NASA documentary where a NASA engineer and NASA photographer comment on a very high quality slow motion film of a space shuttle launch, taken in close-up from many different angles. They provide technical insights on each aspect of the launch, including how the shuttle itself works and how it was filmed.

The cameras were run at high speed in order to have slow motion detailed views of everything happening in the launch. This was mainly for engineering purposes to check whether the shuttle was working correctly, but as a side-effect it produced spectacular high quality imagery that forms the basis of this documentary.

The specific shuttle is Discovery, the mission is STS-124 (more info at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-124).

There are subtitles in English for this video, click CC to activate them.

This video is in the public domain, originally downloaded from:
images.nasa.gov/details/GRC-2023-CM-0248