NASA's GRAIL Spacecraft Launches on Lunar Mission

[7878toastmaster]

cool animated cartoon when you know ,what kinda satellite CAN observe it at a dime look so fu !!!!

[omaigad11]

what are you conspiracy theorists going to say? the rocket is fake? grow up

[suquip]

what rage did not know if I can ever be the space

[Geldfabriek]

Make 1080p :O

[tamos2005]

The robots sent to explore the universe, makes doubtful the possibility of colonizing any planets in other galaxies ....... ...... let alone the next missions are to be excluded for purposes of colonization ....... environments that are not classified at the level of dangerousness. In the future I have doubts that humans colonize other planets, too many human sacrifices.

[mermaidlover585]

oh my gosh.

[kragoraaahh]

FUCK

[kragoraaahh]

NASA

[Mrhistorian14]

The sound is glorious

[johnediamond]

@Mrhistorian14 ...one hour till the engines start...

[Willysmb44]

Amazing, I never get tired of seeing these videos. I was lucky enough to see Grail on the pad the day before this launch but wasn't in the area when it went up.

[iMaxAL]

0:30 wow

[iLeGaCyyyyyyy]

the gov't should spend money on this instead of wars and helping other countries that hate us

[JackoxelMAtrixo007]

1:37 looks like a flying penis

[madhellsing]

I think this is amaizing. Is just sad such of waist of material when stage cut off separation.

[dendrok1]

that a huge dildo

[tatchiwu]

Is that the same Delta 2 design from the 60's I wonder?

[prosimion]

Hay you're going the wrong way. You're supposed to go up the screen not down the screen. Stupid rocket scientists.

[prosimion]

Yeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[MalcolmRandall]

NASA better hope their spacecraft don't get infested with rock spiders.

[Mcode3996]

I think the aliens arebmad b/c we just chunk crap in space.

[MultiChrisjb]

I can't wait for NASA's Braille Spacecraft, the purpose of which is to seek out blind aliens in deep space.

[2000flute]

Successful expedition and a soft landing!

[SkylaneCaptain]

@2000flute A landing on this mission would be a bad thing as there is not one planned!! :)

[2000flute]

@SkylaneCaptain :))))Excuse me, I always think that we need landing on the moon, and then flight. I'm sorry I was wrong ....

[SkylaneCaptain]

@2000flute Don't be sorry....I just thought it was funny!! :)

[2000flute]

@SkylaneCaptain

OK !

:)))

[Mrstrangevoice]

why they wont make onboard camera that we can see then "space" how it goes... it would make it 100x more interesting for normal viewer :) but no... let show us only animation XD (or they want to hide something...)

[gdog48001]

CENTER OF THE MOON!!!! WOOOOOT

[TrickyEmu]

Non-human launches are a lot rougher.

[MjmanDK]

So when is the next spacecraft due launch? I missed this live because of my goddamn job

[tomsastroblog]

@MjmanDK you and me too.

[craigsjaffe]

RIP Space Shuttle

[tetsugal]

I'd love to see US launch more of these rockets and less of the others, you know, those whose main goal is always to crash onto something.

[silvereagle2061]

This beats FSX lol

[piplupsingularity]

@silvereagle2061

Then try Orbiter Space Flight Simulator.

[WebsiteToSell]

That was exciting. The animation was good, but probably didn't do the actual event justice. Much appreciated none the less.

[Planetar17]

Why couldn't we launch astronauts with one of these? Is the red tape so thick they can't develop a safe general purpose capsule to fit any launch system? This looks a lot safer than those dinosaur Soyuz rockets.

[Thyllum]

its a shame we still use crude fire technology on our shuttles... is it because the explicit public exposure of any other technology would imply conspiracy?

Searl Effect Generator, Cavity Structural Effect, Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle Code, Viktor Schauberger Repulsine, Type A.... come on now... anyone paying attention?

[pilotoatomico]

thats pretty fats not gonna lie lol

[filthyluca01]

i watched other camera replays about 9 hours ago on nasa tv.You could clearly see exauhst gas scorch marks on the body of the srbs and even the main body just seconds after take off.

[ti994apc]

You can always tell when solids are used because it always looks like an old car running on bad gas. Delta rockets with out SRB's are excellent. Had they not used solid boosters, Delta might have a better reputation than even Atlas.

[TheiJat88]

Always thrilling. NASA-TV is the best.

[millionsteve]

i want one of these.

[Romano164]

Those are some powerful engines.



