@cybrotius The "fish line" is a shadow created by the exhaust plume. STS-112 launch occurred at 4:45 est which would mean the sun was in the western sky causing the shadow to be projected eastward onto the Atlantic ocean. This is not fake, there were several launches during this period that used an embedded camera on the external fuel tank to provide imagery, mainly for the public's entertainment, of what a launch looks like from the vehicles perspective.
The future of space flight is in the private sector. if the statists haven't destroyed free market capitalism. Government programs are burdened with inefficiencies imposed by politics.
Aaaarrrgg! Obama, riding with Russians and THEIR space shuttles?! That's embarrasing! We're astronauts not cosmonauts(if they still call em that in Russia anyway). =[
@bestamerica That's just the problem. We're going to have no choice but to ride the Russia Vehicle because Obama is scrapping the shuttle plan after September. Last Shuttle Launch.
@bestamerica the space shuttles are old, expensive and dangerous... obama understands that, so for the next 10 years, america wil rely on russia, by 2020, they will have a new 21st century space shuttle
@bestamerica well, your right, if america committed the resources, they could build a completly new shuttle in like a year, but americas #1 priority is not space exploration, if even half of americas defence budget was given to nasa, america would have a new shuttle in 9 months, a moon base in 5 years, and on mars by 2025, its 2 bad america doesnt commit there knowledge and resources to things that matter
@bestamerica if people are going 2 mars, they are goign 2 have to work together... and there is no way america is gettin 2 mars without the help of russia, canada, japan, france, and every other country with a good scientific and industrial base, its going 2 take alotta work, and america aint capable of doing it alone
@Puzzoozoo absolutely right, thats why america is currrently producing the next generation (heh) of space craft!! THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE!!! *DUN DUN DUN!!*
@Puzzoozoo I often wonder what the space program would have looked like if the Eisonhower's administration hadn't panicked over Sputnik & created NASA, the U.S. air force had designed a reusable spacecraft & had plans for orbital labratories, but it was all trashed by nasa & their spam in a can approach to space flight.
@Puzzoozoo Uhh, no, it's really National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA has entire research centers devoted to aeronautics research (if you think it's only a space agency), and it is a U.S. government agency (if you think it's a multinational effort). The administrator is appointed by the President of the United States and approved by Congress. Though NASA does have a partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), they are not one and the same and are not related.
@roamingcroat An aeronautics agency that prodominatly goes into space. Someone in the American administration in 1958 slipped up. I didn't say NASA was a multinational effort, I said the next space program will have to be a global effort, with NASA being just one part of it. And I know the head honcho at NASA gets his job off Mr O.
@Puzzoozoo Fair enough, perhaps it should be multinational. But NASA does plenty of work on aeronautics. You'll find that NASA's work (and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics) was responsible in large part for the quadrupling of the efficiency of jet engines over the last sixty years. NACA developed a systematic way of defining airfoils for subsonic flight, NASA has its own series of trans/supersonic airfoils. It does plenty of aeronautics work.
@bestamerica The Space Shuttle was the biggest waste of money in all of space travel. Capsules are much cheaper to launch into space. Sure, they aren't recyclable, but with the amount of money it takes to refurbish the recyclable parts and launch the actual Shuttle, it would be enough to launch a few capsules. Oh, and the wings? Completely unnecessary.
@hootyhaha The Shuttle program was scheduled to run 30 years, and that is 2010. Obama is considering scrapping the Constellation/Orion program which was to take the Shuttle's place.
now, this is an "i heard" comment, but "I heard" that when the top of the fuel tank clears the top of the launch tower, the shuttle is already going 100 miles per hour....
My thoughts are that we want to experience something bigger than the world we live in. We want to be open and free, and the best way we can do that is space travel.
awesome. I'm from Orlando and have seen many launches..Night launches r the best and my first launch I saw was when they took the first piece of the ISS up there
Awesome, btw people that think going to the moon is a hoax are lame. It's not that bog. Deal and I'm pretty sure if we can send satilites to space to run our cell phones and coordinate them to avoid smashing together we can land on a big sphere. Oh wait cell phones must be a hoax too. Their just faux belifes that your actually talking to somone else. Lol get over it already it happend.
There is a difference between coordinating unmanned satellites and sending humans to the moon.. also it's harder to land on a big sphere than orbit earth because that "big sphere" is much much further away.
This vid is cancelled on most interresting place...When shuttle reaches black cosmos area,and earth roundnes apears...Why?Is that any secrets or commercial purposes?
Many times I've seen on TV takeoff but never from this angle.That's awesome.What a view...I think that's the best vid I've seen on Youtube. Why the shuttle makes Y turn after the start and reverses back a little bit later?
There's a mountain of evidence that the Apollo moon missions were faked. I posted a partial summary of it on a science forum. Google "The Naked Scientists". In the "New Theories" section of the forum there's a thread entitled "Did We Land on the Moon?". The summary is on page 15. It's the 7th post from the top.
People who still think they went to the moon simply haven't seen the hoax evidence yet.
when these shuttles are in space....lets say it is travelling from earth to the moon and back or further,how fast can they go?,and is their a limit on how fast it can travel in space,and since there is no gravity is space,or little of it,is their an infinte speed as long as there is no G forces...........?
