[jaugust]

"Uh guys.....the shuttle does re enter upside down."

With all due respect the shuttle does not RE-ENTER upside down. It has an upside down attitude when the engines are fired to get it into position for re-entry and begin the slow down, after which it rolls over rightside up. The craft needs to be in a 40 deg nose up attitude to re-enter at the proper angle. And in this attitude it makes its series of "s" turns to help slow it down. These include a 70 deg bank angle left and right while doing the turns. Four turns if I remember correctly.

[Justa]

"And in this attitude it makes its series of "s" turns to help slow it down. These include a 70 deg bank angle left and right[e.a.] while doing the turns. Four turns if I remember correctly.

70 degrees to plane is quite steep imo and could explain the appearance the perpindicular attitude in the video (if appearances are to be believed). As the object's attitude does not change through the video sequence, yet remains nearly perpindicular to the flight path it would seem it was no longer under control at that point. Then there's the semi-rectangular object spinning away from it in the lower right. Imo it appears to be proportional in size and shape to the shuttle's tail. I don't have the ability to capture frames from an .mpg otherwise I would post some of the frames which show the spinning object in focus with the main image.

If this this scenario is true it would indicate the shuttle's tail broke during a righthand/Southerly S-manuever leaving the craft perpindicular to the slipstream. As the video depicts it's L-side is the leading edge along it's flightpath which correlates to the thermal telemetry.