Riding a huge strap-on

The best 7 minutes of TV I've seen in a long while. This video (View Video) on the NASA site isn't nearly as good as the uncompressed TV coverage version, but it's good enough to give you a feel. Make sure you have the sound on too!

Highlights

2:05 - SRB separation
3:00 - Right SRB fades into distance
3:10 ...
earth
sun
space
...
earth
sun
space
5:13 - debris from Right SRB seen 'burning up'
5:51 - 'shutes deploy
6:23 - splashdown

I'd pay good money just to have a seat on the SRB, even if it doesn't really count as space flight (not sure if the SRBs get high-enough to count as space).




From: NASA - Multimedia -- Highlights