@Elevationary No, the speed is not infinite. Technically, the speed of light is the limit, but that requires all mass to be converted to forward energy, so that is impractical to say the least. Since the shuttle uses chemical rockets, its speed is limited to the exit velocity of the exhaust gasses minus its own inertia. It is really an orbit-only vehicle. It will never travel to the moon. Orbital velocity is around 17,000 MPH.
Thanks for the Information......i am very surprised that NASA has not solved that problem,i believe if they solved the gravity problem first,that would all change.......
The gravity problem is far greater than NASA could tackle alone - especially since their entire annual budget would not sustain the welfare program for a single week. The exact nature of what creates gravity is still not fully understood. It is at the center of physicists efforts to discover a "Unified Field Theory", a long-elusive "holy grail" of physics. Even under no gravity, there is still mass. And as long as there is mass, there is inertia. Light speed is impossible with ANY inertia at all
What if the secret to Gravity came in the shape of Art.......would that not explain why NASA have not discovered it yet?,and how many Artists do NASA employ,if you look at Leonardo da Vinci,all his ideas were in the shape of Art,designs and drawings,i have noticed that most of NASA's employees,are Mathematical and have high degrees in MIT,but how many Artists do they Employ?,you see one is visual and the other is Analytical,i Guarantee the Majority is Analytical,and that is where their problem
Also it is impossible for an object to be standing still in space,no matter what kind of Inertia there is,since the big bang objects have been constantly moving,they don't just run into each other and stop,,it is possible to go faster than light,the problem is energy,and stress,now i have thought of an Idea to get around that problem,what you need is a bubble that goes around the craft,that makes space on the inside less Dense than Real space,you cant travel at the speed of light in Real space.
Imagine you had a submarine in water and the water represented space,if you pressurized the water +.around the sub,
the sub would travel slower,because it is trying to push it self through the compact fluid particles,if you release the pressure -,
the sub will travel through the particles faster,you could apply this idea using thicker and thinner particles,but space does not have particles,using this principle,i believe you need to make space thinner,but how would we know if it was thinner?
Someone told me once that the shuttle is doing over 160 mph(257kph) before the tail fin has left the launch pad-is this true? If it isn't how fast is it going?
I understand the space shuttle program ends next year. I guess they're going to either mothball the Shuttles or sell them to another country. I think they should become commercialized to make some money back the tax payers put into this thing.
Private space companies can do it now at a fraction of the cost for NASA to do this stuff. Yay capitalism. Most likely these space shuttles will retire to nice hangars somewhere to be part of museums.
No private company has ever launched a single person to orbit. Only three governmental space agencies have to date. Lets wait what SpaceX is able to pull off with Falcon 9 and Dragon.
I know, and that's why i wrote "to orbit" instead of "space". There is a huge difference between a suborbital hop barely above 100km and real spaceflight.
oh wow, I think i've been behind with the times...have they already done that? I know Virgin Galactic is almost complete, but didnt realise it already happened! :p
I agree with you. Private companies also have not gone to the moon, launched 10's of thosandsof lbs. to space 100 times, deployed satallites, retrived satallites, fixed satallites in space built a two space stations etc. etc. etc. Like you said, suborbit was conqured by the X-15 in the 50's.
u don't post ur meaning less comment here while u can't spell asternot ols just kidding, bro let me tell the truth of this, no body born with knowing how to read or write, u just need to decide to study and one day be one of those cruise on the ATLANTA SHUTTLE, with strong morality and ability
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the Shuttle has become a joke...it's no more than an expensive fun-fare ride for high-on-life morons............the USA/NASA needs to get back to serious space exploration...like back in the 60's...what the fuck went wrong?
Still not convinced . 25,000 mph is easy in outer space. Any object or body (eg a satellite or even a floating astronaut) that is orbiting the earth with all power turned off is actually travelling at around 25,000 per hour.
In space there is no resistance , no friction . You only need one thrust and you have perpetual motion. Your next thrust should be to brake and change course. Even at 25,000 there would be no tension against the shell of the shuttle. Need a scientific explanation please.
My guess is the shuttle orbits the earth every 90 min when its in earth orbit. So its going about 17000mph. The moon orbits the earth every day once a day. The circumfrence of the earth is 24/25 thousand miles. So the moon is moving at 24/25 thousand mph. I think its about 240,000 miles away. So the shuttle needs more energy to achieve that. But it was not designed for that. My guess only Did not google anything....
The moon is, say ,240,000 miles away. Deduct the diameter of earth which is 7926 miles then multiply by Pie (3.14). This shows the moon travels a circumference of around 700,000 miles in 24 hrs which is near to your moon speed of 25,000 mph. However they can plot a trajectory which is based on where the moon will be in a couple of days and then the craft could travel at 5000 mph and intercept it. But I now accept that orbit is not outer space and you are still subject to the pull of earth .
