Falling Back to Earth | HD Footage From Space

A GoPro inside a fairing from a recent Falcon 9 flight captured some spectacular views as it fell back to Earth. Footage is played in real time.

Music: Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II

[teamtwiistz]

Why isn't this stuff on the News? Amazing! Always pointless garbage about celebrities on there.

[YUTUE]

I thought I was actually going to see it drop all the way back to Earth. :(

[Logtarthemighty]

How the hell does something this amazing have 1000 dislikes? They put a camera on an object that we shot into space with contained explosions and put that footage on the internet. How is there anything to dislike?

[MeMyselfAndPi]

Ahhh... I was hoping to see it during re-entry.

[youtubeambiguous]

So the dislikes must be the flat-earthers? Yep, Probably.

[JarieTheMan]

Oh my... the Earth is absolutely stunning.  So beautiful.

[ZettabyteGamer]

would love to see the full video with splash down.

[sarasotashorelineevents]

Not going to lie - I'm looking forward to seeing 4k video in space, directed by someone who knows something about cinematography.

[DominikSpilka]

The music made it hillarious as hell for some reason. :D

[cortezcortez]

Very cool but very disorientating as well...

[rustyshackleford]

Perfect music for this beautiful video. Also, great synchronization of the music with the moving elements.

[joshua]

Okay I believe we can cross off one of the gopro"s stress test. Atmospheric Reentry Survived

[malcolmh]

*Clicks on video titled "Falling Back to Earth"*

*Watches video where nothing actually lands on Earth*

*Realizes he wastes all of his life typing snide comments on YouTube*

*Jumps in front of moving train*

[guss]

I can't believe this was here for five years now and I never noticed it before. Epic video with the perfect music for the situation!

Congratulations for SpaceX and Elon Musk for the great job you are doing for mankind.


My dream is to be able to be part of this one day.

[lawrencebader]

"Open the pod bay doors HAL..."

[phoza]

LOL They made Kerbal Space Program into a real thing!

[sulijoo]

This kind of thing really does bring you back down to earth. It brings a sense of perspective, just like the Cassini 'pale blue dot' image of Earth. It's too easy to forget or ignore who we are, and where we live.

[blue_staf]

"why are there no stars" mfs when they see the sun

[cyclonicleo]

I'd love to see the full version of this, showing the re-entry into atmosphere.

[terrylong]

Space flight and Strauss. Two things that go absolutely perfectly together.