Space Shuttle STS-121 - Mission ULF1.1 to the International Space Station

There are numerous onboard cameras for this mission. Three on each solid rocket, one or two in the bay that has the external tank connections, etc. They want to see every miniscule piece that comes off the shuttle, so there's some incredibly long range/high resolution cameras on the case. Much better than you'll see on NASA TV.

Nice day for it anyway:

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Yup. Doesn't take long when you've got that much rocket fuel up your backside. :)

Total images captured: 26.
Total videos captured: 2.

Just need to go through it all now. Images I'll do now as I think I got most of the best bits.

If this goes the same as STS-114, there will be replays of the launch on NASA TV fairly soon from numerous camera angles, as well as a post-launch press conference.
 
They've just said that a 6-8ft piece of something was seen floating away from the shuttle. Could be part of one of the insulation blankets or something like that. Going to take some checking. :(

Edit: NASA experts think it may be ice. That was a quick response. :)
 
Yup. Stream is fine from Yahoo, but there's a major problem somewhere past that.

I've tried half a dozen different streams. The only one that's close to working is Quicktime, and even that's barely useable.
 
For those of you having problems with the streams, I just caught the NASA PR guy acknowledging that there's a problem with the broadcast feed. I think he said it was due to heavy thunderstorms, but I'm not entirely sure about that.

Edit @ 23.40 - all now appears fixed. They're currently powering up the shuttle's robotic arm, with a live feed from a camera in the (now open) payload bay.
 
Nope - it's just to having 107 cameras watching every inch of the tank. Attitude used to be if a few bits of foam pop off, who cares, until a suitcase size chunk came off and did for Colombia.
 
I'm sure they will show it live. The backflip the shuttle does on approach so they can get pictures of the underside is really something to behold and NASA themselves acknowledge this. I remember watching in awe as STS-114 did it.
 
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