Enterprise First Test Flight 1977 cut 3

[mplays]

altitudes there calling they are dropping like a rock

[MsGabriele23]

Thank You, Fred Haise. Beautiful landing. 

[NazarovVv]

Fucking amazing piloting by the chase plane pilots. It's like they glued themselves to the shuttle all the way up to the landing

[oreoweb6]

they should redo the same interview with same people when it retired

[GGE47]

Fred Haise from Apollo 13 made the landing.He made more than one landing,but never flew the shuttle into space.

[tailwheelflier]

to all of the NASA employees who voted for obama,,,,HAHAHAHAHAHH you douchebags,,,go to the back of the unemployment line! You got what you deserved.

[rrose2009]

This wasn't an actual launched shuttle, it was just made for a landing test and didn't have real engines.

[VIR092]

That was a PERFECT landing, textbook landing!

[jbswdd]

How bad ass are the pilots that came in along side of it as it landed!!! The chase planes

[PeterFLOYDIAN]

OMG!

The whole time it looks so accurate, and then you see the '70 cars and the people in their 70's fashion! LOL

Anyway, NASA has brought us a lot of good stuff, from nice pictures and footage, up to very important scientific data (Like Hubble's pictures and their contribution to science).

So much respect for the people that keep 'pioneering' going on.

BTW : all the best to Mark E. Kelly and Gabrielle.

[2eelShmeal]

@PeterFLOYDIAN I was thinking the same: Such high tech in a low tech time. lol

[PeterFLOYDIAN]

@2eelShmeal Well actually, I wrote 'accurate', when I meant 'current' or 'contemporary',

but you got the point, it was so far ahead of it's time, and the 'basic principle' of the Space shuttle never changed.

So sad it had to end.

[2eelShmeal]

@PeterFLOYDIAN So if you were up in the ISS right now, would you be a little worried about how you're getting home now with no shuttle? lol

[samuszoomer]

@2eelShmeal They'll come down in the russian Soyuz capsule, the same way your astronauts will be getting up there, and have been when they havent taken the shuttle.

[2eelShmeal]

@samuszoomer Why thank you Samu!

[indahooddererste]

@2eelShmeal well russian sojus capsules are a bit safer because so much more used than sts

[cowsrock94]

is it using engine power to fly or is it "gliding"

[Lotus4115]

@cowsrock94 Gliding.

[godholio]

@cowsrock94 It didn't have any engines installed.

[tpsossff]

There were high hopes back then that the shuttle would make space more accessable. Sadly two disasters revealed some of its many shortcomings. The original concept was that it would be carried to the edge of space on the back of a giant lift aircraft far bigger than a 747 but it never left the drawing board. Instead they used a scaled down concept using solid fuel engines.

So sad when you think what could have been.

[666DarkEgo]

and guess what the founder of mthe next series name is, the vigin flight ENTERPRISE VSS-1701 :L and im not kidding, it flew in march :D

[grapesofwraith1066]

Thank you so much for uploading this piece of history! It is amazing to see this now, as the space shuttle program nears its end, it's a breath of fresh air to see the shuttle program as a brand new technology, a new adventure to explore our final frontier.

[nitronka]

my favourite shuttle:)

[hannigan06]

Space Shuttle Enterprise I love you.

[aajoeyjo]

Very nice video. Thanks for uploading this.