Space Memory card of NASA camera destroyed in launch captures fiery final moments

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Memory card of NASA camera destroyed in launch captures fiery final moments
(Article by Fox News at The New York Post)

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A NASA photographer was able to salvage a camera’s memory card and watch the final moments before the device was engulfed in flames while filming a launch at a California air base. Longtime NASA photographer Bill Ingalls wanted to shoot the launch of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on, or GRACE-FO, at Vandenberg Air Force...

(More at NYPost.com)
 
Here's the images the camera captured before a brush fire, started by the launch exhaust, created the gooey plastic mess.

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