Florida visiting my parents and I was able to catch Space Shuttle Atlantis breaking the sound barrier just as it flew overhead on its way back to Kennedy Space Center. You’ll hear the booms ...

Q: Which is more fun, the ascent into orbit or the reentry from space to landing ... as we slowed through the sound barrier nearing the runway. On shuttle reentry, the forces put on the body ...

This slows the shuttle down for atmospheric reentry. Thirty minutes later ... At 5 minutes before landing, the shuttle ducks below the sound barrier, slowing past a speed of 768 mph (1236 kph).

On the morning of Feb. 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia was set to return ... and traveling at about 18 times the speed of sound — Columbia catastrophically broke apart over northeast Texas ...

The longest-serving spacecraft in history, the space shuttle Discovery ... hypersonic reentry. Traditionally, spacecraft rely on heat shields or ceramic tiles to serve as a barrier from the ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 ... There have been several challengers in the supersonic space while the remaining Concordes gather dust at museums ...

These blasts—which are increasingly common along the Space Coast in central Florida—can be heard whenever an object breaks the sound barrier ... something—a space shuttle, say—accelerates ...