I get chills every time when I hear the call 'you are go at throttle up'. The Shuttle was an amazing piece of reusable space hardware, I witnessed launch 26 and i'll never forget the sound of the Shuttle rapidly rising into the sky.
I get chills not only because of how awesome it was, but because of January 28, 1986: The _Challenger_ disaster, where the last callup from the ground to the shuttle was: CAP COM: _Challenger,_ GO AT THROTTLE UP! Scobee: Copy, _go at throttle up!_ And then a few seconds later, _Challenger_ exploded.
Also a massive waste in terms of space exploration. We could have spent way less on space trucking and much more on hardware to reach other celestial bodies.
For all the scientists that came before us, for Galilei, Copernicus, Newton. My eyes always fill with tears when I see this video. I am simply amazed at the human brain power behind this.
no DEI involved....thats why back then we could get things done....today we wouldnt make it off the launchpad because the flight director and the engineers would all be hired based on dei slash they must be gay black lesbians....no white men allowed...hopefully trump will turn back the clock to when things were good
God bless the entire space shuttle crews and personnel who took part in this magnificent program! They made all of America very proud! This is an era of history which will never be forgotten!
For every astronaut, I wonder how many support engineers, technicians, assemblers, managers and parts guys there were. I was an Electronics Tech at Sperry Flight Systems in Phoenix, we watch Columbia return from that first flight, in the moon room. But no cigars.
There’s just nothing like the shuttle. Just the greatest vehicle a man has ever produced. I feel so blessed to have seen it flying over DC and arriving at Udvar Hazy.
@vibratingstring yeah I worked at the air and space museum where there was an X15 and also at Udvar Hazy where there was an SR71. I can tell you from everyday personal experience seeing them. Both those airplanes are fantastic, but neither of them takes your breath away like Discovery or the Concorde does.
@vibratingstring the X15 doesn’t even remotely compare, it’s a pipe with stubby wings and tiny cockpit. Discovery has all her heat blankets all burned up from all the times she flew in space, it’s a whole other league.
@user-xl2px8hr2l Challenger was the workhorse of the Shuttle fleet back then. In many ways it was also NASA's favourite. The high flight rates it went through probably meant if any shuttle was going to go first, it would have been Challenger.
Was there and we can see ourselves to the left of the clock. It was a good day but too cloudy to really enjoy the full view of a great machine taking off.
Something I never hear anyone mention, do you get to hear the 2 sonic booms as it takes off? On landing I had some co-workers in Tampa mention how the shuttle landing would scare the crap out of them because the shuttles sonic booms would be close by
@ if you really can’t tell the difference between NASA and a company that has no interest in stellar exploration then there’s really no reason to talk to you. I’ll be riding my flying pig before you’re halfway to mars. As it stands going to mars in the 2030’s is a pr pipe dream.
They had one of the highest gimbal ranges out of any engine. This was needed to prevent the pitching effect of offset thrust (because the center of mass was at the tank, not the orbiter, the engines would spread and pitch inward heavily to control the Shuttle's pitch.)
The last launch where the weather was beautiful. Endeavour's last launch had a thin cloud cover come in about 30 minutes before launch, so you had moments of watching it launch, and Atlantis' last launch was cloudy as well.
I've watched live footage of the first and the last ever shuttle launches (and a few in between 😉) and it has always been a great thrill to watch these amazing machines take flight...
Watching it in person was amazing. I live about 8 hours away, and made it a bucket list item to catch the last launch of each shuttle.. I achieved it. The camera cannot accurately capture the glowing color of those SRB's as they propel the shuttle to space.
This audio is the most realistic audio I've ever heard. This is pretty much exactly what they sound like in person. Roaring crackling power, which gradually fades into deeper, less detailed extremely low pitches booming. Which gets quieter and quieter as the rocket both gets further from you, and when it breaks the sound barrier, you pretty much stop hearing it entirely. Though you can likely see it well after that point.
They're like a small solid fuel rocket or a firework. They're intended to burn off any hydrogen spills and prevent them pooling under the shuttle and possibly exploding.
The exhaust plume and shock diamonds of those RS-25's is absolutely amazing... still my favorite rocket engine ever created. Even today, some half a century later, the entire concept seems almost impossible. I miss the days when NASA proved to the entire world that anything was possible with the right minds (and enough money lol.) It will probably hold the record as the most complex machine mankind has ever created for quite some time.
