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I was at work and several of the employees stepped outside to see the launch in 1986 from Orlando area. One of my coworkers was having a bad day and said, "Take me with you" as the space shuttle took off and as soon as she finished her comment, the space shuttle blew up. Who was really having the bad day? I think she may have counted her blessings after it happened.
@@wishfulthinker9350 wow..what a dose of reality that must have been..I can't imagine being there and seeing it. She witnessed such an important part of our history.
This was decided after the catastrophic event has occurred on columbia. To see where ice and foam chunks fall down and if they produce damage or not. optical control was introduced because of these obvious hazards during launch. Unluckily this was not already done after challenger. The cameras are directed to critical areas like the underside of the orbiter (tiles), the wingsides, booster bottom, e.g.
What really gave me the chills was the fact that you don't realize how alive everything is here on earth. How you know you can walk outside your home to find another living creature. Then the moment you leave our atmosphere everything is gone from you in an instant... Nothing around us is alive, no sounds, no people, no laws... just you and the entire universe. Really is mind blowing once you see this.
@@Blaquesoul1906 its called prograde burn. After you passed the karman line 30 seconds before you reach the ships apoapsis you will burn the rocket horizontally to make your apoapsis and periapsis wrap around the earth making a orbit. Horizontal velocity in a gravity well makes you rotate around a mass. Did you take aerospace engineering or rocket science atleast????
9:38 maybe the space shuttle was way too risky and expensive to fly compared to other conventional space craft...but oh boy, she was the coolest space craft ever to leave and return to Earth
9:40 That's the greatest view in the history of videos. It looks so science fiction. Like what you would imagine a futuristic spaceship to look like, only it's REAL and it really happened.
That ‘vapour trail’ starting intermittently from 17:00 really gives a great reference point to see just how fast and in which direction this SRB is moving. Awesome 😊🚀
@@matthewhagedorn4147 And right after that uh oh was recorded on the cockpit recorder spoken by pilot Michael Smith but I'm not sure if mission control could hear that or not. Sad day in history.
What I live the most is how the shuttle gets closer to space the sound fades and you dont hear much when the booster is floating around. But as it gets closer to earth and the fall you hear sound more and more. This will never get old.
It's eerie but magnificent to see the fragile transition from colorful, oxygen and life abundant blue earth to the stark endlessly empty black void of space. Even seeing our Sun in its true form as a white star radiating out of darkness is oddly fascinating
So you really think that plane is flying into space because they only reached Lower orbit… Lower orbit is not space if you look it up you know. When the booster separates it starts to descend not a sand so it’s coming back to earth.
@@stretch4893 Separation of the SRBs happens at about 24 nautical miles of altitude, which is about 27.6 miles. The point at which one enters space is 62 miles up, so yes, they separate well before that because their goal is to do the initial liftoff, the engines on the shuttle do the rest of the job after SRB separation.
You can actually feel the Shuttle flex its sheer muscle just after the throttle up call as it ploughs through the atmosphere. Stuff like this never leaves you, imagine what being in the craft was like!!
For some reason I find myself holding my breath just before the boosters hit the ocean. lol. Some of this made me dizzy too. What an mind blowing experience.
I was born in 85 so I dont remember the actual event but it was still brought up in school a few years later. I did see the Columbia break up during re entry. Both are very sad.must be horrific for the parents of the crews.I could not imagine.
My weekly routine consists of getting high as can be, putting this video on my Virtual Reality headset and imagining myself leaving earth and its problems behind.... .Thank you.
+SpydreX Official - You do realize that the sound you are hearing "once the atmosphere gets thinner" is all coming from inside and through the metal of the rocket and not from the outside through the atmosphere, right? Most of the trip is faster than the speed of sound and according to the description ends at 5652 km/h, more than 4x the speed of sound. The sound of the rocket engine can't be heard at the microphone except through the metal of the rocket itself.
We got to watch this launch from the vip area. It was so cool but I swear it was clear as could be until a few minutes before launch then bam light cloud cover comes over just in time for launch. We saw it until it went through the layer then never saw it again. It was still cool but I was so bummed when we saw the clouds roll over. We got to see sts 131 launch from prob 12-15 miles away and it was the coolest thing I’ve ever witnessed. Pre dawn launch right after the iss passed over that morning.
Those booster rockets really do go on an amazing journey, the hollow metalic sounds when the tanks are empty of fuel is quite eerie, and the moisture on the video lens as it passes through the clouds and then evaporates as the shuttle moves above the clouds is amazing, really good quality video of that.......
+Justin Hopkins And yet here people are, arguing over color of skin, "gender-identity", and whatever petty problems come up in the media. It's hard knowing how far WE COULD be if people had the right perspective.
Nameless City I 100% agree. Honestly, I don't think most people think about things like this. Everyone is so caught up in complete BS. Some people I've run into don't ponder the universe at all. Hell, they don't even look at the stars at night. Instagram is more interesting I guess. Humans are so self-important and egotistical, they can't fathom being insignificant compared to the universe, so leaders engage is petty land grabs that end up killing millions. Then, we draw imaginary lines in the dirt marking our territory. Truly, it's no different than an animal pissing on a tree and killing anything that enters its domain. We're no better. And for what? Power.
Justin Hopkins Well spoken. What truly changed my direction of importance was the film 2001: A Space Oddity. There could be many more frontiers than space flight as well, yet we're still stuck with, like you said, power. I'm most likely in the minority when I say this, but in-order to successfully trek the stars, we need a one-world government. Of course, if we had that now, it wouldn't be pretty. I think of it more as working in unity. Many people don't realize how powerful our brains and bodies are capable of.
