listened To the loudest 20 -30 Hz. yesterday

[Panomaniac]

Ha! Great. :2thumbsup:

I've watched the shuttle launches and there are indeed a rush. A very loud rush.
Sure wish we'd gone down to see the Saturn 5 moon launches. Don't know why we never did.

[bfish]

Here's a pretty cool "birds-eye" view;

YouTube - Space Shuttle Launch: Viewed From an Airplane

[Altec Best]

Wuzn't fair...you wuz sqeezin' nitrous.

Yeah but it's still missing the smell of Burnt RUBBER !

[gearfreak]

... just an exciting pleasurable 45 seconds of widow shaking subwoofer bliss!

Apparently, this is the reason for the water sprayed at/into the base of the pad @ ignition. Not as one might think, to cool or put out any 'fire' per se, but to attenuate the sound and prevent damage to the pad etc.

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You are correct... I was with my cousin at the launch who's worked at Nasa for 30 yrs. He used to work recovery in the Indian ocean where they collect the two boosters and reuse them. The orange fuel cell also falls there but in a thousand pieces. It's still collected because they float.

[Panomaniac]

Wow, the boosters make it all the way over there?

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Yes, parachutes and the enormous speed of the jet stream. The fuel cell dosen't seperate until hundreds of thousand feet later, so it pretty much free falls from re-entry altitude breaking the foam covered aluminam that fuses to the metal enableling the pieces to float Amazing how they can calculate it!

[Derry]

I always liked the movie October Sky,, a very good story,,


Derry

[bfish]

Yes, parachutes and the enormous speed of the jet stream. The fuel cell dosen't seperate until hundreds of thousand feet later, so it pretty much free falls from re-entry altitude breaking the foam covered aluminam that fuses to the metal enableling the pieces to float Amazing how they can calculate it!

You can "ride along" with the booster's ~30 minute journey;

YouTube - STS-133 Booster Camera Views

[westend9]

Very cool vids, thanks guys!