Discovery: Did you see that?

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BD - 23 Oct 2007 17:06 GMT

I have seen a piece of stuff passing near the right wing in the ET camera
view...
Did you see that?

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snidely - 23 Oct 2007 19:48 GMT

> I have seen a piece of stuff passing near the right wing in the ET camera
> view...
> Did you see that?

Well, I only got to watch a little bit around MaxQ -- changed channels
late, and then they went back to fire coverage, and chapparal doesn't
have nearly as clean a flame.

During the bit I watched, the "wobbling" of the ET foam right below
the camera was plainly visible, but it all stayed along for the ride
while I was watching.

/dps

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Brian Thorn - 23 Oct 2007 23:35 GMT

>During the bit I watched, the "wobbling" of the ET foam right below
>the camera was plainly visible, but it all stayed along for the ride
>while I was watching.

That's not the ET foam "wobbling". The lower foreground of ET-Cam
shows the LOX line, not the ET itself. It's a fisheye lens, so the
line looks huge, but its just a perspective thing. The LOX line is
free to shudder a little, since all that LOX is pumping through it and
its gonna vibrate some.

Brian

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snidely - 24 Oct 2007 01:24 GMT

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> shows the LOX line, not the ET itself. It's a fisheye lens, so the
> line looks huge, but its just a perspective thing.

Hey, it was 8:30 am, and I had 15 seconds to figure out what I was
looking at -- lemme at those replays!

/dps "not EDT, no sirree!"

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Charles Gibson - 23 Oct 2007 20:31 GMT

> I have seen a piece of stuff passing near the right wing in the ET camera
> view...
> Did you see that?

I saw it. It came off rather late in the ascent, well after SRB sep,
and appeared to go over the right wing. It didn't appear to hit anything.

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LooseChanj - 23 Oct 2007 20:36 GMT

> I have seen a piece of stuff passing near the right wing in the ET camera
> view...
> Did you see that?

Yeah, I did. It looked like it came off the ET, and went over the wing. Didn't
seem to hit the orbiter anywhere. Didn't look like foam, it was black and looked
like it had a rather regular shape as opposed to being just a "chunk".

Speaking of which, there was a "shower" around the time of MECO, what was up
with that?

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Discovery: Did you see that?