Nameless City You must be my twin! 2001 has probably had more impact on my life than any other film. I knew once I saw it, no other film would ever move me in that sort of transcendent way again. Humanity certainly needs to be born anew as shown in the film. I very much agree with a one world government as well. Until we put our rivalries aside and consider ourselves citizens of the world, progress will remain slow. I travel frequently and I hate that I can't travel freely amongst the world. Instead, we have to deal with passports and authority that could potentially deny our entry. This is our planet, we inherited it. I truly believe that democracy is good but it certainly has its flaws. Voltaire said that democracy propagates the idiocy of the masses. He advocated for a group of highly enlightened individuals that would lead humanity towards success. This makes sense considering the masses are quite backwards. The current anti-science, anti-intellectual uprising is extremely concerning to me. I think the concept of national origin and patriotism is outdated, however, most people aren't enlightened enough to even think about that. Nationalism is a very bad thing. However, I do understand being proud of ones culture. If we keep dividing ourselves with walls and borders, wars will never end. Who knows how far ahead we would be from current technology if we could just set our differences aside. It's such a simple thing to do! Yet, we can't.....
Justin Hopkins Haha good to hear i'm not the only one! I have a feeling that patriotism and stuff is just modern tribal mentality. Same goes for picking your favorite football team. I've personally never liked "rivalry" between groups.
My Favorite is the pop of the Parachute reverberating down the empty cylinder.. or the bits of unused fuel, sticking or the burnt residue stuck on the camera lens until atmosphere cleans it.. Astronaut Hadfield says space smells like gunpowder.. all that RCS fuel, and retrorockets, and transfer burns and ascents.
@@jordannietos Thank you for the clarification. To further clarify for my pea brain, does that mean that the actual powder is floating in the vacuum of space and adhering onto their suits and then once inside their noses can pick up the smell? In theory? Funny thing, I actually love that smell, lol. I also like the smell of tar/gasoline. I forgot what the scientific name of that condition is, but I have it! :)
Wow. One of man's most complex machines. I did notice a little waiver in the Commander's voice. When he said, Rodger, go with throttle up. Very brave people.
one of my favorite videos of all time, i always come back to it. the absurd power, the incomprehensible danger, the eerie groans of metal and machines that are so large and heavy that one single human alone could never create or operate them. the sound of air rushing past so fast that unguarded human eardrums would rupture. the hollow echoes of debris impacts that sound so casual but would actually likely cause grievous injury to human flesh upon contact. the pacing of events, it's so incredibly fast and yet there are these indescribably serene moments where time seems to stand still forever... until suddenly everything is happening all at once again. i have to come back and watch this at least once a year, it's so incredibly raw.
Sadly all I can think about is those poor astronauts from Challenger back in 1986 Free Falling like this back into the ocean. We will never forget Challenger crew 1986 rest in peace
You can always tell when the rockets burst back through the atmosphere due to the sheer violence of the sounds coming through the speaker. Some frightening sounds though, so glad you kept the original soundtrack and didn't ruin it with music or anything. This was dope to watch
Maybe the most incredible thing about watching this is how quickly it gets above the clouds and weather compared to a traditional aircraft. When you fly on a 747 it seems to take a long time, but this thing dwarfs that kind of power so much that it only takes about 30 seconds!
+massivemuscles85 There is a video on TH-cam of a shuttle launch viewed from a passenger jet and in that video you get a sense for how fast the shuttle is accelerating from launch. I mean the thing is traveling at over 3,000 MPH when the SRB's burn out and drop off at 2:20.
It's glare. The camera is hardly any closer to the sun than we are. Once the atmosphere's not there to scatter and filter the light, the glare gets more intense.
I hope you're not implying that the sun looks bigger, because the shuttle is now closer to the sun? Because if you are, you might to stick to threads that are a little simpler for you.
I've watched this at least 20 times and it never fails to thrill me. The way you can see the other SRB in the distance, the butterflies in my stomach from the rotations, the metallic clangs and nearly human-like moans, the sight of the huge column of smoke sticking out from the Earth at the shuttle's launch point, the gentle re-entry through the clouds, the deployment of the parachutes, the splashdown --- it's all gloriously magnificent. Omg.
I'm 35 years old and only yesterday did I realise that the Solid Rocket Boosters are actually using Solid fuel like a firework you buy from the store. I mean its so simple and basic yet so effective. Just light em up and you cant shut em off. That must have been such an awesome ride. Wiyle E Coyote style.
they don't use gunpowder which is used on most firework rocket because it doesn't give enough energy and so low Isp they used double composite which gives 275 s Isp compared to 125 s Black powder or gunpowder so its different
There's still air at 146,000 feet (Booster sep altitude) though the atmosphere is only about 2 - 4% at that altitude. Most of the sound is through vibrations through the physical contact with the booster. Notice how the sound became much quieter after about 60,000 feet.
There is some air up there but very thin, however sound vibrates through the material structure. The microphone picks up the sound vibrations from the actual tank it's attached to.
That's not realistic. Unfortunately, there are evil people on earth that want to kill others. They can't be reasoned with. The only way to defeat them is to destroy them. That's the world we live in.
I wish I would've decided to be an Astronaut at a young age. Probably would've been in Space by now. What an amazing, life changing career it must be. Such a privilege. Imagine leaving this Earth to explore what very little humans have.
