STS 115 - SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS BACKFLIP

[ArlieWinter]

Think I'll go watch Tony Hawk's first 900 again.

[TheeRealJRCroblox]

Who was the pilot for this mission? I must know. :D

[UnforgivingCritic]

I watched this while listening to Kindred Spirits - Liquid Tension Experiment.. so fuckin tear drop.

[SpartanG61]

unfortunately its not the real image..:(

[e1gr]

damn.. and I was hoping for somekinda barrel-roll on a test flight in the atmosphere :D

[darkear123]

i like the part where its moving lol

[kargidesign]

nice butt.

[MrManonthemoon69]

Space Parkour.....

[hunterhalo2]

That is a beautiful sight! It takes me about 5 hours to go 300 miles in a car, it takes them 18 seconds to travel between those points. Its not fair! lol

[AtlantisB737]

@hunterhalo2 and it takes you more than a whole tank ful of gas whereas the shuttle does that for free. (fuelwise). :)

[baishihua]

i still think it is cool to have a beep between each conversation in the radio

[joebloggs1123]

Haha, one backflip. "We started it over Africa, and by the time we finished we were over the coast of Italy"

[skatering42]

yes well i meant to say 17,000 but hit the three by mistake.. but yea your right.... they do 37,000 when leaving orbit

[skatering42]

there going 37,000 m.p.h while doing this

[blablubb12345]

17,500 mph

[bloodanddirt]

i agree. that bastard

[Jmsessn]

amazing :D:D gosh i wish i was onboard yay!

[Pwaaaaah]

shut the fuck up you dumb ass mother fucker. talk all big bad on youtube trying to start shit when i wasnt even talking to you. i bet you sit at your computer just looking through videos and reading the comments to see if you can start shtit out of nothing, cause it makes you feel all badass and tough. suck a dick bitch.

[eric21muz]

i love reading the needless, uneducated banter that surfaces on here.

[robertgrassi]

can't you see that it is a still photograph in the background?

[Jmsessn]

get a life mang

[robertgrassi]

the reality is that no one can explain how it would be possible to get in outer space; but almost everyone cannot dissagree with the propaganda that exagerates to the max the powers of the nations, disagree with the authority is a healthy reaction

[robertgrassi]

while all these space flights are truely impossible, the public doubts, doesn't dare to express it, and feel strange and weak in front of the authority

[robertgrassi]

the problem is that you need all these explanations to explain simple things, these questions we ask those "scientists" because we don't understand are not answered, the explations are super refined excuses to explain what is impossible, those guys are payed to explain the power of the nations, to reinforce national unity and social peace, to let the public in wonder in front of what they don't understand,

[dimzy3000]

this is amazing!

[guilhermebuck]

boooooooooooooring

[kiwiterran1]

i can see mine house ma  !

[robertgrassi]

nasa science is fake, it is based on german idealism principles, kant, einstein were selling you their religion, they were trying to explain a god with the means of philosophy and physics, their systems are artificial and against all reality, a physicist should explain reality and NOT unreality, it is not his job, how long will you believe that time goes at different speeds IN THE REAL WORLD

[playm8paul1987]

hahhaha is this guy for real? try knowing what you are talking about b4 mouthing off u ignorant little man

[robertgrassi]

these images are faked

there is no space stations, no probes, no space walks, no satellites

try to think by yourself and not by the biais of others

the space bullshit is only a matter of the greek gods

they have become much too much familiar

it's even a pain in the ass to contradict them

non the less the nasa logo is much more vulgar than my previous sentence

[bobdagangster]

do you smoke weed

I bet you think WTC is an inside job

[crawhip2]

here in toronto ...right inside our very own subway stations there are large posters or bulletins which picture a New York police officer with a bell solo cellphone with the words '9-11 was an insider ' right on hid necktie!for cryin' out loud! (the add btw was for Bell solo...)

[crawhip2]

i don't make these things up...the add was posed up for about a month, then taken down and replaced by another add for some other vacation resort etc...this same add was also posted inside the train cars, but had nothing written on the NY city officers necktie, only the larger poster did ...

[robertgrassi]

the usa always brags with freedom of speach

the officer, though, has only the choice to express his freedom with two different lies

"attacks" and "inside job"

as the reality is "propaganda drill"

[Pwaaaaah]

i smoke weed and i dont think the WTC is an inside job

[kanalje]

Then maybe you should stop smoking, you ignorant sheep.

[crawhip2]

so...what are u suggesting?... that it's all a conspiracy to make us believe that 'man' himself is God since he can build or engineer all these wonderful things?

[robertgrassi]

in every country, the elite tries to pass as gods, in japan the emperor is even officially declared as a god, nasa is a religion, not science

[Rubenssimoes]

Incrível! Nós, pessoas comuns não podemos subir ao espaço, mas graças a vocês podemos imaginar como se estivessemos lá tambem. Obrigado.

[Paragon0fVirtue]

Yeah, Columbia blew up because there was a hole in the left wing because of foam from the external tank hitting it during lift off. Engineers saw it and requested the administration to do something like this, To check the shuttle. They said no because it would be to expensive, and cause further delays. 9000 degree plasma entered the hole during re-entry, causing the landing gear tires to explode and a chair reaction through the orbiter. 7 lives later, lesson finally learned.

[joeloud1]

I understand what you're saying, but to be fair, they had no real way to fix the hole in the heat shield. Searching for a hole that *might* be there would have done nothing but confirm there was a hole. They still would have had to cross their fingers on re-entry and hope it didn't kill them, which it ultimately would have. The astronauts were doomed just after lift-off.

