STS-124 - EXTERNAL TANK HANDHELD VIDEO

[MangoHombre]

On the last shuttle mission they should have painted it white like they did on the first few missions.

[airplanefreakful]

looks like a giant dildo!!!!

[sapher2020]

Would be funny if it fell on someone's house!!

[OsanBlackCat5RS]

Chuck Norris Cigar.

[Farrukh919]

I cannot understand why external tank fall - it separates 10 sec after MECO - main engine cut-off, so it should fly near the orbiter, what makes it de-orbit?

[kubarebo]

@Farrukh919 Atmosphere makes it deorbit -- the very same thing that would make the space shuttle deorbit if it didn't do an orbit insertion burn using onboard fuel. Look for space shuttle mission profile on, say, wikipedia.

[WillLyster]

@Farrukh919

When the ET is jettisoned from the orbiter, it's trajectory changes from one aligned with the Shuttle to one that is directed toward Earth. 

[4mulas]

Good evidence for ufologists ha!

[Truth666]

CGI hoax

[moto2244]

the one dislike is cause it fell on his house

[IPwnInMW927]

rrrrrriiiiiiiitttttteeeeee????­???? wow it does the same thing all video just keeps moving its not even falling

[lariatfx]

I wouldn't mind seeing a video of the external fuel tank burning up in the atmosphere. Any one know where I can find a video?

[Carpetsniff]

alien dildo

[Graphicstodiefor]

Seems to be a bit of debris following (falling with) the tank. How many UFO nutters out there think they are Aliens?

[kachinababe]

@Graphicstodiefor If you think humans are the only lifeforms in the universe, then you are the nutter.

[Graphicstodiefor]

@kachinababe Another idiot who thinks A51a is housing aliens. Get a girlfriend man. No aliens in this video....move along.

[ww2footage]

tao of the dropped fuel tank ...

[GTElwood]

Just a question.

Did the Shuttle perform a backflip to take this video/photos?

I presume that are taken from the upper windows, the tank is between the Shuttle and the Earth in its ballistic trajectory.

The speaker said that the film was shot a while, after the separation, and at the end of the film, the crew/cabin seems in a launch/deorbit config to confirm that.

Just wondering. :)

[naturalyshocked]

@ current human speed it takes about 1000 years to reach Alpha Centauri.

if i remeber correctly, voyager x or pioneer x reached a speed of over 100.000 miles / h using planet slingshot techonology

[winterstellar]

@naturalyshocked I think it's doing about 40 thousand miles per hour. But it is probably in wiki, the correct speed. : )

[naturalyshocked]

wel, i said i dind't know witch space craft.

but i saw it on tv and found it again.

'Unmanned is right around 160000mph'

but they reached that speed after a slingshot 7 flyby from Jupiter

[winterstellar]

@naturalyshocked OK. : )

[ishmalex1024]

1:55-1:57 WHAT IS THAT on the left o_0 ???

[wiseye61]

@ishmalex1024

large patch of ice.

[nolens001]

what is the moving thing in the left corner at 1:56 ?

[AmeriKenny]

@nolens001 ice crystals left over by the space shuttle

[nolens001]

@winterstellar haha yea stupid imagination but i believe a litlle bit in aliens do you?

[Oilfix]

My idea to cap the Gulf leak: use one of the external fuel tanks that are used to launch the space shuttle Cut the bottom of the fuel tank off. This would be the part to sit down over top of the leak on the ocean floor. The top could be cut and serve as a funnel which would have a pipe welded to it and ran to the ships above. The large pipe would slow the velocity of the oil coming out making it more manageable and better insure that the pipe would stay connected to the make-shift cap.

[ronnykmarshall]

Looks Paris Hilton's vibrator!

[imtxsmoke]

Great video... I was hoping to see the ET burn up during re-entry over the Indian Ocean.

[Yamhal]

jep it's ice alright..

no ufo... i know the difference between ufo and ice. beleave me. i have seen a lot of strange shit the last couple of years.

