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  • So is THAT where they're going to send all the homeless that we don't want to take care of here on Earth??!!

  • Always a downer when you come back from your holidays....

  • I always wonder what would George Washington say if he saw this? :) America is awesome

  • amazing..:P

    it is so fast

  • arghahahhahahahahaha omfg hahahaahah ARGHAHAHAHAHA OMG HAHAHAAHAHAH THIS IS FUCKIGN FUNNY ARGHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHQHAHA LOL!!!

  • Thank you United States and USSR for introducing the space to Earth People.

  • That looks like fun.

  • Every landing is a state of the art procedure, from entering the atmosphere to touch down on earth!

    Falling like a brick to land like a leaf!

  • ur mind races on a high speed landing but in a shuttle u cant even think

  • No human has actually ever been to space. It is just a mere conspiracy that the government has pulled off. They have been lying all along and we civilians are too retarded to think for just a second to realize that it is complete BS. We are humiliating ourselves and the government is laughing at us.

  • @Jrink30 I think ur mother is laughting at you xD

  • @Jrink30 So tell me. Where does the space shuttle go? Or is it empty?

  • @cjracer1000 you answered it yourself. It is controlled in a command center, takes off, goes up a bit, then lands somewhere in the desert. Then, when it's time for it to "return home," they have it take off from the desert location and have it land at the runway they film. Just think about it.

  • @Jrink30 That's dumb. That would require them to make two launches.

  • @cjracer1000 you are correct about the launches. but remember, the secretive launch will not be nearly as explosive because all that fire and smoke is purely for show.

  • @Jrink30 So you're telling me that you can get up to the altitudes that this vehicle does in such a short time with out the fire that the rockets make? You're also telling me that the speed that they go doesn't need rocket either? Also, the video from inside the shuttle showing people, the video from outside where you can see the curvature from the earth, and the fact that you CAN see the ISS up in space means nothing?

  • @cjracer1000 Exactly. See now you are catching on.

  • @Jrink30 Explain to me how all of this stuff here's fake? Why do you think no one's ever been to space?

  • FAKE AND GAY. D:

  • @erectacocky you have a FAKE penis and you are gay!

    not the vid! Fucker

  • "welcome back to earth....congradulations on expanding our new home in space.".....mankind and our fuckin shitt damnnn

  • simply amazing!

    

  • I have NO idea about this sort of thing so this might sound like a stupid question, but how the hell do they land ON the runway? How do they get into position to do that? Do they start off in the correct position from outer space or something?

  • @TheRaGiTe Sattelite bro. Everything is done by their GPS, all they do is plan out the re-entry.

  • For a smooth landing they need to increase SBRK for the space shuttle to flow through the air more smootly

  • can anyone tell me..

    if a space shuttle miss his landing, can he turn around and do it again? or its gonna be a crash landing?

  • @jasonyeozhishen One chance only. No go arounds....

  • @mach25man meaning the engine is not moving/start/spinning?

    oh. . thats cool

  • @jasonyeozhishen No engines are running. APU's are running to supply hydraulic pressure for aero surfaces to move. Fuel cells are running for electricity. Other systems are running for different reasons. But no rocket power.....

  • The shuttle was developed in the 1970's! Just imagine what we as man kind could produce now! Its un-thinkable. As soon as all the resession and financial plunder passes over i believe technological advances with leap forwards like we have never seen! Fingers crossed

  • @Rambo9612 Unthinkable eh? NASA couldn't even go to the Moon now without a 10 year run-up.... You would think that going back to the Moon would be nothing, seeing as how we've been there before... pffft.

  • station-mation

  • Atlantis welcome home.

  • that is something else. imagine experiencing something like that.

  • Nice to see you back!

  • It's more fabulos

  • Cool o_O

  • This thing has never been in the moon. Period.

  • @dforeigner its not designed to

  • @dforeigner Ur right actually.The space shuttle Atlantis has never been to the moon and nobody said it ever was. Apollo eleven took the astronauts to the moon for the first time in 1969,but it was the moon vehicle Eagle that actually landed on the lunar surface.

  • @dforeigner

    Neither have you.

  • coooooooooool and plus sooooooo fast

  • i have a good question.. whats the procedure for a missed approach? Can that orbiter go around?

  • Its a glider. No go arounds.

  • whats the landing speed?

