Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

Michael Interbartolo3 HN recommenders · 2014–2014
8.4M views · demo · evergreen · Uploaded 2012-03-15

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.

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

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3 comments from Hacker News

@sk5t2014 · in “Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]”

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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@ejr2014 · in “SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage”

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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@0x02014 · in “The Mysterious Mental Side Effects of Traveling into Space”

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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