Dale Ireland wrote: > The were some very interesting video clips on the news > tonight taken from inside a Shuttle during a previous > reentry. Looking out the front windows from behind the > pilot at the bright red glow and looking back at the plasma > trail. questions: How did they get a shot out the back or > down the side of the shuttle looking back?? A camera back > where the engines are perhaps? This is only a guess, but I wonder if this was not the work of astronaut Story Musgrave, who stood up on the flight deck throughout the re-entry on one of his missions, to observe re-entry phenomena. He described this in a TV appearance in the aftermath of the loss of Columbia. I believe I heard him say that he recorded the scene on video, passing the camera among the other crew. > I had never seen anything like it... and.. both shots showed > very bright flashes every few seconds like electrical discharges > not the smooth nonvariable plasma trail that we have been > discussing, any idea what that was? Musgrave reported that RCS firings caused the plasma to momentarily disappear, or words to that effect. I believe this might appear as a pulsation of the plasma. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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