The Final Launch of Discovery
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2012
- The Space Shuttle Discovery flew every kind of mission a Space Shuttle could fly in it's almost 30 years of service.
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 150 million miles. This NASA video (with captions added by the Museum) captures its final launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station in 2011.
Today you can see the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. Plan your visit today: airandspace.si.edu/visit/udva...
Video courtesy of NASA-TV.
Watching the main engines come alive at around the 3:40 mark....never gets old....just an amazing feat of human engineering
It looks oddly satisfying.
This is one of the most crazy moments in human history. The SOUND the VISUALS. insane
@@ryans6280 Facts!
@@ryans6280 3:19
I completely agree. one of the most beautiful things to see
I'm always in awe when i watch this. The shuttle program was and will always be one of the most amazing achievements of humankind!
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Also a massive waste in terms of space exploration. We could have spent way less on space trucking and much more on hardware to reach other celestial bodies.
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@@randbarrett8706 Eh, it was a needed thing, it was a gateway vessel to the concept of re-use.
This never gets old. Amazing orbital aircraft!
For all the scientists that came before us, for Galilei, Copernicus, Newton. My eyes always fill with tears when I see this video. I am simply amazed at the human brain power behind this.
There’s just nothing like the shuttle. Just the greatest vehicle a man has ever produced. I feel so blessed to have seen it flying over DC and arriving at Udvar Hazy.
Not greatest, but definitely the coolest.
The X-15 and the A-12 were WAY cooler.
@@vibratingstring mmm arguably.
@@vibratingstring yeah I worked at the air and space museum where there was an X15 and also at Udvar Hazy where there was an SR71. I can tell you from everyday personal experience seeing them. Both those airplanes are fantastic, but neither of them takes your breath away like Discovery or the Concorde does.
@@vibratingstring the X15 doesn’t even remotely compare, it’s a pipe with stubby wings and tiny cockpit. Discovery has all her heat blankets all burned up from all the times she flew in space, it’s a whole other league.
I could watch this thing 1000 times and it never ever gets old. What a beauty….incredible brains , incredible entreprise.
“Discovery making one last reach for the stars” chills
same here
Well, maybe Low Earth Orbit, anyway.
I was standing off to the right side of the mission timer pictured in those shots. I'll never forget watching Discovery launch.
The last launch where the weather was beautiful. Endeavour's last launch had a thin cloud cover come in about 30 minutes before launch, so you had moments of watching it launch, and Atlantis' last launch was cloudy as well.
Had the privilege to watch this one in person from the Saturn V center. Most memorable occasion!
God bless the entire space shuttle crews and personnel who took part in this magnificent program! They made all of America very proud! This is an era of history which will never be forgotten!
The Space Shuttle was a beautiful piece of Engineering. This last video really captured its glory.
I've watched live footage of the first and the last ever shuttle launches (and a few in between 😉) and it has always been a great thrill to watch these amazing machines take flight...
Watching it in person was amazing. I live about 8 hours away, and made it a bucket list item to catch the last launch of each shuttle.. I achieved it. The camera cannot accurately capture the glowing color of those SRB's as they propel the shuttle to space.
Except maybe the final challenger launch. But we don’t talk about that one…
Was there and we can see ourselves to the left of the clock. It was a good day but too cloudy to really enjoy the full view of a great machine taking off.
Something I never hear anyone mention, do you get to hear the 2 sonic booms as it takes off? On landing I had some co-workers in Tampa mention how the shuttle landing would scare the crap out of them because the shuttles sonic booms would be close by
Disco's launch was clear - the last two didn't have great weather.
3:40 is pure beauty… I can’t imagine the temperature there
Awsome footage of an historic last flight of the Space Shuttle "Discovery".
I cannot express how much I miss the shuttles
Here again ….cannot stop watching this over and over …just magnificent ❤❤
Saw her last two launches...amazing, wonderful!
That boom when the main engines start and the secondary boom of the SLB's makes me proud to be a human being.
Yess i love the time of starting engine😢
a beautiful piece of engineering, the design and shape are just perfect
Look at the articulation of the Shuttle’s thrusters! That’s incredible!!!
what is a truster ? this is nothing but CGI for your te lie vision all lies and bull shit
They had one of the highest gimbal ranges out of any engine. This was needed to prevent the pitching effect of offset thrust (because the center of mass was at the tank, not the orbiter, the engines would spread and pitch inward heavily to control the Shuttle's pitch.)
I miss that Times so badly.. was always a Highlight❤
Still looks great today flight performance fantastic.I have close friends who work in NASA.
