The Space Shuttle's Last Flight - a 4HD documentary
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- After 135 missions it's over.. A look back documentary in 1080i ..
As Atlantis completes its 135th and final mission, this definitive documentary charts the rise and fall of the most ambitious space programme ever undertaken: the space shuttle. For the three decades since its first launch in 1981, the shuttle has become an iconic symbol of America's technological dominance and has rewritten the rules of space travel. It's a reusable vehicle that could lift off like a rocket, carry people and cargo into Earth's orbit, then land on a runway like a plane, and do it time after time. But two disasters, in 1986 and 2003, and the tragic loss of 14 astronauts shocked the World, and signalled the end of the programme and of an era. However, its legacy has been extraordinary.
I remember watching a Space Shuttle documentary and one of my favorite lines ever was Story Musgrave saying something along the lines of "your first flight isn't as bad as your subsequent flights because your first time you don't know what they're going to do to you."
I was a kid when Telstar beamed the first live transatlantic television transmissions between Europe and the US. I stood in my family room and watched...and found tears in my eyes...because, even at that age, I knew the world had just changed. Many years later I stood next to the huge countdown clock and watched as STS-1 lifted off the pad...felt the rumble in the ground...heard the crackling and acetylene torch sounds of the engines....cranking off photo after photo through my 1500mm lens...swapping camera bodies three times when one ran out of film....and feeling exactly as I did years before in the family room. Yes, I had to brush away tears to keep taking pictures....One of the highlights and most important days of my life.
Thats awesome
For any who watch this documentary in the future, at 1:04:05 the narrator mistakenly calls the Columbia accident flight commander “Stan Baldwin”. His name was Rick Husband.
They went back and fixed the error, and it has been reposted with the correction. Look for it.
I went to Space Academy level II back in '89. I was the Mission Commander and I will tell ya' the mock ups and stuff they put us through was HARD! God rest Challenger and Columbia.
Thats an awesome experience! I bet it was hard, but fun!
Lucky.
My gosh! The emotional swings from when it first launched to the last landing are just incredible. So appreciate all that went into the shuttle program and to the lives enriched and lost. The Falcon 9 and the Artemis program promises to be a great one too! Nice job.
I praise it. We learned a lot from it and it served us well. We need a replacement immediately. The people in this video are all heroes.
The story of the shuttle is a story of courage, bravery, sacrifice, exploration and an amazing feat of ingenuity and engineering accomplishment! Having followed the program for so many years especially in its twilight, seeing the launches albeit from a computer screen was awe inspiring and truly amazing, the days the shuttles were retired was a sad day for Americans everywhere but they've earned their place in the history of our great nation, retired yes, forgotten never!
Jake Kellogg its all bullshit shut it down
Jake Kellogg i had a party when it was over ohray
Best space shuttle documentary I have seen. I don't know why this topic fascinates me so much but I've been watching a lot about it lately. The docs that focus solely on the disasters I think don't really do it justice. The space shuttle DID accomplish a lot, and was a great human achievement. This doc shows that. But at the end of the day, it also admits that the shuttle program was a failure. I think the shuttle program is really a metaphor for what it is to be human... Capable of great things, amazing things, but at the end of the day flawed and imperfect. And, of course, mortal. Curious to see where we go from here.
Kevin Swift they got Rick Husbands name wrong.....they said his name was Stan something! That’s awful, and disrespectful.
R.I.P to the 7 crew members of Challenger 1986 and to the 7 crew members of Columbia 2003 🙏
and the 3 crew members on apollo 1
@@immigrantgaming420epic Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee.
2 search and recovery personnel in the search for Columbia
Thank you
And the dog Laika&ape
41:39 Every time I watch a SpaceX launch and I hear "max q" I think of Challenger. This tragedy didn't have to happen and it broke my heart when I found out the Challenger astronauts survived the explosion and were alive until they made impact with the ocean.
I’m at min 27...and I’m in tears myself....what a wonderful adventure....what a great bunch of people.