The Moon orbits the Earth approx once every 28 days. You've forgotten the Moon appears to orbit us once a day because the Earth rotates. Many scientists are also calling the Earth-Moon a binary planet system. We actually orbit each other but we appear not to because the Earth's gravity is much stronger. The result is that our planets wobbles slightly as it orbits the sun.
Not wishing to start a conspiracy debate, but why can't the space shuttle make a little trip round the moon and back.
Once in space , it takes very little power to travel to the moon. The shuttle can easily supply the crew with oxygen and food for a long time (more than the tiny little apollo capsule). So why can' t it be done 40 years after first landing on moon.
It takes vast amounts of power (fuel) to reach the moon. You would have to accelerate the heavy shuttle to about 25.000 mph. On landing day, the shuttle would finally break up during reentry, it was simply not designed for that speed.
How many trips around the block; orbits around the Earth are enough? Remaining in a low orbit hardly constitutes a great space voyage. Will another ten thousand orbits, several hundred miles up, render great rewards to Man's understanding of infinity?
Be funny if someone could render themselves ot sit on the back of one of te booster rockets as it falls off, and sing the da,ada,da,ada,da,da,da,da,da again and again like from Dr. Strangelove- just my little fantasy really. Somehow I imagine Ren and Stimpy doing it.....eediots!
Hoo cares about the stats!! This is a marvel of human engineering!! Stuff we mortals only dream about until te 21st century!! So u just think about that!
This coming from an engineer, actually, the reason they have to meet a certain speed has nothing to do with escape velocity. Escape velocity is a misconceived concept that only applies to non-self-propelled objects (i.e. a bullet who has no propulsion after leaving the barrel.). Escape velocity is the speed of which the bullet would not return to earth without any of its own propulsion.
The reason need they need to reach such high speeds is to stay in orbit.
I'm considering... in many of these comparisons people compare absolute figures, but I think that if you'd look at the accidents related to the number of flights, planes are a lot safer... the same goes with the "flying is the safest way of transportation"
If all people would fly as many times as they use their car, would that still be the case? I doubt it... But I fully agree on your grace comment ;)
the shuttle reaches about 11 km per second (11 times sound speed more or less) in order to get out of the atmosphere...so sound barrier is probably broken a lot more before 0:59
Actually, to reach orbit it only needs 7.9 km per second. If it was to leave the orbit (to e.g. go to the moon), it would need to reach the escape velocity of 11.2 km per second.
they throttle down because at that point in the flight the pressures induced on the shuttle can damage it. The air is so much thicker and it has so much thrust they to throttle back for a bit. Once they pass the trans-sonic range, they can throttle bak up.
The Space Shuttle goes from zero to 17,000 mph in 8.5 minutes. The speed of the gases exiting the Solid Rocket Booster motor is 6,000 mph -- three times the speed of a high-powered rifle.
No way the shuttle could ever break up through the sound barrier.Fighter planes pass through the sound barrier all the time in the desert and they are not even close to being built as strong as the shuttle has to be.The throttle back is to keep the thrust from ripping the wings off.
i wish britain had space shuttles, but theres no room for them i find it hard to believe theres 69 million people in britain and only 20 million in austrailia
I wish before NASA stops all shuttle missions they would for once film that again but give us a view of when the shuttle leaves the blue atmosphere into the blackness of outer space.That would be an awesome video.
Personally I love the part where they say "throttle down." It makes you realize how much power this is.If I am not mistaken they have to throttle down to prevent the thrust from ripping the wings off the shuttle.
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02CARD 4 months ago
win
fcdog555 9 months ago
is this guy fucking serious? wtf!?!
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riltjd 9 months ago 3
That's fake, you can see the fish line on the model, nice try.
cybrotius 10 months ago
@cybrotius The "fish line" is a shadow created by the exhaust plume. STS-112 launch occurred at 4:45 est which would mean the sun was in the western sky causing the shadow to be projected eastward onto the Atlantic ocean. This is not fake, there were several launches during this period that used an embedded camera on the external fuel tank to provide imagery, mainly for the public's entertainment, of what a launch looks like from the vehicles perspective.
elglad73 6 months ago
i can hear but can't see video WHY?
trudymaud 10 months ago
nice\:)
MrGoscinny78 11 months ago
Awesome!
desireeT01 11 months ago
Woo hoo..Back seat..
51431478 11 months ago
The future of space flight is in the private sector. if the statists haven't destroyed free market capitalism. Government programs are burdened with inefficiencies imposed by politics.
kdraper2007 11 months ago
did i leave the iron on?
jonahmoffatt 1 year ago
wow!
JASON7340 1 year ago
These guys are WISE.
Alltimeboxing 1 year ago
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american space shuttle is the best, great, wonderful spaceplane than ussr russia CHEAP buran shuttle,,,
china do not have a space shuttle
bestamerica 1 year ago
didnt russia have a combat space shuttle in the late 80s
101andrewj 1 year ago
That was truly awesome, I have never seen footage from that angle before.
prince420uk 1 year ago
Space Shuttles are just awesome, no1 can change it
akierrs2 1 year ago
Aaaarrrgg! Obama, riding with Russians and THEIR space shuttles?! That's embarrasing! We're astronauts not cosmonauts(if they still call em that in Russia anyway). =[
spinningworldHQ 1 year ago
bestamerica? people are taking this guy seriously? where are you from, mr. bestamerica?
peacexisxfree 1 year ago
i wonder how much Space Junk there will be...
