I don’t know about you, but nothing cheers me up on a Monday morning like reminding myself exactly how infinitesimally small and insignificant I am in the greater scheme of things. This amazing video from SpaceX does that job with aplomb – and a Johann Strauss II soundtrack.

The footage was captured by a GoPro camera, which was strapped to a composite payload fairing from a Falcon 9 rocket as it fell to Earth. “Why were bits of the rocket falling off?”, you may reasonably ask. It’s intentional: SpaceX intends for its rockets to be reusable, so it’s entirely possible this piece of rocket ship will get to go beyond the stratosphere again.

The fairing, for those curious, in SpaceX’s own words, “protects satellites during delivery to destinations in low Earth orbit (LEO), geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) and beyond”. And now it can add “arthouse cinema camera operator” to its job description.