STS-117 Space Shuttle Atlantis On Top Of A 747 Land At KSC

[juba776]

oh thanks youtube, now i have to see porn

[kkdjen]

wow imagine beeing the captain there! What a huuuge responsability

[ragnarlaak]

we could also hear an ant people war as we watch the video.

[littlewahoo27]

2:11 that birds like WTF IS GOING ON HEREEE?!?!?!

[hardcoremutineer]

Best piggyback ride ever

[Richards0n1]

that's lot of weight in top of a 747, well anyways maybe it was modified for it. more powerful engines and body.... a normal aircraft would be crouched by the weight when landing. how come the 747 didn't loose control in the air because there you have 4 sets of wings and you are only able to manage the wings from the 747.

[amgen52]

@Richards0n1 The inside was stripped of seats and some reinforcement was done. The engines are old too. Todays passenger 747's can carry twice the weight of the shuttle. The orbiters wings dont cause any control problems with the 747 except on the rear elevators which were modified so the 747 can have more control or air flow over the rudder.

[biggiesmalls981]

i thought this was fake at first look, this is awesome haha

[manitobasuntanner]

are they mating

[gerbilPROJECT]

Why Is Everyone Talking Like This? It Really Pisses Me Off.

[BestOfficialSongz]

But will they blend?

[KillWithFire12]

@BestOfficialSongz Stfu

[TheZepside]

looks like the space shuttle is attached to the 747 with matches...

[AntoMelta]

I am very happy to see the vidoe after you give this Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lands at the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at Kennedy Space Center following a cross-country ferry flight from California.

[willamricard]

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[imegatrone]

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[Melehete]

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[NganaJHone]

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[Ondelendo]

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[bundawartini]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing In this video shot by The Spacearium videographer Matthew Travis,

[SamGuthrie1977]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[beybladefan1111]

i have a space shuttle dream last night

[erikosius]

scumbacg plane

[rccentury]

LOL how strange of FSX lst night i landed on same runway with a Spaceshuttle on top of me!!!

[HvPman]

now put those 2 on top of an a380 and then those 3 on top of the an-225

[keith0021]

the sound of the shutters are like exchanging fires from an airsoft gun ;)

[attractive149]

wow!!!747 have a huge package on top of it!!!worth 13 billion

[Itnetlolor]

I remember seeing this thing fly right by my house on it's way back with the shuttle still atop it. It was flying low. I was just about as close as this video when I saw it fly past. Coolest thing I've ever seen. Had I been surfing, I would've been right under it.

[nicbleu]

i am not shure that was a good idea

[nicbleu]

wtf is that lol

[Suva1987]

B 747 is unique, phantastic, terrific. The best plane ever built, that has a personality. Forget about the A 380. It will never catch up.

[UvsBC]

not to be mean.... but imagine if it crashed.... not only people would die but a crap load of money just vanishes

[thissguy04]

the shuttle is a glider with no engines.

[mahnameisjerik0]

Now... how do you get the shuttle off? O_O

[adilsoification]

nossa fazendo amor em pleno ar...o que será que vai que vai nascer....são de tipos diferentes hhhhhhhhhhh......brincadeira..­... gostei belo vídeo........

[MayrN]

I want to be one of thes Spotters at this moment!

[moremore23]

cant it fly by its own ?

[guitardc59]

@moremore23 Are you talking about the shuttle flying under it's own power???? the shuttle orbiter is a glider... how'd you not know that?

[Helge129]

@moremore23 No, it can't.

[moremore23]

@Helge129 Why ? it has wings :D

[Helge129]

@moremore23 It doesn't have engines of its own in that sense however. The main engines are powered by the big orange external fuel tank at launch.

[moremore23]

@Helge129 And what about its return back to the earth ? does it land by gravity? I don't think so.

[Helge129]

@moremore23 Yeah, pretty much. To slow down, the shuttle does a backflip, closes its cargo bay, fires the little engines seen beside the main engines to slow down, and starts falling. After re-entry, it uses its wings to glide to the designated landing strip.

[moremore23]

@Helge129 A lot of thanks to you.

[haynesyy]

Soft landing;P

[potolkimaxi]

Круто, и не ндо "Мрию" создавать. Молодцы

[clarifaco]

THY DON'T USE TRUCKS ANYMORE

[teramasz]

impressive

[AintGottaClue]

It is called a tripod. Use one.

