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Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

Michael Interbartolo · 8.4M views · 2012-03-15 · 8:32

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Overview

Footage from a camera on a Space Shuttle solid rocket booster from liftoff through descent, with audio enhanced by Skywalker Sound from the original camera microphones. The sound is real, not foley.

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HN recommends it for its raw, mostly natural audio and for conveying the speeds and violence of a shuttle launch and booster descent.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2014–2014

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What people said

0x0 · 2014-11 · Strong recommendation

I immediately had to re-watch this pretty awesome video after reading the article: [VIDEO] It goes from liftoff to space and back to earth in a handful of minutes, and the enhanced (but real) audio is pretty creepy.

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ejr · 2014-07 · Recommendation

There's deceleration involved as well. Here's a very nice video of the shuttle boosters on their way down to give you an idea of the velocities involved. [VIDEO] An enormous amount of inertia to overcome so 30% doesn't sound so unlikely.

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sk5t · 2014-03 · Recommendation

This video of a booster rocket has excellent, mostly-natural sound: [VIDEO] It came to mind due to the airborne / hostile environment combination...

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