Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 1:37 · Video file(11 MB)
Columbia's external tank descent, stable until payload bay door opening, as seen in Mission Control Houston.
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the copy thousand And time the image looks better now. It was a stable at the beginning when you were doing the playback using the camcorder. So we would like to watch through until you get to at least through the payload bay door opening sequences and see if the image remains stable. Happy back. This is Mission Control Houston. Once again, we are looking at a video tape replay of the external tank as it. It was plunging back towards Earth following Columbia's climb to orbit yesterday. The initial replay of the external tank separation head. Okay, we got the downlink at this time and there's the ET. Okay, it was really spectacular. We were going into sunset as we got it. And story was firing away next to me.