INTENSE Sound of Orion EFT-1 Launch on Delta IV Heavy Rocket

Turn your volume up! The first launch of the new Orion capsule on EFT-1 for NASA. The Delta IV Heavy is currently the largest rocket in the world. These videos and audio recordings were captured approx 3 miles away at the Press Viewing Area of the Causeway, section G. Shot using a Sony HDR-SR11, a GoPro HD Hero 3 Black for wide angle and a Zoom H2 Stereo Audio Recorder.

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[jamessnow]

It's one of my dreams to see a rocket launch live. This is so awesome!!

[barthchris]

This is exactly what it sounds like from the causeway. That crackle and popping sound is not from cheap microphones. Great job! Most recordings have too much clipping from the high SPL's.
This is cool to see. I worked on the construction of that launch pad in the early 2000's. Personally I think they should have man rated the Delta IV, we could have already had our ride to space if that decision was made.

[WilliamAmyot]

Saw this live. You could feel it in your bones... It was fantastic.

[Garyq]

HOLY SHIT THIS SOUND IS FKING INTENSE..

[ahnafkhan]

Wow I liked the Sound at 0:40 ...i ts awesome 💓🔥

[kingcarcas]

Saving this for when I get an SVS Subwoofer

[sct]

Looks like a skyscraper who says "Dafuq I'm outa here".. Amazing!

[cognitionengine]

WOW, thanks for this. Its so rare to get any kind of decent sound recordings from rocket launches. And you did good to keep the gain down to avoid distortion (and not get too much of the crowd noise).

[GiacomoMiola]

Best recorded sound of a rocket you can find on the internet

[TristanVeerbeek]

This rocket sounds so intense, so amazing. I like such sounds so much!

[FredtheDorfDorfman]

I love the sound of those sonic booms coming out of those nozzles. Nothing can top the Saturn V's Earth rattling sound, but the Space Shuttle, Delta IV Heavy, and Falcon IX Heavy come close, especially the Space Shuttle and those massive SRB's. I thought it was so cool when Apollo 11, I think, ascended through a thin cloud/haze layer, made a hole in that layer, and once it was above, you could see ripples in the cloud layer from the sonic booms coming out of those five huge Rocketdyne F-1's. They said the reinforced glass panels of the NASA launch control facility, of several inches in thickness, were rattling in their frames when the Saturn V's went up. They worried that the frames would fail and the window collapse in on their heads.

[hawaiidispenser]

Very nice. Got me fired up. It's after midnight and now I want to lift weights.

[MELODYMUNRO]

Witnessing a live rocket launch is number 3 on my bucket list...
1.Go to Antarctica  
2.See a tornado  
3. Live rocket launch..
                        ..better start saving....

[php]

OMG I love playing this on my full range soundsystem. Best sounds recording of a space rocket. I don't know how you did it but you did it. Awsome intensity and air pounding power. Sure hope the guy who recorded this gets the Falcon Heavy and the SLS. My big sound system is begging for more.

[SomFunk]

Really awesome sound recording! Gives some idea of the loudness.

[pyrusrex]

There is nothing better than the sound of an all hydrogen/oxygen launch vehicle when you're in the acoustic mach cone looking right up the engine bells. God that sounds intimidating. Hypergolic, kerosene, and solid rockets just can't quite make that sharp metallic popping roar. I think it's because of the higher exhaust velocity. I imagine that's probably what the battle of the Somme sounded like.

[troddsox]

Birds are like "Dafuq is this shit?"

[emptysoul]

I love the "cracking" sound of enjines, it's just amazing...

[HiroNguy]

I put in my best earbuds, cranked the volume as high as it'd go, and this was the best \m/ concert in YT!

[armoris]

This is somthing I've wanted to see live since I was a kid in the early 70s.
This and Top Fuel drag racing has to be on everyone's bucket list. So far have only managed to experience the latter.
Thanks for posting 👍🏾.