Samael I’m not saying a pilot’s job is easy, I’m saying it’s routine. You don’t applaud when you arrive at your destination by car, do you? It’s not always easy to drive, and there are far more fatal hazards on the road than in the air. Driving a car is routine, flying a plane is routine (there are literally thousands of planes in the air all around the world right now), landing a space shuttle from 200 miles above the surface of the earth is science. Science that didn’t happen everyday, and is literally a hit or miss. If you miss your exit on the highway, get off at the next exit and turn around. If you’re coming in for a landing but the wind is a little too strong, go around and try another runway. If the space shuttle landing wasn’t executed perfectly, and missed the mark by even a fraction of a percent, there were no second chances.
But the "Pilot" does not land the shuttle any longer. It landed by itself. The ONLY interaction with the controls is to lower the landing gear at a certain time. And if the pilot does not execute on time the system will lower them anyway. A person has not flown the shuttle to landing in a long time.
@@stuartgray5877 You're wrong in saying the pilot/commander didn't fly the shuttle to landing. Almost all of the shuttle's approaches and landing were done manually. Also, the Space Shuttle program is ended, so no one has been flying it for quite some time, manually or otherwise.
There is something inherently sexy about a 75 ton cargo space ship, entering the atmosphere at the speed of 7,6 kilometres per second and despite having no fuel to accelerate being able get to the runway and land on it gracefully like a plane. And all this despite its shitty aerodynamics.
*Actually being able to reenter the atmosphere at Mach 25 half way around the world to a pinpoint landing at KSC* *is a remarkable feat of engineering.*
Every inch of its path has already been pre determined and mission control is watching everything so carefully I think it would be near impossible to fuck up the landing minus a mechanical failure
There something astonishing that in under 100 years we went from barley gliding a plane in 1903 to having a vehicle that can blast into space, then land on earth like a plane
You are right :D but should not it be technically called the most gorgeus gliding brick during the reentry and landing? (But still, flying brick sounds better)
@@norman4076 1) It was extremely expensive hence failed in reducing the cost of Orbital launch 2) The shuttle was developed in the 80s and then technology was not advanced enough to build a reusable vehicle 3) It didn't live up to the safety standards as claimed by NASA as demonstrated by the "O" ring failure with a catastrophic accident of Challenger . 4)The wing of the space shuttle was Only 1 inch thick which was easily penetrated by an insulating foam during lift off, resulting in the destruction of Columbia during re-entry. 5) In the early days The failure rate of space shuttle was 1/9. That's a LOT ! 6) As the Original comment states, the shuttle didn't have any engine . You get only one chance to land it safely. It required an extremely long runway for landing.
i will forever be in awe of the shuttle, looking at her parked up and seeing how rough and dirty she looks but at the same time mesmerized knowing everything she has gone thru since being launched
5:11 i love the fact that when it touches down the smoke kind of spirals to the side. Is it just me or does the spiraling smoke make it look like the shuttle is making an elegant entrance
@@whyers4782 not all, it’s mainly fighters or delta wing equipped airplanes. Its literally the vortices off the wings creating those mini tornadoes and since the gear is so close to the wingtips it’s a lot more visible
I was born in 1988 born and raised and still live about 45 mins NW of KSC I loved going outside to watch the space shuttle launches. The sonic booms was so awesome to hear we knew the shuttle was almost home safely. I remember in 2003 waiting outside to hear the sonic boom from Columbia I knew something was wrong when we didn't hear the boom. I'll always miss seeing the shuttle launches. SpaceX rockets are cool to see but they'll never come close to how awesome the shuttle launches were
@evanwallace4510. Once I took a walk with our dog in the late evening, and happened to see.the ISS fly overhead, and a Spaceshuttle just departing it. Quite interesting!
I was a Space Vehicle Test Mechanic for Rockwell International at KSC….my Spirit misses the experience of Space Shuttle technology and all my fellow co-workers that made the Space Shuttle a success ! My Heart goes out to the Families of the 2 Crews who gave their all to this Space Exploration Endeavor ! Love my coworkers and may we meet again one fine day ! Godspeed !
My late father Carl J. Brunswick worked for Rockwell International at the Santa Susana Pass location on the border of Los Angeles county and Ventura county from the 1950s until he retired in 1985 or 1986. As a child growing up I never knew exactly what my father’s job was at Rockwell International. The Cold War with the USSR was still going on at the time. My father and everyone who worked with him were required to sign documents that they would never discuss what they did upon penalty of death, outside of assigned locations. It was only a few years before his death in 2010 that he was able to tell his family some of the things he worked on. He was known as a troubleshooter. That meant whenever something went wrong it was his team that were to figure out what went wrong and fix it so it didn’t (hopefully) happen again. During his years at Rockwell International he worked on a number of different projects, from helping to build and test the engines that were on the rockets that went to the moon, to helping build the computer system that was on the first space shuttle. I’m sure my father would be happy that other people are still working together to help everyone on earth have a better understanding of space and our future in it.
