From: Phil Payne 

> >You'll know this when you see it.  The piece of insulation is clearly
> >caught in one frame - it's square and pretty big - maybe half the width of
> >the wing.  About level with the nose of the orbiter - maybe a bit lower.
> >Then it disappears and there's one frame with nothing happening.  Then the
> >dust begins to appear from under the wing.  I think there are three or four
> >frames of dust cloud.
> >
>
> That sounds like the video that the Dallas station was showing
> frame-by-frame yesterday.  There's a very clear shot of the shuttle
> coming right-to-left towards the camera position at the very beginning
> of the tape.  Then there's a pretty clear shot of something large and
> square-ish coming loose before it all goes to hell.  The tv station's
> news guys were speculating that it might be a cargo door.  Guess not.

I'm talking about the launch.  The one usually shown has a blurred image
and only one or two frames show an indistinct flash.  I've only seen the
other one once, though they stepped through it frame by frame after showing
it.

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