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.
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)
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
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 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
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!
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!
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”
@@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.
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.
@@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
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 💕 "
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
@@tedschmitt178 Which were all stopgap methods to compete with the USSR. USA's plan always was to have a reuseable spaceplane. USSR absolutely laughed at the US rushing to capsules.
Bandit, no, this will not happen for a very long time! See all the problems nowadays, hopefully the current crew of Space Station will return safely to Earth!
Mick - so you still think Apollo and the Shuttle Program was all a fake? I was 7 years when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, had the opportunity to see a few more Apollo Missions on German TV until I was 10 years old, watching this together with my amazed parents and my Grandfather with 70 years old! I could see the first launch of a Space Shuttle - the Columbia on 12th April 1981 and the landing on 14th April 1981, I was only 19 years old (where did time go?). No - I do not think this all was a fake, sorry! Best out of Bavaria, Germany.
Leonardo Ramírez you weak humans can never show your face but have plenty to say that wicked as hell. To tell another soul joking or not, to kill themselves, is a soul that’s dead inside. Lord have mercy on your soul. There is no space. A Jet fuel rocket in a place that is an apparent vacuum with no air to push off to even propel itself yet you believe it as fact? Your lack of intelligence is because you can’t free think. They have lied to all of us from birth. Snap out of the matrix you can be much more intelligent than you aren’t atm. Stop abusing people who know the truth. Sit down, shut up, and research the truth.
"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.
