@Bully Maguire 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.
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
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.
Well its hard to argue. They created lots of problems for themselves with the approach they took, then solved many of them very successful, and some not so much, making the shuttle program way more expensive and deadly compared to many other programs. That being said watching the shuttle just feels very different from watching a Falcon9 or a Soyuz rocket. It's hard to grasp. Shuttle launches and landings will always remain something very special and it is sad we will never see one again.
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.
@@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.
@@221b-l3t 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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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 !
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.
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'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.
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. 😂
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
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".
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.
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!!!
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”
@@ElementofKindness Any glider needs to modulate its efficiency to land safely. Without brakes-regardless of efficiency-factors you can’t predict make you come up short or long with limited options to compensate. Brakes allow you to descend more steeply and stay on that glideslope, correcting both ways with ease and landing at a suitable speed.
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.
There is no ejection system. Its a two deck crew module. The procedure on a missed approach depends on when it goes wrong. If its early in the re-entry, they can ditch by blowing the hatch and parachuting out over water. If its on final, there is plenty of room at Edwards but not at KSC. A missed approach is almost impossible with 3 separate hydraulic systems, 2 TACANS, 3 microwave landing systems and 2 GPS systems.
Columbia had an ejection system on the first couple of missions, when there were only two crew. After that, it was deactivated, on the basis that it's pretty bad form to allow only *some* of the crew to escape, and then eventually it was removed completely.
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
The STS program did some amazing things, and a lot of them. Yeah, it had some issues (low cost, low risk), but it also accomplished a heck of a lot. That was one aggressive system, doing so many new things in one package. I was at one of these landings at EAFB. What blew me away was how steep the descent was. It seemed more like a controlled fall than a gliding ship.
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 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.
Sergei. It isn’t in a sustainable glide after preflare. It’s losing velocity. If it went from a speed constant glide straight to a flare... it _would_ crash.
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.
@@michaeldixon441 We shouldn't rely on Russians, but we absolutely should be ok with private companies taking us up. They can do it FAR cheaper and faster due to the fact that they don't have to worry about government red tape and making politicians happy.
@@foxtrot1770 Trust me, we will go to the moon one NASA finishes the rest of the SLS.That guy Elon Musk wants to go to Mars, and yet, he does no have a BFR yet
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.
Actually, first plans for the Space Shuttle had basically a rocket-powered 747 with the orbiter on top. It was planned to be carried to high atmosphere, then the orbiter would continue to space and the carrier plane would return & be reused. Sadly, this plan was too expensive.
@@spaceflightmaster9016 The X-33 was supposed to lower the cost of sending a kg to space from 20,000 to 2,000. Though you are right, it is innefocient since it cannot carry much compared to the Space shuttle or most multi-stage rockets.
@@yoelmaxance8760 Yep and the X-71's were a joint venture between NASA and the Air Force that were being built for the Mars project but rumor has it could be used to save Earth in the event we discover an asteroid on collision course. I have it on good authority that NASA even keeps a up to date list of the worlds best deep core oil drillers just in case things get really Harry!!!
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!!
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.
Exactyl. Peoole don't understand there are no thrusters its all math and corrections there is literally no room for error, when it hits the atmosphere its coming down no matter what its just adjustments thats all they have to land this brick with "wings".
Then why do I hear jet engines in all space shuttle landing videos. If you think the Space Shuttle is a glider then you need medical help. If hearing aids don't fix it then just try regular.
CodGeronimo - ? That's a jet engine. It's unmistakable. I'm sorry but you might be suffering from cognitive dissonance. NASA says it's a glider but they have a poor record of telling the truth. They only done it once and it wasn't to the public.
You're right, you can definitely hear a jet engine, didn't watch the video fully last time. However, this sound is not from the shuttle, its pretty usual for other jets to be in the air while the shuttle is landing, checking for damage and other reasons, here's a video from one ruclips.net/video/x_IN2zO17H8/видео.html The shuttle has 5 engines, 3 are RS-25's, these are basic rocket engines that used liquid oxygen and hydrogen, no jet engine sound from that one, it uses fuel from the external tank as well which is separated a little while after SRB sep, so it couldn't burn while landing. The other 2 are smaller OMS engines, these are for circularization and orbital manuevering, these also do not make a jet engine sound and wouldn't work well in atmosphere. I don't know if you're a flat earther or something but the argument that the Space shuttle itself is using jet engines is pretty absurd, nigh impossible.