Don't feel too bad... you probably wouldn't have made it anyway lol. Your intelligence, skill & dedication notwithstanding, look at it from a numbers standpoint: six billion people on Earth & what, maybe 200 (a generous estimate) have been in space? Shatter your dreams child, it's a career few of us can achieve lol. I'm available for motivational talks Monday through Thursday lol
Max Augustine I know, right? lol. The greatest philosopher of the 1980's, Optimus Prime, once said "Hold on to your dreams, the future is built on dreams." I think those elite few who do succeed need our shattered dreams to lay the foundations for their success lol. Personally, I always wanted to be an airline pilot (space travel seemed completely out of reach). While I was at school, I heard about planes that could land themselves, seemingly rendering pilots obsolete. In my youth, I thought that meant that piloting as a career would not last me until retirement age, so I chose a different career path. Now I have to live my dreams as best I can: vicariously via TH-cam videos with a tear in the eye. Sounds like you're ready to do the same lol.
Jimbo Jones Yeah, just remortgage your house, sell your children into slavery & flog your kidneys on the black market... It's a goal affordable by everyone!
I travelled From Scotland just to see the shuttle STS-83 taking off it was delayed for a day could not believe it, but all was well it took off the next day, what a sight, was wonderful. So happy I managed to see it.
actually i just read in the description that they take 70 seconds to travel that 20 miles up thats honestly insane, just think about how fast that is.....
The acceleration is amazing, it goes from slowly leaving the tower to faster than a rifle bullet in seconds. The "go with throttle up" "roger go with throttle up" always gives me a weird feeling because thats the exact second Challenger blew up, when they throttled up.
Takes 3 minutes to space and 14 hours to travel to the other side of the world. Thats just crazy. Im still in the bathroom and they reached space before i could finish taking a shower.
But don’t you just love it? The great big unknown, the feeling of unfamiliarity, where nothing and everything matters, where no creature was supposed to venture, idk I just love it so much.
And also how every single gust of wind, pressure, every clang and hum, can be explained by mathematics and physics down to the atoms, you’re living and feeling science, we’re just small creatures trying to understand the world around us, it’s incredible.
Ok fine then, my definition is that science is not a concept, nor a physical form, science is how we use our current knowledge and speculations to pose the question “why?” And “what if?”, it is what keeps us moving forward, and the more we can discover and find evidence for, our knowledge and their applications will expand at an accelerating rate, science is not only being able to understand but having the curiosity and creativity to venture, it’s approaching everything with an open mind and accepting that absolutely anything can and will be possible.
Obviously you can’t actually *feel science*, I’m making a metaphor which simply and definitively shows that the way I perceive it, every small thing is so much more complex, misunderstood and overlooked than anyone has ever given it credit for, and this realisation really makes you appreciate everything so much more, the perfect conditions your conscience happens to be inhabited within, allowing homeostasis to keep you alive, providing your brain with the energy to keep living and breathing and wondering.
Right. Freaking cool as hell. But I’m pretty sure the boosters and the tank are not in space. You wouldn’t be able to hear anything in the vacuum of space. What would have been cool if they would have put a camera on the space shuttle and then listened to the sound go away as it moved into space.
Awesome. I've seen dozens of shuttle launches...but never from this perspective. The booster separation is amazing. I don't know why they never showed this on television? The first couple minutes anyway.
So that's what I couldn't see once it went into that low cloud layer...if you look towards the end before booster sep, you can see the long shadow forming on the cloud layer, that was pretty cool to see growing underneath it.
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THANK YOU for keeping those eerie, natural sounds and not adding a techno soundtrack or something.
No kiddin. Wish it was like in 4K or something. Really something to see
The fact that the latest gangster rap video which once again talk about slang’n rock and shooting rival gang members has 300 million views and this video has 3 million videos says a lot about were humans are going
Ryan Jones agreed
Maaan, I was looking forward to a techno soundtrack
@@ryanjones9498 society
Kudos to the camera operator for holding on to the outside of the rocket the whole time.
The number of times I have heard this joke SMH
Haha...nice!
Nerves of steel, that man,
Brave is not the word !!!
Hahaha hahaha
Lets not forget how long he is holding his breath. Epic
Those words "go at throttle up" always send a shiver down my spine ever since the Challenger tragedy of 1986.
Urko2005 tru
@@xxTexas_outlaw71xxttv Yes
I was at work and several of the employees stepped outside to see the launch in 1986 from Orlando area. One of my coworkers was having a bad day and said, "Take me with you" as the space shuttle took off and as soon as she finished her comment, the space shuttle blew up. Who was really having the bad day? I think she may have counted her blessings after it happened.
@@wishfulthinker9350 Mind Blown!
@@wishfulthinker9350 wow..what a dose of reality that must have been..I can't imagine being there and seeing it. She witnessed such an important part of our history.
Omg who ever thought to put a camera on the booster was brillant !!! This is beyond anything I've ever seen in space ... totally incredible !
This was decided after the catastrophic event has occurred on columbia. To see where ice and foam chunks fall down and if they produce damage or not. optical control was introduced because of these obvious hazards during launch. Unluckily this was not already done after challenger. The cameras are directed to critical areas like the underside of the orbiter (tiles), the wingsides, booster bottom, e.g.
What really gave me the chills was the fact that you don't realize how alive everything is here on earth. How you know you can walk outside your home to find another living creature. Then the moment you leave our atmosphere everything is gone from you in an instant... Nothing around us is alive, no sounds, no people, no laws... just you and the entire universe. Really is mind blowing once you see this.