  • Around 200kts. depending on return weight.

  • im sorry,is 200kts like 200 mph? cause it looks much faster.

  • About 230mph

  • 200 kts is faster than 200 mph...

  • The shuttle's approach speed from 10,000 ft is approx 400 knots (which is most likely the speed viewed from the rare side view taken),the astronauts flare the nose only in the last couple of thousand feet to bleed off speed for a 200 knot touchdown,this is also the reason why the landing gear is deployed just prior to touchdown

  • Thats amazing that a spacecraft capable of launch and reentry can land like that! Awesome, never gets old!

  • Ahaaa the PSU guy again...........

  • @hunterhalo2 Sadly, they are ending the shuttle missions next year. :(

  • we dont own space, we should just leave it for the aliens before they do a fully offensive assult on earth

  • That machine is astoundingly good at what it does, but its glide to drag ratio is awful.

  • it would b so much relief 2 NASA if space shuttles could take off 2 space rather than needing rockets like normal airplanes

  • well that would be incredibly difficult b/c the farther u go the more gravity pulls u down and it would most def. need rockets anyway. The rockets on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions were also necessary due to the incredible difficult of getting a space craft out of the earth's atmosphere (even though it's only 7-10 miles high above sea level)

  • This isn't the movie Airplane 2: the Sequel.

  • imagine what that would be like... you were just in space, now you're coming back to friggin earth.... holy crap the shit we pull off these days.

  • Ну и хули?

  • Welcome home!

  • it sorta wobbled

  • Damn! Seeing any of the shuttles land makes me so damn proud I get goose bumps...

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  • i bet that runway is massive

  • No kidding. What the hell was the point of your post?

  • wow. Just imagine sitting in that Space Shuttle and... it's so damn fast. Man, this probably feels fantastic..

  • This is how mankind needs to land spacecraft. Forget parachutes and retro-rockets. This is so much more beautiful.

  • The plane did use parachutes

  • amazing......a stone with wings and no opportunity to go round....yeah...amazing to be inside it, no doubt

  • i wish i could go in space, but i would get homesick... and don't your muscles get weak from being in zero gravity for too long? I'd imagine it would be like being in a coma

  • Like being in a coma??? what how do you even know what that's like and why would being weightless make you feel like you are in a coma???

  • I know because I have a friend that was in a coma for a month, and he suffered significant muscle loss. Being weightless in space i would imagine has the same effect as being in a coma because there is no way of using your muscles in space. Lifting a 500 lbs barbell would be as easy as lifting a jar of peanut butter. See what I mean now?

  • They have ways of exercising up there, don't worry. Most STS flights are only in space for about 2 weeks. The astronauts that live in the ISS, they do exercise a lot too, so they turn out okay.

  • WachaDrop,

    I know what you mean about getting homesick...not to mention the fact that I'm afraid of heights - can you imagine what being afraid of heights would do to an astronaut?

  • I love how he said ''Welcome back to earth'' just like when it says Welcome to London.

  • Go for it shutle

  • Magnífico esse trabalho!

  • goes up as a rocket......comes down as a glider....incredible! 4.5 million mile mission...good lord.....how much money would you need to spend on a credit card to earn  that many miles?

  • luck no air miles discount card!

  • I like that the guy makes sure the space shuttle follows the procedure for landing by carefully observing its movements.

    And,

    "Welcome back to Earth."

  • I can't WAIT to see this thing on display at a museum :D So awesome, but getting outdated a bit.

  • Outside is the same. Inside is updated allthe time.

  • what is chase planes?

  • That's amazing!

  • what's that thing flying past at 0:02?

  • Nerdslayer50000

    It looked like a bird to me lol :P

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  • It looks like a bird, i paused the movie when I saw it

  • Any idea how fast the approach is? Looks like it flares for a long time to bleed off velocity before touching down.

  • The approach is between 225 and 300 miles per hour. As for this landing I don't know the exact speed.

  • i love america space shuttle is the best,,,

    i dont like ussr russia buran,,,

    ussr russia is a very cheap space buran shuttle,,,

    ussr russia is always copy steal from america space shuttle

  • It's a miracle these things land safely, when they enter the atomosphere again they're at like 16, 000 mph right?

  • IDIOT

  • must be speaking for yourself, of course!

