The answer: As loud as 40 million bowls of Rice Krispies. In this episode, we talk with Kent Gee of Brigham Young University about his recent research trip to measure the launch acoustics of NASA's Artemis-I mission, why understanding launch noise is so important, common misconceptions about how loud rockets are, and more.

Associated paper: Kent L. Gee,   Grant W. Hart, Carson F. Cunningham, Mark C. Anderson, Michael S. Bassett,   Logan T. Mathews, J. Taggart Durrant, Levi T. Moats,   Whitney L. Coyle, Makayle S. Kellison, and Margaret J. Kuffskie. "Space Launch System acoustics: Far-field noise measurements of the Artemis-I launch." JASA Express Letters 3, 023601 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0016878

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