Space Shuttle Discovery Night Launch STS-116 9 December 2006 HD

[FREISTUDIOS]

I was there! Awesome sight to behold at night.

[Eagle1Division2]

3:14

OOH NO! UFO'S!!! *panic*

I can imagine someone saying that.

But I think it's really cool how the SRB's disapear, then you can see them a little later - LIT BY THE SSME'S! From what's probably miles away.

1,000 mph in 22 seconds! Wow. I know a TON about the shuttle and other spacecraft, but I never realized that. That is just amazing!

[treasurecolector]

Off The Hook AirBoy :)

[alisamerflorin]

Russia and United States of America ,the greatest country's Ever !!!

[HussamStands]

@alisamerflorin How Russia is the greatest country? More poverty, prostitution, and uneducated fucks than the worst country in Africa, and a dictatorship fucked up government on top of all that. May be Russia is the greatest country in dictatorship. Only America is the real great country because it's the country where the most important thing is FREEDOM. Something very hard for you to understand if you never been in America!

[alisamerflorin]

@HussamStands think about 9/11 ..and think twice ..how the towers fail in exactly the same way ?both coming down with the same speed as a rock falls down from that high?and why tower7?when tower7 was further than those small towers near the twins and those small towers did not fail ,they had to take them down with control demolition ...and tower7fail ?why?they did not mention it in the report !!! perhaps the laws of physics did not work in that day ?this was the sign of the end for your freedom!

[HussamStands]

@alisamerflorin hahaha, what are you talking about dude? I knew that you won't be able to come with a better answer. You need to go and research what freedom is and what it means before you come here and yap about something that you never experienced. I don't think that any of the people in Eastern Europe can talk about freedom because it doesn't exist, never existed, will never exist either. You know that America is the most free and democratic country on this earth. it's not perfect though!

[alisamerflorin]

@HussamStands i have been in USA for about 2 years and i have work there as an electronics technician on Carnival Cruise Lines..I can show you the visa.the contracts.and so on..it is not bad ,but is going down day by day ..on my last ship i did not had screw drivers/ Remember the Carnival Splendor on fire and it did not had power at all for about one week ..and that is because of lack of professionalism .and it is happening all over United States.The corporation use more low qualified personnel

[minecraftman781]

awesome!

[royalarctic]

Absolutely amazing.

[Saranm25]

I was at the Magic Kingdom that night waiting for the fireworks to start when we hear someone yell, "The Space Shuttle!" It was cool to see even from a distance!

[jdwhite2001]

Kid wakes up.

kid:Its morning!I see the bright sun!/discovery

kid walks into kitchen.

discovery disappears.

Kid:wow!its night already?

[proaudiohd]

nasa audio of launches is always so WEAK. Why? Show us the power!

[Supercaculo]

it went super sonic. that means it collected all the emeralds.

[Shellcoen]

FAKE!

[Shellcoen]

@Shellcoen I'm sorry.. I just had to say this because every video has some imbecile commenting on the validity of the video. I grew up in Florida and have been graced with viewing night launches. They are indescribable!!!!

[BlackOpsHotHeads]

@Shellcoen what are you on

[Shellcoen]

@BlackOpsHotHeads LMAO I was kidding :-)

[Michael55443]

@Shellcoen Like your intelligence.

[Shellcoen]

@Michael55443 did you even read my comment??? obviously not.... Somone dared me to write "FAKE" on this, as every asshat does this to almost every youtube video. Of COURSE the shuttle launch is not fake.... I was born and raised in Florida, and my most favorite launches were the night ones. I will so miss the shuttle launches. :-(

[Michael55443]

@Shellcoen Nope, sorry. I didn't bother reading every comment on the page.

[CardiacKid65]

wow....just wow....

[Aussiemarco]

Awesome footage, but how big is NASA's carbon footprint?

