Most all videos and pictures are not only recorded on board but also sent telemetry back. I'm not sure if they were doing the lightning observations on that flight or not (didn't keep track of everything) but I know we had the mads recorder come back intact and the holy video. I call it the holy video because it was a camcorder tape that made it through reentry (plus 3000 degrees on the nose), fell to earth at terminal velocity and stayed out in the field in rain and heat for months and played the last photos of them playing around before they secured for reentry. It was almost like a farewell video. Kinda of freaky.
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Failure is not an option!
USMC Jungle Environmental Survival Training PI 1985