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.
This is even more crazier when you realise that most of these pilots flew this thing for the very first time! And they land it better than some airline pilots 😜
Arthur: "more crazier"? Where the fuck did you do to school? Crazier isn't even a recognized word in the English language. Stay away from making comments if you don't want to look stupid (or as you might say "stupider")
A couple of things I have to add here: 1) As mentioned before by so many other people, they train that approach a lot in the simulater 2) They wait for favorable weather conditions. 3) They have multiple landing sites available where the weather is the most favorable. 4) They have no strict schedule when it comes to returning to earth. Airline pilots don't have that choice. 5) They "only" have to take care of the final descend, the rest is done by the computers 6) They only have one try, so they better get it right 7) Not having to worry about other planes is a perk only shuttle-pilots have. The only interaction the shuttle has with ATC is ATC turning any and all airplanes away from the shuttle 8) HUDs are a very recent addition to civil aviation. I honestly don't know why, they had been around for military aircraft since the late 50ies I think? Not having to take your attention away from the outside to see relevant flight data helps a great deal. 9) Once you understand what to do it actually is pretty easy ... simply put you just have to align two symbols in the HUD. The computer gives the information on where the shuttle should be and the pilot tries to keep it there. It could have been done by an autopilot, but NASA put their trust into their highly trained astronauts rather than in their very expensive equipment. As a funny side note - the first (and only) flight of the Buran-shuttle was unmanned, and even with some pretty nasty lateral wind it pretty much landed where it should have.
Beautiful. Never broadcasted entirely on TV that systematically shrunk those moments to the last 10 seconds before touch down. Gosh I miss these beauties.
I never noticed that the rudder was split down the middle and was used as an airbrake. That is a really great idea that I am totally not going to steal and use in kerbal space program to give spaceplanes better pitch authority at low speeds
Protip: also works with wing-mounted control surfaces. Many of my planes have their inboard ailerons also function as airbrakes. Just put two in the same place, one offset slightly up and the other slightly down so it looks clean. I bind them to an action group so I don't need to mess with the right-click menus.
Spacemen: Houston, Discovery wheels stopped Radio guy: Copy that discovery, congratulations on an extremely successful mission, stepping up science to a new level on the international space station. Spacemen: Settle down mate
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.
![Felix Baumgartner Space Jump World Record 2012 Full HD 1080p [FULL]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vvbN-cWe0A0/mqdefault.jpg)
Wow. 5 millions views in 11 years.
Yep
Good to see you.
5.091.744 to be correct 😂😂
@@alessandrodejongh7147 5,096,163 to be exact lolol
@@weeatpplproductions no no no 5.096.169 to Be exact 😂😂😂
No matter how cool Space X booster recoveries are, the shuttle landings will always be one of the most amazing things to have witnessed.
Heck yeah
@Soggy Sandwich ⸜⁄ yeah but this is a ROCKET at Mach like Something
@Bully Maguire 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.
@Saul Goodman It is not particularly new technology. Doesn't make it less awesome it just kicks the credit to someone else (NASA) for pioneering it.
100% agreed!
The Shuttle's always reminds me of Concord.
Both looked pissed off to be on the ground.
Very true
And they are would be always on the ground from now on. *Oops*
ConcordE
@@nurphurecarnium ur pfp worked and I hate you
Big F :(
Man that camerawork is incredible!! The whole thing is incredible but especially that camerawork!!
The câmera Man is a computer
Awesome video man but the camera work is what standout
But how about that camerawork, though?
It’s not only that, the camerawork is pretty solid too.
That's pretty amazing. But did you see that amazing camera work?
Thats not flying! Thats falling with style!
Frank Grimes reminded me of Buzz Lightyear on Toy Story 😂😂
@@michaeltlays1293 Probably what he is refering to..
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
saves on gas if you dont need it.....
To infinity！And beyond！
RIP Shuttle Program.
You were glorious.
But glorious things come
Everyone: RIP shuttle program
NASA: yeah we still gonna need that $60 million a day
@@berniepfitzner487 NASA Is absolutely broke
But dangerous sadly ! This spacecraft killed more people than any other.
🇷🇺
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.
What's even more amazing is it hitches a piggy back ride on an airplane back to Florida! My mind was blown first time I saw that! 😳
@@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.
