Yes sir Jose M. Hernandez says that the landing in this spaceships isn't like regular airplane, this is basically controlling a falling plane or like controlling a falling object
@@Etherus69 But the space shuttle is more massive, and is manned. The pilot is controlling the shuttle, bringing down onto the runway. And it is more complicated too. Lifting body, elevons, just a massive surface area and a very high stall speed. F9 is just precision burns and manoeuvres of the engines, RCS and grid fins. And you forgot the fact that the shuttle has to return all the way from orbit, while the falcon 9 only goes a few hundred km down range.
@@theminegoon Yeah but the Shuttle is still damn cool and I'll always love it. It could have been what Starship will try to be if the politicians hadn't interfered in the design and cut funding. Started out as a fully reusable design.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l don't get me wrong, i think the shuttle is the most amazing operational space craft to date. Whitout the shuttles program, no hubble telecospe and I.S.S. i just mean that a 100 % reusable starship will be even more badass
After a decade of being out of service, the Space Shuttle is still the most amazing piece of machinery any space program has operated. And to think a Space Shuttle had the same glide ratio as the Titanic. Amazing.
@@starchild7843 Seriously, it's funny that out of all the amazing technology involved in the shuttle program, one of the parts that amazes me the most is the strength those struts that held it on top of the 747.
7:20 And there it sits. No applause. No national coverage. Nothing. Another incredible feat of human achievement and the masses were watching dancing with the stars or some shit. To those who managed to pull this off you have my deepest respect and I hope you continue to push the boundaries.
I was fortunate enough to be in Orlando once, to see the smoke plume of the Shuttle taking off, and later in the week, hearing the double sonic booms as it returned to Cape Canaveral.
I could occasionally hear it from Orange County when it landed at Edwards. Wasn't loud, but it was subtle enough to notice if you were paying attention.
@@theaverageblitzer4351 Well uh... They arent exactly "flying" machines. They're basically atmospheric landers that get strapped to a rocket to reach space, generally have no issues in space, then use the sheer lack of aerodynamics and heat shields to slow down. *then* it uses the wings as a glider to land.
I was blessed to be able to work on the Space Shuttle program at Kennedy....as a boy I built models of airplanes and made rockets....a dream come true to work on a Vehicle that was both....it was a bittersweet experience....Prayers in my Heart for the 14 Astronauts who gave their all ! Godspeed !
Indeed incredable. I from the Netherlands, saw the first launch on TV. Was able to visit a launch and saw the shuttle on the pad during a visit to Cape Canaveral. Also heard the sonic booms when one returned from space. I built the shuttle as a plastic model when I was a kid. And during my holidays 3 years ago, I visited the Smithsonian in Washington DC, for the shuttle on display. Yes I am addicted.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get "goosebumps" from about 4:05 to 4:23 on this video?? There is something so badass about seeing her come out of that turn and start to level level out. Then once I see those wheels drop down and lock, my eyes start watering - right up until the 'chute is cut away. _EVERY_ single time I watch this...
Yes and no. They were badass and a symbol that even with low budgets and little room to expand ideas, we could make the best earth to space and back travel vehicle the world has ever seen. However they did have some flaws, and now, our technology is so much more advanced that they would just be an unessesary tool lying around. I mean now we're working on god damn supersonic jets that can make it to the ISS and back in a matter of days, wile suporting the lives of multiple astronauts, countless suplies, valuable cargo, and even moderate weapon systems in case of competition from other nations vehicles in the ecploration of our solar sytem.
I've seen both launch, the shuttle program was the definition of badass in comparison to say the Falcon Heavy or any of the falcon rockets. The Space X landing system is cool, but nothing is cooler than gliding home from space with no engines just using computer guided systems to get the perfect amount of velocity to make the runway at just the perfect amount of altitude. Nothing will compare to seeing a space shuttle attached to sold state rockets rupturing 15 miles away from the launch pad. Not to mention the pilots were ice cold, no fear.
I was at Edwards for STS-4, hearing how Columbia had flown by Carmel, seeing this small blur, watching it become larger, hearing the double sonic boom, and when it came down to the runway, thinking "Holy Christ, it's a house!"