Lmao, just imagine the captain saying. “Currently we are at 55,000 feet of elevation and are descending. We will be on the ground in approximately 11 minutes so please, fasten your seatbelts. Good day”
Fun fact the astronaut Mission Commander and pilot Lee Archembolt on this shuttle mission was also my mom’s neighbor across the street in her hometown Bellwood!
This looks and must feel like when I am coming home from a tropical vacation in paradise, and being welcome back to torrential downpour in the streets of Boston. I can't imagine spending 134 days in space and the feeling of finally touching the ground.
@@YDDES Considering the circumstances it is. There’s quite a difference between a glider flight and a flight above the atmosphere for several months. And to add to that this glider has aerodynamics so terrible it was referred to as the “flying brick” with its stubby little wings and blunt nose. Also considering this thing is rivaling the size of a 737, and landing at speeds higher than fighter jets, that’s pretty amazing.
@@YDDES it has big boy wings, and they had to land FROM SPACE, survive reentry and make sure they wont miss or overshoot. now that is way more impressive.
@@YDDES it doesn’t land automatically. The shuttle was landed 100% manually. The only thing the computer did was put information on the HUD. The shuttle’s computer couldn’t even hold a modern photo file, it most definitely didn’t have an autoland feature which still isn’t perfect even today.
its amazing what american engineers can invent and control that thing all the way to the ground from space. now all they need to invent is how to control their government.
No. Control is not what our government needs, never has, and never will. It is that way in our Constitution which is carved in permanent history. Having no control over the public and officials means you're in a free world man. Welcome to America, although there will always be some corruptness here just like every country/civilization, but the three power system plus the House being separate from the Senate makes it next to impossible to "control".
TheGR, I 100% agree with you and think that American stereotypes are completely blown out of the water. Britain has fat people, they have guns, yet America is blamed for all these problems.
I miss the Shuttle....I never missed a take off or landing. Still amazes me how they fly it like a glider ! "Thank you Shuttle for such amazing work and achievements, you and your crew will always be in our hearts 💕 "
I would love to see what real NASA employees think when they read the comments of all the expert TH-cam shuttle pilots on here and do they just shake their heads and laugh or what
@@jrockett73 Genuine question I have: Are there any big advantages to the spaceplane design? I'm obviously not an expert but it seems kind of dumb to me to use all that power to carry a spaceplane when you could just use it to haul whatever cargo you need.
Well, the last 30 years wasn't just about hauling cargo. The shuttle did many things to advance space flight wether you agree with the program or not. In order to build the ISS there had to be a platform so to speak. The shuttle provided that as it hauled the equipment, was a work shop to put it together and a safe area for the amount of people it hauled. It was also a platform to retrieve, fix and release satellites and prove new technologies. It was a testing ground for EVA's in space along with robotics. It was the beginning of new, reusable and lighter materials such as carbon fiber, insulation tiles. Fly by wire control systems was introduced by the program. Because it wasn't economically a success , some people call it a failure. Sometimes you have to do things wether its cost effective or not. My opinion only.
The drag chute is cut at 60 mph and is done at this time so it doesnt interfere with work at the rear of the orbiter after wheel stop. Many vehicles have to pull up next to the orbiter for work and the crew has to position the engine bells and open the belly ET doors etc. If the chute was done later it would be run over, tangled etc.
I feel bad for the shuttle program. The o-ring problem with Challenger was a fixable problem that was known about pre-launch but ignored, and could have been a matter of routine maintenance had everything been more safety-prioritising and better regulated/organised. The weather issues on launch were also preventable had people been sensible about go/no-go, but for cost and go-fever considerations. As for Columbia, the foam strike was an established issue that could have been addressed to prevent rather than fix any demonstrable problems. The foam strike that doomed Columbia was clearly captured on camera during launch, and they had the ability to check the orbiter out while still in orbit, and to put together some kind of rescue plan, but were denied permission to do either. Why do any of these things prove any sort of unreliability of the shuttle itself? They demonstrate human error and oversight more than anything inherently unreliable or wrong with the type of vehicle. It's unfair that they should act as scapegoats for human psychological foibles. The main trouble with the shuttle as a vehicle is not the vehicle itself but the psychology it promotes in managers and governments. With the shuttle, spaceflight seemed more predictable, more failsafe and generally more routine than it really is, cheaper to do than it really is when truly done safely, and with faster expected turnaround of launches than is really safely possible. Maybe it is good that the shuttle is de-commissioned, not just for this but because it ended up being demeaned to a more lucrative role of commercial space taxi service, which narrowed our horizons when it came to space exploration itself. But that's all to do with us and our flaws, not with what the shuttle is and was!
