Twin sonic booms from space shuttle Atlantis 2008

[crispycritterz]

I'm gonna miss that.

[ManEatingSharks]

So glad I got up for STS 135's... and so glad I didn't sleep in for once.

[BBT609]

I have experienced this on the last day Atlantis was coming in Titusville

[matt876mma]

i'd love to have heard that, i bet its like somone punching your stomach twice in real life.

[virustwin]

but shouldnt we be able to see them as well? i know the sound travels more slowly than light but there is no indication of a visual cua anywhere or did they start filming too late?

[lawker777]

how loud is it? do u get deaf?

[virustwin]

@lawker777 lol, no it sounds like a distant explosion

[WeslieJJ94]

Or is it because he goes back to a slower speed?

[StormMaiden07]

I never get tired of hearing the sonic boom from the shuttle, as I have always lived about 2 hrs from Kennedy Space Center. It will be such a bummer when the shuttle retires :(

[burlface]

why did two go off i only see one ship?

[crisp124]

@burlface im no expert but one is for the tip of the front and the other one is the back on the tail that happens to everything that enters our atmosphere

[basimpsn]

@burlface Yep one sonic boom cause from the point of the nose and the another cause from the top of the rudder, If there was another point that higher and behind the rudder,,than there would be three sonic boom lol

[milex94]

Holy crap was that cloud looking thing the shuttle??

[Jimbob8971]

nothing like the good old sonic booms to wake you up in the morining (Antelope Valley 1964)

[rickster348]

that sounded like gun shots. In the 1960's you heard sonic booms all the time. They had a distant, longer boom.

[N37BU6]

Clean audio... THANK YOU!

Ahh, for once no people blabbing.

[x0lamborghini0x]

Thats somebody firing a gun, well it would make sense right..its America!!!

[basketbuie]

KNOCK KNOCK can i come back into the atmosphere? lol 

[MarcoRenna82]

@basketbuie nice LoL

[Trex1094]

@basketbuie The answer is always yes.. except once in '03

[chimchar817]

I almost shit my pants when i heard this at my house! i had nooo idea it was the space shuttle lol

[TheIDB1]

sounds like somebody shooting a double barrel shotgun, it should be deeper

[KJT922010T]

It shook my house today

[aberhan78]

why twin ? cause of double engines(motors i mean) ???

[JamesTheHedgehod3]

Wow dude That was totaly alsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cygnus122]

"WE'RE BACK!!!!!"

[Arkbird100]

idk if you see it but the shape in the clouds thingys show like some kind of jet or a sillouette of some sort idk its probably my screen

[dietzchris]

i wonder if the space shuttle what their creating in new mexico will have a sonic boom as well. when reentry.

[Highwaycrazy]

When it passes over New Mexico, its probably too high up to hear the sonic boom

[Ud0nTgNoMiE]

I live in nw ga and heard one from the fla space center. its the only one ive ever heard and it scared me half to death.

[Luli3676]

You were on that shuttle and you can't spell SAFE? Damn liar!!!

[gunsproof]

@Luli3676

it's a very hard word to spell

[mikerowade]

I was on the Station Fire when the space shuttle landed in California on Sept. 11, 2009. We could feel it when the twin sonic booms went off. It took us until later that night, when we could listen to the radio, to realize it was just the shuttle and not something worse. Once we knew what it was, it made our day.

[gangstor123]

wait how can people in california hear this all the way from florida please give me an explamation ive never heard a sonic boom cause i live in new york but was the shuttle close to cali. when the sonic boom went off????

[likherfeet]

@gangstor123 Sometimes the weather in Florida may not permit a safe shuttle landing, so the alternate landing site would be Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. And you also have to realize that this a space shuttle re-entering our atmosphere at speeds incapable of a fighter jet doing a mach flyby at a air show. So the sonic boom can be heard miles and miles away, such as in Long Beach, CA where I was when I heard it.

[vinsilfon]

Welcome back, guys!!

[otoevst]

The NASA-guys has this all over calmness, like they're prepared for everything.

If the shuttle had exploded, or being beamed away by a UFO, I guess he would just maintained his calmness: )

[nubbie1944]

@otoevst After Challenger exploded the announcer just says: Obviously a major malfunction. Look it up.

[FlumpSheck]

the bird next to the shuttle >_>

[jmpollyroco]

what made the twin sonic booms?

[youssefdahustler]

read the description!

[mmbbz]

as the shuttle re enters it it travelling faster than sound, shockwaves build up at the nose and rear creating a double bang. all sonic booms are twin bangs but for example fighter jets are smaller so the booms are much faster so we only hear 1 boom. vapor cones occur at all speeds, they're unrelated to supersonic flight

[1uneek]

Thank for that explanation. My son freaked out today sept 11 2009 around 6pm when we heard those twin booms from the shuttle landing in cali.

