Space Shuttle Atlantis and Endeavor on the pad at the ...

[malamagr]

Saw two of them out there also in '97 on a tour. Place is mostly scrubland! Not nearly as impressive as in most photos and videos. Pads and crawlers were rusty.

[crucialconflict02]

thats awesome. to see 2 shuttles like that.

[nhines909]

haha the pig!!!!!... (look from 3:00 to 3:19) LMAO

[akierrs2]

lol @ the pig, awesome xd

[EndeavourLaunch]

Wonder what happened to that pig at 3:05 when the next shuttle launched.

[doncaster24]

pig or wild baor when walk near space shuttle poda

[bestamerica]

i love american space shuttle is the best spaceplane than ussr russia is a cheap buran space shuttle

[TehPowerLand]

Indeed. Buran is just a cheap copy of NASA's Shuttle

[andreiclawhammer]

The Buran is the first man made vehicle that took of , flown and landed completely automatically with no humans on board, get a fucking clue!

[TehPowerLand]

No it wasn't

[TehPowerLand]

Actually, Space Shuttles were made and landing etc in 1980. Guess what? Buran flew once in 1988. 8 years later! So how can that be possible? Hmmm???

[spacevidcast]

@TehPowerLand The Russian shuttle, Buran launched, flew, and landed unmanned. The US shuttle design needs special (and somewhat inexpensive) modification to land unmanned. It cannot launch or fly unmanned.

[Heskey10]

ROFLMAO pigs :D

[tbc27Z]

lol,,,,I would like to see that pigs reaction when they fire up the rockets!!! ; )

[diveplane]

wtf is that wild pigs or bore in the video?

[HuskerFan1097]

that place is also a Wildlife Refuge. thats why the pig or bore is there

[Bilboer]

WTF! Pigs in space?! (3:05-3:17) Is this the muppet show? :-)

The comments to this vid claims one of the shuttles will be moved from one lauchpad to another. Why did they put it there in the first place? The shuttles are assembled in a large building and then moved to a launchpad. Why not just leave it in the assembly building until 39A is cleared? Does anybody know?

[spacevidcast]

Atlantis is going to the Hubble Space Telescope and as such has no safe haven at the ISS. Should something go wrong and they need a rescue shuttle, Endeavour was on the pad for a quick launch.

Even after the shuttle leaves the VAB there's a lot of work that happens at the launch complex, and with only 25 days of food/fuel on Atlantis they would need to move much faster than that.

With STS-125 being delayed, Atlantis is moving back to the VAB and Endeavour to complex 39A.

[Bilboer]

Ahh! There sure were a logical explanation to this. Thanks for the swift reply.

[nakazatoGTR]

kinda reminds me of the movie armageddon.....

2 shuttles ready....

say when has this has happened before?

well i hope when the shuttles' service ends, all of them would be in space at the same time, one off 39a another off 39b hrs later, that 24hrs later, off from maybe 39a or b. then land just 2-3 hrs apart.

now that would be a FEAST!!

i hope they decide to update the shuttles, they r quite useful. not just ISS assembly missions, but launching other types of craft.

STS outlasted 20+ yrs.

[Mikelandscaper]

The components at 39B have not been updated because NASA is intending to change the pad over to the Constellation Program. Also I read that Pad B is no longer suitable for getting cargo into the Shuttles payload bay. Look For Atlantis to return to Pad A after Endeavour and Discovery to go to Pad B in January.

[ChrisMiran]

tax payer money going to waste..lets cut wasteful spending people...McCain/Palin o8

[Neuf1965]

Yes!! McCain/Palin in 08!! Obama says he wants to delay the Orion project at least 5 years, to spend money on even more wasteful things.

[thetruebilliam]

Leave the McPain up to McDonalds please :[ not the government

[NakSsS]

Nope. At least I don't think so...and what UFO? btw Thanks for the vid! It's awesome. Never seen two shuttles at once.

[arleen3]

Interesting that October 14th is the day the the UFO supposedly will show up on earth. Does this have anything to do it?