0po01 1 year ago
@0po01 its not a problem yet... so lets not think about it...
OMFGitzDannyP 1 year ago
If you look carefully you can see an astronaut banging on the window and mouthing 'Let me out!' frantically.
pomeroy600287 1 year ago
i want to buy 1 like that....
djsusp3ctu 1 year ago
are you idiot?! do you know that shuttle buran was much more safer than space shuttle, it had an escape system and could perform unmanned landing?!
Uranium6609 1 year ago
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Uranium6609 1 year ago
wow american space shuttle is the best, beautifully, wonderful flying than ussr russia cheap buran shuttle,,,
buran is too low class, low life, low technology
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica And after September 2010 we're going to have to start hitching rides with Russia since President Obama has nixed the shuttle program.
hootyhaha 1 year ago
hooty,
ride only american vehicle,,,
dont ride on a ussr russia vehicle
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica That's just the problem. We're going to have no choice but to ride the Russia Vehicle because Obama is scrapping the shuttle plan after September. Last Shuttle Launch.
hootyhaha 1 year ago 2
hooty,
obama cannot control american space shuttle,,,
only JPL / NASA are taking care of american space shuttle,,,
america must keep up doing space shuttle,,,
no need ussr russia vehicle,,,
forget it about it russia
bestamerica 1 year ago 10
@bestamerica fuck in the cunt russia
nerdflanders8710 1 year ago
@bestamerica the space shuttles are old, expensive and dangerous... obama understands that, so for the next 10 years, america wil rely on russia, by 2020, they will have a new 21st century space shuttle
101andrewj 1 year ago
101andrewj,
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america can do it fix, update, better system, new technology, and no worry about currency,,,
no no need ussr russia,,,
russia still keep BEHIND buran shuttle 10 to 20 years,,,
america dont need to follow ussr russia
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica well, your right, if america committed the resources, they could build a completly new shuttle in like a year, but americas #1 priority is not space exploration, if even half of americas defence budget was given to nasa, america would have a new shuttle in 9 months, a moon base in 5 years, and on mars by 2025, its 2 bad america doesnt commit there knowledge and resources to things that matter
101andrewj 1 year ago
101andrewj,
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america can make few space shuttles,,,
dont worry about budget / currency,,,
only america can going to mars and come return to earth safety without ussr russia,,,
america dont need ussr russia,,,
ussr russia can going to venus and never come back
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica if people are going 2 mars, they are goign 2 have to work together... and there is no way america is gettin 2 mars without the help of russia, canada, japan, france, and every other country with a good scientific and industrial base, its going 2 take alotta work, and america aint capable of doing it alone
101andrewj 1 year ago
101andrewj,
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thank explain,,,
but no thank and too bad for ussr russia,,,
america dont need ussr russia,,,
because ussr russia did alot threat, not help, copy / steal, cold war arms weapons, many things, not respect from america alot since 1945 to now,,,
russia did help korea became korea war, france with russia did help vietnam became vietnam war,,,
remember russia is a big leader evil empire and TROUBLEMAKER country in the world,,,
only america can go mars,,,
no no russia
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica You're a retard.
Dragon22873 1 year ago
Dragon22873,
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dont use a word - YOU - on me,,,
explain about space shuttle
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica Be quiet retard.
Dragon22873 1 year ago
@bestamerica Obama controls the budget so he controls all of NASA and thus by definition the space shuttle.
Puzzoozoo 1 year ago
Puzzoozoo,
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alright,,,
dont worry about budget and currency,,,
go ahead to make spacecrafts
bestamerica 1 year ago
@bestamerica Space craft in their current rather basic form will never get us to the riches that lie out there in our system.
Puzzoozoo 1 year ago
@Puzzoozoo absolutely right, thats why america is currrently producing the next generation (heh) of space craft!! THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE!!! *DUN DUN DUN!!*
exile907 1 year ago
@exile907 America is producing, or rather was producing a souped up Apollo series of spacecraft to go back to the Moon. Hardly progress.
Puzzoozoo 1 year ago
@Puzzoozoo I often wonder what the space program would have looked like if the Eisonhower's administration hadn't panicked over Sputnik & created NASA, the U.S. air force had designed a reusable spacecraft & had plans for orbital labratories, but it was all trashed by nasa & their spam in a can approach to space flight.
kdraper2007 11 months ago
@kdraper2007 The next space program will have to be a global space program, as the North American Space Agency peaked in the Apollo program.
Puzzoozoo 11 months ago
@Puzzoozoo There's no such beast as the "North American Space Agency." NASA stands for "National Aeronautics and Space Administration."
roamingcroat 11 months ago
@roamingcroat I know, but that is BS, its *really* the North American Space Agency, which is what it really stands for.
