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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1993-05-26  |  533.2 KB  |  1 channel  |  22,257 sample rate  |  24 seconds
Transcription: Approximately 50 seconds into the flight, the shuttle reaches Mach 1, the speed of sound. Two minutes into the flight, the fuel inside the two reusable solid rocket boosters has been consumed and they separate from the external tank to land by parachute in the ocean. At this point, the shuttle is traveling 2,890 miles an hour at an altitude of 30 miles above Earth.