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Old 03-20-11, 10:44 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Gargamel View Post
As the Era of the Space Shuttle is drawing to a close, here's and article and some good HD video of a part of the operations you may never have seen, thought about, or even knew that they did this!

http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa...hd-110319.html

When they dropped the recovery device over the side, I said, "That looks like a cork!" few minutes later.... "Oh it is a cork!"
This is cool, Garg. Combined with the footage of the flight from the SRB point of view, this is a neat way to show that half of what happens after they splash down.
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