Puzzoozoo 11 months ago
@Puzzoozoo Uhh, no, it's really National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA has entire research centers devoted to aeronautics research (if you think it's only a space agency), and it is a U.S. government agency (if you think it's a multinational effort). The administrator is appointed by the President of the United States and approved by Congress. Though NASA does have a partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), they are not one and the same and are not related.
roamingcroat 11 months ago
@roamingcroat An aeronautics agency that prodominatly goes into space. Someone in the American administration in 1958 slipped up. I didn't say NASA was a multinational effort, I said the next space program will have to be a global effort, with NASA being just one part of it. And I know the head honcho at NASA gets his job off Mr O.
Puzzoozoo 11 months ago
@Puzzoozoo Fair enough, perhaps it should be multinational. But NASA does plenty of work on aeronautics. You'll find that NASA's work (and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics) was responsible in large part for the quadrupling of the efficiency of jet engines over the last sixty years. NACA developed a systematic way of defining airfoils for subsonic flight, NASA has its own series of trans/supersonic airfoils. It does plenty of aeronautics work.
roamingcroat 11 months ago
@bestamerica The Space Shuttle was the biggest waste of money in all of space travel. Capsules are much cheaper to launch into space. Sure, they aren't recyclable, but with the amount of money it takes to refurbish the recyclable parts and launch the actual Shuttle, it would be enough to launch a few capsules. Oh, and the wings? Completely unnecessary.
ECWNET 11 months ago
ECWNET,
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okay thank explain,,,
1 - dont worry about currency and keep going JPL / NASA can make it more space shuttles,,,
2 - capsules and space shuttles are keep going forward,,,
3 - currency is cheap and not important,,,
4 - keep happy and move forward study outer space,,,
5 - dont depend on ussr russia MIR
bestamerica 11 months ago
@hootyhaha The Shuttle program was scheduled to run 30 years, and that is 2010. Obama is considering scrapping the Constellation/Orion program which was to take the Shuttle's place.
TheColoradoan 1 year ago
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Uranium6609 1 year ago
now, this is an "i heard" comment, but "I heard" that when the top of the fuel tank clears the top of the launch tower, the shuttle is already going 100 miles per hour....
roomfullofidiots 1 year ago
Those things fly 11k/m per second!
RS11raptor11 1 year ago
awesome
ToxicIncBikes 1 year ago
Dear All,
I have some questions about psychology:
(1) Why do we love space travel?
(2) Why do we want to explore the space?
(3) Why do we enjoy the feeling of zero gravity and floating in space?
(4) what is the social value(s) represented by space exploration?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)
applesweeter 1 year ago
My thoughts are that we want to experience something bigger than the world we live in. We want to be open and free, and the best way we can do that is space travel.
Member01289 1 year ago
NICE !!!... Thanks for posting it !!...
SHRIKE427 1 year ago
awesome. I'm from Orlando and have seen many launches..Night launches r the best and my first launch I saw was when they took the first piece of the ISS up there
MsCharamut1969 1 year ago
hmm, what are the chances of "armed space shuttle"?
08xiaomav08 2 years ago
Awesome, btw people that think going to the moon is a hoax are lame. It's not that bog. Deal and I'm pretty sure if we can send satilites to space to run our cell phones and coordinate them to avoid smashing together we can land on a big sphere. Oh wait cell phones must be a hoax too. Their just faux belifes that your actually talking to somone else. Lol get over it already it happend.
takethescene1 2 years ago 2
There is a difference between coordinating unmanned satellites and sending humans to the moon.. also it's harder to land on a big sphere than orbit earth because that "big sphere" is much much further away.
sighanos 2 years ago
This vid is cancelled on most interresting place...When shuttle reaches black cosmos area,and earth roundnes apears...Why?Is that any secrets or commercial purposes?
RimasVILNIUS 2 years ago
Is the Earth's roundness appearing a secret? I don't get it, are you asking why it appears round? sorry.
kid43332 2 years ago 2
Many times I've seen on TV takeoff but never from this angle.That's awesome.What a view...I think that's the best vid I've seen on Youtube. Why the shuttle makes Y turn after the start and reverses back a little bit later?
RimasVILNIUS 2 years ago
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This is off-topic but it's space-related.
There's a mountain of evidence that the Apollo moon missions were faked. I posted a partial summary of it on a science forum. Google "The Naked Scientists". In the "New Theories" section of the forum there's a thread entitled "Did We Land on the Moon?". The summary is on page 15. It's the 7th post from the top.
People who still think they went to the moon simply haven't seen the hoax evidence yet.
Cosmored 2 years ago
Howmany Miels pro Minutes ..the spped of Discovery 2009
PLS?
The light =180 000 Miels /seconds
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alfareed2009 2 years ago
space programs are a waste of money, the money should be spent on building forests for animals and giving food to indians
Dipshitbarnaby 2 years ago
yea!!............... i dont think so.
jamesrichardson63 2 years ago
when these shuttles are in space....lets say it is travelling from earth to the moon and back or further,how fast can they go?,and is their a limit on how fast it can travel in space,and since there is no gravity is space,or little of it,is their an infinte speed as long as there is no G forces...........?
