28 miles high and back. 400 Seconds.

**george formby** · 29th July 2013, 20:23

I'm quite blown away. Space shuttle fuel tank POV's. That's some GoPro.

**Big Dave** · 29th July 2013, 20:28

Fake - the shadows are all wrong.

**The Reibz** · 30th July 2013, 08:50

Have you seen the video of the Qu8k Amature Rocket? Hits mach3 and the airfriction is so intense the gopro camera lense melts. Intense shit.

**Swoop** · 30th July 2013, 08:54

Originally Posted by george formby

Space shuttle fuel tank POV's.

[NERD MODE] The footage is from the SRB's (solid rocket boosters). They go up and parachute back down for re-use, where the external fuel tank goes up higher and burns up on re-entry into the atmosphere.[/NERD MODE]

**imdying** · 30th July 2013, 15:37

The sounds is as impressive as the video!

**slofox** · 30th July 2013, 16:59

Fake or not, I thought it pretty good.

**boman** · 2nd August 2013, 21:16

Might be true. But I would have thought the thing would be going a hell of a lot faster that the speed indicates on the screen.

The space shuttle is launched in a vertical position, with thrust provided by two solid rocket boosters, called the first stage, and three space shuttle main engines, called the second stage. At lift-off, both the boosters and the main engines are operating. The three main engines together provide almost 1.2 million pounds of thrust and the two solid rocket boosters provide a total of 6,600,000 pounds of thrust. The total thrust at launch is about 7.8 million pounds. To achieve orbit, the shuttle must accelerate from zero to a speed of almost 28,968 kilometres per hour (18,000 miles per hour), a speed nine times as fast as the average rifle bullet

"To travel that fast, it must reach an altitude above most of Earth's atmosphere so that friction with the air will not slow it down or overheat it. The journey starts relatively slowly: at lift-off, the shuttle weighs more than 2.04 million kilograms (4.5 million pounds) and it takes eight seconds for the engines and boosters to accelerate the ship to 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph.) But by the time the first minute has passed, the shuttle is traveling more than 1,609 kilometres per hour (1,000 mph) and it has already consumed more than one and a half million pounds of fuel."

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/...cs/launch.html