[percivul]

@Aussiemarco Irrelevant. It would be less than 0.000004% of the national coverage. Yes, I'm ballparking that figure purely because there is no real evidence that carbon footprints mean anything compared to scientific advancement.

[TKEMP360]

Carbon foot print is a joke. Advance Human race or stay here? Its like when Christopher set sails here. They never cared if they would fall of the edge of the earth. They went for it, and look where we are today.

[LawrenceFilmsInc]

@Aussiemarco good question, but it wouldnt make much difference if we stopped launching shuttles... its good youre concerned about that, though :D

[TheRandification]

I saw this happen with my own eyes. It was pretty awesome. We drove from Bradenton to the KSC on BOTH launch nights. We filmed it, but as airboyd said it's not as good as Nasa's footage... At any rate it was an awesome experience.

[hanzithaking]

how many G does the crew experience on takeoff ???

[aimhigh59]

@hanzithaking Not more than 3 the entire flight...

[hanzithaking]

@aimhigh59 ok thought they felt a lot more since they travel at about what 3.000mph ? right

[aimhigh59]

@hanzithaking 17500mph when they reach orbit in 8.5 minutes

[hanzithaking]

@aimhigh59 ok i thought 19.000 but i might joust have heard wrong :)

[aimhigh59]

@hanzithaking Thats the speed anything needs to maintain to stay in low earth orbit. The ISS is traveling the same speed.

[hanzithaking]

@aimhigh59 ok you know a lot about it thanks merry christmas :D

[fidorf]

2:31 and ... out

[1Mitera]

crazy to think there are people in that...

[sgabriel]

Why does the announcer say "1000 miles an hour" at about 30 sec. after launch?! That's well before the throttle-back. Simple scripting mistake?

[violafinishda]

Belive it or not Free energy is real,But there are very powerfull forces that want to supress the technology,Find a motor that needs no fuel or input at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM ,Start the revolution!

[MIRefugee]

I was at the space center for this launch, it was fantastic to watch, specially after the let down of the scrubbed launch the previous Thursday. The video is great, but it does not capture how the sky is lit up by the launch.

[patiher77]

looks like the second sun.

[DigiTan000]

@patiher77 - "Is it morning already?"

[garyhstorms10]

What role does the Streams of Sparks do before the launch i have alway's been wanting to know this for a long time

[creedtown182]

@garyhstorms10 I've been wondering this too; I was thinking it was to initially ignite the gasses shooting out of the thrusters

[kilrdude14]

@garyhstorms10 if im correct they ignite the engines. The engines spew out a certain gas then the sparks ignite them causing the engines to activate.

[aimhigh59]

@kilrdude14 Engines are ignited internally. The pad mounted spark arrestors are to burn off excess hydrogen during the ignition process. Pockets of hydrogen are very explosive.

[LucidDream]

This is so profoundly beautiful. I wish I could experience one of the last launches...

[8855mi]

lol super :D

[MrMattHerndon]

That is absolutely amazing.

[Digityjardog]

dude hd makes it look like a star at 3:31

[quangluu96]

shuttle are bads they have high chances of blowing themselve up..... if the fuel mixes wrong or leak...uh oh

[MrMattHerndon]

@quangluu96 Dude, the thing is flying into SPACE. Of course things can go wrong. I would really like to see you try and design a spacecraft that is perfectly safe.

[trechan]

I wonder if those astronauts are ever like WOOOOOO and like really pumped once the launch begins.

[DevlynDisquise]

wow amazing

[fadayzairsoft]

i was there

[oomblikkies]

The shuttle is tops

[mando8000]

coool

[Danny109100]

beautiful

[TheKrewl]

i want to do that soo badly

[mattallen95]

sad how theres only going to be five missions left. they should make a memorial video for the space shuttles.