Shuttle's RS-25 engines were not a totally new concept/design. They were based on the Apollo Saturn V upper stage engines, the J-1 from Rocketdyne with modifications for shuttle operations. The Solid Rockets were based on the Voyager and Viking spacecraft Solid Rockets Motors that were recycled from the 1960s Gemini B/MOL program. NASA as it should tends to build from what they know to reduce costs as they should. The only exception was the shuttle body itself. It was totally scrapped to go back to Apollo staged core concepts for deep space exploration as the space EXPLOITation promise during the shuttle years ended up being a nothing-burger because they couldn't get the reusability costs down and flight frequency up to the promised levels.
I think I remember this launch. I was in 2nd grade at the time and the teacher took as all outside to go watch it launch. It was quite chaotic because the whole school was standing outside in the field and we were all looking up towards the sky. Once it was out of view every kid rushed back to class to continue to watch it on the TV. I miss those days
I remember watching the special launches I either got to see them at home or if I was in school. It was a small school so they would get everybody in one room and have the TV either for the launches or for the landings so I was lucky enough to see almost all the different space shuttles , launches and landings
I was there the day they piggybacked discovery on a cargo plane from the Kennedy space center to Houston to be put into the Smithsonian. I watched the takeoff at Kennedy space center, I was about 11, and I’ll forget what I ate for breakfast for the rest of my life before I’ll forget that day. Really awesome…
I can't even begin to imagine what the austronauts inside the space shuttle are experiencing the moments before and after lift off... It's truly one of a kind feeling that 99.9% of the people will never experience... The mixed emotions, the excitement, the fear... Jesus!!!
There's an incredible book of an astronaut that has an entire chapter dedicated to describing the feeling of launching. It goes into detail about how awe inspiring it is to gaze up at a skyscraper-sized beast, lit up under spotlights and venting clouds of gasses, and thinking about the incredible and terrifying notion of riding that beast.
¡Qué emocionante presenciar el último lanzamiento del Discovery! Este video capturó perfectamente la grandeza y el asombro de la exploración espacial. ¡Gracias por compartir este momento histórico con nosotros!
A friend of mine used to work for JPL back in the Shuttle days and was in charge of rebuilding the engine's fuel pumps in between launches - he explained to me at liftoff that each of the 3 engines burns around 300 gallons of fuel in one second - so that's 900 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen being consumed in ONE SECOND- UNBELIEVABLE
It still amazes me that one of the most complex machines man has ever built had its launch timing figured out buy people in the 1970s when a computer was the size of decent room and the physics of the timing for the SRBs was done with pencil, paper, and slide rules. They calculated out the thrust every millisecond of the main engines firing as the shuttle rocked forward, and went it JUST stops rocking back, they fired the SRBs. The math, the minds, the complexity of it all still boggles.
They should of built another 6 brand new shuttles, with modern avionics. Without them, we have no way to recover satellites, or repair equipment like Hubble in orbit.
This was the second, and last, Shuttle launch I watched from the vicinity. Even though it was a fantastic sight, shuttle launches can't compare to the three Apollo launches I witnessed from the vicinity. The fleet was was asked to fill a need it wasn't designed for, and did so for far longer than it should have. It wasn't a premature retirement that left us grounded, it was the shortsightedness of politicians.
I get chills every time when I hear the call 'you are go at throttle up'. The Shuttle was an amazing piece of reusable space hardware, I witnessed launch 26 and i'll never forget the sound of the Shuttle rapidly rising into the sky.
Wouldn’t expect you to be here, you were my childhood man.
I get chills not only because of how awesome it was, but because of January 28, 1986: The _Challenger_ disaster, where the last callup from the ground to the shuttle was:
CAP COM: _Challenger,_ GO AT THROTTLE UP!
Scobee: Copy, _go at throttle up!_ And then a few seconds later, _Challenger_ exploded.
I'm always in awe when i watch this. The shuttle program was and will always be one of the most amazing achievements of humankind!
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Totalmente de acuerdo
Also a massive waste in terms of space exploration. We could have spent way less on space trucking and much more on hardware to reach other celestial bodies.
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@@randbarrett8706 Eh, it was a needed thing, it was a gateway vessel to the concept of re-use.
For all the scientists that came before us, for Galilei, Copernicus, Newton. My eyes always fill with tears when I see this video. I am simply amazed at the human brain power behind this.
Watching the main engines come alive at around the 3:40 mark....never gets old....just an amazing feat of human engineering
It looks oddly satisfying.
This is one of the most crazy moments in human history. The SOUND the VISUALS. insane
@@ryans6280 Facts!
@@ryans6280 3:19
I completely agree. one of the most beautiful things to see
This never gets old. Amazing orbital aircraft!