Well its hard to argue. They created lots of problems for themselves with the approach they took, then solved many of them very successful, and some not so much, making the shuttle program way more expensive and deadly compared to many other programs.
That being said watching the shuttle just feels very different from watching a Falcon9 or a Soyuz rocket. It's hard to grasp. Shuttle launches and landings will always remain something very special and it is sad we will never see one again.
Yup they made a mistake like trump did and can never come out on TV and admit it 😂
no it is definitely not - its white collar welfare compared to what has been disclosed this summer about what went on in the 1980s -
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.
Totally agreed to you!
These guys are really so great ! But unfortunately tv series are more interesting than this ((((......
Yep, that's about the size of it. Majestic and pathetic at the same time.
Your vice president thinks the planet is 6000 years old..
As does a lot of America. Just shows that being powerful and being right are very much not the same thing.......
This must be very confusing to flat earthers, where did that shuttle come from they think...just kidding, they don't think.
No, they have peaked.. thank god. Idiots have taken up a new mantle lately. Race and Gender
but...the chemtrailz from the wingtips! Look up! /sarcasm off
If it doesn’t go into orbit how did Columbia burn up? TAKE THAT STUPID FLAT EARTHERS!!!
@tinwoods
Race and gender ideologues (the regressive left) are just as stupid as flat earthers.
@tinwoods Well, for being a kidd, he sure did tilt you pretty easily...
As Sgt. Johnson once said:
"For a brick, he flew pretty good"
Nowadays you cant see those futuristic scenes în real life. The future is dead!
@@cont8655 What about rockets landing upright?
@@ilikeyourname4807 Damn quick and to the jaw.
i heard him say that today when i was playing halo 2 on my pc
@@ilikeyourname4807 got em lol
Steam Edition: Shuttle, go around. Fly runway heading, climb to 3000.
rob barret shuttle going full vertical, 400 kts.
@@bushrakhan1529 what kind of flight test BS is this? NASA would never test and aircraft to this extent! 😅
@@pnaylor666 Even the Soviet Union testing the project "Energy-Buran" and then launched it offline, and your pilots planted this "brick"
@@shmy3881 Thanks?
@@pnaylor666 very very thanks
There has never been a more bad ass looking machine. Humans made that guys, it goes to space and fucks off back home like it’s nothing.
THE STARSHIP OF SPACE X WILL BEAT THAT
@@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.
@@221b-l3t 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
@@theminegoon Also no Starship. The lessons learned in Shuttle were vital to fast Starship development.
@@221b-l3t thiss as nothing to do whit my comment
They said penguins can’t fly..
U killed me
Who said that?
Penguins are white at the front and black at the back... Are you saying that the Shuttle flies belly-up?!
More like: school buses can't fly.
John Villanueva you’re saying school busses look like a cop car? Lol
I live on a moutain over looking the city of Palmdale and I remember hearing the sonic booms of Space Shuttles whenever they landed at Edwards
Everytime i hear or read the word Sonic Boom.. you know what instantly comes to my mind😂
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.
@@arianitzejnullahu7016 Guile from street fighter lol?
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.
I can still remember hearing and feeling the sonic booms in the San Gabriel Valley area when she reentered and landed. Unforgettable.
Space shuttles are probably the most beautiful flying machine man has ever made.
Harold Lértora and the most inefficient...
@@theaverageblitzer4351 Unfortunately
@@haroldlertora9930 😂😂Concorde looks so much better
@@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.
@@z3ny156 The shuttle has a lot in common with the Concorde... Outdated, depressingly expensive to operate... But damn they are beautiful things.
Just imagine having a job this cool..... flying in and out of space. Wow.
the safety record would give you goosebumps every trip ….
Dead...but still cool
They are not flying they are floating with style
Yeah, It would be cool. But also there's a very high risk that something goes wrong and end up in tragedy.
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Anyone else miss the shuttle?
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 did. I swear I set my alarm clock.
I'll get my coat....
Kinda
CircularReasoning yeah you do know that those tubes are on of the most advanced tubes ever made right?
7:00 thats when the astronauts gather their things quickly to be the first to get off the shuttle and not stand in a line XD
Wow, this never gets old. It's always as thrilling as the first time.
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...
i don't
BluntForceTrauma666 gayyy
I thought it was just me !
not sure how that makes him a coward.. but alright then.
All those mixed feelings of awe, pride, adventure, humanity..Its understandable.