It´s awesome that the astronauts arive in a spaceshuttle and NASA uses a beautiful older autocamper to take them away. One can tell, that, that specific autocamper has a lot of history behind it.
To me surviving a space shuttle launch, re-entry, and runway landing is basically like cheating death. Astronauts are like, the bravest and luckiest human beings to ever exist.
I remember my second grade teacher showing us discovery landing. Not sure if it was a live stream of video, doesn’t matter. Either way, I found it really cool and made me more fascinated with space flight and the wonders that come with it. I now, about 11-12 years later at studying mechanical engineering at university.
If wind conditions for a landing were too high at the Cape, then Edwards was the alternate landing site. Or sometimes they would delay the landing for a day or two.
Fantastic video - serious question: with the gear deployed so late, I guess there's nothing they can do if it doesn't drop? And would that be catastrophic or would they survive it?
It would be a catastrophic event, simply put. I read somewhere that there is a chance they might survive if the cargo bay was empty, only a chance though, since the shuttle is not designed to belly land.
There’s no option for pulling up and circling around for a second landing attempt, so once they deorbit that’s it - they’re landing one way or the other. Fortunately the landing gear never failed in 133 landings!
I think the reason they drop the gear late is because of the drag that they can cause. For instance in many commercial airlines, pilots tend to pull the gear as soon as possible because of the large amounts of drag that they cause. I don’t know a hundred percent why the gear of the shuttle are dropped late. however, I think this the most likely reason
Right, there would be nothing they could do except to hold on. The reason why none of the landing gear failed was because they weren't powered by hydraulics or electricity, they were simply dropped, and gravity/wind resistance pulled them into place where they locked.
The Florida commemorative quarter has a space shuttle on the back. It’s definitely in my top three favorite commemorative quarters. I also love the Colorado and Mississippi quarters.
That's the sound of one of the many APU's (auxiliary power unit) that power various systems on the shuttle. It might be a glider and not using rocket or jet engines when it's returning to earth, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still have various other systems working and making noises.
A lot had to do with how long the flight was. It was different with everybody. The crew spent about 45 minutes in the orbiter on the runway to get their land legs back. They felt very heavy. Also some crew were nauseous after landing. Some crew bounced right up and ready to go. On station flights, some did fine, other were carried off into the crew transport vehicle . Some were having muscle biopsies done right on the runway. Others had blood drawn. Others urine samples. All in all it depended on how the persons body reacted.
"Under 5 minutes from landing, altitude 55,000 feet, range from the landing site 68 miles". When you put it like that, you realise just how fast they fly and fall.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver👋😝❌ you sound blissful with that ignorance ,((Wee’Todd ) Now that’s how to insult Flake … haha Cfumb bag😝 go back to sleep young Sheeple
You must be young. The shuttle retired in 2011. Brilliant machine. I recommend reading up about the history of this beautiful machine. You will love it.
Smoother then Ryanair
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And a hell of a lot faster
Smoother than Air Canada 143.
I was on this flight. They lost my baggage, I was so mad.
Weapon of mass construction k
@@Spikyzzzz y so salty lmao kid
You lost your foot print
Weapon of mass construction they probably threw it to mars
You are a failer
I think this would be the ONLY appropriate time to applaud when the pilot lands the aircraft.
Samael I’m not saying a pilot’s job is easy, I’m saying it’s routine. You don’t applaud when you arrive at your destination by car, do you? It’s not always easy to drive, and there are far more fatal hazards on the road than in the air. Driving a car is routine, flying a plane is routine (there are literally thousands of planes in the air all around the world right now), landing a space shuttle from 200 miles above the surface of the earth is science. Science that didn’t happen everyday, and is literally a hit or miss. If you miss your exit on the highway, get off at the next exit and turn around. If you’re coming in for a landing but the wind is a little too strong, go around and try another runway. If the space shuttle landing wasn’t executed perfectly, and missed the mark by even a fraction of a percent, there were no second chances.
no if you are czech. we applaus every fucking time. for every fucking reason for whoever fucking ride the plane.
@@gvardiecky9507 Have you just learned a new word?
But the "Pilot" does not land the shuttle any longer. It landed by itself. The ONLY interaction with the controls is to lower the landing gear at a certain time. And if the pilot does not execute on time the system will lower them anyway.
A person has not flown the shuttle to landing in a long time.