I could watch this thing 1000 times and it never ever gets old. What a beauty….incredible brains , incredible entreprise.
Same
no DEI involved....thats why back then we could get things done....today we wouldnt make it off the launchpad because the flight director and the engineers would all be hired based on dei slash they must be gay black lesbians....no white men allowed...hopefully trump will turn back the clock to when things were good
God bless the entire space shuttle crews and personnel who took part in this magnificent program! They made all of America very proud! This is an era of history which will never be forgotten!
For every astronaut, I wonder how many support engineers, technicians, assemblers, managers and parts guys there were.
I was an Electronics Tech at Sperry Flight Systems in Phoenix, we watch Columbia return from that first flight, in the moon room.
But no cigars.
There’s just nothing like the shuttle. Just the greatest vehicle a man has ever produced. I feel so blessed to have seen it flying over DC and arriving at Udvar Hazy.
Not greatest, but definitely the coolest.
@vibratingstring mmm arguably.
@vibratingstring yeah I worked at the air and space museum where there was an X15 and also at Udvar Hazy where there was an SR71. I can tell you from everyday personal experience seeing them. Both those airplanes are fantastic, but neither of them takes your breath away like Discovery or the Concorde does.
@vibratingstring the X15 doesn’t even remotely compare, it’s a pipe with stubby wings and tiny cockpit. Discovery has all her heat blankets all burned up from all the times she flew in space, it’s a whole other league.
Don't forget Concorde.
“Discovery making one last reach for the stars” chills
same here
Well, maybe Low Earth Orbit, anyway.
@@Vector_Ze 🤓
it never fails to make me cry
I was standing off to the right side of the mission timer pictured in those shots. I'll never forget watching Discovery launch.
Had the privilege to watch this one in person from the Saturn V center. Most memorable occasion!
Discovery was my favorite Shuttle.
I liked Challenger.
@@VoodooDangerbird rip challenger crew
any particular reason?
@@NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd because it failed, duh
@user-xl2px8hr2l Challenger was the workhorse of the Shuttle fleet back then. In many ways it was also NASA's favourite.
The high flight rates it went through probably meant if any shuttle was going to go first, it would have been Challenger.
I lived in Central Florida at the time and I had the honor of watching this in person. Truly something I will never forget
I worked for NASA for 40yrs. 26 of which was on the shuttle program. What an amazing vehicle
That boom when the main engines start and the secondary boom of the SLB's makes me proud to be a human being.
Yess i love the time of starting engine😢
Awsome footage of an historic last flight of the Space Shuttle "Discovery".
Was there and we can see ourselves to the left of the clock. It was a good day but too cloudy to really enjoy the full view of a great machine taking off.
Something I never hear anyone mention, do you get to hear the 2 sonic booms as it takes off? On landing I had some co-workers in Tampa mention how the shuttle landing would scare the crap out of them because the shuttles sonic booms would be close by
Disco's launch was clear - the last two didn't have great weather.
Here again ….cannot stop watching this over and over …just magnificent ❤❤
For all it’s flaws I feel like the shuttle program was our last gasp of trying to actually explore space in the next few centuries.
SpaceX has entered the chat.
Huh?
@ space X is a shipping company that happens to operate in space. I’m talking about real exploration for the sake of it.
So a shipping company just like the shuttle was. Got it.
Mars anyone? Yeah, that's not exploration at all.
@ if you really can’t tell the difference between NASA and a company that has no interest in stellar exploration then there’s really no reason to talk to you.
I’ll be riding my flying pig before you’re halfway to mars. As it stands going to mars in the 2030’s is a pr pipe dream.
@@Invisfire777 By far the dumbest youtube comment i've read in quite a while
Look at the articulation of the Shuttle’s thrusters! That’s incredible!!!
what is a truster ? this is nothing but CGI for your te lie vision all lies and bull shit
They had one of the highest gimbal ranges out of any engine. This was needed to prevent the pitching effect of offset thrust (because the center of mass was at the tank, not the orbiter, the engines would spread and pitch inward heavily to control the Shuttle's pitch.)
The last launch where the weather was beautiful. Endeavour's last launch had a thin cloud cover come in about 30 minutes before launch, so you had moments of watching it launch, and Atlantis' last launch was cloudy as well.
I miss that Times so badly.. was always a Highlight❤
Saw her last two launches...amazing, wonderful!
I've watched live footage of the first and the last ever shuttle launches (and a few in between 😉) and it has always been a great thrill to watch these amazing machines take flight...
