SpaceX landing from Vandenberg with Epic Sonic Boom. Man jumps... Wait for it... What was that? 

That was a good one. You should work for SpaceX.

And we’ve already received the callout of “nominal orbital insertion”. Mission success! :)

You win!

Has its legs deployed for landing? 😂

I think I’d have had meco

Scared everyone!

They're even more intense on Banana River, near LZ1 & LZ2 at the cape. When you see a Falcon Heavy launch, you hear 3 sonic booms from each booster in groups. It's intense.

You know it's coming but it scares you every time.

@@LordFalconsword Awesome for sure!

@@LordFalconsword I'd love to see a falcon heavy launch!

Nice of them to coordinate their efforts

@@toddhershberger as with all flat earthers, it was a conspiracy :D

@@toddhershberger That would make it the first time they coordinated anything.

Hahahahaahahhaah comment of the year

No, I think they are flat-earthers because they have banged their head on a wall XD

Space exploration is awe inspiring. I think it's important to continue to inspire humanity and the next generation of engineers. It's nice that we can marvel at this human achievement together during this difficult time.

Not to worry. It isn't green, it isn't sustainable, and Musk is a systemic racist. I'm sure President Biden will do everything he can to cancel Space-X.

Come to Germany here is 101% shit. There is only one innovation that the German Goverment can not prevent: STARLINK

@@BenGun1962 How are they doing on trying to prevent the factory in Berlin?

Absolutely. What a team!

It does exite me, can we be friends now?

I have enough friends

THANK YOU! Been tellin people man.. 😂

Good

@@seedplanter7173 In the end you need just 6 "friends".

Booster : [sonic boom] Dog : Current Objective [RUN]

A Quick Brown Dog Jumped Over the Loud White Falcon's Sonic Boom

I once took my dog to an airshow, I thought it will be fun. No it wasn't!

Cutest thing I’ve seen,

If this sound had happened in South Central L.A., people would've ducked!

Welcome to the tribe Gabriel!

Ayo

Is this the Gabriel replies? since I happen to be Gabriel too

My fellow Gabriels, this was truly meant to be.

If you think you have "found your people", you are a member of a cult.

Light travels faster than sound

@@anderspettersson2958 Yes and that is cool.

Sound is much slower than light

@@toddhershberger I know, I love how this is just such a perfect demonstration of that. And that you didn't edit the sound to match the action - too many people do that.

@@BazilRat uhhhm what ahhaha, the rocket is moving faster than sound that’s what creates this effect lol

Time for a physics lesson, he/she will always remember.

It’s to scare the chickens off the landing pad

Me ..where like ...I'm glad you ask son 😁😁

They are at Hooters behind a green screen

@Lachlan Trescott not going to happen but you might see a bomb being dropped on you after the revolution

Makes sense

That's the best comment. Made me laugh 🤣

Not exactly

What's your fav?

Of Course I Still Love You

Launch pad to first stage: “That was quick!”

I didn't even notice. Nice observation!💯

Yeah that is absolutely sick! The thought that you are seeing an object coming in to land that literally just put an object into outer space into a low earth orbit coming in to land and be reused! Absolutely incredible, really glad you pointed that out so I made sure that you made a good first impression because I saw the comment as I was watching the video and saw it for the first time after, not before reading your comment. Awesome!

@@dmeemd7787 It just shows how calm of a day that was; round trip for that booster is what, 15 minutes? With that smoke still there it's a dead calm day, perfect for rocket launches and skydiving.

Well Captain, having watched a dozen or more of these at Cape Canaveral, I would argue that the short trail of white "smoke" in this video from which the descending booster emerges is not part of the smoke contrail it made on the way up... rather it is the visible (condensing water) downward shock wave from the booster going subsonic in the lower atmosphere. If so, it marks the location where the audible sonic boom was actually generated.

Thanks for the explanation @Russell That is interesting

You're too kind. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving

Stay positive.

Better stop having any hope because the NWO Democrats just got elected. Nothing but sheer tyranny now

@@seedplanter7173 Trump’s administration was the definition of Tyranny. He’s a loser. His cult are losers. Long live space exploration.

Why do people always have to make everything political? It ruins everything.

