Launch: Maximum Thrust [Rocket Audio]
Channel: ivanmyles
Date: 2013-09-29

Experience the excitement of the space shuttles' rise to orbit. Launch: Maximum Thrust simultaneously shows up to five camera angles of the ascent from main engine ignition through Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) separation. This version features the rocket engine audio without commentary. Other formats are also available:

- Crew Audio: http://youtu.be/tjkufd_OaJE
- Crew Audio with Subtitles: http://youtu.be/DXXrAiXUeXE

Higher bitrate copies of these videos can be viewed and downloaded at Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/launch-maxt.

Video footage was recorded by NASA engineering and television cameras. Motion stabilization of long-range shots provides stunning close-up views of the spacecraft in flight. Audio was taken from multiple shuttle launches. Microphones positioned near the launch pad and aboard the orbiter captured the roar of the engines firing, the rush of air as the shuttle accelerates, and the explosive boom of SRB separation. 

The opening provides a slow-motion view of the space shuttle ignition sequence. At T-0 an explosive charge releases the Solid Rocket Booster hold down posts from the Mobile Launcher Platform. The SRBs are ignited and liftoff occurs.

Launch: Maximum Thrust was developed in conjunction with Launch: All Systems Go:

- 60 fps: https://youtu.be/kqMYqGZGIYI
- 50 fps: https://youtu.be/iMKMTyhqyeM

Produced and edited by Ivan Myles. Footage provided by NASA courtesy of NASASpaceFlight.com, SpaceFlightNowPlus.com, and Internet Archive.

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