Take a virtual ride on Endeavour

Watch more than a half-hour's worth of video from the shuttle Endeavour's solid rocket boosters.

I can testify that watching the shuttle Endeavour's May 16 launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center was awesome. Seeing the liftoff on video just can't show you how bright the rockets' flare is, or how ground-shaking the sound can be. But if I had to pick the coolest video clips of a shuttle's ascent, I'd go with the views recorded by cameras attached to the solid rocket boosters. We don't get to see that video until well after the boosters are recovered from the Atlantic. NASA finally put the clips online on Thursday, and they are beauts. In this 36-minute YouTube video, the best parts come at 0:08, 2:26, 9:40, 14:48, 19:50, 22:05, 29:05 and 32:20. That's when the blastoffs and blast-aways happen. Stay tuned next week for another dose of awesome Endeavour imagery, taken from a departing Soyuz spacecraft.

More cool views of Endeavour and its launch:


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That is so awsome! Can you imagine? That would be one hell of a ride!!!

    Reply#1 - Sat May 28, 2011 1:49 PM EDT

    This is Great watching history being made up close.

      Reply#2 - Sat May 28, 2011 8:15 PM EDT

      its always the same, u people should be spending money in other things like helping poor people to get a better life instead of being wasting it in things that already are done by others. is not the way u people are going to resolve the life's misterys, you people are NOT GODS OR LEADERS , THAT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE, where YOU people want to go?, or is just the pleasure you are going to xplore and in a couple of days is goin to dissapear beacuse your mind is looking another xperiences? .For me just seems like a palying to see what happens,is just always the same,a good example like this are the artists that sing songs that are already done by others, and is always the same, is there something that is not allowing people's brain to keep forward with new invented things to a better world witout the same thing already done?, another example like this is the song we are the world for haiti,there are a bunch of new people singing the same sing SANG,and it keeps humanity doing the same things always without still not answers to theirs hobbies,this is the only difference bettween wanting to do a better world and wanting to be a well person known, and definitely are things that money never is going to buy,i called it knowledge because you noticed that this thing is the only one that is going to make you to get money buy not buying it..so what's the difference between those two? is there an answer to a a mexican boy that still has'nt finished high school , but trying it and , why i 've had been asking to my self why is all this, that is happening out there with people trying to get deep inside all the answers that supposed humanity is looking for a better life and world?,and at the time that i m writing this comment asking to my self how it looks the people that is going to read this thing wrotten here,but not worrie about what he or she think,i want to think that there's always good people trying to get a better world to others but we still doesn't know who they are because , we don't have the money to make rise up our voices , because at the sametime we'are talking about powerfull people that got the total control. AND really true that those powerfulls are involved with beauty peoples's faces, bodys , think they'are superiors just because they were born cute, a good example of this is MEXICO the entire country a place where if you are not a good looking person , you are not nothing,a place where if u parents are teachers or people that works for goverment they live thinking that they are the only ones touched by God, and that kind stuff.Certainly i m not one of them , but the one thing i just know is that i' m still alive and i will still.Also i m not going to men tion any bad words because is not my style like much others,just wanted to share a little bit about what i think about humanity, including the USA a place where i already lived in without permission by people in the power seat , but GOD'S PERMISSION.

      Marcos Delgado.

      Tijuana, BC. Mexico

        Reply#3 - Sat May 28, 2011 10:11 PM EDT

        Marcos, there are obviously more important things in (and outside) this planet that deserve the millions of dollars - space is more important than poverty.

          #3.1 - Fri Jun 3, 2011 11:32 AM EDT
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          tyvm nice to see this mechanical wonder fly/ Great videos / Well Done NASA

          • 2 votes
          Reply#4 - Sun May 29, 2011 3:06 AM EDT

          Marcos Delgado. If you are not from the us. Your opion on what we do with are tax money duse not matter

          • 1 vote
          Reply#5 - Tue May 31, 2011 7:04 AM EDT
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