[Mr Fowl]

Did anyone see that video that (I'M sure you's all seen) when the camera gets a close-up of the shuttle on reentry just before the contrail starts and then the camera zooms back?

Anyway, when the camera zooms in at first it looks like the shuttle is going sideways with the rear of the shuttle facing camera and the left wing facing the direction of travel!

Hope someone on freerepublic can run across that video and post the beginning frames of that video to make sure I'M not seeing things!

[Ramius]

...when the camera zooms in at first it looks like the shuttle is going sideways with the rear of the shuttle facing camera...

AAAAAACCCKKK... [start mole-whacking mode]

HOW many times must this thing be smacked down for the bunko that it is??? That image is a wildly out of focus shot of a bright point of light. The shape you see is the shape of the iris of the camera. Nothing more.

[end mole-whacking mode]

Nothing personal. I've just seen that thing posted ONE time TOO MANY.

[PokeyJoe]

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[Phil V.]

Anyway, when the camera zooms in at first it looks like the shuttle is going sideways with the rear of the shuttle facing camera and the left wing facing the direction of travel!

I saw that too. I also heard that the left side of the fuselage (topside of the left wing) was showing a significantly higher temperature than the right. My gut says that there is more here. I think that the close-up was from a telescope in California, but I'm not sure.