This was it, this four-minute video that's almost as old as I am is the whole reason space is my entire personality. The space shuttle friggin' rocked, I can't wait until the new Space Shuttle Endeavour exhibit opens next year!!!!!!! Btw, if anyone is wondering who the heck "Q" is, I looked it up, it's basically an extreme-right political movement that believes that Trump is waging a secret war against a cabal of rich folks. It was introduced by an anonymous dude who always signs his posts as "Q." I still have no clue what a right-wing conspiracy theorist has to do with a video of one of the sickest rockets to ever fly.
I always love watching the RS-25s power up. Magnificent engine, still going strong all these years later. I'll always regret never getting to see a Shuttle launch IRL. To be there, to feel your chest rattle as it took off, it must've been something else. Won't lie though, I still clench every time I hear "Go at throttle up."
At 1:07 there is a Q in the clouds... At 1:16-1:17 the narrator states "T minus 17 seconds" with Old Glory in the background...Patterns and puzzle pieces...
They ask each team for launch (medical, boosters, etc.) if they are happy with their current situation in their fields. They say "go" if their field sees it is ok to launch
Also, at 1:45 the ”roll program" is just a call to confirm that comms are working. Houston already knows the shuttle is going to roll. It's a preprogrammed maneuver. It's just a comm check, but NASA is weird with some things. They do plenty of comm checks throughout the mission just by using "comm check". Just like the Commander is the Pilot and the Pilot is the Co-pilot. Also, the only people that have contact with the orbiter is the comm, and they are always astronauts who have been in space. (Well, NEO. Near Earth Orbit. We haven't actually been into "outer space" since the Apollo missions.) At the very end, I believe it's 3:37, the "negative return" means if they lose one of their three engines they are out of range to abort and still land at Kennedy. Depending on their payload they might have extra fuel on board to burn the other two engines longer, if not then there were 2 landing areas on standby during every launch. An Air Force Base in England and another in Australia. That's why the launch windows were so short, typically 5 minutes.
Is that a Saturn V laid on its side at 1.02? I can imagine it just chilling having a beer watching proceedings with a skeptical eye saying "going to low earth orbit are we?" 🙄
Just watching this makes me 100% believe that we did not go to the moon. You need that huge solid fuel rocket booster just to get out of our atmosphere. The moon is 227,000 miles away.
I know quite a bit about NASA's MARS programs, and right now NASA is telling the world about their biggest lie so far, namely that they are working on making space bibles for many millionaire people, and talking a little too much about their fake rockets to mars! NASA has never sent any rover to MARS either... NASA is 40 years or more ahead with these kinds of technologies, but is trying itself. to keep it top secret, but luckily there are sometimes people who don't want to buy into their lies and come forward with the truth... It sounds crazy, but today we can travel to MARS and on a trip on Ca . 20 minutes! Yes, you read that right. NASA has designed these small sheds the size of two elevators, and you step into them, and 20 minutes later you are at a base with millions of people, among other things!