[blablubb12345]

The only possible way to save the crew (if they knew that there was a hole in the leading edge) would have been bringing Atlantis to the pad as soon as possible (she was still in the OPF, but AFAIK the boosters and tank were already mated together) while ignoring a bunch of safety checks. With saving energy, the crew of Columbia could have survived in orbit for at least 3-4 weeks as they had the long duration kit on board.

[joeloud1]

I didn't think of them sending up another shuttle. I guess I assumed they wouldn't have been able to last long enough for them to prepare another launch.

But as they say, hindsight is 20/20.

[arroy624]

lol funny to see it's orbiting at 4 milllion miles... it'll be orbiting jupiter with style...

[guguigugu]

Man, being in space looks really boring :P

But it does put things into perspective...

[bchiefs222]

I dont know how many miles they orbited on this one, but another video said over 4 milllion miles.

[aburakkoi1]

not a chance it four million miles

[pilot7893]

Think how big Earth is, and think how many 90 min orbits they would do in a week, and it does seem likely

[aburakkoi1]

i was talking about about how far up they were, but the distance they would go to orbit the earth is probaly around four million miles

[D3ADCR4P]

it doesn't really look that far up

[iloveallecchianime]

dude each of those clouds is big as a city

[VTXnME]

I think they are up 100 some miles above the earth. That's pretty far up :^)

[stevehawking]

why does it take so long?

small am't of fuel to burn therefore less thrust available i guess?

[intrepidrock123]

nah probably cause they wanna rotate it slowly so as to give the camera as much footage as possible

[aronmauck]

thats soo cooool. my uncle did that backflip

[NiteOwl1224]

Thats amazing! I get chills!

[piratebri]

How fast does the shuttle and space station travel while in orbit?

[lenarends]

Five miles per second ... on the ground, that would be Mach 25.

Assuming the camera is generally looking "down" at the shuttle, the piece of the earth visible in the zoomed image is about 7,000 sq. miles in size -- ground points take 14 secs to travel from top to bottom of image ... at 5 mile/sec, that's a 70 miles, thus about 100 miles across the image.

And it STILL takes 90 minutes to get around the planet!

[NiXAeternus]

about 7200 m/s which is 16105 mph

[interstategar]

google human space flight, go to sighting opportunites, find your location and you'll actually see the space station fly by. Site also has all the tracking info, altitude, speed etc

[vodude]

17,500 MPH. Now that's what I call really moving! But it doesn't use it's engines. It just glides at that speed. Pretty incredible.

[VTXnME]

No friction, nothing to slow it down.

[MrCalhoun]

There is a bit friction. But still too less to show any big effects in such small time scales.

[aburakkoi1]

it's cause theres like one atom per cibic meter in spac so theres virtually no friction

[lkj802]

hey thats the columbia if not email me back

[Fidokrab]

How does it do a back flip? Does it use boosters?

[XilStorm]

no, not boosters. space shuttles, like basically every other satellite that goes into space, has special maneuvering charges, small controlled rockets that fire to put the shuttle into alignment.

[Fulaeetoy]

they really cautios now after the columbia disaster..

[zykeaisem13]

zeadman2 you need to learn how to spell before you start thinking of any space idea's lol ;D "marse"?

[beelzbub]

really cool vid

[jerryaltman]

Remember 2001 A Space Odyssey ballet dance in space.

[intigfx]

i couldn't stop having the Blue Danube waltz in my head while watching this

[teemuruskeepaa]

Crude animation. And comments are recorded in a studio. Just kidding.

[lucent5]

terrible analogy..refuelling at the space station makes sense..only problem is that i dont think they can hold THAT much fuel

[CURLYWART]

dude, it's going backwards !?

[LoneStarStateOfMine]

Yes, they do a VERY slow roll over so the International Space Station can photograph the heat tiles to see if there's any damage from the launch. They're trying to avoid another Columbia disaster. And yes, as a result of the roll, the shuttle *does* fly backwards for awhile.

[Zeadman2]

we should have ships that can go to marse and back from lanching horazontaly on Earth,refuling at the space station of corse. but we dont. we should have war ships in space but we dont. we should have an interplanatary gun system to protect us from friken astroids but we dont. we should have colonized marse, the moon, and many many astroyds in the belt but we havent now have we. o well good vid

[DAVEtheMAGICIAN]

You forgot to mention McDonalds and gas stations in outter space.....

[TheBlitz1]

lol it must be so funny for aliens to watch this laughing at us stuggling to do the smallest of maneuvers with 210 pounds of computer equipment that always shorts and causes major malfunctions. its like comparing a cheetah to a potato bug.

[Damian007a1]

Do they run "Windows" on the shuttle? Or did they change to linux?

[eccentricellipse]

Neither. You young'uns seem to forget that the shuttle was orbiting in 1981; four years before Windows ('84) and ten years before Linux ('91).

The STS Orbiter uses a gang of computers capable of voting out malfunctioning computers. The code is in a high level custom language called HAL/S running on IBM AP-101 general-purpose avionic computers.

The STS Orbiter control software is arguably the most 'perfectly bug-free' block of code in existence.

[MaxPrefect]

Yep, the final redundant computer has never been used.

[predatortheme]

@eccentricellipse

XD of course it is the most bug free software ever

what else would you build into a 1.7 billion dollar vehicle

[SuperPHAG]

@eccentricellipse thats what you get when you hire the smartest minds in the world to make it

[iTimmeh]

...that looks like mars in the backgruond.

[ieatbaconforlunch]

well i guess we found water there

[iTimmeh]

We did, we found out water used to be there...

And im talking about early in the video anyway.

[samandjoesdad]

fantastic. enough said.

[maryjanemccarthy]

a w e s  o m e starts slow, so keep watching.