I had no idea until I visited NASA this year that the shuttle is a glider without any need of thrust once its entered the earths atmosphere. Really incredible. Also to any tourists going to Florida. Take your kids there before Disneyland it's just incredible. There is a display of the shuttle 'Atlantis' and its incredible to look at up close.
Those engine pods on the sides were going to be jet engines so it could be transported from place to place, and have even more cross-range capability, but they became the Orbital Manoeuvring System.
Crazy to think that astronauts not only have to perform other important duties up in space, but they have to be pilots as well and land the space shuttle! Incredible!!!
I’ve been watching Shuttle landings since the first one back in 1981. I can say for certain this was the most spectacular view I’ve seen. Those contrails as it was coming out of the final turn...be still my beating heart. Absolutely stunning.
To think that it went from whizzing around the earth at thousands of miles per hour to touching down with tyres on a runway, almost like a commercial airliner, at a pre-ordained spot. That is incredible engineering and skill. These people are heroes of science.
What a thing! Hard to imagine they made it to space in the 60s when most folks didnt even own a color TV and pocket calculators were considered "hi tech".
Ian Cypes there were designated viewing areas at Edwards that the public was welcome to come watch, you were too busy watching Barney at the time though.
All these years later and it's still an amazing achievement, I just wish that the USA would lower it's defense budget just a little so that the money could go into NASA again.
MrStamperh Youknow a lot of people out here in the free world are making fun of americans, saying you're stupid and yell communism at every right we take for granted, and you think to yourself that "nah that's just a stereotype, the commie fear died with the cold war", and then one is confronted by the stupid, ignorant response you just gave to what I wrote. Universal health care is communism? Do you even know what communism is, or are you just reciting the scare tactics videos of the 80s and 90s, when the people with private interests in health care went apeshits over the universal health care advocates? Every human's right to live is something that I believe is written in some UN convention over rights that includes all people on earth. There's really no politican agenda behind it, it just would be strange if money is the difference between life and death, as we know that money isn't equally or fairly distributed among people. That's what universal health care derives from, not communism, which is something completely different. The only likeness you can find to communism, is the notion of comradery, where everone is an equal. Whereas communism manifests that everyone is an equal everywhere, and nobody really can be in command, universal health care just constitutes that when people get sick - everybody has the same right to get help when fate is being cruel. Communism however, is mostly about having a state that decides how much should be produced, and distributing what is produced, equally among the population. Health care isn't producing anything, except in America, where it produces benefit for those who can give it. Depraving parts of a population of something that might be necessary for survival, is known to cause social problems, but your country is fucking great at making money off of those too, as your prison system also is privatized. Fat cats are making money off of people going to prison, and that's why they have lobbyists advocating more laws and longer sentences, while the media makes you "regular" people more afraid of crime, thus making you cheer the whole circus on. Man, the greatness of what you've achieved, or rather "they" have achieved.
95% of comments - Here for the flat earthers/flat earther jokes 5% of comments - Astonished by how far we’ve come as a human race Nonexistent comments - actual flat earthers
@Donald Joe Trump It would be nice to think that they're just trolls, but then you look at their channels and see a bunch of idiotic conspiracy theory videos in their favorites. Some of them might just be trolling, but there really are nutjobs who genuinely believe this conspiracy theory crap.
absolutly true, if you check NASA live streams there are 95% flat earther jokes in the live chat, 0.1% comments on the topic and 4,99% offtopic. I really doubt if flat earthers are a thing... more like trolls
I've had this landing in my favorites for years and I still come back every now and again to watch it. The sonic booms, the contrails, view from the HUD, this one has it all.
I live by Cape Canaveral Florida since 1975 I had a friend who worked for NASA, he was a pilot that took my son and I up in his twin engine plane for my son's 13th birthday and we did a touch and go on that same runway they land the shuttle on. One of the best days I ever had and will never forget it.
That people can thumbs-down this technological marvel & achievement by mankind... it just baffles and bewilders. One thumbs down is one to many, but over 1K? I guess there's no real hope for mankind long term.
