Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-129 HD Landing, November 27, 2009, runway 33, Kennedy Space Center
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STS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3), Space Shuttle Atlantis,
November 27, 2009 landing on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center. HD video 
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I think because a lot of us grew up with endless Shuttle launches, we never appreciated how amazing it was until it retired.
It’s absurd to think about how basically everything has to go perfectly in such a complex machine full of things that can go wrong for a mission to succeed. And despite the issues there were only two catastrophic failures and sadly they were preventable.
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Back to 1959 Mercury capsules!
Hola Chris, buenas noches.
Totalmente de acuerdo. Los extraño mucho. Gracias.
Probably the single coolest thing ever made. Anyone who has ever played a spaceflight simulator knows how hard reentry can be, yet this thing was the size of an airliner, managed to launch, reenter, and then precisely land on a runway despite starting on the other side of the world - all without ANY power. Incredible
yea, seemed like a pretty steep landing angle too. not much room for error there. top notch piloting.
@@geerstyresoil3136 they gotta do that bc the shuttle was nicknamed the fly brick lol
Like everything it seemingly takes a-lot of practice and training, It took me a few simulated runs before I started getting center-line with shuttles in KSP, Lol.
@@Memonater3000he’s not referring to the game
R u scientist dear?
"Welcome back to Earth." How cool it sounds! :)
That would be honestly awesome welcome back on Earth
Was just thinking that
Exactly how it SOUNDS just like a jet engine aye 😉but don’t they tell us all it’s just a glider as there’s no room for jet engines. Hmm 🤔 😂😂😂
@@Pipemonkey they are behind
@@Pipemonkey you're a special kind of stupid if you think this has jet engines.
"Welcome back to Earth". This sentence is giving me goosebumps. What this sentence represents is essencially the fact that mankind managed to actually travel in space. This is the final frontier of mankind, and we are lucky enough to experience at least its beginnings.
Flat earth!!
This is not the final frontier. This is the beginning of the real frontier.
The most impressive part is how it is treated as the most modern and futuristic form of travel when we could've achieved interstellar travel by the 2000 if nasa or roscosmos got half of their countries militaries budget
Still amazing after all these years. Gliding something so big from space, one attempt or bust, and nailed the landing perfectly
My family and I visited Kennedy Space Center a few years ago. We got to see the Atlantis and it was breathtaking. The doors open and reveal Atlantis and I just thought “wow.” We had such a great time at Kennedy that we got tickets and came back the next day.
I saw it to but it was a few weeks ago so I could only see the outer side of the orbiter
I SAW IT TOO. I would go to the KSC a thousand times again
Just made my 10th visit to the KSC Visitors Center a couple of weeks ago when I was there for the first 2 Artemis attempts. Every single time the Curtain comes up to reveal Atlantis - I cry like a baby. Such a beautiful machine. :-) NEVER gets old.....
@@troyhammond3494 yeah! the first time I watched that presentation, I got a lump in my throat. 5th time....same
I was just there on Friday and I don't know where it came from but I watched the Altantis video and was overcome with emotion as it touched down....then door opened and there it was! What a great experience!
I miss the shuttle program. Never missed a launch
@@zengerz Hold on, you're not one of these delusional flat earth believers are you? Too funny - LOL.
@@zengerz imagine you having a brain larger than a raisin. I can't! 😂 😂 😂
@@zacharyj6465 no it didn’t it was actually pretty useful unique, yes it did cost lots of many and maybe it wasn’t safe, however I am pretty sure the space shuttle had a big role in spaceflight history.
@@zacharyj6465 and? You do realize that the ISS would probably never existed without the space shuttle, also NASA isn’t really the type of organization that can bring the costs down, same thing is happening with the SLS. Also 135 missions with only 2 failures is something unique tbh, also spaceX is working on the starship that is 10 times more capable than the space shuttle. Also wdym a “space plane that cannot land on other planets” do you even know what the purposes of spaceplanes are? Plus the Apollo program is extremely useless right now considering that the space race is over and going to the moon would be a huge waste of time, and finally the purpose of the space shuttle is to deliver large satellites, space station modules and other heavy payloads into space.
