Space Shuttle Launch Audio - play LOUD (no music) HD 1080p

You need a sound system with a lot of power and a great sub (turned up to house shaking level) to get the right effect of this video. I made this for all the people who dreamed of seeing a launch in person but were never able to make the trip themselves (myself included).

Using dozens of different video sources and countless audio versions of Shuttle launches I mixed this little clip together to mimic as close an experience to the real thing as I could. I know that the exact sequence of countdown events is somewhat compressed and not time-accurate but I was going more for the 'feel' of a high energy launch experience rather than a technical documentary. Throttle Up and SRB Separation are sounds as might be heard from onboard acoustic transducers picking up resonant vibration in the vehicle's structure.

Please take care not to damage your sound equipment during playback. I did not do anything to boost the low frequency roar of the Shuttle during liftoff but the SRB and SSME thrust noise may be taxing to even high quality sub-woofers and speaker cones if played too loud.

For those who sit through the last few frames you can catch a glimpse of my home theater system I built a couple of years ago. This video really is best viewed at 165 inches or better!

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  Science & Technology

[Scott Andrew]

pretty fucking amazing, but still a primitive way to travel the cosmos.

[TC Millan]

No matter how many times I view those images, it still brings a smile to my face... friggin' coolest thing I've ever seen!

[helbatoory]

@Scott clay

Finding out how things work in zero gravity won't help humanity.

Why are we wasting money on this instead of helping the starving people on the world?

[TheFunfairfan]

Why would anyone thumb down this.. Incredible.. Thank you.

[Daniel Rideout]

No, you don't want to.

[Daniel Payne]

Imagine the warhead you could put on that thing!!

[IIGaMeSlaVe540II]

Watch this while listening to Contact by Daft Punk.

[shanemark88]

Youtube on android sucks big time constant buffering

[gilsonQS]

no matter how primitive it's. !!

It's a marvelous engineering piece. Was the culmination of the greatest minds of the Nasa.

[KeenoDemar25]

2:15 sound barrier

[josh hernandez]

gay



[Roy Alex]

Hope that's what it's like when I die