The economics didn’t work out, and it had a couple of fatal flaws, but when everything went right it was an amazing system. As a software engineer, I was impressed that the flight computers always brought it home, when possible.
the spirit of exploration lives forever!
I love how everyone smoked in Mission control during the early 1980s. The stress must have been unreal.
back in those days smoking did not kill people nasa did and theyre management
@@wbuttry1 ouch lol
@@wbuttry1 lol!
What an incredible feat of engineering and design, not to mention the technological innovation across the board, and the many people involved, all coming together and pulling off what remains to this day as the single greatest achievement -- like in 1981, I am still in awe and never tire from watching/ reviewing these videos/ footage. Such a tragic negligence as regards engineers not listened to prior to the Challenger launch. All they asked for was a 5 hour delay. Admin overruled the experts and consequence of that arrogance forever damaged an otherwise stellar record. Then, the same damn thing happens again -- management neglect. Those big shots responsible ought to have had their names revealed.
Still breaks my heart when Challenger came to an end. I was aboard my ship while in the USNavy and everything stopped.. just heartbreaking. I learned years later that my Uncle was part of the team that re-designed the O-rings for the boosters. Columbia re-acquainted me with the heartbreak of such a sad loss. I grew up on the Apollo missions, and the space shuttle program enthralled me. It is ironic we now rely on Russia to put Americans into space. How we've fallen, but still strive to regain our footing.
With out the Shuttle Pace Program, I wouldn't be watching this video on my android device via T-Mobile unlimited Internet Data. RIP Shuttle Program.
Amen, Fonzie.
The shuttle was not necessary for any of that technology.
@@brooklyndrive yes it was, during it's program, sattelites we're placed by it.
Close
Mobile data is not handled by satellites, but by cell towers (there is Starlink and other exceptions).
Loved the shuttle program and miss it still!!!!!!
Right before the Shuttle missions began my friend had a girl friend that worked at a travel agency, and due to the optimism of possibly making 50 missions per year, they thought that there was going to be billionaires buying rides to help finance the program, so they had very nice brochures printed for customers. After the missions began and they realized the turnaround time and the cost per mission was way more than originally expected the ticket idea was scrapped. I always wished I would of asked for one of the brochures as a keepsake.
The crazy thing about the Hubble mirror is that two were manufactured, by separate companies. It never occured to anyone to test them to determine which one best met the specification.
At the 18:50 mark I lose it just like I did when I watched it live on TV lifting off. If I could go to space, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'll never forget the many launches, and the sadness of those lost. It's been one hell of a ride, and it still gets me watching these. Magnificent!
with all do respect give credit where its due. this program has helped current life obviously more than you relize.
The narrator's voice and delivery is breathtaking..
It brings it all back - I loved visiting NASA. Such an awesome place
8:15 the heating on a supersonic or hyper-sonic aircraft (or in this case space glider) isn't caused by friction but is actually caused by the sudden compression of air and the transfer of the shuttles kinetic energy into that air. Friction does occur but its contribution to the heating that takes place is negligible. To conceptually understand this phenomenon imagine the shuttle in a hyper-sonic wind tunnel. The particles of air are traveling at several thousand miles per hour and strike the stationary shuttle. The air is moving so fast that it can't simply flow around the shuttle like would happen at low velocities so instead the air compresses against the surface of the shuttle and becomes momentarily stationary. Since energy is conserved we know that all of the kinetic energy the now stationary air particles used to have has to go somewhere. That kinetic energy becomes sound, light and heat.
So the shockwave is visible air particles compressing
What pisses me off is the fact that they're saying the space program cost the American taxpayer a "staggering $209 billion". That's such a downright stupid way to put it, that is barely nothing compared to everything else the federal budget goes to. Barely nothing.
NASA get's less than 1% of the American tax-money. They got as little as 0,1%, equal to just 488 million 2007 constant dollars in 1958, increasing year by year to the highest of 4,41% of the american federal budget in 1966, from where it steadily decreased to below 1% again in 1975. The years 1991 to 93 were above 1% again, but from 1994 and onward until today it has decreased tremendously down to as little as 0,48% in 2012.