@@stuartgray5877 You're wrong in saying the pilot/commander didn't fly the shuttle to landing. Almost all of the shuttle's approaches and landing were done manually. Also, the Space Shuttle program is ended, so no one has been flying it for quite some time, manually or otherwise.
There is something inherently sexy about a 75 ton cargo space ship, entering the atmosphere at the speed of 7,6 kilometres per second and despite having no fuel to accelerate being able get to the runway and land on it gracefully like a plane. And all this despite its shitty aerodynamics.
'gracefully'
*_K I N K S H A M E_*
*Actually being able to reenter the atmosphere at Mach 25 half way around the world to a pinpoint landing at KSC*
*is a remarkable feat of engineering.*
Every inch of its path has already been pre determined and mission control is watching everything so carefully I think it would be near impossible to fuck up the landing minus a mechanical failure
Perfectly put! Beautiful machine.
8:55 Incredible how instantaneously they teleported all that equipment in. NASA truly is the best
i know right! nasa just has those wonderful superpowers every other company wish they had
@@josephius Like getting two space shuttle crews killed because of shoddy maintenance?
It was a jump cut
@@rudexbruiser2604 R/Wooosh
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There something astonishing that in under 100 years we went from barley gliding a plane in 1903 to having a vehicle that can blast into space, then land on earth like a plane
that thing is a brick with wings
NASA engineers described it exactly like that (and, occassionaly, compared its aerodynamic capabilities to those of pliers).
They train the pilots to fly that thing by using a gulfstream with the gear down, and engines in reverse
I think weve all seen the same video lol
U stole that from the vid that brought u here
this must be from the video "How to land a space shuttle" lol
4:08 the most gorgeous flying brick ever made
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You are right :D
but should not it be technically called the most gorgeus gliding brick during the reentry and landing? (But still, flying brick sounds better)
Master Chief: Am I a joke to you?
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Nasa Launches space shuttle Discovery STS-121 👇
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Couple of guys, who land without any engines, fly like a brick in the atmosphere(no, much faster). My greatest respect to that bunch of heroes.
That's why the shuttle was a mistake.
@@doctorpanigrahi9975 why?
@@norman4076
1) It was extremely expensive hence failed in reducing the cost of Orbital launch
2) The shuttle was developed in the 80s and then technology was not advanced enough to build a reusable vehicle
3) It didn't live up to the safety standards as claimed by NASA as demonstrated by the "O" ring failure with a catastrophic accident of Challenger .
4)The wing of the space shuttle was Only 1 inch thick which was easily penetrated by an insulating foam during lift off, resulting in the destruction of Columbia during re-entry.
5) In the early days The failure rate of space shuttle was 1/9. That's a LOT !
6) As the Original comment states, the shuttle didn't have any engine . You get only one chance to land it safely. It required an extremely long runway for landing.
@@norman4076 I'm glad you asked.
watching the shuttle land on the runway knowing where it has been and at 1 point travelling at over 17000 mph still amazes my today
Nasa Launches space shuttle Discovery STS-121 👇
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Is there was any quarantine on that time?
It orbited at 18,000 + mph….every mission !
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*Flat earth : Left the chat*
Karang Astina just as well the science is way above your head!
Andrew Young ur a dumbass thinking the earth is flat. Get real and get out of your house
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@@taprrasta3163 trus lu pinternya sampai mana blok? 🤣
It’s like an airplane but for space absolutely incredible
Big Brain
Next week: Submarines. Like a boat but for under the sea.
It's not an airplane. It's a brick with wings
A spaceplane
Well whatever this space plane is it kind of sad seeing it's last flight.
It's like watching the last hours of the curiousity rover.
4:08 "Discovery copy... *wunway* in sight"
- Mission control guy 2009
well,maybe Barry Kripke was on charge
Hando Hans LMAO
Bawwee's paternal grandfather was Elmer Fudd.
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Looks like someone’s been drinking, or someones too young -.-
i will forever be in awe of the shuttle, looking at her parked up and seeing how rough and dirty she looks but at the same time mesmerized knowing everything she has gone thru since being launched
It's not a person and if it was it would be a man. You need balls to be able to withstand the forces it does.
5:11 i love the fact that when it touches down the smoke kind of spirals to the side. Is it just me or does the spiraling smoke make it look like the shuttle is making an elegant entrance
Concorde looked similar when it landed; it’s a delta-wing thing.
all planes do that, its caused by the lift produced by the wings
Those are the vortices formed by the end of the wingtip of all fixed wing aircraft.
@@whyers4782 not all, it’s mainly fighters or delta wing equipped airplanes. Its literally the vortices off the wings creating those mini tornadoes and since the gear is so close to the wingtips it’s a lot more visible
Saw an Space Shuttle at Intrepid in NYC. I couldn’t believe how big they are! Absolutely colossal!