I was there that day, I was on holidays in the US and my mate was stationed at China Lake and we went down to Edwards to watch discovery arrive. As Greg said, hire car Ridgecrest to Edwards, easy. Access to the Base and Flight Line - easy. Getting the Hurricane to sit over Florida for a week - slightly harder. I saw some amazing aircraft that day and the landing of Discovery was amazing.
Man I miss the Shuttle days, minus the disasters. But when they worked god did they look majestic. That thing just fell from space and did the smoothest landing ever.
This is a great video of Discovery coming home to Earth, maybe this will be shown to some Schools and University maybe in 30 years from now (then I maybe 85 years old), it will show all the efforts of the United States of America for Space Travel in the beginning of the 21st century! And I think people in the future will really appreciate all of the work NASA has done in an effort to keep this planet safe, and make people understand each other! Sorry for Discovery not flying anymore but thanks for all!!
sadly space shuttle was poor decision and could have been much better if they advanced saturn instead of space shuttle programm they had 2 options after moon missions. space shuttle (cheap option) and saturn upgrade with aim to get on mars. Saturn was way to big rocket for only moon missions.. the designer already designed it to go to mars. but after apollo 13. the president and pupulation was scared and took the cheap and "save" space shuttle ANTWORTEN Antworten ausblenden
Nah, in 30 years the libtards will have taken over, and the world will be run by feminist, non binary, gender confused, beta male, easily offended pussies who find the color white triggering. 😂
The Jet sound you are hearing is the T-38 Talon. It was used sometimes in pairs as escorts or chase planes for the shuttle landings. Shuttle pilots would fly along side the shuttle to observe the landings for training purposes. you would see definite signs of extream heat distortion and turbulence behind the shuttle if there were jets in it.
+Doug Davis The jet you hear is a Gulfstream II used as a weather plane during landings. Its flown by other astronauts to obtain real time landing data about an hour before landing up until landing. It circles in behind the orbiter during landing and flies by it after wheel stop. Have not seen any T-38's fly landings since the 80's.
The shuttle had a turbine APU that ran on an inboard oxidizer. Built by Aerojet Rocketdyne. www.rocket.com/files/aerojet/documents/Capabilities/PDFs/ShuttleACSnGasGenerators.pdf
they are there to fool you. to mask out its jet engine . if the shuttle came down on its own you would hear the jet engine. not only that you can see the heat haze coming from the rear of the shuttle . just on landing . wake up
I can tell you now, I did not appreciate then what a fucking cool and one-of-a-kind spaceship we had. Today I look at this and think 'holy shit, what an incredibly mindblowing vehicle'.
No one appropriated the space shuttle until they really look at the amazing beauty and achievement of it all. It was really something !!!!! and it hurts to think it's now a thing of the past like so many other great parts of history.
I remember as a 13 year old kid watching STS 1, my school in the UK televised it in the library, I was the only one watching, not even a teacher or librarian was their..
I, along with hundreds of other cars, were parked on the shoulder of hwy 58 watching this. I climbed up on my trailer and took a couple snap shots of it. I didn't even know what the traffic was about til another guy on the cb said the shuttle was landing in a little bit. I was in the right place at the right time, very awesome!!
I remember seeing this bird out on the launchpad when I was little. This was back in 2010, close to the retirement of the program. We were supposed to see her launch, but not only was the mission rained out, my dad bought the tickets from scalpers so they were no good. Still, we went on a tour of Kennedy, and got to see quite a bit. I still remember stopping by some of the old buildings, and walking up to the concrete remains of the Apollo 1 launch pad (along with seeing an alligator). Being immensely impressed at the absolute size of the VAB, as we drove past. We even got to see two of the shuttle crawlers/carriers (my god those things were huge). Still, the image of Discovery perched out on the launch pad, the tower’s umbilical cords secured to the shuttle as if it were a loving mother, remains clear in my mind. There is just something so surreal about it, and it’s incredible.
Actually your observations are correct. The Space Shuttle is flying as well as a brick. Those wings are not designed to make the shuttle fly as they are to direct it to the runway. The Shuttle is practically falling down directed towards the runway thanks to its wings.