[jaymthegenius]

How much pollution is that thing causing?

[thomasw108]

@jaymthegenius i believe ts nothing, they burn nitrogen and oxygen for fuel for fuel, so basically no pollution.

[HeadSHOT604]

@thomasw108 No there is Co2 and such but they have ways of trapping most of it by using water.

[ArferGuiness]

Where does all the separated hardware end up?



[mariamole011]

@ArferGuiness may be some where into the sea. =)  swiming with the fishes.

[Rotten194]

@ArferGuiness

Depends on the mission. Generally it ends up on a suborbital path and burns up in the atmosphere, but some remains in orbit as space junk. Only the largest pieces ever hit the ground, and most fall in the ocean.

[OmegaMolecule]

I want to ride on a flying building burning 2700 Lbs. of fuel per second! What a ride that would be. Kaplah G.R.A.I.L!

[Nigelcf]

sweet launch :)

[mariamole011]

are these new rockets computer operated?

[deedubya286]

Sure would be embarrassing if someone screwed up the math and crammed that thing through the ISS.

[buntaboss25k]

why dont they just video the rest of the launch using satellite instead of some cheap computer graphics

[mariamole011]

@buntaboss25k  i think is not cheap computer graphics, i think that one is the real one , maybe the all thing is computerized.

[FailasaurusRex]

we have successfully launched the worlds largest q-tip 

[Jackararpter]

3:09 I'm shocked at how cartoon like space actually looks

[mariamole011]

@Jackararpter  ye, the all thing is a computer program, but we see the diferent. , i guess.

[1Nekit1]

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[tomyferland1234]

That's alot of fuel they use. They should find a different propulsion system.

[DerpinWin]

@tomyferland1234 Thats why it is expensive. Do you know how much you need to beat Earth's gravity and escape it?

[caiocrz]

So when is the ISS crew coming down due to elenin?

[903harman]

Nasa why don't you create a program that uses Procedural Generation. and put a real time tracker on a spaceship so that you can understand where in space how fast the space ship is going.

[retrogamer500]

@903harman "Nasa why don't you create a program that uses Procedural Generation. and put a real time tracker on a spaceship so that you can understand where in space how fast the space ship is going."

That makes little sense. As a computer programmer, using procedural generation makes no sense in the context. Also, since speed of spacecraft can be measured in different ways (ground speed, speed relative to the Earth, Moon, Sun, etc), it also makes little sense.

[TheTurbinator]

@retrogamer500 , I guess you never heard of the Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator. Watch what you can do with it here: /watch?v=MyRSO5P6IVI#t=113s

[AntiProtonBoy]

These camera shots are brilliant. I never get sick of them.

[moomman89]

Ain't that a nice launch.

[AntiProtonBoy]

These camera shots are brilliant. I never get sick of them.

[AustralianPhenomena]

what did he mean by the center of the moon.... Lol u know what happened on time machine hahahah

[ITomahawkIS]

we wont mars! 

[ESTOCASTICO1]

Good work, strategy and plan, I congratulate NASA

[ajf1381]

now can we go to mars?

[drunksmokingjurkk]

what software was used in the amination?

[Bluedrake42]

there's got to be a better way to launch these things, it most take so much energy to launch from a standstill position, can't we use a sling or something for the first part and THEN engage the engines?

[903harman]

@Bluedrake42 actually there are some types that shoots from a jet. it carries it into high altitude and then the rockets ignite and the jet lets go.

[Bluedrake42]

@903harman wouldn't that be cheaper? why isn't that the standard?

[903harman]

@Bluedrake42 i dont know, but it might have to do with weight.

[Rg2732]

That's 5.1 MN of thrust blasting off at the start, folks! Absolutely pretty! =D

[ordi75]

Dammit, I missed the launch :(

GL Grail!

[SuperiorMind]

Exciting. (^__^)

[legendsveil]

@SuperiorMind Yeahh :)

[docatomics]

...what is the delivery c0st per kg 0n this missi0n ?

[DAYMARCHU]

Amazing!

[docatomics]

...and d0n't wreck any m0re 0f my Lunar Equipment while y0ur p0cking ar0und;

~y0ur still in the d0g h0use 0ver the LACR0S incident smash everything n0t y0urs buff00ns

=all y0u had t0 d0 was ask !

[docatomics]

@docatomics ...p.s. SARA hun, remind them t0 get the p0larity reversed when they put the spinx grail int0 the lunar cradle, we d0n't want t0 let the sm0ke 0ut, it will n0t be a g00d thing !