[ThePrettylann]

fantastic and perfect

[CascadeZ]

love it

[metankee]

i rember this day my bro was getting home from universal and i couldnt go cause i had a broken leg but it light up the sky

[SilverFrontierMusic]

i was on a tour at kennedy space center 3 days before it took off but we had to leave but we still got to see it on the pad

[linakahaney]

The most amazing thing I've ever seen. It was a ball of flames and turned in a huge star. We saw this from Sebring, Florida. The center of the state. What a clear night!

[peterahjorter]

A memorable moment for all Swedes

[Gebora]

one thing i missed when i lived in florida was being able to walk onto my front porch and watch it in hte sky, the night launches lit up the town for several miles, it was amazing

[EUofficial]

beautiful video a prefer european rocket like ariane rocket !!!

[Genob19]

The booster rockets fall into the ocean and are reused!

[survivirus]

i wonder where do those fuel tanks that detach from the main spacecraft go......do they fall on houses and nasa covers it?

[mach25man]

Burn up and then into the Indian ocean.

[metankee]

na if uve seen kenedy space center is like on the cost of florida and it lands in the water and they can reuse the big orange 1 but the 2 white 1s idk what they do with it maybe they give it to hobos

[mach25man]

Big orange tank burns up in the atmosphere. White booster rockets parachute into the water and are refurbished and reused. Of course the shuttle or orbiter lands on a runway.

[bestamerica]

yes i love this american space shuttle is the best and great spacecraft plane,,,

i dont like ussr russia cheap buran space shuttle

[metankee]

since it was at nite i saw it all the way frim my house in kissimmie

[ciremh24]

4,500 m/h! Now that is fast.

[chick5581]

OoO that was interesting hahaha.. but yeah i enjoyed this video.. fun, entertaining, what more could i ask for. hehe :]

[dariusgtr]

awesome!!!

[jorgelynk]

igualito que la GT22 jajaja

[zaeemahmedabbasi]

it covered 2500 km while u were watching it

[harrychronikjr]

space shuttle launch = emissions of 3 escalades.

[horizonflyer9]

awesome video.

[jerrry13157]

and they have the nerve to say our cars are causing global warming when they burn millions of gallons of fuel in 3 mins or so

[stevie5150]

The liberals and environmentalists launched the space shuttle?

[FSXLOVER4]

global warming = no such thing ass hole!

[withoutsin]

The fuel is Hydrogen, and Oxygen. When they burn it creates an explosive reaction which produces water. That's why the "smoke" from the shuttles is white - it's actually pure water in the form of Steam.

[homeworld1031tx]

the SRBs still burn aluminum and create co2

[oldfrend]

the shuttle's main engines are powered by liquid O2 and H2 stored in the external fuel tank, but the solid rocket boosters are powered by a solid fuel called APCP, with aluminum being the main fuel ingredient.

co2 is one of the exhaust products, but it's nowhere near as bad as jerry would have you believe, not like it's burning a million gallons of gasoline or kerosene.

[kselkow]

hey retard do you even have any clue how much room just one million gallons of fuel would take up read a book asshat you might learn volume someday.

[quasiphatpaul]

well technically since theyre using gaseous fuels under pressure the fuel in its regular gaseous state might take up more room than you could imagine.

[mach25man]

Use liquid hydrogen & liquid oxygen.

[planes100]

great video

[snowgirl1052]

I put this one on my favorites. Incredible video.

[andersbrtlsn]

Wow, it looks really unstable when it takes off. The ignition is shaking a lot, sick ;D

[crktp7]

it has to be the best job to be an astronaut

[fireflourisher808]

if your shuttle doesn't blow up

[Altan0x]

thx =)!! nice vid

[B3rettaZ26]

what a kickass ride!

[wepkzezima]

first!

[jcoverload]

Oh the joy of being A first...but not THE first, and that there is no reward and nothing at all unique in the action...yet still gives a single human so much satisfaction and false importance...what a sign of the times.

[airboyd]

Someone asked if I had launch video. I do, but it pales in comparison to this NASA provided HD footage. Enjoy!