Rocket Blasts 137,500 Feet into Sub-Orbit

[GhostTX]

http://dsc.discovery.com/adventure/watch-this-rocket-blast-137500-feet-into-sub-orbit.html#mkcpgn=fbdsc17

[347Mike]

I think I'm going to be sick.

[skinnystangman]

Badass!!

[Buick355]

Cool. I want to build one.

[Sgt Beavis]

Good to see Armadillo Aerospace is still making progress with the Stig rocket.

[JFurst]

what if it hit an airliner?

[jason07]

How far do you have to get into the earth's atmosphere do you have to get before things get real hot?

[Geor!]

That's awesome how the sound fades out as the air gets thinner.

[Geor!]

How far do you have to get into the earth's atmosphere do you have to get before things get real hot?

The higher you go, the colder.

[46Tbird]

How far do you have to get into the earth's atmosphere do you have to get before things get real hot?

Air density decreases with altitude. Things actually get colder at altitude. What makes space vehicles and high performance / high altitude aircraft 'get real hot' is the friction they create in flight while travelling through the thin atmosphere. The shuttle re-enters earth's atmosphere at about 17,500 mph and that causes a lot of friction.

[SS Junk]

The GoPro started bleeding.

Air density decreases with altitude. Things actually get colder at altitude. What makes space vehicles and high performance / high altitude aircraft 'get real hot' is the friction they create in flight while travelling through the thin atmosphere. The shuttle re-enters earth's atmosphere at about 17,500 mph and that causes a lot of friction.

Yes, but could it launch on a conveyor belt???

[46Tbird]

Not if it matches the speed!

[talisman]

what if it hit an airliner?

Then they'd crash. I'd think that would be sort of obvious.

[Trip McNeely]

Thats badass. Definitely not the caliber rocket we launched in High School Science class. lol

[Geor!]

Then they'd crash. I'd think that would be sort of obvious.

I don't think he's ever been referred to as the sharpest knife in the tool box...