Claiming NASA is a money-wasting leak in the system or whatever you want to call it, is the last thing anyone should do. For every $200 you pay in taxes, NASA doesn't even get a SINGLE DOLLAR.
3 years later and no one has been able to offer a rebuttal to your comment. Speaks volumes....
I agree. The research alone has devloped solutions to problems in other industries that everyone around the world benefitted from. The only other program that we had that came pretty close & was just as equally successful was the legendary SR71 Blackbird designed by Kelly Johnson back in the late 50's & early 60's. And I'm willing to bet that is was NASA's research in the early to mid 50's that helped in both designing & making the pressure suit used in both the U2 spy plane & SR71 Blackbird which kept the pilots alive.
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Dude no one cares...those are just numbers in a computer.
pa spent nearly 50 billion the last 50 years just on the state police... minus all speeding tickets issued
Amazing documentary.
A salute from Brazil.
But this is Research Flying at its best; I really admire all the guys & gals who flew it. We lost 14 of them during the programme, but they are all-time heroes of the shuttle programme.
listening to brits talk in slow motion is ridiculously relaxing and stress-relieving. try running the video at 0.5x speed when the brit narrator is speaking.
+Erik Li you should do the same with richard feynman. he sounds like he just finished a fifth of johnnie walker
Gene Kranz is still a badass!!! my wife has a flag that flew on the first shuttle flight that was awarded to her grandfather.
That is so cool!!! Keep it in the family! !!
Corey Glass he is an asshole lieing freemason pussy
Yeah, He's a legend in His own mind!
@@edkemerer2565 dude we get it you're a pussified coward no need to announce it princess
Gene has big brass balls. Do I hear Amen?
We have much gratitude for the Shuttle program, albeit , this was a flawed and dangerous space vehicle. The space station was built and completed, and the research that is provided via our scientists aboard the ISS is phenomenal. As with anything so fast and explosive their were inherent dangers, not to mention over confident and downright arrogant executives that caused the demise of two of our space shuttles. I will be happy to see our next generation of space exploration vehicles in the very near future.
Challenger explosion - one of those moments that you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing. Had gone for lunch at the Rathskeller on UNC-Charlotte campus and sat down casually watching the launch on the overhead tv. Couldn't hear the tv, they had music playing. I was eating so I looked away for a second and looked back and saw the cloud ... and I didn't realize immediately what had happened, I just thought ... that doesn't look right. They turned off the music and most of the people in the room just stared at the tv in stunned silence. People were walking in for lunch and I could hear others explain what just happened.
I am very sad that its over, and also the lost of 2 shuttles in this history 14 personne die in these missions but that is part of the game of exploration the risk will always be there
What risk. Its more danger on a preschool play ground.
This program DID NOT fail! Such a statement is ignorant and makes me angry. Successes and failures go hand in hand, and yes, there has been tragedy, but that is part of human life and history.
well....it failed in the "reusable" sense that they "said" they could do, sending it up once a month or every 2 weeks, which was how it sold itself to begin with. so...yea that failed
I guess it can be said that the Shuttle was nowhere near a perfect design, and it claimed the lives of more astronauts than any other vehicle in the history of space travel. Then again, the successful Shuttle missions accomplished great things and we successfully progressed in many forms of space experimentation that led to so many advances here on earth. The most revealing part of this documentary is the point made about putting the design back in the form of a rocket, and moving away from having an orbiter strapped to the side of the propellants.
Kendall Barlow It was a failure with regards to NASA's (somewhat unrealistic?) goals. It was neither cheap nor was it ever possible to launch as often as NASA envisioned. That does not mean that this was not the most magnificent machine ever built. It does not mean that the Space Shuttle did not achieve more than any other spacecraft before. For me personally, the Space Shuttle was always a thing of wonder and hope. It brought nations together. It let people dream of a better future. And it paved the way (hopefully) for the next generation of space travel. If you can call that a failure, it was one of the best failures that has ever been achieved.