Saw a Buran (Soviet counterpart) a couple days ago and had that exact thought (Speyer, Germany)
come in a space shuttle, leave in a minivan haha
Next shuttle program will have walkalators all the way to Starbucks.
To be fair, the Airstream Astrovan has been a tradition for over 3 decades.
I wonder if they crack a beer in there. I would, fuck protocol. Baha
Allen
Tucker that space shuttle is a minivan.
"this is not flying it's falling with style"
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Hell yeah it is!
-Buzz Light-year
Well, you're not wrong
This is such a cool thing to watch. Very refreshing to see a successful mission after the tragic losses of the Challenger and Columbia.
This still floors me. Thank you for the footage with no music or bs. It is beautiful coming in and Solid. Thank you! My best to NASA always.
I was born in 1988 born and raised and still live about 45 mins NW of KSC I loved going outside to watch the space shuttle launches. The sonic booms was so awesome to hear we knew the shuttle was almost home safely. I remember in 2003 waiting outside to hear the sonic boom from Columbia I knew something was wrong when we didn't hear the boom. I'll always miss seeing the shuttle launches. SpaceX rockets are cool to see but they'll never come close to how awesome the shuttle launches were
@evanwallace4510. Once I took a walk with our dog in the late evening, and happened to see.the ISS fly overhead, and a Spaceshuttle just departing it. Quite interesting!
i bet they clapped when they landed
Yup
No time for that
:D
shuttle landing...one of the most beautiful man-made sights...👍🍁🤠
I was a Space Vehicle Test Mechanic for Rockwell International at KSC….my Spirit misses the experience of Space Shuttle technology and all my fellow co-workers that made the Space Shuttle a success ! My Heart goes out to the Families of the 2 Crews who gave their all to this Space Exploration Endeavor ! Love my coworkers and may we meet again one fine day ! Godspeed !
My late father Carl J. Brunswick worked for Rockwell International at the Santa Susana Pass location on the border of Los Angeles county and Ventura county from the 1950s until he retired in 1985 or 1986. As a child growing up I never knew exactly what my father’s job was at Rockwell International. The Cold War with the USSR was still going on at the time. My father and everyone who worked with him were required to sign documents that they would never discuss what they did upon penalty of death, outside of assigned locations. It was only a few years before his death in 2010 that he was able to tell his family some of the things he worked on. He was known as a troubleshooter. That meant whenever something went wrong it was his team that were to figure out what went wrong and fix it so it didn’t (hopefully) happen again. During his years at Rockwell International he worked on a number of different projects, from helping to build and test the engines that were on the rockets that went to the moon, to helping build the computer system that was on the first space shuttle. I’m sure my father would be happy that other people are still working together to help everyone on earth have a better understanding of space and our future in it.
Lmao, just imagine the captain saying. “Currently we are at 55,000 feet of elevation and are descending. We will be on the ground in approximately 11 minutes so please, fasten your seatbelts. Good day”
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it's more like three and a half minutes, really
Well once the shuttle is in Earth's atmosphere, it's a really heavy glider with bad aerodynamics and very minimal aerodynamic lift.
Yea lol
im suprised they landed that shuttle smoothly, not like a ryanair stall landing that smashes into the ground
It's computer guided in the HUD the whole way down. Not saying it's easy, but you essentially stay on the dot and you'll be fine.
You know they practice 3000 landings before the real thing?
TheOneAndOnly lol agreeable
NASA pilots are so much more skilled than your average pilot
Eddie Congdon nasa pilots? Don’t actually go hands on either wise they would blow up due to human error🥴🥴
Fun fact the astronaut Mission Commander and pilot Lee Archembolt on this shuttle mission was also my mom’s neighbor across the street in her hometown Bellwood!
This looks and must feel like when I am coming home from a tropical vacation in paradise, and being welcome back to torrential downpour in the streets of Boston. I can't imagine spending 134 days in space and the feeling of finally touching the ground.
"FOR A BRICK, HE FLEW GOOD"
AVERY JOHNSON JR.
“For a brick, he flew pretty good!”
Geez I remember watching these live on nasa tv online back in the day. Always amazed me and had me had me on edge. Beautiful spaceship/aircraft.
Space Shuttle's landings were always so smooth!!
Way too smooth for 75 ton glidder.
It lands with such grace.
this thing just landed like a normal plane on a normal runway when it just came back from space, it still blows my mind
No, it landed like a glider. Normal planes keep the engines running. :)
That wasnt a normal runway lol
5:01 I love this angle. It gives a sense of the shuttle’s speed.