@@AzureDefiance3701 it’s because people constantly need their ego stimulated and talking about politics does just that

It's a big surprise

He almost fell over. Lol

The little girl on the right at bottom did as well

@@forwardthinkingtrucker Hopefully, her parents warned her

the woman on the far left, next to the plane did it too lol

and the poor doggos

My pleasure 🙏

Maybe it was...

Well, you were watching a Spaceship land...so, ya know....not a silly thing to feel,

A bit of fun about SpaceX ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-34Oxq5w3iQI.html

It's a great time to be alive

All the slaves his family used to make money, not so much.

I've watched Alan Shephard's first sub-orbital flight on grainy black and white TV, and now this on RU-vid. An interesting span of time, to be sure.

Gazzadubsmate they didn’t read the fine print

@@gazzadubsmate all this money that Elon musk has came from Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX and his other companies. His family has nothing to do with his fortune, maybe only with his education while children and university.

No they didn't

They have heightened hearing right So let's say that dog heard something entirely different 😂😂😂😂

Yeah lol they are quite annoying, but its kinda refreshing to hear someone so excited

Haha

Yes .. if I hear the word "nominal" again I will scream ..

@@cathompson58 lol

RU-vid is so much better without people bitching about free content that they watch while doing absolutely nothing.

Poor dogs

Thanks. Agreed. I love rockets 🚀

Me too!

I've got some cool starship shots.

Where do you post them?

Smarter everyday has a good video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ImoQqNyRL8Y.html&ab_channel=SmarterEveryDay

Go to Vandenberg yourself, dude

@@AerialFrameworks If I wanted your opinion two years ago, I would've asked, dip s h i t.

haha

Too much CO2 and too technical. They rather stick with gender science. After all, they do have now about 69 genders in Germany. And it's getting more by the month. For AI they have two departments at their universities, for gender studies nearly 20.

@@toddhershberger Nothing to lough if you live here. From the perspective from the outside you might think germany is a great country. THAT IS NOT TRUE! Google will help: Electricity Price, Condition of Streets, Politicans with self made doctor titles, Immigrants with over 20 identitys, genderwahn, Income and taxes, autonomous driving and UNECE Rules.And billions from the Taxpayer transfered to BMW. IONITY price one kWh = 79 cent.

My God that was funny. Caught me WAY offguard :) Well played Andreas!!

Germans

My thoughts exactly.

I'm honored to have captured the moment. Thank you

It's good that there are such people Life would be less funny without them

Good point 👍

Every so often here in the UK there will be a report of an explosion heard over a large area of the country, it’s the RAF Typhoons going supersonic to intercept Russian aircraft frying just a bit too close to UK airspace. People don’t realise quite how loud a sonic boom is, it’s what did for Concorde as a viable form of transport.

We try. USA

Our roads suck though

@JLOrtiz AudioyVisual Yes, that's right.

@@ken-mb5cp everything is relative. You haven't driven ours yet

Wellz not actually everything, but mostly

Those engineers have brilliant minds. It's incredible what humanity has accomplished!🚀

Thousands of hours of scientific research. Definitely NOT a “miracle”. But yes, amazing for sure.

Not at all miraculous. A lot of hard work and the right technology at the right time.

@@toomanyhobbies2011 Yes, it is.

I think you are referring to the grid fins. Yes. SpaceX teams make it look so easy. They did go through a learning process in the early days and many rockets exploded. Getting to space is hard.

@@toddhershberger The first time I saw the grasshopper in a hover I just didn't understand the end game - the vision that started with that, to end up here, is amazing. People who claim this is a setup or fake just don't seem to remember exactly how many rockets crashed in order to achieve success.

Jay, the landing is truly phenomenal. The rocket must carry enough fuel on board to slow the descent. In other words, it carries fuel that is not used for ascent but only descent. At the same time the guidance computer is working and performing thousands of calculations while servos direct the rocket nozzle and stabilizer fins. I'm not sure this could have happened 20 years ago. It took the private sector with profit as its sole motivation to come up with a solution.

You just described a suicide burn. It's an actual term, look it up! Rocket suicide burns.

@ William Kelley I agree. I used to live in Lompoc. Saw many launches and they were pretty amazing. The people that didn’t know a launch was going to happen would wake up to their house shaking and would think there was an earthquake. Night launches were very spectacular.

If we make it.

No humans and an irradiated planet.