I suppose a go around is out of the question..
they only got 1 shot at landing the flying brick; look ma, no propulsion XD
Thought the same thing,the pilot must be a pro glider
The Descent is Fully Automated until the Shuttle goes Sub-Sonic
then the Commander takes over and Flies it down manually to a landing
Like in "the core" where earth magnetic field suddenly goes frizzy and messed the navcom, they have to land on LA dry river.
Hence why the runway is three miles long :-)
Houston: “Discovery, Houston, traffic on 22, go around”
Discovery: ... 😟
Discovery:we are dead as fuck
“Houston, Discovery, Unable.”
Its disappointing that not many people are there to celebrate just how amazing it is, yet people line up by the millions to follow celebrities.
If you know how to get onto an Air Force base, let me know
I concur.
Nah people are worried about what cardi b does next
It would have been really awesome if they were able to build a base on the moon or Mars with a Runway showing the space shuttle landing on it.
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.
flying brick
It flies like a glove!
Lizard771 full of lead...
Still flying. Good.
txeriff2k6 oh you watched that video 😂😂
Shubham Kejriwal that video was uploaded in 2016 and this comment was 3 years ago so i guess not
the video should be named like: "Landing a brick with the wings"
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.
So true! Going to NASA was my favorite part of my visit to FL!!!
Woukd you say it's incredible?
Paul Morton Yeah making re-entry provided them with the capable aerodynamics.
Any fixed-wing aircraft is designed essentially as a glider first before given a propulsion system.
Incredible! A beautiful machine with absolutely expert crew performing a flawless mission with one of the best landings I've ever seen!
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!"
Lmao excellent
This video is 10 years old and still being recommended for this many people
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.
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 !
Have you really worked for NASA? How's the managment there?
@@DanielDornekDorda It's like every other company. Same ol' same ol' and they only hire autists
I miss those days. I loved when the landing gears deployed. Still get chills. Thanks for posting
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.
How about universal health care like the rest of the civilized world?
Gonken88 that’s communism, no thanks
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.
yeah they're laughing at americans while cluelessly using 80% american made drugs and medical equipment, I think that's called being an idiot.
Jeremiah John got em
When you realize...it was released 10yrs ago....
Ok cutie pie
Fake
Lol
@@coolestbadboy5914 ok simp
dig up an old comment just to show everyone on the internet what an unoriginal prick you are, way to go
What an incredible era this was for space voyages.
Ok it might have been an infefficient tool in hindsight, but what an incredible machine it is!
Humans are amazing.
krgkrmb Hell yeah we are
Humans can be amazing. Also they can be asininely idiotic...
krgkrmb except for Americans yeah.
@@KneeoGeeo So that is why you have American Go Pro as your profile picture?
CSM101 yeah constant is right expect Americans
Flat earthers be like, government just flew this from north pole with the help of high tech sling shot...shit I think I gave them an idea
Ad hoc hypothesis, gotta love em.
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
Bartacomus Kidd the APU doesn’t produce thrust. It’s for generating electricity
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
Kim Bird where are the air intakes? That heat haze is probably the RCS thrusters firing for yaw control
It truly was a brick with tiny wings. But that's all they needed to make it work.
Pretty sure Wings any Bigger would've Torn Off during the Ascent
Dude stfu ‘that’s all they needed’. That’s the best more efficient way...
It's not just the wings but the shape of the entire craft that creates a "lifting body" aerodynamic shape. First explored by NASA with the X-24
You're shitting all over the engineers work
@@Heyim18bro two fatal flights say it was accountancy and airforce implementations work , Engineers would have got it right.
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.
It was so cool growing up in the 80's and catching these shuttle flights live. Still nothing short of incredible.
It was these shuttles that really got me into space, and I'm happy that my dream is to study space.
That flying brick is just beautiful to gaze at
@@tipnoel ikr. And for a brick, it landed like butter on the bread.
Glad to know human space travel ingenuity will be pioneered by a furry
@@jayblack5231 lmao
5.7 million mile trip and a perfect touchdown. Still amazes.
That's what a whole lot of properly educated people can do when they all work together.
@@stanpatterson5033 lots of practice, testing, review.. and massive cajones.
Fun fact : in the shuttle the pilot called : *commander* and the copilot called : *pilot*
thats a pretty huge # my friend, the ISS is only 250 miles up.
I thought that was a large number too but just repeated what was stated in the video.