@@alanmaclaren4118 can’t believe how stupid you have to be to believe that ISS couldn’t have been built without the shuttle. I Guess you believe that cause it was so large and had to be transported in pieces? The soviets did it decades ago. The mir was a modular space station.
Simply can’t stop watching these landings.
The flying brickyard was always impressive technology to watch
a high tech flying brickyard
Absolutely fascinating
I thought it was the floating barnyard….
@@LTV_incI thought it was brick with wings
@@Plane-animator ~ I thought it was John Young’s chariot….the only astronaut to fly the Gemini spacecraft #3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, spent 3 days on the moon, flew STS-1. I’m not that smart but I believe that’s his chariot…. 😎
Always loved watching these launching & landings. So perfect & beatutiful. Awesome machine.
_Atlantis_ and _Endeavour_ never get enough love. The Quiet Sister and the Baby Sister.
Amazing. I had the great honour and privilege of meeting one of the astronauts on this mission. Leland D. Melvin. I was in awe to meet someone who had actually been in space. He was such a humble and lovely person. He had been in London to do some space engineering promotion work to encourage people into the industry and he gave me a personalised signed photo which is one my most prized possessions
Thank you for sharing this!
Some perspective on how fast tgeae things actually come into the atmosphere. When I was a kid in the 90s. A shuttle came back and we saw it fly over Texas and it was a streak of light across the sky. 12 minutes later we watched it land in Florida.
When the Shuttle first Re enters the Earth's Atmosphere , it's Still Traveling at 15,500 mph , Same as Orbital Speed , Notice When the Nose is Up , it's Slowing Down , With as Much Surface Area Facing the Atmospheric Resistance as Possible and As the Earth's Gravity Pulls them Down , Amazing Aircraft and Piloting , Top Notch , the BEST , GO SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS
Sadly missed. A truly wonderful flying machine!
This is so great to see Atlantis coming home and see this Gigantic Space Ship as a Glider. This always made me think of all the people behind this project, they all should be so proud of this and all of them will go into US History! Thanks out of Germany, Bavaria!
I agree it looks really neat, but calling it a glider may be stretching things a bit. It’s kind of the Buzz Lightyear of gliders. It doesn’t fly as much as it just falls with style. ;)
@@FS2K4Pilot, sorry calling it a Glider, yes its coming down like a stone, but still able to land! With 60 years I miss the Space Shuttles!
@@kulmainer No worries, I was being a bit of a wise guy. ;)
@@FS2K4Pilot , still I must say - the American Nation did a great Job - see this huge Craft landing! Oh Man! And they did so many Orbits around our Planet!
Thanks again to all people making this possible! You all deserve this so much!
I'm so thankful that I lived during the time period of the Space Shuttle flights. Only wish I could have seen the launch/landings in person.
I never get tired of seeing the landing of the Space Shuttle.
The Space Shuttle is still way ahead of its time!
ikr, they just up and cancelled the program for no reason.
@@tack9571 no reason. the shuttle was old and would have cost more lives. love the shuttle but as I said it was way too old. they could have replaced it with another but they chose not too. and I do not trust Space X and crazy Elon Musk. wait till one of them blows up and Space X will be done.
The shuttle program was to be terminated after the last ISS build mission which was discussed by NASA and president Bush in 2004. There were two missions added after the ISS was done one being a Hubble repair mission and one last resupply mission to the ISS.
@@robertrockwell7581 not a huge fan of musk either but am damn sure his rocket won’t kill anyone. Considering the fact that no human has ever died on any vehicle which had an escape system during launch.
Hazardous as they could potentially be, the shuttle also paved the way for safely reusable rockets. Granted how large those shuttles were, the external tank alone was the size of a skyscraper and one-time use.
I had the privilege of being present at the launches of STS-1 and STS-2, both Columbia, and both in 1981. I was mostly at the press site, but did get to the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building. I know that is something that not many non-NASA people can say, so it's one of my most cherished memories from a very long career in TV broadcasting.
I never saw a landing, except on television. This video makes it look easy, but I know well it was anything but.