[pipidores]

plane sex

[Tubewings]

Question--are the astronauts actually in the shuttle when it's on top of the 747, or are they in the 747 itself?

[aimhigh59]

@Tubewings The crews are back in Texas in a few hours after landing. This 747 with the orbiter gets back to Florida a week after landing in California. There is no one in the orbiter for ferry flights. The 747 crew and a few orbiter people are in the plane during transport. The orbiter is just baggage at this point.

[superdestructorx]

OMG pilots must be under stress! Fuck the plane, the space shuttle is like 13 billion!

[KroMeInStInCt]

And that, my son, is how new planes are made.

[1990nokitty]

NASA is amazing! wish I coulda been there for a landing like that. saw a launch though :D if any of you haven't gone, you really should. is so cool!

[Dantinus]

This ACTUALLY happen in real life? The first time I was exposed to this was in Superman Returns, where, if I recall, the plane nearly crashed if it weren't for Superman's timely intervention...

[TheSchool45]

It's the mother 747 carrying a newborn 737

[yobanirulezd00d]

FedEx air will deliver anything now. -___-

[jybtqm]

lol the cameras sounded like bb guns full automatic lol

[999sherwin]

its called an antonov an 225 not a 747 idiot

[999sherwin]

@999sherwin kidding

[camy205]

@999sherwin Lol the antonov an 225 has 6 engines not 4. You are wrong.

[integrainthe805]

it was being attacked by photographers... lol shoot it...!!!!dam it...!!! im out of ammo sir...!!!!

[ta666ak666]

9 months later the jet gave birth to a Boeing 737.

[TownHaul]

@ta666ak666 with heat protectors :D

[Boeing747type8]

@ta666ak666 BITCH PLEASE! This is anal!

[ta666ak666]

@Boeing747type8 I presume you are the 747 on the video, and you know it better? :P

[Boeing747type8]

@ta666ak666 i have eyes, that's enough to see that the stomach of shuttle is on the back of the 747 so STFU, and btw, girls don't have penises, i'm not gay.

[ta666ak666]

@Boeing747type8 Maybe the Jumbo Jet's vagina is on her back? I mean, planes are not people, are they?

[Boeing747type8]

@ta666ak666 giraffes are not people are they? At least the don't have a vagina on their back.

[ta666ak666]

@Boeing747type8 but they aren't planes either. Plus, giraffes and humans are mammals, and have you seen an A380 breastfeeding a Cessna?

[Boeing747type8]

@ta666ak666 are you a biologist? Because you are starting to sound like a biologist.

[ta666ak666]

@Boeing747type8 No, I'm a gynecologist specialised in airplanes and spacecraft.

[willyr777]

Sorprendente esta tecnologia!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[siwiutkimetin2]

antonov an 225. Fake

[Flyfisherman1962]

This is the MOST warmest given GIFT from heaven.

EVERY THING that comes to UP is to go in your wife's arns....

[alpayali42]

cool



[TheNitroWarroir]

Hard landing and bounce Atlantis falls off llol

[MUZZY7TEKKERS]

Chicken any one? XD

[Vestergaard112]

the only thing i can hear is cameras

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

A sight we will not see again. I'm surprised that 747 is big enough to hold that pilots balls.

[DeadJesus100]

NASA SCIENCE FICTION

DISNEY APOLLO TV

[WANT3D12]

that sound pop my ears...

[mafufen]

noob

[Hubieee]

how HUGE the shuttles are... amazing what weight is boosted into space at each start... but at a such high relation of fuel to usable weight it is just fucking expensive :-(

[wwwtotalitaerde]

My brother Markus Bott had been tortured during 5.5 years by the German BND,the former GESTAPO. I recorded more than 100 videotapes which ended up in the legal system. My brother was tortured during 1.5 years despite several legal procedures pending. He was assassinated on July 11th 2009 because of our homepage, linked on my channel, and our book Der Totalitäre Staat. If my homepage disappears,the BND will have assassinated me as well

Thumbs up if you want the BND to stop torturing my parents

[caralhoporra36]

incrivel habilidade do cmte!