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
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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. 😂
I never tire watching videos of these awsome machines, coming back to Earth & doing a textbook landing, crewed by real life heroes 🙂👍
We need to give this cameraman an award for not missing a single frame of the shuttle landing
gorgeous landing!
Christina Iles smooth as a babies ass! ;)
I know I'm two years late, if you love animals why do you have that poor orca as your profile pic?
Engeneering at its BEST! When Engineers and Scientists get put in a room... Achievement is eminent!
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
Bet
@Donald Joe Trump No, unfortunately, there really are conspiracy theorist nutjobs posting in the comments.
@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
2:26 Boom Boom
Translation: I'm home
RK1Hatty - it's Boom, Boom, Boom and then Boom Boom at home😊
Knock...knock whoes there..NASA
Got to hear it in so cal a few times.... Was awesomeness!
She said sonic boobs
RK1Hatty i has just started at CSUN and that sonic boom scared the shit out of me. But it was awesome.
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".
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.
the earth is not flat....man has been to space,,,,and the moon is not a batman signal.
John Thomas Thank You! For being smart!
Lol I don't like when people go oh the earth is flat thank you for telling everyone was is correct
I have never heard anyone argue that man has been in space, the moon though is a different story.
Earth is definitely flat lol wow such a fake video.
Austin Reeves u sirously
Haven't seen these things in media for years. Yet the long hiatus away from space is about to end! Long live space travel!
Who’s here after SpaceX just launched the crew dragon?
lol me
Me lol
It's me lol
Binge watching videos, from F1 to space shuttle
Dk4K f1 as in formula 1???
RIP💐 Astronaut Kalpana Chavla 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
😨😢
Rip mother cow
@@MMKHOME rip pigamber🐷🐷🐷
Lol, She was American astronaut, dumbass. First do your research well 😂🤣
@@ujjwalsharma8295 Nailed it 😂
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!!!
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 came to the comments section to read the flat earth comments.
lol
Of late I've had doubts that the United States is a developed country...
78XT500
I came to the comments section to read the flat earth comments.
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the pretty earth globe is a fully real ROUND same as ball...
NOT flat
LOL Me too!
301 Retards! NASA Weeding out the FUCKTARDS!
Never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many times I watch these vids ❤ absolutely stunning 👌
From kilometres per second to stationary in minutes
Amazing
Everyone said it called "The Flying Brick"
In my style :
"The fat Glider"
Channel Mati “THICC glider”
It only glides marginally better than a brick. :-P
Funny part is, as inefficient as it was, it still required air brakes on the vertical stabilizer.
@@ElementofKindness Any glider needs to modulate its efficiency to land safely. Without brakes-regardless of efficiency-factors you can’t predict make you come up short or long with limited options to compensate. Brakes allow you to descend more steeply and stay on that glideslope, correcting both ways with ease and landing at a suitable speed.
@@EllipticGeometry Yup, I know that. (I am a pilot) Just saying, it's not being operated at maximum efficiency.
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.
I literally remember watching this live like it was yesterday. At home, at school, we would always watch launches and landings live.... Till that Day.
he lined that shuttle up with runway two like a boss, great pilot.
The best landing footage I've ever seen :)
There is no ejection system. Its a two deck crew module. The procedure on a missed approach depends on when it goes wrong. If its early in the re-entry, they can ditch by blowing the hatch and parachuting out over water. If its on final, there is plenty of room at Edwards but not at KSC. A missed approach is almost impossible with 3 separate hydraulic systems, 2 TACANS, 3 microwave landing systems and 2 GPS systems.
Columbia had an ejection system on the first couple of missions, when there were only two crew. After that, it was deactivated, on the basis that it's pretty bad form to allow only *some* of the crew to escape, and then eventually it was removed completely.
Those pilots were such badasses, gliding from space to land a brick with such pinpoint precision
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 "Buraun" was the result of paranoia. they thought that the US space shuttle could be a space bomber
Superportvein it technically could be, by carrying a warhead into orbit and having it remotely fly down
Sad the X-33 was cancelled for the dumbest reason ever.
The Russians are reviving their shuttle program i hear
Chancellor Palpatine AKA The Senate unlikely
Discovery was always my favorite of the Shuttles.
