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How are astronauts protected from the sound of the rocket?
The capsule walls. The pressure vessel is covered in insulation on both sides. This is mainly heat insulation, but provides a barrier to sound too.
How do astronauts survive in space?
Astronauts must have oxygen, food, water, and rest. Spacecrafts must provide their passengers with oxygen to breathe. Spacecrafts carry their own sources of oxygen and nitrogen. These gases are circulated throughout the spacecraft to provide similar air to the one we breathe on Earth.
Why was the Saturn V so loud?
The Saturn V was louder and generally more an impressive aural and visual site for several reasons: It five F-1 engines simply produced more thrust than a Shuttle — the last Saturn Vs producing about 7.7 million pounds of thrust.
How much is 150 decibels?
| Noise Source | Decibel Level | comment |
|---|---|---|
| Jet take-off (at 25 meters) | 150 | Eardrum rupture |
| Aircraft carrier deck | 140 | |
| Military jet aircraft take-off from aircraft carrier with afterburner at 50 ft (130 dB). | 130 | |
| Thunderclap, chain saw. Oxygen torch (121 dB). | 120 | Painful. 32 times as loud as 70 dB. |
How many dB was Krakatoa?
172 decibels
(A 10-decibel increase is perceived by people as sounding roughly twice as loud.) The Krakatoa explosion registered 172 decibels at 100 miles from the source. This is so astonishingly loud, that it’s inching up against the limits of what we mean by “sound.”
What is NASA doing with the Saturn V rocket?
NASA will also use this building for future missions with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. While the Saturn V was a complex machine, the rocket had a remarkable safety record. The Saturn V successfully flew 13 times, including 10 times with people on board.
How many decibels can humans hear?
Humans can hear a pretty broad range — 64 hertz to 23,000 hertz. 1 This does, however, differ a lot from person to person. YouTube has some fun hertz scales that can give you an approximation of the extent of your hearing range. But hertz and decibels are independent of one another.
How loud is a whale compared to a rocket?
But the whale is not really as loud as the rocket, she told me. Because water is denser than air, sound in water is measured on a different decibel scale. In air, the sperm whale would still be extremely loud, but significantly less so — 174 decibels.
How much fuel does it take to launch a rocket?
The first stage of the Saturn V rocket, using five F-1 rocket engines, produced 7.5 million lbs. (3.4 million kilograms) of thrust and was used during launch for about 2 minutes. It gobbled up 20 tons (40,000 pounds) of fuel per second. Lindbergh’s little aircraft used 450 lbs. of fuel to get across the Atlantic.