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Query:

Subject: why don't we hear a sonic boom shortly after the space shuttle launches?

Date: Thu Oct 12 21:31:39 2000
Posted by Shawn Pascale
Grade level: undergrad School: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
City: Daytona Beach State/Province: FL Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 971400699.Ph
Message:

Some friends and I went to see a shuttle launch and were wondering why you 
do not hear a sonic boom when the rocket gets above Mach 1?


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