Jmack 4275 aliens
Jmack 4275
I know dude.. fucken scary.
I'll never go up there again.
Jmack 4275 so i can legally put on a space suit, depressurize iss and escape home on a soyuz?
Jmack 4275 yessssss it is.. man imaging living on Neptune for 2 years!! All alone!!
Yup it's that tiny thin slice of atmosphere that I love the most about Earth
That moment where the boosters detach and the shuttle shoots off into the distance..my god that's beautiful
Notice how it never goes up after that. Just down range. Never leaves the atmosphere.
@@Blaquesoul1906 its called prograde burn. After you passed the karman line 30 seconds before you reach the ships apoapsis you will burn the rocket horizontally to make your apoapsis and periapsis wrap around the earth making a orbit. Horizontal velocity in a gravity well makes you rotate around a mass. Did you take aerospace engineering or rocket science atleast????
@@leastbloodthirstyneocon2776 that was impressive,i bet that guy feels like a bottle of piss after ur lesson in rocket science.well done
yeah it looks like a movie scene
CGI
The moment of booster separation and watching the shuttle speed away on it's own is the most thrilling part for me. Wow!
28:46 too ...!!!
Same. I love that. 😊
@LCP71 not cgi.
@Majority of 1 well, prove your point genius .
@Majority of 1 prove it's CGI
9:38 maybe the space shuttle was way too risky and expensive to fly compared to other conventional space craft...but oh boy, she was the coolest space craft ever to leave and return to Earth
Falcom Heavy first stage are the best ones to return
*SpaceX:* Hold my Starship
@@death_parade SpaceX’s starship is probably gonna be cool, but the Space Shuttle will always be a classic with a special place in my heart.
@@Butterstix2014 The special place in my heart is reserved for GSLV Mk III (for now at least).
Yup agreed!
Okay, definitely one of the coolest videos on TH-cam.
Agreed
Oh ye!
Definitely
We’re are entering aliens country illegally
Totally
9:40 That's the greatest view in the history of videos. It looks so science fiction. Like what you would imagine a futuristic spaceship to look like, only it's REAL and it really happened.
Holy shot you’re so right,and that angle too
Straight out of a movie
Completely agree
Awesome. Yes!!!
You got that so right, it's like a movie scene of recording the departure of a ship that is going to another galaxy or something.
The immediate silence after the separation is eerie, then the wind rushing through it on descent once back in the atmosphere is amazing.
It’s amazing how fast the Shuttle ascends.It’s so difficult to comprehend such an awesome speed when watching from afar.
Scares the crap out of me and I'm a grown man. The speed and darkness and sound. Racing into the unknown. Terrifying.
+Tonyo1221 Creates a whole new respect for astronauts doesnt it? Balls of steel.
I'm the opposite, I find it incredibly fascinating.
+Jonathan Richards Fascinating and terrifying.
Yup, certainly would be if your spacecraft fails and you're forced to watch outside your cockpit window as you fall back down to Earth.
+Tonyo1221 I'd "Ride that Puppy in New York Heartbeat". If it goes, it'll be quick, if not, think of the story you'll have for your Grandchildren!
That ‘vapour trail’ starting intermittently from 17:00 really gives a great reference point to see just how fast and in which direction this SRB is moving.
Awesome 😊🚀
If you look close you can actually see the initial launch plume as well just below where the vapor trail starts to form
I still get the chills when I hear, "go with throttle up".
Challenger crews last words heard from Flight Control
Same here, every time you hear it you think, "Please work!"
@@matthewhagedorn4147 And right after that uh oh was recorded on the cockpit recorder spoken by pilot Michael Smith but I'm not sure if mission control could hear that or not. Sad day in history.
@@marlonisaac1 the look on Flight Controls faces when they saw the vehicle explode on their prompters was absolutely chilling.
@sjtom57 Its “go at throttle up.” Throttle up is a stage in the trajectory, not an action. That’s why it’s “at.”
After the boosters are released that hollow, echoing sound is chilling...
Nobody asked you ferretface.
Sorry had to do it because of the profile pic LOL
What I live the most is how the shuttle gets closer to space the sound fades and you dont hear much when the booster is floating around. But as it gets closer to earth and the fall you hear sound more and more. This will never get old.
I love how the boosters reenter the atmosphere, bursting in at mach speeds. The sheer sound of the atmosphere hitting the booster is amazing.
The boosters never leave the atmosphere .
Mach speed?
It's eerie but magnificent to see the fragile transition from colorful, oxygen and life abundant blue earth to the stark endlessly empty black void of space. Even seeing our Sun in its true form as a white star radiating out of darkness is oddly fascinating
That shot at 9:35 of the booster separating and the space shuttle continuing to fly is one of the most amazing shots i've ever seen. Chills every time
I keep replaying that moment, and it just doesn't look real! Nevertheless, I believe it.
So you really think that plane is flying into space because they only reached Lower orbit… Lower orbit is not space if you look it up you know. When the booster separates it starts to descend not a sand so it’s coming back to earth.
@@stretch4893yet the “plane” continues to fire the engines e for a few more minutes🤔
@@stretch4893 Separation of the SRBs happens at about 24 nautical miles of altitude, which is about 27.6 miles. The point at which one enters space is 62 miles up, so yes, they separate well before that because their goal is to do the initial liftoff, the engines on the shuttle do the rest of the job after SRB separation.
Wild how the sound from SRB’s change as they go from still moving up to reverse and go to terminal velocity down,
I love this stuff.
