Whoa, I never knew about these things! MM, if you don't mind, I'm going to make the link clickable:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030120/sc_nm/space_shuttle_dc
Here's a quote from the article: "One has to be extremely lucky to catch because it lasts only 0.1 milliseconds -- less than a thousandth of a second,"