Endeavour successfully returned from mission STS-118 on schedule yesterday. Landing at Kennedy Space Center, Endeavour suffered no ill effects during re-entry from the ‘gouge’ it suffered to the Thermal Protection System during launch.
I’ve found a couple of good videos from the flight…
The first video is an unusual view of the launch from a camera mounted on the coaming in the flightdeck looking backwards at Rick Mastracchio (MS2) in the centre of shot and Tracy Caldwell (MS1) on the left. The shoulders of commander Scott Kelly and pilot Charlie Hobaugh can be seen in the foreground.
The video runs from T-5 to the post ET separation tank photos. It’s interesting to see the rush to get two of the mission specialist in place to photograph the external tank through the flight-deck upper windows. (The shuttle rolls over backwards after tank separation placing the tank above the orbiter)
The second video shows the landing at KSC with shots through the HUD. You can see the amount of slip the shuttle has on to compensate for the left-to-right crosswind in the HUD (The flight path vector bug being offset to the right).
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