Anytime. Isn't the Internet amazing!

💯 agree

I learned in engine testing at Rotary Rocket that autofocus and vibration compensation lose their minds when you need them the most. Great footage, you might try Ocean Avenue next time, it feels like it's coming right down on you!

@Ed Straker So what!

@Ed Straker I think it's normal to call digital video recordings 'footage' in a hereditary way, especially when they are edited into some TV or streamed media programming, documentaries, etc. Nobody has been stitching films together for decades anyway, it's all converted to digital first.

Great equation

So it was about 18 miles away as it slowed down though Mach 1. Thank you for your helpful comment. You are a math wizard🚀

@@toddhershberger 1.8, not 18. Sound travels at (very) roughly 1000 feet per second, or roughly 5 and a bit seconds per mile, so 10 seconds = a little under 2 miles. 18 miles would be 95 seconds or a minute and a half before you hear the boom (and it would probably be too attenuated by then).

@@LackingUtility I am no math or science wiz but doesn't sound travel faster or at least more easily over water. I have always heard this but never knew if it was true.

Thanks. No problem!

Space Coast Life is a perfect name for you.

Jealous of what? What could you lose to a rocket, or am I missing something? Sincerely, I'm confused by that and just wondered if there's something obvious I ought to have picked up on!

@@WhiteUnicorn82, It's in plan english! Read it again.

@@WhiteUnicorn82 the grasp of basic english is tricky,give it a few years...you will come around 😉

Probably

🐕

It was fantastic!

Stop by

Vandenberg Village is nice

@@toddhershberger Very nice area. Grandpa was Chief Master Sergeant for a long time, then continued as a civilian at Vandenberg until he retired.

Thanks for watching and commenting

Was probably a "knee jerk" reaction...

Good one.

@@pwaitforits You don't understand RU-vid comments do you?

Better engineers?

A lot of cool plans flew into just to watch the launch. I never saw so many parked at Lompoc airport. It was really neat to see. I think there was a Cessna, Bonanza, and a Piper. I'm still new to aviation and plane models.

@@toddhershberger That's interesting - a SpaceX fly-in.

I'm glad Elon had the vision of becoming multiplanetary species.

@@toddhershberger Agreed.

We can't get past the vanallen belt

@@seedplanter7173 Don't feed the troll.

The great Arthur C. Clarke once said that we would have had a large base on the Moon (and other things in "2001: A Space Odyssey") but instead that level of expenditure went to the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race. Wrong priorities--the problem president Eisenhower warned us of in 1961.

thanks for the timestamp

Come on, it's exciting to seek out the tiny speck of silver in the endless blue sky, as the camera operator is fighting with autofocus :)

Alien spaceships don't exist.

Yes that does sound like an awesome experience.

For realz dog

Amazing right?!

@@toddhershberger amazing is an understatement... No word!

The status quo has changed. The conversation wasn't about reusability. I'm amazed that the engineers accomplished it. I'm sure there will be something in the future that will seem so obvious to future versions of us, that we haven't thought of yet.

@@toddhershberger I agree! Looking back at the Apollo program, it seems so crazy the only thing that came back was the capsule. All the wonderful tech inside the LEM just crashed back into the moon to generate seismic data.

A bit of fun about SpaceX ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-34Oxq5w3iQI.html

Thank you. 59,000 feet for the American folks here.

lol

right. people don't like living next to airports or rail yards, but some still do.

This is tell the grandkids type of material

Well, AT... For thirty years (1981-2011), 133 NASA Space Shuttles parachuted their pairs of 15-story tall rocket boosters from about the same height in space as the Falcon 9 first stage, into the Atlantic Ocean where they were recovered... towed into Port Canaveral... disassembled... steam cleaned... and sent by railroad car to Utah to be refubished, refilled with fuel and returned to Florida to fly again -- some segments as many as seven times. I promise you, this got to seem pretty damned "normal" to the Americans living around here and making it happen. P.S. Two or three weeks later the Shuttles themselves (with up to seven crew onboard) would de-orbit from the Space Station at 27 times the speed of sound and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere producing distinctive double sonic boom greetings for the fine folks in California and Florida. They would then land smoothly on the runway at Edwards or KSC -- to be refurbished and used again as many as THIRTY-NINE TIMES !! Those seemingly routine returns to Earth became "normal" (but always thrilling) for all of us also... But it now seems the young'uns have forgotten much of this -- or never knew. Peace.

