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1. What was the sound level from the Saturn V when it took of.
Rumours say it was loud!!!
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A Professor of mine maintained, he was living here on the Space Coast during the program, you could "see" the compression wave of sound.
I imagine the engines to be comparable in audible out put to the space shuttle. The shuttle launches I've been to on the base you can see the sound wave's progression by the vibration of water across the bay when the engine's ignite. The sound wave literally feels like someone hit you when you're that close.
At a time when the ambient noise of the city is low, like an early morning launch, you can faintly hear the space shuttle from west Orlando. I think about 50 miles from the launch pad. It sounds like a very low rumble, like extremely distant thunder.
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2. What was the temperature inside the F-1 engine chamber.
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Sorry I can't help you here.
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3. At sometime during the Apollo program, one of the launch pads was damaged when a Saturn V rocket took off. I think it was Apollo 11. Does anyone know what kind of damage? Was it caused by shockwaves? temperatures?
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Most likely sound. Just prior to main engines ignition of the Space Shuttle, giant faucets, for lack of a better description, cover the pad in up to 4 feet of water. This is a preventative measure, kind of an acoustic baffels, to keep the enormous high energy sound waves from echoing off of the metal launch deck and destroying the shuttle.
Or it could just be the brute force of the 7 million pound thrust the engines of the Saturn V could generate.[/quote]
(edited for typoes)