[SONGSBYMAX]

UFO to the extreme left at 1:52 (barely seen) ? Big weird UFO at 1:55? Ice crystals the size of the External Tank? No way!

[ImTheMostViewed]

What are those dots that appear next to the tank?

[ganymedeIV4]

We recover this tank (the orange one) .a special Nasa ship w/ a tow hook goes and picks it up after it spashes down.

The smaller white ones (rocket boosters) are not recovered (i'm not 100% sure on that one)

Cool ice Debris field at 3:56 through 4:18.

The name of the NASA Ship that recovers The boosters is the Freedom Star. there is a secondary ship called the Liberty Star.

There are no parachutes. It hits the water at around 60mph. without fuel they don't weigh very much.

[jim546]

@ganymedeIV4 Someone's got it all wrong! This tank will burn up when it re-enters, like all the other ones. The SRB's however are usually recovered and re-used.

[bestamerica]

how many parachute with a big tank

[racecardriver467]

none, it burns up over the Indian ocean

[eivissano]

Unlike the SRB's, which are "recycled", the external fuel tank burns up in the atmosphere.

[Skoda130]

@eivissano How long does it take for it, to reënter the atmosphere?

[fuji2failo]

what ever happens to the external fuel tank?? does it stay in orbit? no wounder theres alot of nasa space trash in space

[BarneySaysHi]

I wonder how long it takes for a tank like that to re-enter the atmosphere.

[jackjak100]

@BarneySaysHi it reenters in the indian ocean (this may vary depending on the launch inclination)

[BarneySaysHi]

@jackjak100 Yeah but how long does it take since this thing is basically in orbit after launch. After all, it is considered to be space debris after disconnecting.

[jackjak100]

@BarneySaysHi When the ET is jettisoned, the shuttle is on a sub-orbital trajectory but, the ET is high enough that it takes longer to begin reentry interface, and its going fast enough to make the period when its in space longer (throw a stone slow, then throw it fast...which one goes farther)

[lambros6]

What`s that at 4 ;38 to 4;42 ?

[d3u1d4e]

Reminds me a wee bit of the whale in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[smosh3box]

It says NASA

[alfabetikalorda]

Biggest fuckn vibrator i've ever seen

[giannivideo]

if this video is true...therefore there are UFOS ! ! ! my GOD ! ! ! it's full of UFOs in the video!!! looks from 3:00 ...

[ukchris64]

That is an awful lot of pictures they are taking, where does this thing land? You wouldn't want it in your back garden now would you? lol

[L8nitedave]

I burns up.

[D3ADCR4P]

lands in the ocean

[colin5765]

can anyone explain, whu would the crew want to take so many photos of a falling tank ? ice my arse.

[nihil1]

to study the launch protocol, its effect on the machine, and gather data for safety, future projects, etc... they try to learn from every detail.

[L8nitedave]

to see if any foam fell off.

[Coastergeekperson04]

Because big fuel tanks are awesome.

[fwayndo1]

all we need is a giant hotdog bun and weve got ourselves food for a year

[vincent7520]

@fwayndo1 yes but does the nasa team have enough bread ???

It seems to me that either you get up there with the wiener or the bun …

No ?

[Nyberg1283]

haha thats my aunt Karen talking...awesome! lol

[mjmoto72]

does that thing stay in orbit for along time?its got to burn eventually no?

[Minuteman091112]

STS-124...Fantastic! Nice Job!

[brgroom]

very strange ice chunks/spheres in this video. nasa will prolly yank it soon imo.

[brgroom]

is that a ufo at 3:21?

[joachim2464]

no it is an IFO

[mjmoto72]

looks like the biggest bullet ever! lol

[RomelioSanz]

And at 1:56? Is it a cloud???

[lorisdelta]

what is those things accompanies the tank, perhaps of pieces of the STS-124 or trash spaces them?

[blumarco]

Some ice falling off the orbiter

[lorisdelta]

Question from where the ice comes outside l' orbit, looks at a strip to form of V that passes over the container, and a strange cloud that passes near aal container, only thing that I have felt to say on such phenomenon and that it calls lucciole spaces them, and true?