The shuttle program failed in every single metric for which it was funded. Yes, it had some victories.
The ISS is also a huge failure -- although nobody has died there yet, it still has not met 1/10th of the goals for which it had been funded. Do you know how many independent (non-NASA) science experiments are being done on the ISS this week, this month, this year? Take a guess . . . ZERO! The ISS has become a huge flying petri dish of cultured human bio-waste which they cannot purge or clean. The ISS is now a toxic flying biology experiment itself. We learned a massive lesson from that experiment -- humans living long-term in space is ridiculously expensive, unmanageable, and unnecessary.
Failure comes from mistakes, but is NOT a mistake. It's a vital experience! Mutation drives evolution, and mutation is a failure in DNA reproduktion. Equaly failure is the basic of learning, and learning leads to new abilitys. New abilitys bring new room for mistakes, this leads to failure & the circle starts again =) =)
Every-time I see the shuttle, It shows me the greatness of man. The 14 astronauts that lost their lives in the name of space will forever live on through the advancements that are & will be discovered today.
One of my favorite things that I’ll forever miss is seeing the shuttle do it’s roll program after launch. Such a sexy, Bad ASS sight to see.
It is extremely disheartening to hear the egoistic 'we are the World' type comments at the end - 'It is criminal to ask Russia for a ride' and 'China, Russia and India will leave us behind'. Simply you cannot be the winner all the time. Humble co-operation is the way.
The mirror on Hubble was not ground incorrectly. The problem was did they did not accommodate for the mirror warping in a low-gravity environment.
No escape tower, no ejection seats. It was a real "all or nothing" machine.
About as smart as farting under the blankets.
Ejection seats? It was more than 1000 deg celsius outside during rentry when columbia was lost.
Do tell how would ejection seats work at mach 25? There was nothing that could've been done for Columbia once is started it's decent.
as Cessna 172 student pilot could have found that break - in a space walk!
They had ejection seats , but they took them out to lower the costs .
One of the best shuttle documentaries ive seen. I've been to Kennedy before but didn't see the shuttle launch.
I work on towers and hang high off of them but these guys are awesome. Words can't describe how brave these guys are.
209 billion in 30 Years? Thats nothing compared to approx 2 billion per day spent by the DOD!
V b
you're not counting the black budget they receive from the Pentagon
MIC.
Military Industrial Complex.
the enemies are everywhere ... some are under your table and you dont even realize ... #maga.
Defense is part of the explicit government responsibility in the constitution. social programs to lazy non contributing members of society are more than Defense and are not in the consitution
Too bad they left out the part where they testflew the shuttle, being released from a 747 to test the landing.
I remember when they test flew the Enterprise back in the day. 👍
I don't much care that the Shuttle didn't live up to what the brochure promised. It's still the most awesome thing I've seen.
I have no idea how but I woke up to open my phone to see that I had apparently “watched” the entire documentary.
What amazing photos from Hubble. Truly the heavens declare the glory of God.
JTB60 GSO - AMEN!
Hail Challenger and Columbia.
We love you.
Not so fun fact - NASA almost lost Atlantis as well. About 12 years before the Columbia disaster, her baby sister Atlantis suffered a similar incident. Hinging on nothing but luck, the damaged/missing tiles exposed an antenna which was made of steel thus allowing Atlantis to re-enter the atmosphere without disintegrating.
It also killed the most, 1 out of 65 flights blew up losing 2 of the 5 orbiters and lost 14 astronauts overall, no other space program comes close to this kinda failure. I really really wished it worked though, incredible piece of machinery.
great documentary.....outstanding
Politics and bureaucracy's triumph over science and engineering.
Touch Yosh yeah it was engineering brilliance that went into wrecking the challenger and Columbia. NASA: need another seven astronauts.
Pedro Vaz
Lmao, without the space program we wouldn’t have a lot of useful things we do today.
Also it cost less than a penny per US dollar taxed.
The tax payer shouldn’t have to pay for wars that don’t involve us
Coretta Hattereaux
If you knew anything then you’d know that engineers were the ones that pressured nasa to not launch with challenger, yet nasa did it anyway.