Always loved these shuttles. My mom worked on the avionics of these and my dad built the struts for ISS. My high school(Titusville) was right across the 2 rivers from the pads and we would go outside and see all of the launches during the day. And yes, I did see Challenger live.
Super cool
That's a lie 🤣
What am I lying about?
@@mrflyazz9605 just ignore. It's just a troll comment.
Hello Florida brother😁
Can someone explain why this is SO majestic, engrossing, overwhelming. Absolutely lovely.
Aks4 salon
This is one of the reasons I came to work as an engineer in America in 1992
Because the ship is so damn beautiful!
Still the greatest US/NASA space missions ever imo. Never tire of the STS, one minute orbiting the earth @ ~ 15k mph, next minute landing on earth @ 225 mph.
7км/сек.ну и что здесь особенного?
Doesn't even come close to Apollo.
@@londislagerhound Saturn V is king
@@skraminc saturn V is king but space shuttle had a different elegance to it
@@londislagerhound Agreed, plus with the STS being so complex and losing 2 of 5 ships along with the crews was just terrible.
I went to two launches & ironically they were both Atlantis. I’ll never forget them. Beautiful & exciting!
Lucky !
Irony is not coincidence.
The angle and speed of the Space Shuttles approach is insane!!
Ryanair landing.
@@TheBoysTopSecretisOrganizationnah that landing was butter smooth
This is so beautiful, I remember to STS 1! I was 19 years old! It was called Columbia! Greetings out of Germany, Bavaria.
The flight was long, and there was some turbulence near the asteroid belt, I would definitely fly Emirates next time.
My drinks were all over the place!
It goes 200 miles up, one millionth of the distance to the asteroid belt.
@@londislagerhound I know, it was a joke
This is the masterpeace of technology humans ever built.
Now we're told little 1960s capsules are cutting-edge tech.
damn the skills to butter a flying brick are insane
I miss watching these Shuttle launches and landings! SO awesome.
Stunning. I saw Atlantis at the KSC. Amazing machine.
Mike , Right
.Magestic Piece Of Engineering.✌️
You saw it at the Kerbal Space Center?
@@WarpOverload Hmm, yes that's it.
Amazing upload and exciting to see what can be achieved by people solving problems. I'd love to be involved in something like this when I grow up.
Smooth as silk, beautiful. Thanks for posting, I have never seen this video before.
I really liked the space shuttle design. But never saw irl. Thx for at least making vids so that I could see it land. -Salute-
Fantastic video
I was soo lucky to see Atlantis up close and personal in July 2016
I was then and still are today totally in awe of the bravery and genius behind all those who made the Shuttle and other space adventures a reality.
Nick Australia
Pretty amazing how these flights were accomplished
Was just at Kennedy and visited Atlantis again! I loved the shuttle program and so glad to have been alive for all that! So happy that we got Atlantis here- wish I could put on some white gloves and pat it on the nose! 🤩❤️🥰
I just tried recreating this in Kerbal space program, but as soon as my shuttle replica went subsonic it immediately started going into a flat spin. That thing really is really hard to fly. That astronaut wasn't kidding when he said that it was like trying to glide a bus.
Perhaps from a glide ratio perspective it was, but I believe most of the pilots said she handled beautifully.
Most pilots say it handles beautifully because the Shuttle is fly-by-wire, and the control algorithms have been honed extensively over test flights to deliver a good feeling of controllability and responsiveness to the pilot.
You don't have that in KSP, so the Shuttle there handles like the flying brick that it is.
Her voice 🥰
What a nice space shuttle❤❤❤
The space shuttle arrives like a boss, makes its announcement with sub sonic booms! On the DVD of the dream is alive, I think it's Cronkite narrating, he says, sonic booms heard over Kennedy space center, then the camera pans up and sure enough here it comes from space like a boss!
I thought it was Shatner? I’ll never forget watching that in IMAX as a kid - absolutely amazing, especially when they jump into the basket to practice the tower escape system, enough to give you vertigo lol.
The Space Shuttle is one of Science Fictional stuff to me yet in 2022
Hard to believe that this kind of fictional idea was brought to real in 1970s...which meant much less of computer technology, material engineering and etc.
