Amazing Film from Discovery Rocket

This is truly amazing footage from a camera mounted on the Discovery Shuttle’s rocket booster. Watch in real-time as the shuttle launches, the rocket booster seperates and then falls back down to earth; landing in the ocean. Amazingly, the whole journey is over in a little over 5 minutes.

The original of the film (without any sound) can be found here.

Stunning picture of what I though was the Discovery leaving the atmosphere, but turns out to be the Atlantis. It was taken from the International Space Station, 260 miles up and 3,000 miles away from the Kennedy Space Center.

Thanks to Chris from nasaspaceflight.com for the correction.