is truly amazing.

Very cool!

Very cool!

Did you watch it to the end?

Great sound...I am at work on my laptop at the moment so I will have to play it again at home on my desktop with 5.1 sound.It says the sound was done by; Skywalker Sound, the George Lucas audio department responsible for so much science fiction, turns its golden-eared genius to mixing and enhancing the real sound of a Solid Rocket Booster from lift-off to splashdown. Credit: NASA Glenn Research Center / Skywalker SoundI was half expecting the Empire song to come on when it made it to space :LMAO:Cheers

Awesome. One time I can truly use that word. The sound was spooky.At T187 seconds Canaveral is visible. Amazing!

Right before splashdown, there was another, assumed that was the the second booster. After splashdown, there was another parachute in the distance, Does anyone know what was that one?

Brilliant.

Great! I used to watch the last three take offs via web. Nice NASA TV Channel.

Right before splashdown, there was another, assumed that was the the second booster. After splashdown, there was another parachute in the distance, Does anyone know what was that one?

It's actually the top cone of the booster you see, as the SRBs come down in four pieces. To get an idea, go to 10:08 of this video and look on the left corner of the recovery ship:

Thanks Zach. A fitting conclusion to a great video. :(

A Pink Floyd soundtrack would fit perfectly into this video. Maybe some song from the early years.

A song would ruin this experience, just as it does all of them with someones favourite track! You are obviously not a conniseur of real sounds?A song would ruin this experience, just as it does all of them with someones favourite track! You are obviously not a conniseur of real sounds?A song would ruin this experience, just as it does all of them with someones favourite track! You are obviously not a conniseur of real sounds?

To the OPThanks so much for sharing! I am a shuttle fanatic! Sad that we have axed the program.... :(

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Had the chance to listen to it this morning properly at home in 5.1 sound.The only thing that came to mind was at the point when the Solid Rocket Boosters are jettison, this is at a height of about 150,000 feet. Would it be possible to have sound at that altitude?I am thinking there wouldn't be any sound outside of those boosters at that altitude because their is no air for sound to travel through.

The Karman line, or edge of space and atmosphere, doesn't begin until about 326,000 ft. So even at the SRB's "perigee" or maximum height of 220,000 FT (so I've heard), there's thin atmosphere. In other words, the SRBs never make it to outer space.Even then, yes, the atmosphere is extremely thin at these altitudes. I'm sure the sound recording system was designed to also pick up sounds through the rigid body of the SRBs --the "vibrations".