As a Vietnam veteran and former employee at the off-campus Goddard space tracking station doing ERTS download of data via 40' dish during the problematic days of Sky Lab, it does my heart good to witness all the international cooperation that has gone into making the space station a success. A big thanks to NASA for making all these videos available so that we can all take pride in these undeniable proud achievements.
Al Walskey Interesting, and no doubt noble. Though how can we expect others without this value, to respect or even comprehend this very understanding I wonder.
Soooooooo amazeballs!!!! And to top off!!! A call from OBAMA!!!🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘🖖🖖🖖 With errthang I'm goin though thatd got me down! This lifted me up, to hear Obama!!! That just made my week! I love that man!
I remember living in Titusville back in April 1981 and witnessing the very first space shuttle launch. I still dream with space shuttles all these years later. During one particular night launch, the rattling sounds were so loud, a couple of our windows had to be repaired.
Those guys are real heroes of all time. God bless them. The extreme acceleration at launch is like being in a formula1 car that accelerate up to MACH 24,5 in 8 min and 30 seconds. What a feeling it must have been to know that in a few minutes you are in space.
I miss the space shuttle...as a kid i grew up dreaming to become an astronaut someday and I really admired the awesome power of this machine and the astronauts who took the ride of their life with this vehicle...I'm looking for that day that I will see the the 1st person who will step foot on the surface of Mars. ☺
Mars is a totally STUPID idea. the moon would make a LOT more sense. but not Mars. that's a 3 YEAR mission IF they can even get back here at all. these chemical rockets are NOT the way to get there (much less getting back). yeah imagine NO infrastructure for 3 years? just for openers they'd need at least a THOUSAND razor blades. and imagine FEEDING just a very small crew for 3 YEARS. WTF are these people thinking? What about things like O2...or very heavy stuff called water? Human bodies need a LOTTA exterior "support" that we evolved HERE to resolve. HERE, folks. Not on Mars with NO magnetosphere, 1/3 our gravity, no atmospheric pressure, no atmosphere that we can use for anything (at least NOT without a lotta "conversion" equipment that somehow we gotta pack along with us).
I was there, live. The night before there was very little hope of it launching that morning, due to rain in the area--as you can see from the overcast skies.
He was trying to stabilize the guy doing the flip and got his little finger caught in the flipping guys pocket. Look at it again, you can clearly see it.
NASA announced the STS-335/135 crew on 14 September 2010.[18] Only four astronauts were assigned to this mission, versus the normal six or seven, because there were no other shuttles available for a rescue following the retirement of Discovery and Endeavour. If the shuttle was seriously damaged in orbit, the crew would have moved into the International Space Station and returned in Russian Soyuz capsules, one at a time, over the course of a year. All STS-135 crew members were custom-fitted for a Russian Sokol space suit and molded Soyuz seat liner for this possibility.[19] The reduced crew size also allowed the mission to maximize the payload carried to the ISS.[20] It was the only time that a Shuttle crew of four flew to the ISS. The last shuttle mission to fly with just four crew members occurred 28 years earlier: STS-6 on 4 April 1983 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger.
Fantastic achievement. I cant understand why they did not keep Atlantis docked with the ISS on a permanent basis not just for extra room but for as an emergency escape vehicle. I'm sure ISS has more than one docking station. I hope America can start a new space exploration program soon!. The Russians charge America $70 million to take just one person to the ISS!.
Craig Hudson 70 million is a steal compared what it costs to get a shuttle into space. Anyway, would be nice if more countries did manned flights though. I think china and japan also have programs. So in the future there might be 4 or 5.
There would be no way to keep the shuttle powered up for an indefinite amount of time. Once the fuel cells are done, they are done. Also, since there were American's already going up on Soyuz, they would use the Soyuz as an escape vehicle.
I remember watching this mission with my family I will never forget seeing this shuttle leave the launch pad. Hope we can see better designs of an actual practical and inexpensive space shuttle unlike this one.
