I think I’m usually pretty blasé about stuff. I mean, I can log in every day and see new pictures from Mars and Saturn, almost as if we had webcams at those planets. And, during shuttle missions, I routinely have a little window open on my computer, showing the astronauts on the shuttle or ISS doing spacewalks or whatever. But, the other day I ran across a listing of shuttle launch videos that blew me away. These were taken during the launch of STS-121 from the vantage point of cameras mounted near the solid rocket boosters from launch up until the boosters separated from the shuttle and main tank. These really DO take you where no one has gone before! GO check them out!

Launch videos (under the heading “STS-121 Solid Rocket Boosters videos).