Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters

Launch of Space Shuttle and fall of solid rocket boosters back to earth.

Listen with some good speakers or headphones, because the sound is as cool as the images, especially after 4 minutes.

The mission is STS127. I didn't feel too bad about using NASA's video since I helped pay for it :-)

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Science & Technology

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• Space Shuttle
• NASA
• solid rocket boosters
• STS

[cepson]

This never gets old for me. They all look the same, take about the same time, and start and end the same way, but I never get tired of seeing it.

[galactiphat]

@kachinababe

They get recovered and refinished (the ocean salt corrodes them badly), and then reused. Occasionally they are damaged upon reentry beyond repair, and have to be replaced.

[chersch5]

@kachinababe There are only a certain amount of SRB's that Nasa uses on the shuttles. All SRB's are recovered by ships and tested, refueled, and reused. The same original SRB's that were used on the first ever launch of Columbia are still being used today. They splashdown and are recovered in the Gulf just south of Tallahassee after each flight, having their own guidance system landing them there every time.

[lucky1529]

at 6:45 are there people swimming there, or is that the waves?

[mach25man]

Yes to both

[kachinababe]

The sound they make comming back into the atmosphere is creepy. Do they get recovered? Reused?