Yet, they were successful in delivering it to real.
I have a huge respect for NASA and co-operated civil companies which built the space shuttles.
My dad always impressed on me his joy of our advances in space travel. He'll invite us all over for live launch streams and energetically talk through most of it. As an adult now, I'm just shocked that even after witnessing Columbia and Challenger, he's still got this true optimism for space travel and furthering our understanding of the universe outside of ourselves. We'll sometimes go outside and just look at stars and nebulas and galaxies we can see from earth. After moving out a while ago, sometimes I still just look up at the stars and want to talk for hours about them with him. These videos just make me really nostalgic for when I was a little kid and we'd look at space equipment in the Dayton Air Force Museum.
Thank you for your comment! The people at NASA have done an amazing work documenting all these historic moments for all of us to witness and be inspired.
Jedi ...I'm a fan of you Americans, Brazil here
Incredible machine. I hate to think we ll never see anything else like it.
Stunning photography.
What an incredible machine!
Thank you so much Atlantis, and may people at Planet Earth work together! Thank you Atlantis to orbit Planet Earth so many times. May one Day People of Planet Earth come together in Peace!
I've watched a few failures, it's great to see one coming home safe
Atlantis has retired now and is currently preserved at Kennedy Space Center. James Asquith has made a video about it and I found it amazing.
ruclips.net/video/MaCH-qu73-M/видео.html
Amazing technology from the 1970s. Human engineering at its finest.
Always thrilling to see this. And the evolution in camera angles and quality of images over the years is also interesting to see
See and Hear!!!
Outstanding, on so many levels.
In the nineties I'd hear a BOOM! and the doors and windows in my house in Tampa (Florida west coast) would rattle. Was it time for the Shuttle to return?........by the time I'd walk to my living room and turn on the TV I'd be watching it land 110 miles away across Florida on the east coast.
Gorgeous Spacecraft.
I could watch this all day long😮.
It never gets old.
Why do flat Earthers have to ruin the comment section of every good Spaceflight video?
Good question.
They can’t accept reality and are unhappy that folks won’t ignore the truth and side with them, so they make it their mission to disrupt rather than research the facts about their own planet.
Anti-intelectual movement. They literally don't understand physics
The loudest voices in the room are often the dumbest.
Because they are attention seeking losers. Pretty simple
The last flight I worked on. Good memories.
I Miss The Old Space Shuttle Program 😔😪😭
Wow just great to watch it all again.
Hard to believe that as of this July (2022) it will be 11 years since Atlantis last landed and the shuttle program ended. I really miss the NASA system of launches and flights, but SpaceX sure makes life interesting for this old space nut!
And that folks thats how its done. Perfectly
in kerbal space program
I saw the Atlantis shuttle a few years ago in Kennedy Space Center and wow. It’s so huge!
Man I miss the shuttle! Kinda wish we had those Pathfinder shuttles from For All Mankind!
I always loved how this amazing machine landed every single time and ut's one if the things that I miss so much. I'm so grateful to live at the same time for watching 'em lifting and landing.
New shuttles are on their way to be made come true in the future.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. 😉 😀
Bad design concept. these things were too big. think about this for a sec. Apollo was 11 minutes from deorbit burn to touchdown. this thing was over an hour. What's that mean? Well its in the big heat for a LOT longer, that's what. Why? too big. It was also riskier at the other end than Apollo because Apollo's fuel was contained within the envelope this guy had almost all its fuel OUTSIDE of containment. We're gonna lose a lotta people in the future, folks.
Beautiful, I love it.
Thanks.
Perfect textbook type landing , Great !
Love this stuff. The old era and see whats coming
5:20
They said: Copy
Captions: Tommy
😂😂😂😂
I was privileged to photograph it on top of a 747 when the 747 landed at KGRK to refuel. I provided the soldiers refueling the carrier free photographs. The commander, 13th COSCOM authorized me access.
what a perfect altitude control and landing. Thinking that this was frequently done back in the 90s just blows my mind.
