Posted on 08/26/2013 1:50:38 PM PDT by lbryce
YouTube:Awesome View of the Shuttle Launch in HD and Enhanced Sound
From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay by NASA/Glenn a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. The sound is all from the camera microphones and not fake or replaced with foley artist sound. The Skywalker sound folks just helped bring it out and make it more audible.
I was there for the very last shuttle launch. It was interesting to see how many people from different countries were there as well. It rained most of the night and we had a miserable night sleeping in our truck. But somehow I just knew the flight was going to go. It was a most spectacular sight.
It was also a bittersweet moment knowing that a program that I watched starting with Allan Shepard’s sub-orbital flight had ended. It was said well earlier. we are no longer a country capable of great deeds and bold visions. We have become a country of whiners and beggars.
To all who participated in the Manned Space Program, well done. To our political elites, for shame.
Thats got to be kick in the pants !!
Im a Saturn V man myself but am impressed every time I see the liquid fuel rockets fire and start to build up thrust....then the SRBs literally EXPLODE to life ....WOW
I’m sure it is an awesome video but nothing beats standing there as the rocket shakes your bellybutton loose as it roars into space.
Very cool. I had the privilege of working on some attitude control components that went up on a Shuttle flight (they were part of the Space Telescope), and this video gave me a wonderful insight into a part of the system I really hadn’t paid enough attention to before (other than the post-Challenger inquiry). Fascinating! Thank you!
Yup. Worked on the system for 36 years. Twelve years in New Orleans and 24 at KSC. Sadly the orbiters were only used about 30% of their design life. Escalating costs, continuing issues, aging ground systems led to it’s demise with nothing in the wings (so to speak) to take their place. When the Saturn program was winding down at least the shuttle was on the drawing board. Thanks to all the taxpayers who funded it. Standing outside the VAB for a launch was AWESOME!!!!!. Double sonic booms when they came home was AWESOME!!!! Yeah, I miss it. If we were still flying today, I’d still be there. Remarkable things were done that some will never realize. (The Saturn nozzles were cooled by running cryos around the outside of the nozzles)
Funny how small government conservatives are mostly for decades of burning money on a poor and unsafe design by the federal government, and wish it continued.
When I was four years old we lived in a house on the edge of the “flight ops” area of Carswell AFB in Ft. Worth, a few hundred yards from the runway itself.
Got to watch a lot of B-36s takeoff from that distance.
They made the ground shake.
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