Envy Dolls fake. boom. 0 died
Atlantis has always been mine :)
Marcos same man my first model of a space shuttle i bought was the atlantis!!!
they are all the same type
The STS program did some amazing things, and a lot of them. Yeah, it had some issues (low cost, low risk), but it also accomplished a heck of a lot. That was one aggressive system, doing so many new things in one package. I was at one of these landings at EAFB. What blew me away was how steep the descent was. It seemed more like a controlled fall than a gliding ship.
After all this time watching the shuttle takeoff and land is still one of the most incredible things to see. So sad it had to end.
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..
Your comment reflects poorly on your UK schooling. 😉✌
That's because it was the USA doing it. Clarification: I'm Canadian! 😒
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.
Low flyby of that runway
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I didn't know till now that thing lands at around 220mph. Damn, no wonder they call it a flying brick, those wings must provide very little lift.
***** They land at those speeds because it IS a flying brick.
Also touches down on the tarmac with over 200,000 lbs of force
Lift to drag ratio is 2:1
The glide is 4.5 actually. If it was 2:1 it would disintegrate on impact with the tarmac
Sergei. It isn’t in a sustainable glide after preflare. It’s losing velocity. If it went from a speed constant glide straight to a flare... it _would_ crash.
The first noticeable immense force for the astronauts coming back to earth is gravity. Something that they got used to live without for a while.
Viva Freedom for sure, they must have felt like they were made of lead.
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.
excellent video great tour of this shuttle exraordinary working
it's been a "controlled crash" rather than a landing ;-) awsome!
I miss the shuttle. Never should have been decommed.
No it needed to be decommissioned but it also needed a replacement.
Kaustin Manary Agreed. An updated version of the shuttle. We should not rely on private companies and Russians to get us into space.
@@michaeldixon441 We shouldn't rely on Russians, but we absolutely should be ok with private companies taking us up. They can do it FAR cheaper and faster due to the fact that they don't have to worry about government red tape and making politicians happy.
@@foxtrot1770 Trust me, we will go to the moon one NASA finishes the rest of the SLS.That guy Elon Musk wants to go to Mars, and yet, he does no have a BFR yet
@@johnnynewsome2265 well
Months later and a SPACEX spacecraft docked with the ISS carrying American astronauts
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.
Just imagind we could build and fly these things without having to strap giant boosters and a fat orange tank to it.
Do you mean a ssto? They are cool, but they are Very uneficcient irl, is better to strap the gigant boosters
Actually, first plans for the Space Shuttle had basically a rocket-powered 747 with the orbiter on top. It was planned to be carried to high atmosphere, then the orbiter would continue to space and the carrier plane would return & be reused. Sadly, this plan was too expensive.
@@spaceflightmaster9016 The X-33 was supposed to lower the cost of sending a kg to space from 20,000 to 2,000. Though you are right, it is innefocient since it cannot carry much compared to the Space shuttle or most multi-stage rockets.
@@yoelmaxance8760 Yep and the X-71's were a joint venture between NASA and the Air Force that were being built for the Mars project but rumor has it could be used to save Earth in the event we discover an asteroid on collision course. I have it on good authority that NASA even keeps a up to date list of the worlds best deep core oil drillers just in case things get really Harry!!!
The Shuttle is so much cooler than Crew Dragon.
Feels like we back stepped instead! The shuttle was way ahead of it’s time and budgets.
The whole program was more expensive but it could do so much
Well duh, it had a cargo bay and everything
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!!
That's a weird looking bird
Windy It's a brick
It's so unaerodynamic. As a result they call it a flying brick. It looks like a brick as well.
+Smikkelbeer It's not a brick
@@57HarleyDavidson r/wooosh
@@57HarleyDavidson its the greatest brick ever
And RUclips is suggesting me this video after 10 years
Me too
Same
To me today...
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.
How to land a brick with wings.
It’s more of a controlled crash landing , it don’t actually fly it’s coming down no matter what just like a big fat heavy glider kind of thing
Exactyl. Peoole don't understand there are no thrusters its all math and corrections there is literally no room for error, when it hits the atmosphere its coming down no matter what its just adjustments thats all they have to land this brick with "wings".
Then why do I hear jet engines in all space shuttle landing videos. If you think the Space Shuttle is a glider then you need medical help. If hearing aids don't fix it then just try regular.
You're hearing wind turbulence from the shuttle, it is a glider after reentry. Read up on how it functions before telling people to get medical help.