Watching it in person was amazing. I live about 8 hours away, and made it a bucket list item to catch the last launch of each shuttle.. I achieved it. The camera cannot accurately capture the glowing color of those SRB's as they propel the shuttle to space.
Except maybe the final challenger launch. But we don’t talk about that one…
3:40 is pure beauty… I can’t imagine the temperature there
The Space Shuttle was a beautiful piece of Engineering. This last video really captured its glory.
I cannot express how much I miss the shuttles
Seeing the Discovery with the naked eye is super amazzzzzing! Priceless experience!
This audio is the most realistic audio I've ever heard.
This is pretty much exactly what they sound like in person.
Roaring crackling power, which gradually fades into deeper, less detailed extremely low pitches booming. Which gets quieter and quieter as the rocket both gets further from you, and when it breaks the sound barrier, you pretty much stop hearing it entirely. Though you can likely see it well after that point.
It's so cool how as soon as those engines are ignited you can just see the shuttle trying to go... Anyone know how they produce those sparks?
I think it was burning magnesium?
its called CGI on your TE LIE VISION NASA means to decieve in hebrew all lies
They're like a small solid fuel rocket or a firework. They're intended to burn off any hydrogen spills and prevent them pooling under the shuttle and possibly exploding.
@@attilalako9491 Luckily for us, science keeps progressing no matter what idiots like you say.
@@attilalako9491 Thanks for confirming that you don't speak or head Hebrew. LOL.
Another hard fail, bro. Not a good look.
The exhaust plume and shock diamonds of those RS-25's is absolutely amazing... still my favorite rocket engine ever created. Even today, some half a century later, the entire concept seems almost impossible. I miss the days when NASA proved to the entire world that anything was possible with the right minds (and enough money lol.) It will probably hold the record as the most complex machine mankind has ever created for quite some time.
Shuttle's RS-25 engines were not a totally new concept/design. They were based on the Apollo Saturn V upper stage engines, the J-1 from Rocketdyne with modifications for shuttle operations. The Solid Rockets were based on the Voyager and Viking spacecraft Solid Rockets Motors that were recycled from the 1960s Gemini B/MOL program. NASA as it should tends to build from what they know to reduce costs as they should. The only exception was the shuttle body itself. It was totally scrapped to go back to Apollo staged core concepts for deep space exploration as the space EXPLOITation promise during the shuttle years ended up being a nothing-burger because they couldn't get the reusability costs down and flight frequency up to the promised levels.
I think I remember this launch. I was in 2nd grade at the time and the teacher took as all outside to go watch it launch. It was quite chaotic because the whole school was standing outside in the field and we were all looking up towards the sky. Once it was out of view every kid rushed back to class to continue to watch it on the TV. I miss those days
You feel tears and goose bumps when the announcer says 3,2,1,0 blast off to space how me.........
3:42 - love how you can see the boosters and the whole ship flex and contort with the force of the engines firing up.
привет ты что-то опоздал, видео вышло 11 лет назад
😀
Still looks great today flight performance fantastic.I have close friends who work in NASA.
I remember watching the special launches I either got to see them at home or if I was in school. It was a small school so they would get everybody in one room and have the TV either for the launches or for the landings so I was lucky enough to see almost all the different space shuttles , launches and landings
Saw this beauty at the Air and Space Museum last week.
The most beautiful machine ever created 😍
Remember, this isn't for America, this is for humanity.
For all mankind.
@@phillipbanes5484 Delivering satellites from other countries.
@@phillipbanes5484 It is not for America only then.
@TheGreatSalamander that’s basically the same thing
@@interstellarsnow just an old feminist
Decided to pay a visit here after digging an old toy of Discovery from a box of my old stuff.
Glad I visited discovery in person
“Main engine start.” Makes me cry
can you show us shutle at 60miles altitude from ground ? why you cut video ?
I was there the day they piggybacked discovery on a cargo plane from the Kennedy space center to Houston to be put into the Smithsonian. I watched the takeoff at Kennedy space center, I was about 11, and I’ll forget what I ate for breakfast for the rest of my life before I’ll forget that day. Really awesome…
I can't even imagine the amount of power flowing through the people's body stading nearby
It was epic
It is always amazing to see so much power concentrated into two boosters that propel 100s of tons up in space in a few minutes.
Thank you for this upload :)
Anyone in 2024?
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I love space shuttles
One regret I'll always have is that I was never able to get to Florida to see a shuttle launch.
End of a beautiful era in space flight.
Everything I am in town I go see this badass piece of machinery.