You can actually feel the Shuttle flex its sheer muscle just after the throttle up call as it ploughs through the atmosphere. Stuff like this never leaves you, imagine what being in the craft was like!!
This is some of the most amazing things I have heard or seen ever.
Yes, completely agree! Mind-bending.
Yup. I couldn't stop watching it.
So smooth and fast...absolutely amazing.
apparently, you haven't seen a tree or a kid grow up into an adult
nice one
For some reason I find myself holding my breath just before the boosters hit the ocean. lol. Some of this made me dizzy too. What an mind blowing experience.
😳😳😳😳😳the sound of the boosters falling!!!!
Such an incredible machine and yet so fragile.
+PIlotrcm A common phallacy....
+PIlotrcm lol!
+tryithere ...And built by the "Lowest Bidder(s)".
James Vetzel built by 'useless eaters'....they can smfd
I know it's fast even on initial lift-off, but seeing those clouds disappear under it in mere seconds from leaving the ground is still amazing.
How long it takes to fall back down really makes it clear how fast it went UP!
Clouds aren't at a really high altitude.
in around 24 seconds
''Go at throttle up'' still sends a chill down my spine.
I was thinking the exact same time. RIP Challenger crew.
Sat in my mums living room as a 7 year old and watched Challenger, so sad thoughts and prayers still with the crew and there families
I was born in 85 so I dont remember the actual event but it was still brought up in school a few years later. I did see the Columbia break up during re entry. Both are very sad.must be horrific for the parents of the crews.I could not imagine.
Imagine how every crew after challenger felt when they heard those words from control!
@Smokey Bear it is.but we know what it means.
My weekly routine consists of getting high as can be, putting this video on my Virtual Reality headset and imagining myself leaving earth and its problems behind.... .Thank you.
That may have been the most mind-blowing video I've seen. It's simply something you cannot comprehend unless you've lived it. Phenomenal video.
Its cool because you can hear the sound start to dissipate once the atmosphere gets thinner since the sound cant travel as well..
i was thinking the same thing.
+SpydreX Official 12:45 sound from hell
+SpydreX Official That was my thought exactly!
+SpydreX Official - You do realize that the sound you are hearing "once the atmosphere gets thinner" is all coming from inside and through the metal of the rocket and not from the outside through the atmosphere, right? Most of the trip is faster than the speed of sound and according to the description ends at 5652 km/h, more than 4x the speed of sound. The sound of the rocket engine can't be heard at the microphone except through the metal of the rocket itself.
ElmerFuddGun Yes.. Did I say anything to make you think otherwise?
We got to watch this launch from the vip area. It was so cool but I swear it was clear as could be until a few minutes before launch then bam light cloud cover comes over just in time for launch. We saw it until it went through the layer then never saw it again. It was still cool but I was so bummed when we saw the clouds roll over. We got to see sts 131 launch from prob 12-15 miles away and it was the coolest thing I’ve ever witnessed. Pre dawn launch right after the iss passed over that morning.
Those eerie sounds, as if someone is yelling or screaming definitely gave me chills
This just now showed up in my recommended videos, after watching crap on TH-cam for 7-8 years. OMG this was amazing.
Those sounds in space/exosphere ...chilling. Truly alone
"Go at throttle up" always gives me chills
Me too.
Every. Single. Time.
Yup
Yes me too, Because That's when Challenger blew up.
Kingston Eldridge yep, Challenger
Those booster rockets really do go on an amazing journey, the hollow metalic sounds when the tanks are empty of fuel is quite eerie, and the moisture on the video lens as it passes through the clouds and then evaporates as the shuttle moves above the clouds is amazing, really good quality video of that.......
Ya know, for sitting atop a MILLION pounds of thrust, that thing is an amazingly smooth ride.
you believe that until you see videos from the cockpit when they’re launched
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I'm amazed at the lack of vibration on the cameras.
You just can't see it. There is nothing smooth about it.
4.4 million pounds
This really does make you pause and think about everything humanity has achieved in just the last 100 years. It's incredible.
+Justin Hopkins And yet here people are, arguing over color of skin, "gender-identity", and whatever petty problems come up in the media.
It's hard knowing how far WE COULD be if people had the right perspective.
Nameless City I 100% agree. Honestly, I don't think most people think about things like this. Everyone is so caught up in complete BS. Some people I've run into don't ponder the universe at all. Hell, they don't even look at the stars at night. Instagram is more interesting I guess.
Humans are so self-important and egotistical, they can't fathom being insignificant compared to the universe, so leaders engage is petty land grabs that end up killing millions. Then, we draw imaginary lines in the dirt marking our territory. Truly, it's no different than an animal pissing on a tree and killing anything that enters its domain. We're no better. And for what? Power.
Justin Hopkins Well spoken. What truly changed my direction of importance was the film 2001: A Space Oddity.
There could be many more frontiers than space flight as well, yet we're still stuck with, like you said, power.
I'm most likely in the minority when I say this, but in-order to successfully trek the stars, we need a one-world government. Of course, if we had that now, it wouldn't be pretty. I think of it more as working in unity. Many people don't realize how powerful our brains and bodies are capable of.
Nameless City You must be my twin! 2001 has probably had more impact on my life than any other film. I knew once I saw it, no other film would ever move me in that sort of transcendent way again. Humanity certainly needs to be born anew as shown in the film.
