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General Discussion => Historical Spaceflight => Topic started by: Fox Fox on 09/25/2009 08:39 pm
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Hi Everybody
I have found this video on the NASA site.
It's the Reentry of the Enternal Tank ET-36 over Indian Ocean on STS-29 mission viewed by a US Navy Aircraft. It was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission and the goal was to put in orbit a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). This mission launched on March 13, 1989.
http://mfile3.akamai.com/18566/wmv/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/wm.nasa-global/MARSHALL/sts29_ET.asx
Sorry if this video is in a other place in this forum...
A French Shuttle Fan
Fox Fox
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Hi Everybody
I have found this video on the NASA site.
It's the Reentry of the Enternal Tank ET-36 over Indian Ocean on STS-29 mission viewed by a US Navy Aircraft. It was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission and the goal was to put in orbit a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). This mission launched on March 13, 1989.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/multimedia/photogallery/photos/photogallery/shuttle/shuttle.html
Sorry if this video is in a other place in this forum...
A French Shuttle Fan
Fox Fox
Thanks for the link. This is probably worth posting in the Q&A thread, as there have been questions about this before, and this video is available via NASA.
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The last clip is interesting, you can see the spinning of the ET and increased heating when the tank is showing its long side forward.
I guess the explosion is the remaining fuel boiling and eventually rupturing the (now weakened) tank?
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I thought the remaining fuel was vented after ET sep?
Could this be an implosion instead? due to increasing atmospheric pressure + weakened tank?
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Aside from the "coolness" factor, would there be any legitimate reason to film an ET re-entry using more modern long range cameras used at high altitude?
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Aside from the "coolness" factor, would there be any legitimate reason to film an ET re-entry using more modern long range cameras used at high altitude?
Sadly no. It would involve crewing a ship and taking it out to sea with long range trackers near where the tank will re-enter. That's a lot of man and machine power (not to mention $$) for some video footage that will yield almost but "Ooo"s and "Aaah"s. If there's no data to be gained from it, it's considered a useless endeavor. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see that as much as the next shuttle-head, but NASA won't do it. But by all means, if someone has long-range tracking cameras and is willing to pony up the dough, they have my full support :)