Incredible the difference in the quality of footage compared to the launches from the 1980s.
they used the old analog TV cameras back then. it wasn't until the early 2000s that the High def widescreen cameras began to be used.
0:37 - What is that smoke-like gas and why is it going out from those nozzles?
That''s oxygen venting to chill the engine, conditioning it for the flight.
Is there a version of this without the always-on subtitles?
What is speed shuttle shows here
Amazing shuttle launch 👏 😊😊😊❤❤❤
Discovery and Atlantis were my favorite 💪🇺🇸
They were sister shuttles.
I can't even begin to imagine what the austronauts inside the space shuttle are experiencing the moments before and after lift off... It's truly one of a kind feeling that 99.9% of the people will never experience... The mixed emotions, the excitement, the fear... Jesus!!!
There's an incredible book of an astronaut that has an entire chapter dedicated to describing the feeling of launching. It goes into detail about how awe inspiring it is to gaze up at a skyscraper-sized beast, lit up under spotlights and venting clouds of gasses, and thinking about the incredible and terrifying notion of riding that beast.
With wich country as big continent as has been measured by walking or driving in traffic jamed?
¡Qué emocionante presenciar el último lanzamiento del Discovery! Este video capturó perfectamente la grandeza y el asombro de la exploración espacial. ¡Gracias por compartir este momento histórico con nosotros!
Proud to be American ❤️
a beautiful piece of engineering, the design and shape are just perfect
My uncle helped with the final launch of discovery, oh the tales he’s told us of nasa, both a mess and so organized!
The amount of power from that is amazing
We are amazing as humans
I was stationed at Patrick AFB and was working at the Cape when Discovery launched. I lucky enough to watch the last 10 shuttle launches 😌
She is a beautiful Spacecraft! Not a capsule or a reentry vehicle. A Spacecraft!
Can Discovery Fly Again..
Using Parts
From the
Other 2 Shuttles :
Atlantis and
Endeavour
I was wondering if flat earthers ever go to witness such events with a pair of binoculars
Where is the rest..???
what a beauty was that! 😍
love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it
I would be freaking out if I saw that thing
Time set???
A friend of mine used to work for JPL back in the Shuttle days and was in charge of rebuilding the engine's fuel pumps in between launches - he explained to me at liftoff that each of the 3 engines burns around 300 gallons of fuel in one second - so that's 900 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen being consumed in ONE SECOND- UNBELIEVABLE
Awesome. ❤️ 💪
3:21 countdown 30 seconds
Challenger was my favourite growing up
4:44 you can see the shockwave super clear!
Never gets old
Discovery served well, even if she didnt make it past the low atmosphere she still made one finale reach for the stars, god speed discovery o7
Thanks Great Video For Me Salute to You Sir
Holy hell @3:37 is iconic
3:50 Final flight ❤
Incredible Journey...😊
"Go for throttle up"- chills
Need to borrow a sweater?
Discovery is the GOAT
It still amazes me that one of the most complex machines man has ever built had its launch timing figured out buy people in the 1970s when a computer was the size of decent room and the physics of the timing for the SRBs was done with pencil, paper, and slide rules. They calculated out the thrust every millisecond of the main engines firing as the shuttle rocked forward, and went it JUST stops rocking back, they fired the SRBs. The math, the minds, the complexity of it all still boggles.
Discovery was always my favorite Space Shuttle. I can't stand Star Trek Discovery through.
Lighting the candles one last time.
They should of built another 6 brand new shuttles, with modern avionics. Without them, we have no way to recover satellites, or repair equipment like Hubble in orbit.
It’s unbelievable NASA went from this to Apollo (sorry Artemis) Just think what they could have achieved with a shuttle 2.0
This was the second, and last, Shuttle launch I watched from the vicinity. Even though it was a fantastic sight, shuttle launches can't compare to the three Apollo launches I witnessed from the vicinity. The fleet was was asked to fill a need it wasn't designed for, and did so for far longer than it should have. It wasn't a premature retirement that left us grounded, it was the shortsightedness of politicians.
Made me tear up alittle. Proud to be a human and American sometimes
CUAL ES LA IGNICION QUE DISTANCIA
Simply outstanding.
10K th like!! 😌👍🏻
2024 still jaw dropping you had to be there
Why didnt you show all stages?
Joey Ramirez You are dumb its not stages its boosters and external tank so its not stages its boosters and external tank
What they are hiding.
@@valentinotera3244 man i was 13 when I commented this lmao
@@021kangaroo So I'm talking with a grown man right now. Congrats.