Elevationary 2 years ago
@Elevationary No, the speed is not infinite. Technically, the speed of light is the limit, but that requires all mass to be converted to forward energy, so that is impractical to say the least. Since the shuttle uses chemical rockets, its speed is limited to the exit velocity of the exhaust gasses minus its own inertia. It is really an orbit-only vehicle. It will never travel to the moon. Orbital velocity is around 17,000 MPH.
DrCha0s 2 years ago
Thanks for the Information......i am very surprised that NASA has not solved that problem,i believe if they solved the gravity problem first,that would all change.......
Elevationary 2 years ago
The gravity problem is far greater than NASA could tackle alone - especially since their entire annual budget would not sustain the welfare program for a single week. The exact nature of what creates gravity is still not fully understood. It is at the center of physicists efforts to discover a "Unified Field Theory", a long-elusive "holy grail" of physics. Even under no gravity, there is still mass. And as long as there is mass, there is inertia. Light speed is impossible with ANY inertia at all
DrCha0s 2 years ago
What if the secret to Gravity came in the shape of Art.......would that not explain why NASA have not discovered it yet?,and how many Artists do NASA employ,if you look at Leonardo da Vinci,all his ideas were in the shape of Art,designs and drawings,i have noticed that most of NASA's employees,are Mathematical and have high degrees in MIT,but how many Artists do they Employ?,you see one is visual and the other is Analytical,i Guarantee the Majority is Analytical,and that is where their problem
Elevationary 2 years ago
Also it is impossible for an object to be standing still in space,no matter what kind of Inertia there is,since the big bang objects have been constantly moving,they don't just run into each other and stop,,it is possible to go faster than light,the problem is energy,and stress,now i have thought of an Idea to get around that problem,what you need is a bubble that goes around the craft,that makes space on the inside less Dense than Real space,you cant travel at the speed of light in Real space.
Elevationary 2 years ago 2
Imagine you had a submarine in water and the water represented space,if you pressurized the water +.around the sub,
the sub would travel slower,because it is trying to push it self through the compact fluid particles,if you release the pressure -,
the sub will travel through the particles faster,you could apply this idea using thicker and thinner particles,but space does not have particles,using this principle,i believe you need to make space thinner,but how would we know if it was thinner?
Elevationary 2 years ago
Someone told me once that the shuttle is doing over 160 mph(257kph) before the tail fin has left the launch pad-is this true? If it isn't how fast is it going?
jarwz 2 years ago
This never gets old to view!!!!!!!!! Awesome shots...
flyteman 2 years ago
All the Virgin testing been done now, The last i heard is Richard Branson and his 2 kids are going up on the 1st trip early 2010.
BlastEMFF 2 years ago
beutiful how you can see the earth getting smaller
CyclonicTuna023 2 years ago
awesome clip!!!
Discovery4421 2 years ago
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Shuttle = murdering deathtrap
9thprotocol 2 years ago
false. war = murdering deathtrap. shuttle = awesome and liberating
ironmagma 2 years ago 7
@ironmagma hey dummy war is bad. but if it wasn't for war man would not be in space right now.
Dogmeat1950 1 year ago
Hubble Telescope. Pinnacle of human technology.
odinata 2 years ago
Bad calculations + human error = deathtrap. Not the shuttle's fault.
demonikreaper 2 years ago
I understand the space shuttle program ends next year. I guess they're going to either mothball the Shuttles or sell them to another country. I think they should become commercialized to make some money back the tax payers put into this thing.
yyy2012yyy 2 years ago
Private space companies can do it now at a fraction of the cost for NASA to do this stuff. Yay capitalism. Most likely these space shuttles will retire to nice hangars somewhere to be part of museums.
thecandidate0607 2 years ago
No private company has ever launched a single person to orbit. Only three governmental space agencies have to date. Lets wait what SpaceX is able to pull off with Falcon 9 and Dragon.
blablubb12345 2 years ago
i think you find virgin has put a man in space 3 or 4 time now...
BlastEMFF 2 years ago
I know, and that's why i wrote "to orbit" instead of "space". There is a huge difference between a suborbital hop barely above 100km and real spaceflight.
blablubb12345 2 years ago
oh wow, I think i've been behind with the times...have they already done that? I know Virgin Galactic is almost complete, but didnt realise it already happened! :p
jlebesis 2 years ago
I agree with you. Private companies also have not gone to the moon, launched 10's of thosandsof lbs. to space 100 times, deployed satallites, retrived satallites, fixed satallites in space built a two space stations etc. etc. etc. Like you said, suborbit was conqured by the X-15 in the 50's.
mach25man 2 years ago
that is amazing...closest you'll get to the real feeling of seeing that...so cool
Ant3869 2 years ago 2
i now how to spel asternot
0920197234 2 years ago
u don't post ur meaning less comment here while u can't spell asternot ols just kidding, bro let me tell the truth of this, no body born with knowing how to read or write, u just need to decide to study and one day be one of those cruise on the ATLANTA SHUTTLE, with strong morality and ability
garaad602 2 years ago
its Atlantis you idiot
DavidRectum 2 years ago
Blue cheese is a general classification of cow's milk, sheep's milk, or goat's milk cheeses that have had Penicillium cultures added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue, blue-gray or blue-green mold, and carries a distinct smell. Some blue cheeses are injected with spores before the curds form and others have spores mixed in with the curds after they form. Blue cheeses are typically aged in a temperature-controlled environment such as a cave.
acidbrainstem 2 years ago
rotfl
marski777 2 years ago
i want to be astrenot
0920197234 2 years ago
1960s - have technology. Will fly
2009 .. Duh!