~n0t unlike putting a square p0st in a r0und h0le, it d0esn't fit like a cl0ve !

=n0 hun, eye haven't been spying 0n y0ur talking m0nkeys; just a lucky best guess having seen en0ugh 0f there c0mpetative n0nsenese :)

-thanks kindly nasty A.I., y0ur a bitch

[winterstellar]

It is pretty weird, yes. Conspiracy freaks and religious nuts will pollute the comment section at any science video. : )

[JonBoyHartz]

How is it that when you come to a NASA channel, you find almost nothing but ignorant and near functionally illiterate people commenting?

[mundoovni]

Why that spacecraft will take too time to arrive to the Moon? In Apollo 11 was 1 hour...

[winterstellar]

@mundoovni Apollo 11 spent 4 days going to the moon, I think. At least 3 days. But that's all in wikipedia if you want to know for sure. : )

[winterstellar]

@winterstellar Yep. "Took off 16th of july, landed on Moon 20th of july.: )

[mundoovni]

@winterstellar Ok! Thanks!

[GrayFox2k8]

Scanning the moon interior I see. Possible mining on the moon in the future? I bet there is a lot of resources there to mine

[rhcpconor]

@GrayFox2k8 In all likely hood there isn't anything of value, or at least not enough of anything to warrant a mining operation, they want to see if there is any water and how much and also what the interior of a dead planet looks like.

[i8hy6e3]

we fight each other on this planet. and we fight each other in other planet. and we fight each other in the whole galaxy. and we fight each other in the whole space. and we fight each other in other dimention. and we fight each other forever. and the whole space will become trash. and aliens will reset the universe. we must send our babies to aliens. and our babies may be able to become new intelligent creature while living with other intelligent creatures. and they may save human race.

[i8hy6e3]

we will all die like dinosaur anyhow. but only few humans are abducted by aliens and they become true intelligent creature.

[rhcpconor]

@i8hy6e3 GTFO

[toocoolforu]

NASA, can't you use geostationary satellites to track the spacecraft in addition of the ground telescopes ?

[v12tommy]

That sucker looked like it had some serious acceleration at liftoff. That was a whole bunch of SRBs firing at the same time.

[samcerulean1412]

They proberly already know but it will become mainstream that the Moon is actually hollow in large portions of its crust and it would surprise me if the was aliens under the surface as crazy at that sounds.

[LiquidAffect]

@SummertheFuzzy... exactly what I was thinking!

[SummerTheFuzzy]

woul be cool to watch from ISS

[ApexIXMR]

I know- Let's complain about the growing space-debris issue that we're facing while contributing to it even MORE by the development of multi-stage rockets like these.

[v12tommy]

@ApexIXMR How else are we supposed to get to the moon? Besides, I am pretty sure it isn't the big chunks they are worried about.

[toocoolforu]

@ApexIXMR That was ignorant, the pieces of the spacecraft are designed and ejected in a way so they enter the atmosphere in minutes.

[ApexIXMR]

@toocoolforu

Ignorant? Haha. Label someone ignorant, maybe you should go do a little bit of research on Multi-stage rockets and how they function because you obviously don't know what your talking about. What? Do you honestly think the stages in these rockets come off like seperating a set of Lego blocks? ROFL.

Before you go calling someone names, go check your facts so you don't make yourself look like a dumbass.

[hayden50]

thats a gigantic penis

[MYTHECIES]

Did he say to the center of the moon?

[kablamo9999]

@MYTHECIES Yeah, but not literally. GRAIL is going to map the Moon's gravitational field to give more information about the interior.

[toocoolforu]

@MYTHECIES Scanning its interior, yeah

[deedubya286]

@MYTHECIES Maybe they're having problems with the brakes.

[mariamole011]

@MYTHECIES it looks like ye,  but how ? may be he said some thing else

[mvivirito]

@MYTHECIES yes he did because thats what these probes are going to study

[elekonas]

@MYTHECIES Read the discription

[PsychopatenKinder]

@MYTHECIES It's the sequel to "Journey to the Center of the Earth" :D

[inka9]

@MYTHECIES Read description.

[LondonCrusader]

Great launch ! Well done guys!

[clayzee001]

damn i cant believe i missed the livestream :(

[mobius1234]

Beautiful Launch

[SonarWavePulse]

Damn, liftoff looks so awesome!

[cedricguppy]

and ?? in the moon, waht's apen ???