Landing of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 at Edwards Airf Force Base

[willghass]

hey spacerefonorbit, what is an "airf force base"

[Neitschel]

What's the message in the end? "Houston Discovery, wheel stop!" or "Houston Discovery, we are stopped!" ?? Really can't figure it out.

[roamingcroat]

@Neitschel It's "wheel stop."

[GUnit1966]

imagine you pay the fuel :D

[verticalsmurf]

Eternally jealous.

[rahulkkgilgal]

fentastic

[lvladikov]

how does the shuttle deal with extreme temperatures coming into the atmosphere ??

[InfiniteForAMoment]

@lvladikov heat tiles and sheild

[p4nk1]

@lvladikov Parts most exposed on high temperatures are covered with reinforced carbon laminate called RCC (Reinforced Carbon-carbon), it easly deals with temperatures up to 2000 Celsius degrees. Try to find more about "Space Shuttle thermal protection system".

[lvladikov]

@p4nk1 great! thx a lot :) but I've heard that when lightning strikes, the temperatures are a lot higher than 2000 Celsius, so what if a lightning strikes the shuttle? but I am sure they have other systems dealing with lightnings :D

[millsfireman]

Not to mention the safest spacecraft used by nasa to date.

[don312000]

Am I the only one who wishes they'd keep flying these birds forever??

[mach25man]

No your not. These are fantastic machines just in their prime of life....

[pablomartinr]

Excellent Video, I never seen.

[lccs187]

thats fuckin awesome my dad went out and took some pictures of it

[janesita1]

the boom was at around 2:52...nice nice nice video!!!

[roidroid]

i wonder when it actually happened in the video though.

Given how long that sound would have taken to reach the camera.

It may have physically happened 5 - 6 minutes beforehand. IE: before this video had even started.

[julio247dominicano24]

ufffffffffffffffff Nice landing

[MrCoolguy67]

did you guys hear the boom boom

[lccs187]

"boom boom" huh

[49erfan12]

ha i went to go watch this and it was better in person

[drumforock]

this is so awesome. congrats guys. I wanted to watch this, but was stuck in school and nobody would let me borrow an i-phone to watch it on. lol

[teemuruskeepaa]

We have a bogey at 0730, incoming fast

[atvonz]

awsome

[bbartky]

I heard the sonic booms but there was too much overcast to see anything.

[AmRFuKYaH]

i waited outside my house with a video camera in victorville california didnt see shit lol

[AlvaroQuintero96]

awesome