Multiple contractors and engineers told them to not do it
@Pedro Vaz pedro, tens of millions, if not hundred of millions of lives have been saved by weather sats alone due to protection of agriculture from weather sats. You are so wrong.
Best explanation I’ve seen for the oring failure. Thank you
Space X is the genius at attempting to make reusable space vehicles: their self-landing rocker booster. This is a much better idea than the Shuttle because they only try to reuse the unmanned part so the responsibility of them having to work is not as heavy as the Shuttle, if they fail to land in one piece and explode, then it's just like any other rocket: one-time use vehicle, but if it works, it makes history. Most importantly, Space X's reusable rockets are actually much more economic than the Shuttle as it's less complex thus requires less maintenance and can be reused much faster
I'm watching this the day before President Bush is laid to rest. I'm so glad they put that part in there where he called the Columbia Astronauts.
1:04:05 - Who the heck is "shuttle commander Stan Baldwin?" Columbia's commander was Rick Husband.
And here I was thinking that I was crazy.
I mean, I am crazy, but at least I'm not hearing things.
Astronomy Live you are correct.
Astronomy Live they are talking about the first space shuttle ever made which was Columbia.. Do some fkn research
Columbia was an older shuttle
She went to space more than that one terrible time
I absolutely lost it when that dude did that @3:26😂
What a beautiful era for space flight the space shuttle was such a majestic machine rip to the brave crew of challenger and columbia
Umm... someone needs to get their facts straight!!!
At approximately 37:38 the narrator states that the night before Challenger's doomed launch "temperatures plummet to -13 degrees Celsius (8.6 degrees Fahrenheit)."
To the best of my knowledge, temperatures have NEVER dropped anywhere near that low in Southern Florida. In reality, temperatures that night dropped to around the freezing mark...0-degrees Celscius (32-degrees Farenheight)... give or take a couple of degrees.
26 F to be more precise was the low temp that night. At the time of launch, 36 F. Good you pointed this out. Lots of errors in this documentary.
The where no Stand Baldwin on the Columbia it was Rick Husband voice we could hear.
"There was concern for the safety of the heat protection tiles" - Eh. There was also massive concerns about the o-rings on the SRB. They knew it was too cold for it, and what happened to Challenger almost happened to an earlier shuttle flight. They *knew* this would happen before the Challenger lifted off.
Story Musgrave should have walked on the moon. If I was an Apollo commander, I would want Story as my LM pilot.
Correction, I would want Story to be the Commander and I would be honored to be his LM pilot.
As cool as he is he isn't a pilot. He is a medical doctor.
19:18 John Travolta spotted
Good eye.. on spotting him.
Great documentary, learnt a lot.
💯
1:04:5 The guy got the shuttle commanders name wrong, it was Rick Husband not Stan Baldwin.
They went back and fixed it. It’s been reposted with the correction.
ty for the quality upload
I remember when the Space Shuttle broke Two Sonic Booms over L.A. when it was landing the First Time in History! I seen it Glide over the San Fernando Valley. I seen it just a couple of miles up!!
Chris Sartain you seen it?
Chris Sartain
Hmmm...I don't remember a shuttle crashing 80 miles short of the runway, which is what would have happened if you "seen it a couple of miles up" over the San Fernando Valley on its way to Edwards AFB.
The landing of Shuttle Columbia was a TV event too. I don’t recall they told public quite how many problems the astronauts faced. It was also the ship that broke up upon reentry.
57:13 pictures of black holes??? You might want to check your info on that!
Ya. I noticed that error too. Only this year have we ever "photographed" a black hole with any resolution.
There's millions of black hole pics online. Turn filters off
So the big question is "Will it ever return?"
Robert Watts I hope so. The orbiter never failed....the rockets and fuel tank failed. The orbiter was more than capable, and obviously safe, for what it was made to do. Sort the engineering of the birds carrying it......and, it could once again be used.