[Fanik10]

what's on the back of Atlantis' booster engines?

[howlbigbadwolf]

@Fanik10

Aerodynamic Safety covers, you don't want those boosters to get damaged by anything, and also makes the Shuttle more Aerodynamic so the 747 can fly easer with that much weight on its back.

[FaWanKa]

Whoever came up with the idea? I mean there sitting round the table. "Guys we need to move the shuttle" !...." I know what we'll do, we can mount it on the top of a 747" !!! Wonder if he or she got some strange looks

[rakaposhi888]

Now who will lift this shuttle up from the Plane. may be Superman or Spider man???

[Trey3j]

Wingspan of the shuttle is around 24 meters. Hard to find roads wide enough to hold that, not to mention the height of the shuttle and bridges to go under. Even if you could find a series of roads to hold it, it's probably prohibitively expensive to do all those road closures.

[sertox12345]

nise work

[SamusZero]

@WestYZ450F I don't know if money is really the issue as opposed to the size of the shuttle on a truck. It would easily take up 3-4 lanes on a road, maybe more. And going through toll roads would be difficult with its tail. Aside from that, the weight of the shuttle pushing down on a truck may keep it from going anywhere or would cause maintenance to be needed on roads more. Trains may have worked, but I guess using a 747 is probably easier and quicker(once its in the 747 and in the air)

[Darksidethreefour]

@SamusZero Plus, damaging a fleet of space going vessels that aren't being produced anymore (or used at this point for that matter) isn't worth the risk. The statistical likelihood of anything bad happening is much less this way.

[WestYZ450F]

Honestly is it more expensive to truck it?

[sexualchocolatee]

@WestYZ450F if it was cheaper to truck it, they probably would have done it.

[crazyplayer512]

For a second there I thought the media were using type writers..

[Douken]

Now imagine that on top of the Antonov an225

[AIRSOFTINGisAMAZING]

why do they need a 2nd plane?

[lars330]

@AIRSOFTINGisAMAZING because the space shuttle can't take off and land like a normal plane.

[roseanne74]

I would've thought it was an Antonov or something other than a 747

[4crevis]

Space Shuttle: Weeeee! Again, again!

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[humzayunasnandla1]

this is scary type of shuttle

[vomm27]

mother 747 queen of the skies teaching space shuttle daughter on how to land like professional

[Zonixx06]

Wouldn't there be quite a bit of lift coming from the orbiter's wings, I forgot, how to they compensate?

[british123able]

thought it said they landing at kfc for a second

[4crevis]

@british123able Brilliant!

[DavidSebua]

@british123able lol the 21 dislikes would be black people then

[Shortyguy94]

why didn't the pilot use the speed breaks???

[airsofterkidPS3]

y is there 15 dislikes?

[candr]

@Sibs1990 The yearly budget of NASA is .7% of the national budget while the DOD is 20 to 25 %. For every dollar spent in NASA, they have returned 7 dollars through developments in medcine, metals, weather research, food production, plastics and fabrics, computers and other electronic technologies which we take for granted and never think where it comes from. The breast and other Cancer research along with a great deal of imaging and diagnosing technology thanks to NASA. Some on ISS right now.

[robloxbang1]

when it lands u heare bareee camra shots!

[TheDemetrius11]

Analog  "AN-225" with "Buran"

[Ged9BESDOKUZ]

FUCK !!!!!!!!!!

[Popefan1]

That's actually not the Space Shuttle Atlantis but the Enterprise (no engines, used for test landings)

[jim546]

@Popefan1 Nope, it's a space shuttle. Enterprise has a different front end design, and the engines are inside the protective casing for this flight.

[fkkkkkenig]

@Sibs1990 NASA's budget has been severely cut in recent years. I disagree that a space program is unnecessary. Present-day communications heavily involve satellites, and knowledge of space is crucial to our future, in many ways. As for the shuttle, it was purely made for space and re-entry, not conventional flight. Its engines are meant for exiting the atmosphere, and only that: considering how much power is needed to exit the atmosphere, that's no small feat. It's a specialized craft.

[chillin1147]

@Sibs1990 It's worth billions and it would cost more to make it fly like a commercial jet. Normally it lands right back at Kennedy Space Center, but Florida weather is so sketchy that it sometimes has to land in California.