It's actually speed is 17,500 mph
@@rudexbruiser2604 To achieve orbit, yes. I’m referring to its landing speed, hence the time stamp.
@@icculus oh ok
@@icculus I believe it's like 200 to 300 mph just from sheer gravity and aerodynamics.
@@rudexbruiser2604 Yes I know. The shuttle comes in around 250 mph which is about 100 mph faster than a typical commercial jet.
i do miss to see space shuttle active
this is pretty interesting. its like a school bus from the sky
It's space shuttle you still have high school memories, you are innocent.
@@goodguy9407hehe yes, i'm still at high school. Thanks for informing me! :D
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The MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRCRAFT ever made.
Even more amazing when you realize they were out of gas the whole way down!
raterus For an old glider pilot, that isn’t especially amazing...
@@YDDES Considering the circumstances it is. There’s quite a difference between a glider flight and a flight above the atmosphere for several months. And to add to that this glider has aerodynamics so terrible it was referred to as the “flying brick” with its stubby little wings and blunt nose. Also considering this thing is rivaling the size of a 737, and landing at speeds higher than fighter jets, that’s pretty amazing.
@@YDDES it has big boy wings, and they had to land FROM SPACE, survive reentry and make sure they wont miss or overshoot. now that is way more impressive.
@@nls.135 Yes, and That’s Why it landed automatically.
@@YDDES it doesn’t land automatically. The shuttle was landed 100% manually. The only thing the computer did was put information on the HUD. The shuttle’s computer couldn’t even hold a modern photo file, it most definitely didn’t have an autoland feature which still isn’t perfect even today.
"Discovery, Houston. Go around."
Adam Ahmed LOL
Adam Ahmed Lol
hahaha
"Uuuh.. Unable..?"
Adam Ahmed lmao
Wow, this guys do smoother landings 200% better than Emirates!
its not a common airline he works at NASA
this was awesome
*still is
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its amazing what american engineers can invent and control that thing all the way to the ground from space. now all they need to invent is how to control their government.
beeqool Now more than ever
No. Control is not what our government needs, never has, and never will. It is that way in our Constitution which is carved in permanent history. Having no control over the public and officials means you're in a free world man. Welcome to America, although there will always be some corruptness here just like every country/civilization, but the three power system plus the House being separate from the Senate makes it next to impossible to "control".
We have it, we just need to use it
Let me say for Britain 🇬🇧
Burn. Damn son
TheGR, I 100% agree with you and think that American stereotypes are completely blown out of the water. Britain has fat people, they have guns, yet America is blamed for all these problems.
I'll always miss the space shuttle, I live 45 mins from the space center the sonic booms were always awesome to hear.
*BWOOP BWOOP!* SINK RATE! PULL UP! *BWOOP BWOOP!* PULL UP! SINK RATE! *BWOOP BWOOP!* PULL UP!
TERRAIN! TERRAIN! PULL UP! PULL UP!
*BWOOP BWOOP* OVERSPEED *BWOOP BWOOP* *BWOOP BWOOP* OVERSPEED *BWOOP BWOOP* *BWOOP BWOOP* OVERSPEED *BWOOP BWOOP*
I see there’s another FSX player here
Another happy landing
TOO LOW TERRAIN WHOOP WHOOP TOO LOW FLAPS TOO LOW GEAR TOO LOW TERRAIN 500, 300, 5,
*Bang ding ow*
I miss the Shuttle....I never missed a take off or landing.
Still amazes me how they fly it like a glider !
"Thank you Shuttle for such amazing work and achievements, you and your crew will always be in our hearts 💕 "
And killing 14 people
@@doctorpanigrahi9975 Accidents happen in any dangerous endeavour. When your St. Elon kills someone, you'll bail on him.
This thing looks smoother than a Ryanair landing
Lol
A beautiful landing, and no chance for a missed approach! I miss to see the Shuttle landing!
I would love to see what real NASA employees think when they read the comments of all the expert TH-cam shuttle pilots on here and do they just shake their heads and laugh or what
Answering genuine questions is fun but yes, I shake my head at the the rest of it.
Eddie Congdon You don’t have to be at NASA to shake your head at the youtube commenters. Real common sense is enough.
@@jrockett73 Genuine question I have:
Are there any big advantages to the spaceplane design? I'm obviously not an expert but it seems kind of dumb to me to use all that power to carry a spaceplane when you could just use it to haul whatever cargo you need.
