{"id":3648,"date":"2012-05-03T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2012-05-03T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T04:10:55","slug":"the-sound-of-a-shuttle-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/05\/03\/the-sound-of-a-shuttle-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of a Shuttle Launch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting close to 2 years ago now that I was waiting in Orlando\u00a0desperately\u00a0hoping that I&#8217;d get to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2010\/11\/04\/a-heart-broken\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Shuttle Discovery<\/a>\u00a0launch in person, only to have it ripped away from me. I take solace in the fact that it was one of the longest launch delays in the Shuttle&#8217;s long history and whilst I didn&#8217;t get to go and see it when it did launch all those months later I did watch the online stream and my heart was renewed. Ever since then I&#8217;ve wanted to know what the experience would have been like and today it looks like I got my wish.<\/p>\n<p>An enterprising \u00a0YouTube user has set out to accomplish just that, and it&#8217;s magnificent:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Space Shuttle Launch Audio - play LOUD (no music) HD 1080p\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OnoNITE-CLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Playing it back on my\u00a0meagre\u00a0Logitech speakers was impressive enough so I can only imagine how it will go with a proper sound system. I&#8217;ve scared the cat enough today with just the first play through so I&#8217;ll probably lay off it for a little bit but suffice to say it&#8217;s an impressive recreation of what it would be like to be at a shuttle launch. I certainly got nerd chills listening to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting close to 2 years ago now that I was waiting in Orlando\u00a0desperately\u00a0hoping that I&#8217;d get to see the Space Shuttle Discovery\u00a0launch in person,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1417,329,66,3442,79,3441,37],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-discovery","tag-launch","tag-nasa","tag-recreation","tag-shuttle","tag-sound","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-WQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}