I very much agree with a one world government as well. Until we put our rivalries aside and consider ourselves citizens of the world, progress will remain slow. I travel frequently and I hate that I can't travel freely amongst the world. Instead, we have to deal with passports and authority that could potentially deny our entry. This is our planet, we inherited it. I truly believe that democracy is good but it certainly has its flaws. Voltaire said that democracy propagates the idiocy of the masses. He advocated for a group of highly enlightened individuals that would lead humanity towards success. This makes sense considering the masses are quite backwards. The current anti-science, anti-intellectual uprising is extremely concerning to me.
I think the concept of national origin and patriotism is outdated, however, most people aren't enlightened enough to even think about that. Nationalism is a very bad thing. However, I do understand being proud of ones culture.
If we keep dividing ourselves with walls and borders, wars will never end. Who knows how far ahead we would be from current technology if we could just set our differences aside. It's such a simple thing to do! Yet, we can't.....
Justin Hopkins Haha good to hear i'm not the only one!
I have a feeling that patriotism and stuff is just modern tribal mentality. Same goes for picking your favorite football team. I've personally never liked "rivalry" between groups.
The most amazing part for me was watching the sky go from blue to black.
Blue on black tears on the river.
Went above the sun
@@TheCasalinthesky entered a black hole accidentally
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@@TheCasalinthesky how?
Одно из самых красивых видео по космонавтике, что я видел за все время. Безумно его люблю и время от времени пересматриваю^^
The footage is amazing but more amazing are the sounds....
It's interesting how there is still enough air to make a faint rushing sound--at certain angles--even at/around apogee.
My Favorite is the pop of the Parachute reverberating down the empty cylinder.. or the bits of unused fuel, sticking or the burnt residue stuck on the camera lens until atmosphere cleans it.. Astronaut Hadfield says space smells like gunpowder.. all that RCS fuel, and retrorockets, and transfer burns and ascents.
@Bartacomus Kidd, "space smells like gunpowder", what? You can't smell OUT in space, where did you hear Hadfield say that?
@@blissboo3892 He was referring to the astronauts who would space walk and come back inside the iss
@@jordannietos Thank you for the clarification. To further clarify for my pea brain, does that mean that the actual powder is floating in the vacuum of space and adhering onto their suits and then once inside their noses can pick up the smell? In theory? Funny thing, I actually love that smell, lol. I also like the smell of tar/gasoline. I forgot what the scientific name of that condition is, but I have it! :)
Wow. One of man's most complex machines. I did notice a little waiver in the Commander's voice. When he said, Rodger, go with throttle up. Very brave people.
Although retired, this thing still amazes me..
one of my favorite videos of all time, i always come back to it. the absurd power, the incomprehensible danger, the eerie groans of metal and machines that are so large and heavy that one single human alone could never create or operate them. the sound of air rushing past so fast that unguarded human eardrums would rupture. the hollow echoes of debris impacts that sound so casual but would actually likely cause grievous injury to human flesh upon contact. the pacing of events, it's so incredibly fast and yet there are these indescribably serene moments where time seems to stand still forever... until suddenly everything is happening all at once again. i have to come back and watch this at least once a year, it's so incredibly raw.
Absolutely amazing footage....among the best space shuttle videos I've ever seen. Thank you for not wrecking it with music.
Mick Ronson actually, you are. Take off your tin foil hat.
After all these years, I still get goosebumps from these videos. It was amazing what NASA accomplished during those years; absolutely phenomenal!!!!!!
Lol
Sadly all I can think about is those poor astronauts from Challenger back in 1986 Free Falling like this back into the ocean. We will never forget Challenger crew 1986 rest in peace
They were most likely unconscious the whole time God willing.
You can always tell when the rockets burst back through the atmosphere due to the sheer violence of the sounds coming through the speaker. Some frightening sounds though, so glad you kept the original soundtrack and didn't ruin it with music or anything. This was dope to watch
The shuttle boosters never leave the atmosphere. They only go to about 150,000 feet.
Maybe the most incredible thing about watching this is how quickly it gets above the clouds and weather compared to a traditional aircraft. When you fly on a 747 it seems to take a long time, but this thing dwarfs that kind of power so much that it only takes about 30 seconds!
+massivemuscles85 Yeah but it also drains about a swimming pools worth of fuel in like an eyes blink, lol
+massivemuscles85 There is a video on TH-cam of a shuttle launch viewed from a passenger jet and in that video you get a sense for how fast the shuttle is accelerating from launch. I mean the thing is traveling at over 3,000 MPH when the SRB's burn out and drop off at 2:20.
Well yeah, it's uh...the space shuttle. That's like comparing a bike to a car. They both move, two different purposes.
+Cleetis Baconwhistle Something tells me you might be a fan of bart sibrel!
Never go full potato...
Is it wrong I'm more impressed with the kind of cameras that are capable of withstanding this and providing us with the visual and audio?
Indeed.
Definitely a solid camera for a solid booster
Haha, only a little wrong!
PIlotrcm - They just taped some GoPros to the booster
Go pro. Best camera for everything
This just came up in my recommended. Holy crap!!!! Utterly spectacular, just mind blowing
I am extremely glad that there was no God-DAMN music included in this footage. Thank you very much.
Dude, I am so glad you kept the natural audio! So tired of videos masking beautiful natural sounds with dumb techno music! Thank you!
Yep I hate the music and sometimes it is way too loud aswell
@@jonahsgang8830 exactly! :)
Boom boom
Boom 🎼🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵 😉
@@francoisregis2155 lol
Holy crap ! The sun is massively huge and bright from up there. Like it is hanging right over the top of the planet. Massive ! Thank you atmosphere.
cuz it is
They say the sun gets bigger the closer you are to it.