Well, the last 30 years wasn't just about hauling cargo. The shuttle did many things to advance space flight wether you agree with the program or not. In order to build the ISS there had to be a platform so to speak. The shuttle provided that as it hauled the equipment, was a work shop to put it together and a safe area for the amount of people it hauled. It was also a platform to retrieve, fix and release satellites and prove new technologies. It was a testing ground for EVA's in space along with robotics. It was the beginning of new, reusable and lighter materials such as carbon fiber, insulation tiles. Fly by wire control systems was introduced by the program. Because it wasn't economically a success , some people call it a failure. Sometimes you have to do things wether its cost effective or not. My opinion only.
Its where they get their ideas
17:50 this van is looks like a BEN 10
The drag chute is cut at 60 mph and is done at this time so it doesnt interfere with work at the rear of the orbiter after wheel stop. Many vehicles have to pull up next to the orbiter for work and the crew has to position the engine bells and open the belly ET doors etc. If the chute was done later it would be run over, tangled etc.
If only Columbia's 2003's reentry could have been as graceful! 😔
スペースシャトルで帰還して歩いてエアストリームに乗り込んで去っていくってカッコ良すぎ！
I love that as the shuttle is landing you can still see the heat Maroge on the bottom and top of the shuttle beautiful
Really nice capture of the shuttle at 4:12 mark, it must had not been easy to film this at the speep the ship was going.
Seriously doe
nothing will ever beat what a masterpiece the space shuttle is... simply there's no spacecraft such as beautiful in terms of engineering as this.
It looks like a party bus at the end. Imagine beer, nuts , flashing lights with Saturday Night fever blasting out
Who all are seeing in..2020
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Nobody cares what year we are watching
@@lilmcnoggy1439 damn who pissed in your cornflakes 🤔
suh dude
@@ronaldmorrison6013 is that cereal cuz im a filipino
Excellent video
We should never forget the people who initiated the Rocket science.
Fly’s like a rocket lands like a plane
I feel bad for the shuttle program. The o-ring problem with Challenger was a fixable problem that was known about pre-launch but ignored, and could have been a matter of routine maintenance had everything been more safety-prioritising and better regulated/organised. The weather issues on launch were also preventable had people been sensible about go/no-go, but for cost and go-fever considerations. As for Columbia, the foam strike was an established issue that could have been addressed to prevent rather than fix any demonstrable problems. The foam strike that doomed Columbia was clearly captured on camera during launch, and they had the ability to check the orbiter out while still in orbit, and to put together some kind of rescue plan, but were denied permission to do either. Why do any of these things prove any sort of unreliability of the shuttle itself? They demonstrate human error and oversight more than anything inherently unreliable or wrong with the type of vehicle. It's unfair that they should act as scapegoats for human psychological foibles.
The main trouble with the shuttle as a vehicle is not the vehicle itself but the psychology it promotes in managers and governments. With the shuttle, spaceflight seemed more predictable, more failsafe and generally more routine than it really is, cheaper to do than it really is when truly done safely, and with faster expected turnaround of launches than is really safely possible. Maybe it is good that the shuttle is de-commissioned, not just for this but because it ended up being demeaned to a more lucrative role of commercial space taxi service, which narrowed our horizons when it came to space exploration itself. But that's all to do with us and our flaws, not with what the shuttle is and was!
It represented more of a space truck thana taxi, considering it built so much of the ISS
It´s awesome that the astronauts arive in a spaceshuttle and NASA uses a beautiful older autocamper to take them away.
One can tell, that, that specific autocamper has a lot of history behind it.
Always loved the shuttle..lived in Merritt. Was Awesome!
“Houston, Discovery. Requesting taxi clearance.”
That thing had a rough time! Look how much it had been through!👏
The shuttle's rudder is also an airbrake? Neat, didn't know that
same thought xD
@@totoze1956 Rubber? He wrote rudder!
Yiperde Undecillion quite alot of military jets use similar technology as well 😉
Was an upgrade made mid-program.
Yeah, it splits after touchdown.
To me surviving a space shuttle launch, re-entry, and runway landing is basically like cheating death. Astronauts are like, the bravest and luckiest human beings to ever exist.
Too many missions certainly came very close to disaster.
Hope Colombia could have landed such way...RIP all the 7 brave astronauts
also the space shuttle challenger
@@gryciamaeramos6580 it exploded, it couldn't really land anywhere
"Welcome home, Discovery". 😊
Salute to all those involved in the Space Shuttle. 👍🇳🇿
always gives me the chills
I don't understand why people who have achieved historical achievement should be undervalued.
I honestly enjoyed watching that.
I remember my second grade teacher showing us discovery landing. Not sure if it was a live stream of video, doesn’t matter. Either way, I found it really cool and made me more fascinated with space flight and the wonders that come with it. I now, about 11-12 years later at studying mechanical engineering at university.
4:52 landing
👍
Why is there so many dislikes for something so cool?