I was stationed at Patrick AFB and was working at the Cape when Discovery launched. I lucky enough to watch the last 10 shuttle launches 😌
Saw this beauty at the Air and Space Museum last week.
I think I remember this launch. I was in 2nd grade at the time and the teacher took as all outside to go watch it launch. It was quite chaotic because the whole school was standing outside in the field and we were all looking up towards the sky. Once it was out of view every kid rushed back to class to continue to watch it on the TV. I miss those days
I can't even imagine the amount of power flowing through the people's body stading nearby
It was epic
Thank you for this upload :)
Thanks Great Video For Me Salute to You Sir
Discovery was my favorite Shuttle.
I liked Challenger.
@@VoodooDangerbird rip challenger crew
any particular reason?
@@NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd because it failed, duh
@user-xl2px8hr2l Challenger was the workhorse of the Shuttle fleet back then. In many ways it was also NASA's favourite.
The high flight rates it went through probably meant if any shuttle was going to go first, it would have been Challenger.
3:42 - love how you can see the boosters and the whole ship flex and contort with the force of the engines firing up.
привет ты что-то опоздал, видео вышло 11 лет назад
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This audio is the most realistic audio I've ever heard.
This is pretty much exactly what they sound like in person.
Roaring crackling power, which gradually fades into deeper, less detailed extremely low pitches booming. Which gets quieter and quieter as the rocket both gets further from you, and when it breaks the sound barrier, you pretty much stop hearing it entirely. Though you can likely see it well after that point.
It's so cool how as soon as those engines are ignited you can just see the shuttle trying to go... Anyone know how they produce those sparks?
I think it was burning magnesium?
its called CGI on your TE LIE VISION NASA means to decieve in hebrew all lies
They're like a small solid fuel rocket or a firework. They're intended to burn off any hydrogen spills and prevent them pooling under the shuttle and possibly exploding.
@@attilalako9491 Luckily for us, science keeps progressing no matter what idiots like you say.
@@attilalako9491 Thanks for confirming that you don't speak or head Hebrew. LOL.
Another hard fail, bro. Not a good look.
I was there the day they piggybacked discovery on a cargo plane from the Kennedy space center to Houston to be put into the Smithsonian. I watched the takeoff at Kennedy space center, I was about 11, and I’ll forget what I ate for breakfast for the rest of my life before I’ll forget that day. Really awesome…
Amazing shuttle launch 👏 😊😊😊❤❤❤
The most beautiful machine ever created 😍
The exhaust plume and shock diamonds of those RS-25's is absolutely amazing... still my favorite rocket engine ever created. Even today, some half a century later, the entire concept seems almost impossible. I miss the days when NASA proved to the entire world that anything was possible with the right minds (and enough money lol.) It will probably hold the record as the most complex machine mankind has ever created for quite some time.
Now the next generation of rocketeers have successfully made reusable self landing boosters. I'd say that's way cooler than reusable splashdown solid rocket boosters and a 100 ton space truck
Shuttle's RS-25 engines were not a totally new concept/design. They were based on the Apollo Saturn V upper stage engines, the J-1 from Rocketdyne with modifications for shuttle operations. The Solid Rockets were based on the Voyager and Viking spacecraft Solid Rockets Motors that were recycled from the 1960s Gemini B/MOL program. NASA as it should tends to build from what they know to reduce costs as they should. The only exception was the shuttle body itself. It was totally scrapped to go back to Apollo staged core concepts for deep space exploration as the space EXPLOITation promise during the shuttle years ended up being a nothing-burger because they couldn't get the reusability costs down and flight frequency up to the promised levels.
It is always amazing to see so much power concentrated into two boosters that propel 100s of tons up in space in a few minutes.
Decided to pay a visit here after digging an old toy of Discovery from a box of my old stuff.
Incredible the difference in the quality of footage compared to the launches from the 1980s.
they used the old analog TV cameras back then. it wasn't until the early 2000s that the High def widescreen cameras began to be used.
Challenger was my favourite growing up
Simply outstanding.
The amount of power from that is amazing
“Main engine start.” Makes me cry
Is there a version of this without the always-on subtitles?
When you watch things like a shuttle lifting off...you realize how amazing humankind is, capable of doing marvelous inventions. This is why I still believe in our power to do good.
Awesome. ❤️ 💪
Speechless
I cry everytime I watch one of these, very sure if id had the chance to see it live id of waled 😅
can you show us shutle at 60miles altitude from ground ? why you cut video ?