Amazing :) Thanks for posting
Still puts a smile on my face when it lands. Bravo.
man i miss that plane ❤️
It was actually a glider
Orbiter*
Amazing that these space shuttles go out to different planets and galaxies and return to earth like gliders
Man I was a kid during Space Shuttles' missions. I wish I could experience this in person
It is sad to say that shuttle program is now closed..
Shuttle is a risky vehicle therefore it was replaced..
But it was a pleasure that Nasa went so far in space..
I love Nasa and american people for such an amazing experience..
@CHRIS SAVAGE oh cool another idiot
@@rachaeltho31 their logic is "my 5 minutes of googling is better than years of engineering and planning"
SPace fliught is risky.
Incredible timing to catch the head of the runway. Great commentary. Great days. The safest way to land a space vehicle. With optimal skills.
Thank people like Katherine Johnson for that for working out the calculations for when to start the de orbit burn and for how long. She worked on Mercury, apollo and the shuttle program. Watch the movie Hidden Figures
It wasn’t just the deorbit burn. When the orbiter was coming down, the flight control computer would make adjustments so that it would reach the destination field at the right height.
I'll never see this again in my lifetime.
I remember being there for every launch and landing as a kid, we made it a family event. It was always a beautiful thing to see! Now, it's just more and more rockets full of satellites to watch from the driveway.
How far we progress in that short time, solid rocket boosters landing as well as the landing as well as the main engine in vertical possession, what next,,. Any ideas or there's many ideas
If you're talking about spacx landing they're boosters, they're not solid fuel rockets. They use liquid propellant. :)
Amazing times. Great Space Shuttle.
This happened exactly on my parents' 4th anniversary. :)
She is so pretty! Beautiful, graceful, inspirational, and proud.
Breath taking
YOU ARE BREATHTAKING
I love her voice!
It’s annoying lowki
I had never seen this until now,wow!,the tracking camera is just a pleasure to watch, will definitely share this with some friends ,who will be interested when they watch ,even if they were not before👍
This is a SPACECRAFT leaving space and entering atmosphere, becoming an AIRCRAFT and performing a glide landing after a 300 degree turn.
It may not be practical. But that it can be done AT ALL is absolutely significant.
By the way, and meaning no disrespect, what a pig of an aircraft. Ow.
It never gets old🙏🤗😎
Super super excellent job congratulations God bless you all NASA team
Really miss the shuttles!
This NASA announcer is doing it; very very professional; do it lady!!!!!!
Bravo.
The best deadstick landing a pilot can perform.
Houston : "Atlantis , houston. Go around!!"
Atlantis:"Uh Houston, unable? "
I love the Space Shuttle!
As an Australian, I love the journey into space and thus love the Space Shuttle programme. Since the Shuttle service has been suspended and new vehicles being tested for a return to the moon and beyond, I feel there is a loss of payload, landing on a runway and be reused again and again. To me, it seems more expensive to have the space capsules landing in the ocean. With modern technology to increase the safety and performance of the Shuttles and mating with the modern rockets would be the future. Hope newer better Shuttle's are built in the future, powered by today's modern rockets.
Welcome back home
Too bad we have failed to go forward with the “next generation” of shuttle program.
zengerz: I’ve seen several launches. I had 6 friends that worked directly with the shuttle launch and landing programs. I have photos of the LEM lander on the moon taken from earth by my friends while I looked on.
The ONLY thing that is FAKE is YOUR education!!!
Get matriculated!!! It would look good on you!!!
zengerz shut up, nerd!
@@Jackson37737 Sorry Kilroy, but with regards to your remark - 'I have photos of the LEM lander on the moon taken from earth by my friends while I looked on.', there isn't a telescope powerful enough on earth, that can resolve objects as small as those on the lunar surface left behind from the Apollo missions.
You might want to google however 'Lunar Reconnaissance Orbital Camera', which WILL show you pictures of each of the Apollo landing sites, taken from lunar orbit.
@@zengerz ooh you must be tough, big boy.
@@zengerz , you big ,tough, made of cottton flufff, candy ass!!!
I love watching this
Damn that rear view on landin' look so freakin sweet!
Wow ❤️