Flat earthers
Idiots
Alliens
bcs of flatards
failed astronauts lol
Waiting for a crosswind landing compilation with the shuttle....
If wind conditions for a landing were too high at the Cape, then Edwards was the alternate landing site.
Or sometimes they would delay the landing for a day or two.
Imagine seeing it about to touchdown and all of a sudden, it gets pushed sideways like a paper plane being blown in the wind.
I didn't think wind affected bricks
Nice video
Fantastic video - serious question: with the gear deployed so late, I guess there's nothing they can do if it doesn't drop? And would that be catastrophic or would they survive it?
It would be a catastrophic event, simply put. I read somewhere that there is a chance they might survive if the cargo bay was empty, only a chance though, since the shuttle is not designed to belly land.
There’s no option for pulling up and circling around for a second landing attempt, so once they deorbit that’s it - they’re landing one way or the other. Fortunately the landing gear never failed in 133 landings!
I think the reason they drop the gear late is because of the drag that they can cause. For instance in many commercial airlines, pilots tend to pull the gear as soon as possible because of the large amounts of drag that they cause. I don’t know a hundred percent why the gear of the shuttle are dropped late. however, I think this the most likely reason
@@ronanbambrick9825
Watch STS-3. The gear was down and locked only a couple of seconds prior to contact.
Right, there would be nothing they could do except to hold on. The reason why none of the landing gear failed was because they weren't powered by hydraulics or electricity, they were simply dropped, and gravity/wind resistance pulled them into place where they locked.
17:50
they protecc
they atacc
but most importantly they got snacks
The Florida commemorative quarter has a space shuttle on the back. It’s definitely in my top three favorite commemorative quarters. I also love the Colorado and Mississippi quarters.
I think we gave up on the Shuttle too soon. It was a great concept, just needed to be perfected.
Yes, I was on it too I was in the back with Homer simpson eating all the cheese puffs!!!
Sad people lost there lives on shuttle bless them all❤❤
7:18 min that really shows the size of this thing compared to the helicopters ... like a building!
Amd it's also further back
its big bcause its carrying satellite or something
We really need a newly designed shuttle filled with the latest technology.
Respect from Russia 🇷🇺
1:46 sonic boom...i was waiting for that..
What’s a sonic boom???
@@AH-en8oj its when an object moves faster than the speed of sound..hence the double explosions sound...
7:27 Love the sound of the shuttle!
That's the sound of one of the many APU's (auxiliary power unit) that power various systems on the shuttle.
It might be a glider and not using rocket or jet engines when it's returning to earth, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still have various other systems working and making noises.
Te ho
@@sailorman8668 That's two jet engines!!!
@@99.9percent9 Get lost shitskull
Yep, notice that AirBoyd killed the audio for 6 seconds during the flare...5:02 - 5:08.
Smooth like butter 🗿
Always wondered what the astronauts felt like when they got off the shuttle. Must've been amazing!
A lot had to do with how long the flight was. It was different with everybody. The crew spent about 45 minutes in the orbiter on the runway to get their land legs back. They felt very heavy. Also some crew were nauseous after landing. Some crew bounced right up and ready to go. On station flights, some did fine, other were carried off into the crew transport vehicle . Some were having muscle biopsies done right on the runway. Others had blood drawn. Others urine samples. All in all it depended on how the persons body reacted.
This was so freaking awesome
All the dislikes are flat earthers
Imagine telling your kids you landed a space shuttle. One of the coolest things evah🤗🤗
Fantastic. I love NASA ❤❤❤❤
Wellcome home Discovery....
What a homely feel...
Thanks Nasa,do such a wonderfull experiments...
4:11 all the way to the landing is some of the most alpha shit humanity has ever recorded
"Under 5 minutes from landing, altitude 55,000 feet, range from the landing site 68 miles".
When you put it like that, you realise just how fast they fly and fall.
Amazing job, well done!
Love the roar of the engines and reverse thrust on landing
???????
There are no jet engines you nutbar.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver 👋🤨❌ ohh REALLY NOW , youvSo Sure about that❓
@@eurekaakerue4649 Yes, you flake
@@RideAcrossTheRiver👋😝❌ you sound blissful with that ignorance ,((Wee’Todd ) Now that’s how to insult Flake … haha Cfumb bag😝 go back to sleep young Sheeple
This is so cool, i want to discover this in person. I never knew they land like this!
This vehicle doesn’t fly anymore
You must be young. The shuttle retired in 2011. Brilliant machine. I recommend reading up about the history of this beautiful machine. You will love it.
They use SpaceX Falcon 9 now.. And soon starship
@@sfguzmani Not soon 'star ship'