Final space shuttle launch, as seen from booster camera (video)

Sweet fancy astronauts, this video just published by NASA is a thing of beauty.

Cameras mounted on the two solid rocket boosters that helped propel space shuttle Atlantis into orbit on July 8 provide unique angles of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center and their subsequent water landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean

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