A case of going "back to the future" !!!!
sunnyguy123 2 years ago
All the money is going to pay for social programs.....
jlzimmerman 2 years ago
Food stamps and section8 for all.
RCTPatriot75 2 years ago
the Shuttle has become a joke...it's no more than an expensive fun-fare ride for high-on-life morons............the USA/NASA needs to get back to serious space exploration...like back in the 60's...what the fuck went wrong?
9thprotocol 2 years ago
Dude you realize they are putting satellites in orbit and servicing existing ones right? Hardly a fun-fare ride.
TheJomogogo 2 years ago
Still not convinced . 25,000 mph is easy in outer space. Any object or body (eg a satellite or even a floating astronaut) that is orbiting the earth with all power turned off is actually travelling at around 25,000 per hour.
In space there is no resistance , no friction . You only need one thrust and you have perpetual motion. Your next thrust should be to brake and change course. Even at 25,000 there would be no tension against the shell of the shuttle. Need a scientific explanation please.
sunnyguy123 2 years ago
My guess is the shuttle orbits the earth every 90 min when its in earth orbit. So its going about 17000mph. The moon orbits the earth every day once a day. The circumfrence of the earth is 24/25 thousand miles. So the moon is moving at 24/25 thousand mph. I think its about 240,000 miles away. So the shuttle needs more energy to achieve that. But it was not designed for that. My guess only Did not google anything....
mach25man 2 years ago
The moon is, say ,240,000 miles away. Deduct the diameter of earth which is 7926 miles then multiply by Pie (3.14). This shows the moon travels a circumference of around 700,000 miles in 24 hrs which is near to your moon speed of 25,000 mph. However they can plot a trajectory which is based on where the moon will be in a couple of days and then the craft could travel at 5000 mph and intercept it. But I now accept that orbit is not outer space and you are still subject to the pull of earth .
sunnyguy123 2 years ago
The Moon orbits the Earth approx once every 28 days. You've forgotten the Moon appears to orbit us once a day because the Earth rotates. Many scientists are also calling the Earth-Moon a binary planet system. We actually orbit each other but we appear not to because the Earth's gravity is much stronger. The result is that our planets wobbles slightly as it orbits the sun.
metrx330 2 years ago
Not wishing to start a conspiracy debate, but why can't the space shuttle make a little trip round the moon and back.
Once in space , it takes very little power to travel to the moon. The shuttle can easily supply the crew with oxygen and food for a long time (more than the tiny little apollo capsule). So why can' t it be done 40 years after first landing on moon.
sunnyguy123 2 years ago
Needs more energy. Not designed to go 25000 mph.
mach25man 2 years ago
It takes vast amounts of power (fuel) to reach the moon. You would have to accelerate the heavy shuttle to about 25.000 mph. On landing day, the shuttle would finally break up during reentry, it was simply not designed for that speed.
blablubb12345 2 years ago
How many trips around the block; orbits around the Earth are enough? Remaining in a low orbit hardly constitutes a great space voyage. Will another ten thousand orbits, several hundred miles up, render great rewards to Man's understanding of infinity?
procommenter 2 years ago
I think I want one.
koolmagicguy 2 years ago
Be funny if someone could render themselves ot sit on the back of one of te booster rockets as it falls off, and sing the da,ada,da,ada,da,da,da,da,da again and again like from Dr. Strangelove- just my little fantasy really. Somehow I imagine Ren and Stimpy doing it.....eediots!
SpecterReflector 2 years ago
Hoo cares about the stats!! This is a marvel of human engineering!! Stuff we mortals only dream about until te 21st century!! So u just think about that!
schmooze13 2 years ago
You see good can come out of evil...
terran97 2 years ago
This coming from an engineer, actually, the reason they have to meet a certain speed has nothing to do with escape velocity. Escape velocity is a misconceived concept that only applies to non-self-propelled objects (i.e. a bullet who has no propulsion after leaving the barrel.). Escape velocity is the speed of which the bullet would not return to earth without any of its own propulsion.
The reason need they need to reach such high speeds is to stay in orbit.
hmcazeau 2 years ago
I love the space shuttle, i live in the town right next to the launch pad and i think the night shots are the best :D
WeThreeChipmunks 2 years ago
Lucky bastard, I envy you xD. Watching those liftoffs must be really something.
One question: Is it noisy when they launch the shuttles?
Good luck man.
keysersoze2k1 2 years ago
Not really noisy.. but when it comes back in to the atmosphere you hear the sonic booms.. lol and there loud
KamaKayz 2 years ago
I think the space shuttles are jst really beautiful things, they jst have some grace aobut them.
av8james 2 years ago 18
a flying brick to land
p8ballgod 2 years ago
@av8james yea, especially when they blow up on the way to space...brings tears to my eyes..
