Booster Separation News Today

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I mean, its very emotional. Columbias three main engines draining a half a ton of Fuel Per second, heading towards space on the first Shuttle Mission of the year. You know how on tv it looks like youre going up really smoothly . No, not at all. Its kind of a wild ride. And theres a lot of vibration. And on my first flight, it was so much, i thought to myself, theres something wrong here. Cannot possibly feel like this. Solid Rocket Booster Separation confirmed. Guidance now converging. Columbias...

Are those rocket boosters. there are two of them. were accustomed to seeing those. they help deliver the trust to get you in orbit. theyll eventually peel away. those two are going to come back and land about eight minutes after launch. theyll land about nine miles away from the launch pad. thats one of the coolest things to watch these rockets return, which is part of the mission of spacex, to make space flight more affordable. to do that, you make it more reusable, something with saturn 5 they...

Ignition. >> a launch of the spacex falcon heavy rocket today marked the first time for a rocket with a payload that heavy since nasas saturn five that took the astronauts to the moon in the apollo mission. todays launch went off flawlessly. elon musk having given it a 50% to two-thirds chance of success. many among the many fantastic factors that could have led to failure were three booster rockets with 27 engines. just past three minutes after launch, the booster separation was a clear success...

Six, five, four, three, two, one. ignitio ignition. >> a launch of the spacex falcon heavy rocket today marked the first time for a rocket with a payload that heavy since nasas saturn five that took the astronauts to the moon in the apollo mission. todays launch went off flawlessly. elon musk having given it a 50% to two-thirds chance of success. many among the many fantastic factors that could have led to failure were three booster rockets with 27 engines. just past three minutes after launch, ...

There we go. booster separation. and there you have history in the making. the booster rockets are coming off. they have separated successfully. you are now looking for the core separation, thats the next thing to happen inside of ten seconds. this is now 75 kilometers in the air. this is the next -- >> the rockets will be back on the ground in five minutes. and that is it. you have the core separation. there you go. listen to the screaming in the background. listen to the cheering. wow. this co...

It looks pretty dramatic when you look at that video. i think we have it, and can i with also slow it down and watch it as well. what youre seeing is thats foam coming off being shed from the giant external tank. so its after booster separation, and again its just about 3 1/2 to 4 minutes in. looks real dramatic, but the reality is when you get up that high in the altitude, the atmosphere is so thin that these pieces of debris which unfortunately do fall off on a fairly regular basis, they reall...

Booster separation confirmed. "discoverys" guidance is now converging as the shuttles on board computers define the flights. >> neil: we always get leary 25 years after the space shuttle challenger disaster throttle up at 78, 80 seconds or so. get through that and, of course, the boosters dislodge from the main vehicle. and that did happen. so, endeavour on her way to space. the last -- im so ever "discovery" on the way to space endeavour next month. we have tom jones joining us now the nasa ast...

Its altitude 24 miles. >> okay getting ready for a booster separation there. there they go. we see them. youll see them on your monitor right now. here they are. the boosters separate, fall away. >> booster separation confirmed as "discoverys" guidance is converging. fine-tune the flight. >> 2:25 into the "discovery" traveling 3,189 miles an hour. its altitude 37 miles. kennedy space center 53 miles. >> boy that was a shot that were just seeing. you can see the twin boosters off to the -- like f...

Is not required. >> good read. >> always good to see. its amazing to see every time and my heart skips a beat just watching it. its like -- its like listening to the "national anthem," right, you get that feeling in your -- >> i just love it when they say youre going 11,000 miles an hour and in a minute -- >> going 14,000 miles. >> wow. >> two things, chad, before we talk further that you look for. the booster separation, everythings a-ok, and then the external fuel tanks, and youre like, okay, ...