Really? Say more

You never know when the sound is going to hit you. Bam!

Done. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I had mine on

It didn't had landed, it simply landed. Not sure why are you are putting had in front of landed. It's actually a very specific usage, perhaps look it up. It's used for clarity and there's nothing in your sentence that would make it unclear what you meant if had was not included. I hope you had understood what I mean.

​@@bruce2357 Bruh, I'm from Southeast Asia and English is not my first language so I do make mistakes sometimes. But that is normal since I also see people from English speaking countries making some grammar and spelling mistakes too but I don't criticize them. But I'll bet a thousand bucks you cannot speak my language while I can speak yours LOL ! Anyway, why don't you stick to the topic instead of criticizing the slight mistakes of others? You are a grammar Nazi and most people don't like grammar Nazis.

@@gerrycrisostomo6571 ¡Excelente respuesta, Gerry!

@@mauriciochaar Thank you brother.

@@gerrycrisostomo6571 ¡De nada, amigo! ¡Saludos desde Mendoza, Argentina!

The airport is fenced in.

The brown one ran but was brought back.

Very cool

Nice keyboard shortcut! The almighty 7

I'm curious what altitude it was at when it happened.

Sound travels slower than light.

Speed of sound travels at 772.67 @75f. That airport is 18 miles away from launch pad 6. Use some fancy trigonometry and i get 42.8 seconds (+/- 3 seconds due to temperature change in atmosphere). So using the time line of the video it appears the sonic boom is sent slightly before the Landing Burn. So roughly 15,700ft.

@@ZeroSpawn That's actually pretty darn good, it was reported transonic at roughly that altitude.

@@ZeroSpawn Excellent! While calculating in my head, I like using 5 seconds for every mile....not real precise, but works great for getting an idea how far in miles fireworks or lightening is from me.

I think 10 years is not enough time.

the same when the shuttles returned to edwards afb when i was there.

The technology has really improved

Good observation

I think the issue is that the stage one doesn't have enough fuel for it to reach Florida again. I think that the payload needs to be higher in the atmosphere. It's too far off the coast of Florida. I'm not a rocket scientist though.

@@toddhershberger He's talking about the Dragon Capsule, which technically could do a propulsive landing using its Draco thrusters, however NASA would not let SpaceX do that due to it being relative new technology and parachute landings have been used and proven to work for decades. If SpaceX were to propulsive land their Dragon Capsule, they would need to do alot of demonstration launches, potentially completely without payload (even science), which isn't economical.

Thank you for the thumbs down. I'm glad you noticed that this was an amateur video taken on my phone. I promise, I will use the infinity focus next time though. Scouts honor. Happy Thanksgiving

Cool

Hopefully, you didn't have your stereo amplifier cranked up to 11.

@@toddhershberger NO, not here, but someone listening with earphones may have a problem. thanks for the excellent video and sound!

People with military clearances were standing closer on north base of Vandenberg. I saw some photos posted on Twitter from somebody. I think they were standing north of Ocean Ave, so I think that was a few miles closer than the airport.

Wait for it.... Lol 😆

I'm glad you got a chance to see one. Epic

You are right. Overtime, we become complacent. The release of the iPhone had the audience spellbound.

But leave the audio so people don't talk in reverse too

it was in reverse

yeah well, Flat Earthers also say that Australia doesn't exist and we are all paid actors. You cant really believe anything that comes out of their mouths.

I'm surprised that there aren't that many ignorant flat earthers in this comment section. 😂😂😂

You should

That boom may have killed covid in a ten mile radius.

Thank you sir

I'm sorry you wasted your time.

The altitude of the supersonic vehicle affects how far sonic booms can travel. They're heard based on the width of the "boom carpet." The width ends up being about one mile for each 1,000 feet of altitude, so an aircraft flying at 50,000 feet would produce a sonic boom cone about 50 miles wide. Thank Google 🤪 But another commenter did the maths and worked out that it was about 14.7 kms in altitude so that would make it audible for just over 48 miles if I'm doing the calculation right, (good chance I messed it up though lol, can someone fact check that? Math ain't my strong point).

Many thanks!