It's glare. The camera is hardly any closer to the sun than we are.
Once the atmosphere's not there to scatter and filter the light, the glare gets more intense.
I hope you're not implying that the sun looks bigger, because the shuttle is now closer to the sun? Because if you are, you might to stick to threads that are a little simpler for you.
Sailor Man I don't imply it, basic physics proves it....
It's amazing. At the same time some humans were doing this, some other humans were asking how the oceans don't fall off the planet if it's a globe.
I've watched this at least 20 times and it never fails to thrill me. The way you can see the other SRB in the distance, the butterflies in my stomach from the rotations, the metallic clangs and nearly human-like moans, the sight of the huge column of smoke sticking out from the Earth at the shuttle's launch point, the gentle re-entry through the clouds, the deployment of the parachutes, the splashdown --- it's all gloriously magnificent. Omg.
I'm 35 years old and only yesterday did I realise that the Solid Rocket Boosters are actually using Solid fuel like a firework you buy from the store. I mean its so simple and basic yet so effective. Just light em up and you cant shut em off. That must have been such an awesome ride. Wiyle E Coyote style.
they don't use gunpowder which is used on most firework rocket because it doesn't give enough energy and so low Isp they used double composite which gives 275 s Isp compared to 125 s Black powder or gunpowder so its different
Sleeper was commenting on how the rockets are made, not what materials are used in them. Your comment is irrelevant
@@suzuki694 Shut up Chinese commie
elektron117 says the nazi fascist
It’s a joke disclaimer
Harry Turner That’s exactly what a fascist would say!!
Also dude it’s a joke learn to handle a joke please
2:48 nothing but the boosters hissing and popping and the vacuum of space
There's still air at 146,000 feet (Booster sep altitude) though the atmosphere is only about 2 - 4% at that altitude.
Most of the sound is through vibrations through the physical contact with the booster. Notice how the sound became much quieter after about 60,000 feet.
And then at 3:00 there's a scream
Rykehuss ...and another at 15:04...poor guy!
There is some air up there but very thin, however sound vibrates through the material structure. The microphone picks up the sound vibrations from the actual tank it's attached to.
Technically the SRBs detach while still inside the atmosphere, so they’re not actually “in” space.
02:26 I was watching so intently I actually jumped when the SRB detached 😔
So did I lol.
Same. My stomach dropped as if I was falling.
Me too lol
It blows my mind that we can watch something like this, on our phones…… while having coffee.
To think that having coffee, at one time, was unheard of.
Well, now I know what it's like to be a solid rocket booster...man, those sounds are eerie...
Awesome. The raw power is nearly unbelievable. This is a really immersive video, lights out full screen and turn up the amp. Great upload.
This is incredible. Our big, beautiful, blue ball ❤. Now, let's stop killing each other please.
Ironically thats really the only thing that will save our big blue ball...
@@bigchungus3429 Killing each other? I don't know, for some reason I'm sure there's a better way then inducing pain, death, and suffering.
We are too advanced to stop killing each other...
Parveen S. ...I second this!
Except for euthanasia ... I think we need that, that's important!
That's not realistic. Unfortunately, there are evil people on earth that want to kill others. They can't be reasoned with. The only way to defeat them is to destroy them. That's the world we live in.
Respect to the cameraman who risks his life so that we can enjoy this fantastic footage.
One of the most spectacular videos I've seen lately.
JMiguelmartins this is all bullshit
@@scottb8945 how so?
i like how this video ended with the camera being attacked by giant jellyfish! awesome
Doondah parachute...
I wish I would've decided to be an Astronaut at a young age. Probably would've been in Space by now. What an amazing, life changing career it must be. Such a privilege. Imagine leaving this Earth to explore what very little humans have.
Don't feel too bad... you probably wouldn't have made it anyway lol. Your intelligence, skill & dedication notwithstanding, look at it from a numbers standpoint: six billion people on Earth & what, maybe 200 (a generous estimate) have been in space? Shatter your dreams child, it's a career few of us can achieve lol. I'm available for motivational talks Monday through Thursday lol
My dreams have been shattered....what will I do now?
Max Augustine
I know, right? lol. The greatest philosopher of the 1980's, Optimus Prime, once said "Hold on to your dreams, the future is built on dreams." I think those elite few who do succeed need our shattered dreams to lay the foundations for their success lol. Personally, I always wanted to be an airline pilot (space travel seemed completely out of reach). While I was at school, I heard about planes that could land themselves, seemingly rendering pilots obsolete. In my youth, I thought that meant that piloting as a career would not last me until retirement age, so I chose a different career path. Now I have to live my dreams as best I can: vicariously via TH-cam videos with a tear in the eye. Sounds like you're ready to do the same lol.
You could always pay for a flight on virgin galactic
Jimbo Jones
Yeah, just remortgage your house, sell your children into slavery & flog your kidneys on the black market... It's a goal affordable by everyone!
I travelled From Scotland just to see the shuttle STS-83 taking off it was delayed for a day could not believe it, but all was well it took off the next day, what a sight, was wonderful. So happy I managed to see it.
Earth says "where do u think you're going? U r my propertaah!"
@Cirilo Huicochea Person leaving says......SIMMA.....DOWN......NA
Wow so little space between us and the infinite void damn... that's incredible
two minutes and thirty seconds to get into space!
Mark Stockford Righto! Karman Line.
