videos from their rocket launches occasionally, and PBS was kind enough to link to one of the better ones. The camera in this video is attached to one of the solid rocket boosters which have a burn time of 126 seconds. As a result, not much exciting happens until just after the 2 minute mark, but from there on its phenomenal. PBS’s description below:
The film below is a space shuttle launch from the perspective of a solid rocket booster, one of the giant white rockets attached to the belly of the shuttle during its ascent. Thanks to a tiny camera and contact microphone attached its frame, you can ride along with it as it sends the shuttle into orbit, then free falls back to earth. There’s not much going on visually until the boosters separate at about the two-minute mark—but after that, it’s a film even Stanley Kubrick would be proud of.
