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#ripbirb rip birb 7: rip birb 1~6 compilation of birds hitting space shuttles & rockets ** Thanks a bunch for subscribing & supporting this channel ** There has been at least one recorded incidence of bird strike during launch. This was STS-114, the first Shuttle launch after the fateful STS-107 mission. That bird most likely was a turkey vulture, average mass about 2 kg. The piece of foam that hit the wing leading edge of the Columbia during the launch of STS-107 weighed less than half that. Bird strike was a concern throughout the Shuttle program, given the large number of large birds (e.g., vultures, eagles, hawks, herons, egrets) that live in the vicinity of the Kennedy Space Center. A 1988 study by Karen Edelstein and Robert E. McCarty, “Space shuttle orbiter windshield bird impact analysis.“ ICAS, 16th Congress. 1988, found that the forward window assembly for the orbiter offers insignificant resistance to a 4 lb bird impact. The critical velocity for a 4 lb bird strike on the forward window was rathe