@@markstockford9109 they weren't even in space yet they were just really high in out atmosphere they are no where close to space yet
@@backin06 yes I think it takes space shuttle between 4.5 to 5 minutes to reach true space
Vlocy *statosphere
The Sounds are soooooo incredible @ 02:40 to 05:00 ---- the sound of space
thats as close as i'll ever be going to space . HELLAVA RIDE THANKS
Absolutely the most interesting TH-cam recommendation ive watched today.
The most bizarre, spectacular and eerily sounding videos. Never knew they recorded this
What's cool is that the boosters continue to travel upwards for about 20 miles after they disconnect because they are going so fast
Josh yeah you can hear mission control say “negative return” at 4:18.
actually i just read in the description that they take 70 seconds to travel that 20 miles up thats honestly insane, just think about how fast that is.....
@@BigHotSauceBoss69 yup. And the shuttle has to almost double that speed, after they separate, to make it to orbit.
I actually never realized that but kind of obvious i guess
@Alan Brando we could do it in less if it was a one way trip with light sails.
I've watched this so many times over the years and it still is the best.
Very silent and scary, especially making scary sounds. Space is very beautiful and awesome. Love it
The acceleration is amazing, it goes from slowly leaving the tower to faster than a rifle bullet in seconds.
The "go with throttle up" "roger go with throttle up" always gives me a weird feeling because thats the exact second Challenger blew up, when they throttled up.
I anyways thought he said "go west throttler". Thanks
Milan Shah that’s when they were opening up the western frontier.
9:40 just after booster disconnected, Endeavor throttles goes high resulting in huge pressure on our point of view, amazing.
This is some of the most amazing film footage in the history of humanity.
Woo hoo, im getting such a rush just from watching
Takes 3 minutes to space and 14 hours to travel to the other side of the world. Thats just crazy.
Im still in the bathroom and they reached space before i could finish taking a shower.
To get to earth orbit takes 8.5 minutes. Just because it gets dark doesn't mean their in space yet. To orbit around the whole earth takes 90 minutes.
The second segment is the coolest. You see the shuttle fly away...
That was one of the coolest things I’ve ever watched
It's amazing that it takes 3 to 4 minutes to reach space
It's quicker than that. Half the time is spent gaining speed in space until it reaches orbital velocity.
Quite scary how dark and silent it is when you get up to space 😳
But don’t you just love it? The great big unknown, the feeling of unfamiliarity, where nothing and everything matters, where no creature was supposed to venture, idk I just love it so much.
And also how every single gust of wind, pressure, every clang and hum, can be explained by mathematics and physics down to the atoms, you’re living and feeling science, we’re just small creatures trying to understand the world around us, it’s incredible.
It’s a metaphor, killjoy, and science is the study of the structure and behaviour the physical world encompasses.
Ok fine then, my definition is that science is not a concept, nor a physical form, science is how we use our current knowledge and speculations to pose the question “why?” And “what if?”, it is what keeps us moving forward, and the more we can discover and find evidence for, our knowledge and their applications will expand at an accelerating rate, science is not only being able to understand but having the curiosity and creativity to venture, it’s approaching everything with an open mind and accepting that absolutely anything can and will be possible.
Obviously you can’t actually *feel science*, I’m making a metaphor which simply and definitively shows that the way I perceive it, every small thing is so much more complex, misunderstood and overlooked than anyone has ever given it credit for, and this realisation really makes you appreciate everything so much more, the perfect conditions your conscience happens to be inhabited within, allowing homeostasis to keep you alive, providing your brain with the energy to keep living and breathing and wondering.
"How did you solve the icing problem?"
"Icing problem?!"
CLANG!!
"Might wanna look into it"
@Jude Fenwick iron man reference 😂😂
Nice Challenger reference!
@@ShortArmOfGod OOOoooOOooOo 😂😂😂😂
Lol
Just go more faster
You can see the shuttle flying away when it does its first flip and I can just imagine the SRB being like "Later duuude, good luuuuuuck!"
WOW just wow, it's the sound that really gets me
Amazing! Gets me emotional every time.
Magnificent. I miss the shuttle.
But a lot of amazing stuff happening now,
right?
Right.
Yay, science!
Wow, what a machine. I never expected it to be soo noisy, all those creaks and bangs scare the hell out of me, stunning.
That camera man is the REAL hero!
That's a camera.
@@kame64discord74 uff
@@tuftedroof go ahead. R/wooooosh me.
@@kame64discord74 mimimi
Holy cow that’s insane!😳 the sounds in space is a whole new level
Right. Freaking cool as hell. But I’m pretty sure the boosters and the tank are not in space. You wouldn’t be able to hear anything in the vacuum of space. What would have been cool if they would have put a camera on the space shuttle and then listened to the sound go away as it moved into space.
The sound can be heard only when the busters comeback beneath the atmosphere.
Awesome. I've seen dozens of shuttle launches...but never from this perspective. The booster separation is amazing. I don't know why they never showed this on television? The first couple minutes anyway.
Because cameras weren't installed in the first 20 years of the program.
I can watch this all day ❤
6:10 I watched enough Spacex launches to be familiar with this part
HAHAHAH XD
So that's what I couldn't see once it went into that low cloud layer...if you look towards the end before booster sep, you can see the long shadow forming on the cloud layer, that was pretty cool to see growing underneath it.
This an awesome video, thank you. I love Space X but man the shuttle was a pretty bird to watch launching and landing
Man the shuttles were so much cooler than all this new private industry stuff.. man those sounds & noises are something else..!!!!!