[HD] Real Sound of Space Shuttle STS-117 Launch, 3 miles

[CalvinMaclure]

To this day, still the best rocket launch audio I've ever heard.

[GoldenDragon]

The car alarm going off is a nice touch.

[danieljrs]

The birds and other animals in the area must be like "omgggg what have the humans made now?!?" Hahahaha

[leokimvideo]

i remember seeing number 26 launch and you can feel the power on your chest, sad to see the end of the shuttles

[VibeXplorer]

My God. The sound from this distance is massive and overwhelming. The sound up close would just boggle the mind. Beyond the ability of human hearing to experience.

[cinimatics]

Its incredible that they can build engines that harness so much energy that it sets car alarms off three miles away with the sound of the fire.

[longshot]

Babies laughing gets my wife teary eyed, and rockets booming away into orbit get me.

[tgerule]

This is incredible. Actually brings a tear to my eye

[philipchesleyiii]

Out of all the vids like this on here..The popping effect sounds the loudest/clearest on this vid..

[odurandina]

This is one of the few videos available that comes even close to capturing the real sound of the Shuttle. It's still badly distorted but it comes close to showing people the sound. For the people at such close range to the Shuttle, each crackle is about the order of magnitude of volume of the loudest big BOOM's you hear at your town's fireworks celebration. Now imagine a symphony of them like you are getting a taste of here. Maybe if this video was a couple of miles further away, it would have been better. Add the subwoofers and play it loud on a good system. That's the real sound of the shuttle.

[PatKittle]

The muffler & the catalytic converter need some work.

[G]

That sound is soooo addictive, it's goosebumps inducing ....awesome stuff !

[unusualbydefault]

why are rocket engines crackling: put simply, it's is so loud that the compressions (high pressure) of the soundwaves catch up with the rarefactions (low pressure), which creates acoustic booms. to be specific, soundwaves do not propagate with constant speed. since the difference between the speeds is increasing as a function of noise amplitude, this phenomenon pops up if the amplitude is high enough, see jet engines etc.

[markh]

So great to find this video. I went to Florida for a holiday and was lucky enough to see Discovery’s last flight. Omg it was incredible. Stood on coco beach, this video brings back the memories of the shear pressure and force of the sound as it hits your body. I will never forget that incredible day

[TFFC]

I loved seeing the shuttle launch. I was there for the last night launch and it's hard to describe the "pop-pop-pop" of the SRB's...It's just AMAZING!

[jeffschwartz]

Having been to Florida for a Shuttle launch - the is the one that sounds most like the Shuttle upon The truly amazing part was - we were about 2 miles away - and you can feel the earth And I do remember the fact that you could SEE it and a few seconds later - the sound smacked you in the

[jflancer]

Voila qui me donne encore un regret de ne pas avoir pu voir un seul décollage de STS ! !! Video impressionnante, I've done the "like" to this video

[stinkintoad]

Wow that brought back memories. Ive seen about 35 shuttle lauches from that position and it never got old.

[grosano]

Have you ever heard a thunder from a close distance? Windows shaking, alarms going off...well, this is many, MANY times louder. This machine can literally kill with its sound.

THIS IS THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND, ADAPTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT, MAXIMIZING THE POTENTIAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. The most impressive thing: this is just what they show to us, not even close to what we have really accomplished.

[VoodoCat]

0.38 I can hardly hear it.... 0.46 omg omg omg.
Also gotta love the car alarms being set off.