These videos are old hats really, I suspect most military geeks will have seen at least one of them at some point. But I hadn't in a long while, and although the image quality is abysmal by modern standards, the chilling sound track after all these years still more than makes up for it! Maybe somebody else will enjoy the trip down memory lane as much as I did.
The launch shown is the same in both clips, a small satellite (named Eros A) launched using the START SLV, which is simply a retired SS-25 ICBM. First one is the better known of the two, with the sound apparently recorded close up and synchronised to imagery filmed from further away - call it the radio edit:
Less famous but equally awesome is the longer, live-in-concert version, however. Both sound and video are from the spectator's perspective, with the noise appropriately muffled and delayed, as well as audience cheers for added goose bumps:
Now THAT'd be a way to welcome the new year
The launch shown is the same in both clips, a small satellite (named Eros A) launched using the START SLV, which is simply a retired SS-25 ICBM. First one is the better known of the two, with the sound apparently recorded close up and synchronised to imagery filmed from further away - call it the radio edit:
Less famous but equally awesome is the longer, live-in-concert version, however. Both sound and video are from the spectator's perspective, with the noise appropriately muffled and delayed, as well as audience cheers for added goose bumps:
Now THAT'd be a way to welcome the new year
