sweet mother of god thats one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen

Pretty cool, kinda turns into the same thrill of watching a kite here though.

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This is really amazing. I just tried to submit this actually, but of course it's already here. Nice one Pigeon.

Wow

What is the final object to land in the video?

The other two chutes. Watch at 4:45 how they detach and appear to float away.

brilliant!

I find it facinating how as the earth appears to be rotating in the beginning the perspective keeps changing; ie. Earth appears to be round then space appears to be round. I can only think it has something to do with the focal length of the lens but that doesn't seem to make sense.
Cool video though...

ow, my neck hurts from turning it to level with the camera... that was beautifull

Hey Spoon i think its does have to do with the camera view, and the roundess of the lense. But it could just be a trick of the eyes compounded by the camera. You know how you look at water at a certain angle and it surface becomes reflective? Maybe the suns reflection on the earths atmosphere caused the light to make the earth appear to be flat. Volume lighting has a strange effect on cameras, but then again it could have been the camera lense was affected by the heat of rentry.

It's fake, it's all done CGI. We've never been to the moon or space.

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Lots more great commentary on this dupe.

>> ^lucky760:
Lots more great commentary on this dupe.


Yup, the comments there are recommended. You can see how the SRBs are retrieved here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Shuttle-Solid-Rocket-Booster-Retrieval-Ships

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