I hate we are going back to traditional rockets. Why couldn't we build a 2nd generation shuttle? Learn from our mistakes about the old one and build on that.
the Space Shuttle Orbiter as we knew it, will likely be shelved for at least the span of our lifetimes
They say that the shuttle was scheduled to launch january 28 but in fact the original launch was set for January 22.
24:25 Easily one my Favorite moments from the shuttle program.
I think this should really teach something: russians made significant steps contribuiting to the space program. America did a great job. China, India and Japan are emerging in this. It shouldn't take a degree to understand that the answer is: JOIN EFFORTS.
Just put 10% of the defense budget towards space and see what happens.
Gut our defense budget? Obama did that, but he gutted NASA too, to pay for more welfare. If you add the cost of illegal immigration, with the amount that Latinos send back to Mexico, combine it with what we spend on free housing, food stamps, and health care for minorities, and the cost to house every minority prisoner. we could afford to give NASA a trillion per year. If the US wasn't such a melting pot we'd already have a base and a port station on the moon, and we'd be heading for Mars. Obama gutted NASA to afford more welfare for blacks and Hispanics, to buy more Democrat votes, to pay for more Socialist handouts. It's a vicious circle.
Feels quite happy to see people worldwide appreciating India too. Thanks boi!
INDEED
8:49 Terry Hart can't pronounce aluminium! 😁 'Alunumin
that's pretty crazy.
It’s a new metal discovery!
@@foobarmaximus3506 okay FooBar.... You're SoOoOOoOOooo cool...
@TheGlobalish 😂
The first ever launch happened in the morning in New Zealand where I as a 13 year old boy watched it on live TV. I just made it to school on time that day lol
An excellent documentary. Fascinating, if nothing else for the reason that the narrator's father was the gynaecologist to Muammar Gaddafi's wife. Which means he might've spent more time examining the Colonel.
Failed in terms of cheap re-usability, but was it worth doing? Yes. Yes it was.
otakujhp it was better than nothing for sure.
Hubble program wouldn't have succeeded without the shuttle.
@@corettaha7855 the technology we gained from the NASA program alone is worth far far more than what their budget is today. We could make so many discoveries and create so many technologies. It's sad.
@Some One the fact that it cost multiples more than expectations and was used multiples less than expectations, shows they failed in some aspects at a cheaper alternative. There's a huge cool factor tho
@@quoniam426 Rockets could've been used. Can't think of a reason a shuttle needed to be used.
There is no documentary if there is no british commentator :)
or the dude from Smithsonian's Air Disasters, which i think is the same as the person from I Almost Got Away...
or modern marvels
...and i think that's Eddie Izzard commentating, unless my ears deceive me. I have a pretty good ear for that sort of thing.
I agree.
Morgan Freeman was not available?
Kiss my blessed assurance. STS rocked. I was 10 when the program started. Excuse the pun , but boy was it a great ride!
Alunamun ?
The heat at re-entry stems from the pressure of the bow shock-wave, while actual friction is minimal. If the orbiter had been slowed down significantly before re-entry, the problem would have just disappeared.
For anyone looking for in-depth information on the Shuttle, type "16.885j" into the TH-cam search box and enjoy a sweet MIT lecture series given by the people who actually designed STS.
If you want to have a safe flight you have to respect the limitations.
My humble opinion.
So this "shuttle" was some sort of space bus? Like an orbital U-Haul, so to speak? Interesting.
16:43 Hernán Olguín, Chile. Wow... tremendo homenaje!
Quite a homage if you think about it. :)
Siii!!, gran homenaje a nuestro gran divulgador cientifico
anyone else see john travolta at 19:19?
haha ... crazy
In an interview John Travolta did mention he attended the first Space Shuttle launch......you are correct.
could be him. Did he ever say he saw it?
Dreaming of being like Zenu.
Good eye. Definitely him. Since he’s an experienced pilot himself, he’s probably dreamed of going up to space someday.
0:13 Didnt know American was putting people in space since 1776?!?!?!?