WinterHeartt 1 year ago
@WinterHeartt consider this then, how many people have died as a result of Plane crashes in comparision to shuttle disasters?
av8james 1 year ago
@av8james
I'm considering... in many of these comparisons people compare absolute figures, but I think that if you'd look at the accidents related to the number of flights, planes are a lot safer... the same goes with the "flying is the safest way of transportation"
If all people would fly as many times as they use their car, would that still be the case? I doubt it... But I fully agree on your grace comment ;)
ozzert 1 year ago
@av8james a lot, and that's exactly why i don't like traveling
WinterHeartt 1 year ago
sorry! 11km per second its like 25 to 30 times sound speed
aquilesj9 2 years ago
do they really need some dickhead doing a countdown...?
roadrage638 2 years ago
its tradition
kingtorm2 2 years ago
i am sure there are new source of energy to go to space besides that primitve propulsion method how about anitgravity
2beeeornot2beee 2 years ago
at the 0:59 i can see when it brakes the sound barrier
megadjoso 2 years ago
the shuttle reaches about 11 km per second (11 times sound speed more or less) in order to get out of the atmosphere...so sound barrier is probably broken a lot more before 0:59
aquilesj9 2 years ago
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aquilesj9 2 years ago
sorry! 11km per second its like 25 to 30 times sound speed
aquilesj9 2 years ago
Actually, to reach orbit it only needs 7.9 km per second. If it was to leave the orbit (to e.g. go to the moon), it would need to reach the escape velocity of 11.2 km per second.
CiachoLover 2 years ago
Small correction: You don't need escape velocity to get to the moon, 10,8 km/s are enough.
blablubb12345 2 years ago
Thanks, but it's a small consolation. :-)
CiachoLover 2 years ago
they throttle down because at that point in the flight the pressures induced on the shuttle can damage it. The air is so much thicker and it has so much thrust they to throttle back for a bit. Once they pass the trans-sonic range, they can throttle bak up.
beergut111 2 years ago 2
Actually it's not only the main engines throtteling down, the SRBs are also designed to have a pressure drop around max Q.
blablubb12345 2 years ago
The Space Shuttle goes from zero to 17,000 mph in 8.5 minutes. The speed of the gases exiting the Solid Rocket Booster motor is 6,000 mph -- three times the speed of a high-powered rifle.
kingtorm2 2 years ago
No way the shuttle could ever break up through the sound barrier.Fighter planes pass through the sound barrier all the time in the desert and they are not even close to being built as strong as the shuttle has to be.The throttle back is to keep the thrust from ripping the wings off.
imacgoo 2 years ago
Fighter planes are much smaller and don't press through Mach 1 with nearly 2Gs of acceleration ;-)
blablubb12345 2 years ago
i wish britain had space shuttles, but theres no room for them i find it hard to believe theres 69 million people in britain and only 20 million in austrailia
scnitzel412 2 years ago 2
its amazing how you can see the state as it go's up :D
proxjima 2 years ago 4
I wish before NASA stops all shuttle missions they would for once film that again but give us a view of when the shuttle leaves the blue atmosphere into the blackness of outer space.That would be an awesome video.
imacgoo 2 years ago 5
totally
shlempnar 2 years ago 2
the view from the downward facing camera mounted on the external tank is amazing... thank you so much for posting this video :)
csenthilkumar87 2 years ago 2
I love NASA
marshartdegen 2 years ago 2
COOL :))))))))))
BasserPeti 2 years ago 2
Personally I love the part where they say "throttle down." It makes you realize how much power this is.If I am not mistaken they have to throttle down to prevent the thrust from ripping the wings off the shuttle.
imacgoo 2 years ago 4
I'm pretty sure it's so the shuttle doesn't break up as it pushes through the sound barrier.
Cobalt258 2 years ago
amazing!
XAdrianX17 2 years ago 2
did that thing really go into space!!
Flojet100 2 years ago 2
Nasa will come to in end they will no longer fly space missions 2010 2011 so 2009 is there last flight
Kayugen 2 years ago 2
AMAZING!!!
michaelslx 2 years ago 3
...still incredible, after so many flights, and landings too...
fuga1962 2 years ago 5
space is so fucking weird. i can't even imagine going there. it's just weird. i'd freak the fuck out. lol
fatherfadaku 2 years ago 8
wow amazing footage. 5 stars!!
castlekingside28 2 years ago 4
man that would be soooooo fucking scary
katyyshak101 2 years ago 3
great! thanks
geomazo 2 years ago 2
thanks for posting this video this is the best
YouStid 2 years ago
2800 miles per hour !!!
frontdoor1208 2 years ago 2
In orbit, about 18,000 mph. ;)
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago 3
This is wonderful. Thanks so much for letting us see this.
cattleman6420012000 2 years ago
its awesome!Very special.
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mgarofano 2 years ago
i love the exhaust shadow, so cool
noplacetobe45 2 years ago
Wow...this thing get high fast lol!
Gigsteve 2 years ago
Love the space shuttles. There is something nice about them. :)
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