Riding a space shuttle's solid rocket booster to space. Sound on 🔊

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The sound alone is enough to understand how insane space launches really are

Insane, quickly they go from being on the launch pad to low earth orbit. Just a hop, skip, and a big jump.

How is this the first time I’ve ever seen a video of this???

Surprisingly smooth and lacking in vibration

Love the sound especially when breaking the sound barrier

That’s actually true and awesome moment

The roar feels like pure kinetic poetry.

Imagine riding alongside a space shuttle solid rocket booster as it thunders skyward. The deafening roar, intense vibration, and explosive acceleration offer a glimpse of the raw power that launched astronauts beyond Earth’s atmosphere successfully. 🚀🔊✨

@Clarsonimus I've been fortunate enough to see 2 shuttle launches live, awesome!!!

Those cameras wasn’t there for the view, those cameras where placed there to check for damages to the shuttle at the launch.

when this video came out I watched every cams video a dozens of times, there were several different videos of the same lanch, it's amazing

Technology factor: obsolete. Cool factor: timeless.

Those chunks of death ice coming down at -2:04!

So they had cameras all over the shuttle and boosters, and no one at NASA (back then) thought "hey wouldn't it be cool to show this to everyone! "

Is this video after of Columbia disaster, right? Here we can see the leading edge of the shuttle's wing.

So cool! Thanks!

At ignition, the twin SRBs provided roughly 85% of the total thrust needed to break launchpad inertia. This created massive vibrations and an immediate, intense acceleration that forced astronauts into their seats at up to 2.7 g.

That video is far superior to the Artemis II launch earlier this year. NASA could learn some lessons from the SpaceX and Starlink teams.

Weak by today’s standards. We’ve come a long way due to the intros of private industry involvement. Competition drives innovation, not sovereignty

MAX Q and breakaway was pretty cool 🤓 this ship hit max Q at the 1 min mark , Starship flight 12 hit Max Q at 50 seconds

looking at all the rackets blowing up currently and all the stuff going wrong it’s amazing that we launched the shuttle as many times as we did it and only exploded twice.

That instant acceleration the moment the boosters ignite is stunning. They always say once those things light you're going no matter what issue you had with the shuttle at that point.

So cool watching it break the sound barrier 🤘

Not reusing the boosters? How quaint.

So was the sonic boom not recorded because the microphone was in front of the back of the rocket? I was watching as they approached the speed of sound on the digital counter at the top of the video.

@grok were the SRB's recovered after chute deploy? or did the auger in like lawndarts.

Sound on this video was mastered by Skywalker Sound.

Oh so my wobbly rockets in ksp are realistic!

This is a wild view my stomach actually spun when it entered first stage separation and the boosters flipped gave me butterfly guts

0 to 100 in 8 sec.

There was never any sound capture on the shuttle stack. Cameras were only added to view potential strikes on the heat shield after the Columbia's neglectful destruction.

Eu sei que a space shuttle era complicada e ineficiente... Mas é tão mais maneira que os foguetes convencionais... 😍

No sound needed when you know how it gets into your body and rattles your chest. Incredible to watch, though, and a real blast from the past, so thank you.

Oh good grief….