CodGeronimo - ? That's a jet engine. It's unmistakable. I'm sorry but you might be suffering from cognitive dissonance. NASA says it's a glider but they have a poor record of telling the truth. They only done it once and it wasn't to the public.
You're right, you can definitely hear a jet engine, didn't watch the video fully last time.
However, this sound is not from the shuttle, its pretty usual for other jets to be in the air while the shuttle is landing, checking for damage and other reasons, here's a video from one ruclips.net/video/x_IN2zO17H8/видео.html
The shuttle has 5 engines, 3 are RS-25's, these are basic rocket engines that used liquid oxygen and hydrogen, no jet engine sound from that one, it uses fuel from the external tank as well which is separated a little while after SRB sep, so it couldn't burn while landing.
The other 2 are smaller OMS engines, these are for circularization and orbital manuevering, these also do not make a jet engine sound and wouldn't work well in atmosphere.
I don't know if you're a flat earther or something but the argument that the Space shuttle itself is using jet engines is pretty absurd, nigh impossible.
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.
And it's not like you get a second chance, either.
Here after the first launch of the crew dragon
Concrete Monkey yep
It was the second one. First manned* launch of the Crew Dragon
This is even more crazier when you realise that most of these pilots flew this thing for the very first time! And they land it better than some airline pilots 😜
Uhhh i think the get trained A Lot and im not sure but im pretty sure tgey are aorforce pilots or pilots in general
Arthur: "more crazier"? Where the fuck did you do to school? Crazier isn't even a recognized word in the English language. Stay away from making comments if you don't want to look stupid (or as you might say "stupider")
It may be their first time flying Discovery, but they have tons of experience in simulators
Computers are doing a lot in this machines. Too many informations for human flying that fast
A couple of things I have to add here:
1) As mentioned before by so many other people, they train that approach a lot in the simulater
2) They wait for favorable weather conditions.
3) They have multiple landing sites available where the weather is the most favorable.
4) They have no strict schedule when it comes to returning to earth. Airline pilots don't have that choice.
5) They "only" have to take care of the final descend, the rest is done by the computers
6) They only have one try, so they better get it right
7) Not having to worry about other planes is a perk only shuttle-pilots have. The only interaction the shuttle has with ATC is ATC turning any and all airplanes away from the shuttle
8) HUDs are a very recent addition to civil aviation. I honestly don't know why, they had been around for military aircraft since the late 50ies I think? Not having to take your attention away from the outside to see relevant flight data helps a great deal.
9) Once you understand what to do it actually is pretty easy ... simply put you just have to align two symbols in the HUD. The computer gives the information on where the shuttle should be and the pilot tries to keep it there. It could have been done by an autopilot, but NASA put their trust into their highly trained astronauts rather than in their very expensive equipment. As a funny side note - the first (and only) flight of the Buran-shuttle was unmanned, and even with some pretty nasty lateral wind it pretty much landed where it should have.
Beautiful. Never broadcasted entirely on TV that systematically shrunk those moments to the last 10 seconds before touch down. Gosh I miss these beauties.
I never noticed that the rudder was split down the middle and was used as an airbrake. That is a really great idea that I am totally not going to steal and use in kerbal space program to give spaceplanes better pitch authority at low speeds
Protip: also works with wing-mounted control surfaces. Many of my planes have their inboard ailerons also function as airbrakes. Just put two in the same place, one offset slightly up and the other slightly down so it looks clean. I bind them to an action group so I don't need to mess with the right-click menus.
Spacemen: Houston, Discovery wheels stopped
Radio guy: Copy that discovery, congratulations on an extremely successful mission, stepping up science to a new level on the international space station.
Spacemen: Settle down mate
So badass. I admit I did shed a tear when Atlantis took her final flight to end the program. Always loved watching shuttle launches.
Would be pretty cool to have seen a 'plane' fly down from outerspace
Who is here after chandrayan 2.……?
@@joswin2240 are you jealous?
@@joswin2240 shut up bastard.,oh yeah what we can expect from a low life and jealous person
Here comes the Indians again.. ??What's problem with you people.
@@otsutsukiyuvraj9090 oh ho fuck off gaypali watchman
@ܐܠܟܣܢܕܪܝܘܣ ܗܢܕܘܝܐ after all that we are happy and will be happy my brother
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.
5:47 back touchdown
5:56 full touchdown
7:00 full stop
5:47 BACK TOUCHDOWN
5:56 FULL TOUCHDOWN
7:00 FULL STOP