+Dutch Boss Eh-he he he! Yeah this is 2015, it's not possible to make a point without exaggeration, bullshit or just outright lying. Ya gotta admit though, it sure sounded dramatic when he said it. "For the first time in its HISTORY..." hahahahahahahahaaa! Although technically, America (which is a continent as opposed to The United States of America which is a country) has been putting men into space since the mid-Cretaceous.
UnYin99
seems this way...
+Dutch Boss Dude Benjamin Franklin (famous rocket scientist) launched the first multistage vehicle with gimballed, staged-cycle liquid engines in 1771, get with the history n00b
+nutsackmania .............
@@UnYin99 no, America is America. The United States of America is America. North America is a continent.
RIP to those who gave their lives for science. May God have mercy on their souls.
The Space Shuttle managed to fly more miles, complete more missions, and deliver more hardware to space. That was until SpaceX showed up and put space travel back on the map for the U.S.
I really miss the Shuttle. 🚀
Never cancelled, they were planned for retirement before Obama came to office. What you can blame Obama for is cancelling the Constellation Program.
8:47
Alunimun???
YEAH imagine that??? good thing elon decided to use stainless steel for space x phew
Im dieing. the way he said that.... thank you for pointing that out. made my night
Glad to see the space shuttles retired. Sometimes you gotta shut something down so you can go to the next level.
Many years ago in the early days of the shuttle, I read a book about the space program and the shuttle. It claimed that the shuttle had been on the drawing board as the vehicle carry components to orbit that would build a manned Mars vehicle. With the wane in public interest in space, and Apollo to be cancelled, it was resold and repurposed for the mission it served.
Who is Stan Baldwin. It was Rick Husband
Some of this was poorly researched. Rick Husband was the Commander of Columbia
+Brian Park Oh My God who Is Stan Baldwin?
Yes, nobody knows that Rick Husband was the commander for ALL 28 MISSIONS THAT COLUMBIA FLEW OVER THE COURSE OF 30 YEARS. ;-/
Given the chance to strap into this bird, i wouldnt even have to think twice, even with the 2 that havent made it back to the ground, I see it as a lower death toll than we see on our roads each month
+Adam Bielby I appreciate your spirit son, but you have an idiotic way og analyzing risk.
No, I have a way of analyzing risk, that you do not agree with. Just because I see this as a low risk vs reward, does not give you the right to judge.
No, it's just bullshit. If cars were as safe as the Space Shuttle, millions of people would die every month on the road.
Based off the rough numbers this doc. gave, the odds of dying on the space shuttle are basically 1 in 50. So, imagine you drive to work every day. In the course of a year, you can expect to have died about 7 times on the road (once every 50 days). Lol. It's just simple math. Cars are dangerous in their own right but the shuttle was orders of magnitute worse.
135 trips to and from space 2 failures 14 deaths over 30 years . 30,000+ people dead in fatal accidents in 2017 alone thats only americas recorded fatalities . Muh car is safer.... dunces
It wasn’t just the O-ring and the temperature, but poor mechanical design of the joint that led to the loss of Challenger. The pressure of combustion forced the joint apart rather than together.
I can't believe how negative the tone of this documentary is.
It's American, what did you expect?
That maybe...but the positivity shows through in the accomplishments
Yes , it was a big success overall, but a lot of beuracracy & waste still. God bless the 14 souls .
alunimun?
It is sad that the shuttle is retired and was not expanded upon to help continue with other future technologies. I hope Space X, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will excel further along into the future for humanity.
Columbia broke up during entry at 1 of feb 2003. It is so bad to know that a rescuemission could be done but it wasn,t. Egosentric humans was to blame for the accident that could be avoided by rescuing the poor heroes who lost their lives on the faithful mission. I hope it will never happen again.
43:20 did anyone else notice what looked like a UFO fly quickly across the sky?
43:15 Your timestamp misses it.
A bird.
It's shock heating on reentry, not friction...
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
Friction does play a role smarty pants. It WILL collide with the molecules in the thicker part of the atmosphere. I hate how people act so smart on TH-cam.
over 10 years later, I have a lot of faith in the commercial programs.