Wow I can't believe someone else that feels as I do. Yeah this was an absolutely STUPID design. With a 4000 mile entry into the atmosphere which is totally absurd just for starters. The Saturn 5 could put a huge amount of things in LEO that put these things to total shame. Along with a re-entrant a LOT shorter (& therefore safer). It appears that NASA really doesn't care about sacrificing a few lives to meet the "cause". And finally remember that WE'RE paying for all this chemical rocket exploration when we should be making a much stronger effort to find a much better means of counteracting gravity. I also cannot forget the beautiful Ariane 5 that launched JWST.
PS: THE SUCCESSOR TO THE NASA SPACE SHUTTLE IS NOW THE SPACE-X "DREAM CHASER," WHICH IS A SMALLER VERSION OF THR FORMER SHUTTLE WHICH ENDED ITS FINAL LAUNCH IN FY 2011. THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM WAS RETIRED SHORTLY AFTER THIS FINAL FLIGHT OFTHE ATLANTIS SHUTTLE. THE DREAM CHASER WILL BE BOTH MANNED & UNMANNED IN ITS FLIGHT PROGRAM SCHEDULE. GOOD LUCK TO SPACE-X & THE DREAM CHASER NEW SHUTTLE.
Very hard to get an answer to what is the max G load. Seems to be 3G which would be 2G plus our normal 1G. Not Extreme. I've heard that the shaking and noise is enough to make even the most calm person think that death is just around the corner.
Th space shuttle has been the best way to get to orbit. the problems lie in the complex outdated computers that were used. If they had upgraded 2010 type computers and avionics equipment those shuttles would be unbeatable
@@sinewave999 it was the best way out of what tech they had at the time. It really isn't 'the best way' to get to space. It's a very very dangerous way regardless of what type of computer they had.
@@LiamGosselinHane never understood the point of the shuttle sorry. What's wrong with a capsule? The shuttle was dangerous indeed. Way too many things could go wrong.
1/ know* 2/ you need to use quotation marks "actually I know" 3/ know* 4/they're* ...but no, I don't know anything about the voice. It sounds like one of the astronauts.
So happy that this poorly thought out design was retired and Elon Musk and SpaceX came along to prove all the "Aerospace Experts" wrong. He has single handily broadened the horizon and raise the sights of modern-day space travel. They all called him crazy and tried to make him look a fool but now they all bend the knee and could only dream of having the vision and legacy he has.
Dude did you forget that these are the Machines that built the ISS and that they were by far one of mankind’s greatest achievements?!? Your comment is truly showing how DUMB some people are. Although I do agree with you that Elon has done some amazing things, that doesn’t mean that you can just ignore the fact that NASA were the ones who started it all and SpaceX is just building on that knowledge of space and exploration.
@@the_darkgameryt No I haven't forgot. Have you not been paying attention to the cost and over runs of the last 20 years! My comment wasn't "I wish none of this was ever invented". Your inability to read shows how DUMB you are!
No I have not, but that’s not proving anything that it’s a ‘poorly thought out design’. And you’re right, you did not say ‘I wish none of this was invented’ it was ‘so happy that this poorly thought out design was retired’. My question for you is; is it all that really of a poorly thought out design? Because those cost overruns were definitely not just the shuttle alone, it was most likely the shuttle AND the cost to build the station modules combined with our normal costs.
Let's put the enormous financial charge for American tax payers aside for just a moment. Let's also put aside the fact the Shuttle Fleet would've been in a need for a total technical makeover. The design of the vehicles was and still IS state of the art and the concept was great. Yet even Mr Musk can't outmatch the amount of payload the shuttles were able to transport (yes, I'm sure one day he will). So far his rockets are pretty old-school and the most stylish things he's put into space flight are Teslas to take the crew to the launch pad and... some "sci-fi-sh" looking, Trekkie designer space suits ^^ (please excuse my bad English, I'm German)
yup! he is right, Sandy's hair is pretty much a DEAD GIVEAWAY!! HaHaHaHa it's so funny! anyone got a tenalady i need something very absorbent to dry my eyes! Those guys should be ashamed of themselfs and have no idea what a hero is.
