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Sound Suppression System for Space Shuttle

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Original – Sound suppression system to dampen acoustic vibrations from the Space Shuttle Main Engines. Without this system, the shuttle could experience destructive vibrations.

Reason

High image quality, captures the size of humans relative to the massive flow rate of water on the pad, rare test, image is well composed. It has a free use license, per NASA policy.

Articles in which this image appears

Mobile Launch Platform, Space Shuttle, and Rocket

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator – Kees08 (talk) 23:02, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 14:37, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
• Support Given the year and the fact that the Space Shuttle is no more, the flaws are excuseable. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:16, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support per Adam. Spongie555 (talk) 06:19, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
• Support per Adam — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:38, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Promoted File:Sound suppression water system test at KSC Launch Pad 39A.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:09, 5 July 2016 (UTC)