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When you’re designing the world’s

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most powerful rocket ever there’s

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a million different things to think about.

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Here at Marshall l Space Flight Center

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we are considering all of those things

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in support of the Space Launch

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System. One of those things is

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the lift off environment produced

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by the rocket. Marshall l Space

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Flight Center in coordination with

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other centers such as Langley

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and Kennedy Space Center have

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designed this test setup in order

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to answer the questions of what

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are the lift off environments

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produced by the vehicle; what are

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the lift off environments seen by

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the tower and the mobile launch

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pad and what are the water sound

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suppression systems needed in

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order to mitigate the sound levels.

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The design you see back here has

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four liquid engines each having

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twelve hundred pounds of thrust

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…and two solids on either side

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each having approximately nine

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thousand pounds of thrust.

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So during my design I had to hold

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that total of approximately

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twenty-five thousand pounds of

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thrust in place so that it doesn’t

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fly away and injure someone.

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Our scale model rocket is amazing

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and our designer did a fabulous job of

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it and it’s an amazing piece of work.

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And inside that vehicle there is roughly

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over two hundred and fifty different

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ports for microphone and pressure

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transducer measurements. And each

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of those microphone measurements

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has a special little holder to hold the

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microphone in place. It’s an

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engineering marvel.

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Rocket sounds.

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Very loud sounds can be very

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damaging both to the rocket vehicle

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and to the crew.  The collection of

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this data has been very important

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to every launch vehicle we’ve

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ever designed and it’s especially

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important when you’re designing