Das Space Shuttle war schon richtig geil. Wie mein Vater nach der ersten Landung total begeistert sagte: „ Das Ding kommt aus dem All und landet wie ein Flugzeug…“ Das war ein Meilenstein der Raumfahrt, wie einst die Apollo Missionen, das Space Shuttle und jetzt macht Space X wieder den nächsten Meilenstein der Raumfahrt, die wiederverwendbare und selbstlandende Rakete. Schon cool. 👍
MISSION CONTROL: “You are clear to land on runway 1-4-niner at Edwards Air Force base” Astronaut Sully Sullenberger: “Negative. We will be landing in the Hudson”
I watch these old shuttle videos in excitement and depression. At 58 I used to clip newspaper articles as a child of the shuttle program and monitor its every event. I know exactly where I was for both shuttle disasters. Although I cheer and follow every achievement by commercial astro-navigation I find it developmentally depressing that my country has a NASA that does little more than supportive roles in the further achievement of man in space. I don't mean this in as derogatory way.... just a perspective. God bless all that venture there.
You may not be here anymore, my dear shuttle friend, but you will always remain in my heart, hoping for the impossible, seeing one more set of space shuttle missions...
So very much miss this beauty and her sisters flying to and from soace. I live here in Florida and would love to see the space program pickup again soon.
As a kid in high school in the 80's I did not really understand or appreciate the unprecedented precision and technology involved with these missions and their equipment. It seemed "normal" at the time to have shuttle launches, but I do not think many of us realized what it took to get to that point. We (fellow students) watched the unfortunate launch and explosion of Challenger my senior year in high school. We were all frozen in a state of awe and no one said a word- we were mostly stunned and the remainder of the day was a dream-like state for most of us. It was 2 days after my 18th birthday and I feel like it was yesterday (52 as I write this). All of these years later the life loss is very saddening yet the accomplishments were amazing. Now we do not seem to have any sort of direction when it comes to space travel and that too is saddening. The shuttles were magical, futuristic, magnificent machines and it would be so very pleasing to see our advanced technology working for us today had this project continued. Much respect to those families who lost loved ones in the name of science, vision and progress.
Not that they live without it, the gravity still exists, just that their velocity cancels it out through Centripetal action. 2 forces at work, Gravity that wants to pull you back, and Centrifugal force, from the velocity, wanting to fling you out in to space. The speed, which cancels the two opposing forces out. So to leave orbit and out in to space, you need a speed (Delta V) that creates Centrifugal (Centripetal) force GREATER than the amount of gravity at the specific altitude, and to return to the planet, you need a velocity SLOWER, so that Gravity is GREATER than the velocity based Centrifugal force.
That’s the best recording I’ve heard so far, of the double sonic booms. They are loud! The first time it happened, I thought we were having an earthquake! I wish I had gotten out to the desert to see one land. I miss those days.
The sad thing is that there were 2 projects that would have continued this glorious creations legacy, the Russian Buraun space shuttle and the Lockheed Martin SSTO shuttle
This made me look up the shuttle's glide ratio. At subsonic speeds, it's about 4.5:1. For comparison, a Boeing 767 is 12:1, while a modern glider is 50:1. Yeah, it's a brick and there's no room for error in landing it.
What an amazing aircraft/spacecraft it was. Absolutely amazing. Also. Let’s all not forget. It was made to build a space station. And it and it’s crew (including the loss of two crews), accomplished the mission. As one American. All I can say is THANK YOU. For those who sacrificed all for exploration and science, and those who supported those be it the ground team or the families themselves. One heck of a thing I can’t wait to tell my kids about when they are older. I was fortunate enough, as I was a science teacher at the time. To get to go inside an actual shuttle. And it’s unreal how big the cargo bat actually was.
Let's applause for these great people who have reached mother earth safe and sound and are welcomed back with great respect. WELCOME BACK TO EARTH DISCOVERY
Beautiful. Never broadcasted entirely on TV that systematically shrunk those moments to the last 10 seconds before touch down. Gosh I miss these beauties.