A friend of mine used to work for JPL back in the Shuttle days and was in charge of rebuilding the engine's fuel pumps in between launches - he explained to me at liftoff that each of the 3 engines burns around 300 gallons of fuel in one second - so that's 900 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen being consumed in ONE SECOND- UNBELIEVABLE
"Go for throttle up"- chills
Need to borrow a sweater?
Everything I am in town I go see this badass piece of machinery.
I can't even begin to imagine what the austronauts inside the space shuttle are experiencing the moments before and after lift off... It's truly one of a kind feeling that 99.9% of the people will never experience... The mixed emotions, the excitement, the fear... Jesus!!!
There's an incredible book of an astronaut that has an entire chapter dedicated to describing the feeling of launching. It goes into detail about how awe inspiring it is to gaze up at a skyscraper-sized beast, lit up under spotlights and venting clouds of gasses, and thinking about the incredible and terrifying notion of riding that beast.
What is speed shuttle shows here
Time set???
My uncle helped with the final launch of discovery, oh the tales he’s told us of nasa, both a mess and so organized!
Liftoff and reentry always most dangerous times of the mission
Endeavor my favorite orbitor
With wich country as big continent as has been measured by walking or driving in traffic jamed?
Never gets old
I wonder how they launched the international space station?
The international space station isn't build by one launch. Several parts are sent by 40 rockets and they are connected together in space just like lego blocks
@@KarminsLynn Matt Lowne once made a ksp video where he did that
Piece by piece!
It still amazes me that one of the most complex machines man has ever built had its launch timing figured out buy people in the 1970s when a computer was the size of decent room and the physics of the timing for the SRBs was done with pencil, paper, and slide rules. They calculated out the thrust every millisecond of the main engines firing as the shuttle rocked forward, and went it JUST stops rocking back, they fired the SRBs. The math, the minds, the complexity of it all still boggles.
Can Discovery Fly Again..
Using Parts
From the
Other 2 Shuttles :
Atlantis and
Endeavour
Where is the rest..???
Salute the earth camera
love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it
Love this old footage
Wow!
I remember this launch the final mission of the space shuttle program. I watched it on live television on NASA channel for a good launch it was
Lighting the candles one last time.
I remember seeing this video at the air and space museum!
Hi
Roll Program Houston, meaning the shuttle rotates from a 90 degree position to a 78 degree position heading to space.
2024 still jaw dropping you had to be there
Good luck crew
Ah man...you muted the intial blast of the three shuttle nozzles. :(
0:37 - What is that smoke-like gas and why is it going out from those nozzles?
That''s oxygen venting to chill the engine, conditioning it for the flight.
This was the second, and last, Shuttle launch I watched from the vicinity. Even though it was a fantastic sight, shuttle launches can't compare to the three Apollo launches I witnessed from the vicinity. The fleet was was asked to fill a need it wasn't designed for, and did so for far longer than it should have. It wasn't a premature retirement that left us grounded, it was the shortsightedness of politicians.
Yessss
For name check list???
Listen to those engine rockets
How much has this changed since SpaceX
This never changed. Space X was made to improve what NASA started.
The critical change happened with the 2006 Bush Space Policy redirecting NASA to SCRAP the shuttle concept and return to low-earth AND deep space exploration through staged rockets, a far more proven technology. Obama, Trump, and Biden have updated, but essentially doubled and tripled down on each other. It was a bipartisan effort to undue the 1970 shuttle decision and return to Apollo technology. Underfunded as the space shuttle was, NASA is now in danger of taking too long and being outclassed by SpaceX spacecraft...although SpaceX still has to prove themselves before that happens.
Made me tear up alittle. Proud to be a human and American sometimes
Why didnt you show all stages?
Joey Ramirez You are dumb its not stages its boosters and external tank so its not stages its boosters and external tank
What they are hiding.
@@valentinotera3244 man i was 13 when I commented this lmao
@@021kangaroo So I'm talking with a grown man right now. Congrats.
THE RAW POWER!!!!!!
omg 😮
3:37 3:47 - WOW
I love you
Ready
sound beatiul 😎
Mines too!!
Interesting
My favorite space shuttle was Dicovery
a pleasure to fly
I will miss discovery cuz my grandma saw the Hubble launch
I was wondering if flat earthers ever go to witness such events with a pair of binoculars
Remember, this isn't for America, this is for humanity.
For all mankind.
@@phillipbanes5484 Delivering satellites from other countries.
@@phillipbanes5484 It is not for America only then.
@@interstellarsnow not just mankind, humankind
@@Baguette1424 that’s basically the same thing
Discovery and Atlantis were my favorite 💪🇺🇸
They were sister shuttles.