[YourMomisZero]

hey u heard it i all ready knew what it was (long beach ca) thats were im from everybody ran out and since im mexican me and my family in the front yard with lawn chairs and beer waiting to see what will happen

[mmbbz]

no problem. now you know what to tell your son when he hears another sonic boom.

[hybridpyrotech]

thats because its going hypersonic (more than 5000km/h)

[BeebeCh1972]

The nose and tail of an airplane, or space shuttle in this case.

[M00FlN]

I thought it was supposed to cause waves that you can visibly see? *sigh* Now I'm confused =(

[sledger25]

it depends on the atmospheric conditions at the time.. if the conditions are just right (moist, humid), you can visibly see the shuttle break the sound barrier.

[jeffreyklm]

The comment above me is correct. But you also only get that cone if you break it. once you've broken.. not when you keep flying mach 1+.

[pvvned]

sonic boom? more like sonic queefs

[RyanRmz]

LMAO!!

[antiego1]

lol

[moosepok]

The shuttle often passes over my house when it lands in Florida - and believe me, this video does no justice to the the sonic boom it makes. It scares the crap out of me everytime I hear it - it's not really like thunder - it's a much more intense short burst of sound. It shakes the whole house and windows.

[ShitMyAssFucker]

kooool you should film it it....does anybody knows why does it happen

[sledger25]

the shuttle makes twin sonic booms when descending below the speed of sound because of two pressure waves that build up at the nose of the shuttle and at the tail.. when those pressure waves explode.. they reach our ears as a sound and that is what a sonic boom is... the shuttle makes 2 sonic booms, like all aircraft do, except that the shuttle is so large that you can hear them as two and not as one, a with all other aircraft that exceed the speed of sound.. i think i have it right..,

[ShitMyAssFucker]

thanks for bothering brooo

[casurfer1973]

Your telling me. I have only lived in Florida 2 years in Titusville and it shakes our house everytime and still scares me even though I know its coming....lol

[sdr102895]

wat causes a sonic boom? why does da space shuttle make that sound?

[GFGLegendary]

When an airplane travels through the air, it produces sound waves. If the plane is traveling slower than the speed of sound (the speed of sound varies, but 700 mph is typical through air), then sound waves can propagate ahead of the plane. If the plane breaks the sound barrier and flies faster than the speed of sound, it produces a sonic boom when it flies past. The boom is the "wake" of the plane's sound waves. 'Wake' as in a boat's wake, the wave in front of a boat.

[superskullmaster]

Close but no cigar. It has nothing to do with sound at all but for the fact that sound travels at a certain speed. The reason you hear a sonic boom is because the AIR not SOUND is being compressed and does not have time to move out of the way of the air in front of it which causes the pressure to build up severely. Our ears interpret the compressed air(shock wave) as a pop or two. Same thing happens with lightning but that comes from rapidly expanding air due to 50,000 degree heat.

[JustinSouvanna]

That's like almost exactly what my teacher told me.

[elsoda]

shit, i remember the first time i heard the sonic boom in orlando, fla....i ran and screamed like a little bitch!

[sk8erboi55789]

haha i did the same shit when i was living in tampa, jumped clear off my bike and ran inside

[crossey83]

In simple terms because its traveling at sustained supersonic speed there is a shock wave shed at the nose and another at the tail

[ulisespaceprobe]

You're right, and if the shuttle was longer from nose to tail, that difference in size would render a loger gap between the two booms.

[crossey83]

Wrong, its nothing to do with the design, its the distance travelled by the shock wave/s, ie. Concorde produced a double bang. A supersonic body produces an oblique shock wave, which sheds off the trailing edges as 2 shocks. In this case the shuttle is so far away the shocks have time to separate, and are detected on ground as 2 bangs.

[hurri749]

right

[hurri749]

You can hear a twin boom cause the shuttle is realy far

[joachim2464]

there reason it is a twin boom and not one is because of the shape of the shuttle. There is one boom for the nose of the spacecraft and one for the tail. not because it is far away

[hurri749]

Man, I think we are tellin' the same thing, you're right but also the airplanes makes two booms but they are too close to us to let us clearly hear the front and the rear boom, cause they are melted toghether

[joachim2464]

you are right, i discovered it last night. The distance creates two sonic booms, but the shuttles design also creates two booms:)

[John0619]

That's a good design, Atleast Nasa will know the difference between an experimental aircraft ariving or if it's the shittle's...

[th3showstoppa]

amazing the way with a space shuttle u hear twin sonic booms but with a fighter jet u usually only hear one, its coz of the different designs of the planes, fucken awesome sound

[tandj1216]

awesome

[sweetmon18]

when i was playing baseball at night i hear it was cool when ever thinks it some thing eles

[johnschaser]

very cool, I was there to see the launch of this shuttle mission

[asascujevic]

not cool man

[prozak242]

Here's to Major General Yeager !

[vcdiiv]

that will show the russians!!

[sturat6]

sumint about that sound that makes me smile

[KINGSRT4]

AWSOME

[foley15136]

Always cool. Never gets old.