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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Separation of the Space Shuttle’s solid rocket boosters (SRB’s) occurs at two minutes, 11 seconds after launch from Pad A, Launch Complex 39. This sequence, showing initiation of separations, and falling away of the two booster casings, still spewing sparks from their white-hot linings, was taken by a 70mm radar-tracked Photosonic motion picture camera with a 360-inch focal lens, from Universal Camera Site 10, located on KSC approximately eight miles north of the launch pad. The three frames were taken from a 1,000 foot run of EF film exposed at a rate of 40 frames per second.