[chillin1147]

@Sibs1990 Because the shuttle is a glider with no jet engines.

[patladjanko]

illegal passenger on the roof :)

[janmadytay]

That's gotta be tricky flying with that thing on your back.

[raven007yt]

just one question how do they manage o protect the tail of the 747 during the shuttle burn-out just like in the movie superman return although it was stuck in the movie but in real life how they do that???

[beegoodyy]

@raven007yt The 747 is only used to transport the shuttle from an alternative landing strip to KSC. Not in the actual mission where the shuttle is launched with the aid of the SRBs, and glides it's way back to the landing strip after reentry.

[candr]

@raven007yt Its only used to transport it not to launch it.

[ottarsss]

ok, they're about to land

click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click

[monsterstudio29]

small engines?

[belscope]

Thumbs Up if you thought the fly that came in the shot at 2:12 was real.

[10001startrek10001]

THAT IS SOOOO COOOL OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mico0708]

So big and heavy passenger:)

[shaltreas]

いや・・・俺も知ってたけど、そりゃ知らない人から見ればびっく­りでしょ。

ちびっこの頃に興味持ってビデオ見て以来だったから、久しぶりに­画面に出てきて一瞬ギョっとしたもん。

[cubfik]

これは大気圏に入ってからの飛行訓練のためにくっつけて何回もや­ってるんでしょ？

まあ、移動もあるかもしれないけど・・・普通です

[arikame5]

@cubfik 夢を壊すなｗ

[ZEALRR]

コバンザメみたいだなｗ

[takamorijunichi]

how put the shuttle off the 747? it's the most important point, also how put the shuttle on the 747?

[Renatodonadio]

@takamorijunichi They have bridge cranes on departure and arrival

[hyama28]

ずっとこの方法ではなかったでしょうか。でも、しっかりと固定が­出来ているのと、７４７は操縦はしにくくはないのでしょうか？

[JAN212011]

昔から、この方法だったと思いますが・・・。

何が珍しいのかな？

[swinabc]

hm...well guess somepeople gotta have a hobbie

[blueyed78]

i told you to quit fucking that plane!!!

[aniger818]

is that how baby airplanes are made?

[tomdilger]

27 people think that the space shuttle landed on the moon.

[myuxy]

wow, how did they do that

[guni1122]

すご～い発想だねぇ.....〆(･ω･)ﾒﾓﾒﾓ #followmejp

[awaissidd]

very smooth landing

[aqu32]

noizy monster !

[linutas]

Do planes lay eggs?

[YouWatchingMyVideo]

They just wan't some cute small airplanes.

[whatsgoingon07]

next the 747 will teach it to ride a bike and play catch, lol

[Matijahs]

@whatsgoingon07 hahaha

[anderberger]

that was neat

[DerWagonBrnr]

Gee wiz! Those guys with their cameras sound like automatic fire!!

[ulrik52]

how did it land on the plane?

[Skyrodude]

@ulrik52

The space shuttle didnt land on the plane. Its just a transport. The plane is an modified version of the 747. It is used to transport this space shuttle

[mclaine33]

awwwwhhhh yeah baby!

[jordorama1]

why did they land a billion dollar plane and a billion dollar shuttle on a runway that doesn't ever have a control tower... realy there was no control tower :P

[aimhigh59]

@jordorama1 KSC has a control tower but its relatively new. I think built after the year 2000 sometime. Prior to that just an operations building.

[busteroo7]

@jordorama1 tower we dont need no stinking tower-- fuck the tower they comin in full throttle dead stick!!!

[jamwithham123]

did the plane just get llighter????

[HIGHonGAMEZ]

it sounds like a fuckin war behind him with all the camera snapshots

[jwjwjwjwjwjwjwjjwjwj]

shuttle should be first class

[FL065]

sounds like machine gun fire

[DTxOctavariumx]

Reminds me of superman,

[godling2007]

that's the woman on top (of my back) position. ;)

[coldfarted]

@godling2007 hmmmm... I'm not sure how that works

[robthesamplist]

afterburner reverse thrust brakes wroking overtime.

[Kilo12R]

What a flare even with a bit of crosswind or breeze rather

[advited29]

8 months later::::::(747) " dad, im pregnant"