VIDEO: Fall from space in high definition with this incredible footage

Eat your heart out, Hollywood.

Ever wondered what it's like to float in space? Well, while Hollywood blockbusters like Gravity and Interstellar might do their best to show you, it's got nothing on this.

The SpaceX group, which flies private space missions to the ISS, were lucky enough to recover footage from one of their rockets intact, even after the fall back to earth.

That means they've got the high-definition footage to make special effects experts weep.

The choice of music was a pretty fantastic reference to the docking scene in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The footage came from a GoPro camera mounted to the Falcon 9 rocket fairings, which - if the enthusiasts over at r/space know their stuff - was found intact and washed up on the shore in the Bermudas in May.

. @elonmusk we found part of your @SpaceX washed ashore in the Bahamas w/ @grierallen @natedapore pic.twitter.com/H9rUFK23Bi

— Kevin Eichelberger (@kpe) May 29, 2015

In the two days since it was uploaded, it's clocked up more than 1.5 million views.

If that clip whet your appetite, there's a lower quality - but much longer - video from the Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 2008. The flight, to the International Space Station, had a camera attached to the booster rocket which remained functioning as it fell.

It's not high definition, but it does make splashdown, all the way from the sky to the earth. It takes a *long* time to fall that far.

Keep being awesome, SpaceX.

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