It fell near the capsule on the way down, you could see it falling as this big massive white glob. I'm sure you'll hear reports of more UFO's in Roswell, because that's what it looked like... they divvied it up afterwards, so we all have pieces of the balloon. There was a LOT of balloon, it filled a massive, huge stakebed truck...
Those on the ground could actually hear the sonic booms that he caused -- two quick pop-pop booms... that kind of shocked us, in that who would have thought that you could hear a sonic boom from a tiny man-sized object 24 miles above the ground? But it was clear as day...
I'm sure it'll be re-broadcast many times. And there was a national broadcaster there documenting it, I expect there will be shows about it in a few months...
I did!
I wasn't in Mission Control, I was on the flight line. If Jay had gotten sick I would have been his designated understudy and would have been in MC, but as it turns out he handled it brilliantly and I stayed on the flightline and with the capsule recovery crew.
Okay, honestly, my big ol' forehead was all over that screen for hours the prior attempt. When I go in the capsule to do the power-up, camera 8 is pointing at me all the time, and when we shut it down the mixer froze on the frame, so if you'd grabbed a shot from the prior Tuesday night, yeah, it woulda been my big head all over that screen...
Flight line? Aw, Barry, I thought you were in a flight suit, falling backwards out of the capsule with a P2 camera... :grin:
Yes, we have some cameras that recorded the audio of the boom...