  • yo mama you cunt

  • fuck off you half baked idiot

  • well the reenter somewhere over the pacific... prob stil near africa s they glide for a long time... given that white sands would be a back up and thats west of kennedy and they said runway 33 so thats 33 degrees on a compass so they'd be flying from west to east...

  • you mean 330 degrees on the compass

  • the last 20 seconds of the flight is manual.the rest is automatic.there is no engine thrust .cool

  • Pilot takes over 5 min prior to landing.

  • ufo 0:01 - 0:03!!! lol

  • its a joke u dick! cmon lol. is that what i am? lol

  • stll man u  cracck me up

  • man dude u crack me up

    it was a ufo lol

  • All wrong... It was a bird-like-living-UFO-spawn-fro­m-hell, can't u guys see that?! XD

  • it doesnt need to use its engines, its going around 15000mph upon reentry, if it didnt, it would burn up. as it glides towards earth it drops speed very rapidly due to its modified flaps. when its within 1000 feet it is going qaround 1000 mph, then 500, then 250, then touchdown.

  • That is probably the INCORRECT analysis of the shuttle's reentry, approach and landing as I've ever heard. Do your research, or buy Space Shuttle 2007 simulator.

  • ...and you think that "Space Shuttle 2007" is going to be accurate too?

  • doesn't it use its engines when landing?

  • no it dosent

  • oh ok, so it just glides down?

  • that's correct, the shuttle is a glider

    it cannot take off, per se, as would an airplane

  • wtf are you talking about if it used is engines it would go well to fast to land :0

  • I know that now but that was why i asked the questions.

  • of course it doesent have any engines, when it re enters the atmosphere if it is of to high of an angle it will just bounce of the atmospere and to low wud just burn up

  • poor bird (1:14/1:19) lol

  • your right lolol

  • what are the chase planes they using

  • They have a G2 flying weather and it usually flies near it during landing but not always.

  • amazin

  • "holy shit dude that deserves a sube well done :+)"

  • The American space program has fascinated me since childhood. Watching the shuttle land was truly spectacular. USA's contributions to science and technology are equally spectacular.

    Greetings from India!

  • thank you! come to the States to visit!

  • Excelente vídeo, realmente muito bom.

  • would it be hard for it to have some flaps?

  • I think the problem with flaps would be protecting the inner parts of the flaps from the extreme re-entry temperatures, much like what doomed Columbia.

  • i think so because of the speeds

  • The space shuttle has a flap. It's located in the middle just under the 3 main engines. It's purpose is to protect, with its thermal tiles, those engines from the re-entry heat and it's also used for the pitch control in atmospheric flight.

    For roll control, the pilot uses the elevons on the back of the wings and for yaw, a part of the vertical tail, the rudder, that also acts as a speed brake when it's opened.

  • thanx for the info!

    btw, the crew can't fail to land or else they lost their chance and will fall like a rock because there's no engine thrust when they come back right ?

  • Exactly. At a precise time in space, the crew use a procedure called the de-orbit burn. Shuttle is moving "backward" in space, the 2 OMS engines are fired up for a certain amount of time to slow the shuttle's speed so gravity can pull it back. That procedure is done at a specific location in space.

    Most of the re-entry is fly by the AutoFCS (Auto Flight Control System), which acts like an auto-pilot, until a certain distance where the crew takes manual control.

  • allright

    wow! you seem to know a lot, do you work for Nasa or somethin ?

    what happens if they choose to reorbit and there's bad weather, like a storm, can they simply reroute to the other landing site?

  • I don't work for NASA, although i read a lot about space exploration.

    The deorbit burn GO is given by Mission Control on the ground, so issues about weather are treated prior to that. When the GO is given crew and mission control knows exactly where and at what time the shuttle will land. A reroute is not possible with the lack of engine thrust.

    The 3 landing sites are Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Edwards Force Base in California, White Sand in New Mexico.

  • ok, well

    thanks again for the good info

  • Why would they land with that wind?! O_o That looked like a tough landing!

  • They don't have much choice, once they start the re-entry and landing process, I think it's just some serious math calculations and then gravity takes over. The shuttle doesn't land like a plane. Maybe some of the other viewers can explain it better.

  • Yeah, I know the shuttle doesn't have an engine and that it lands like a glider, which means any little mistake could be a crucial mistake that could put the spacecraft and crew in danger. Why not land at Edwards if the wind is that bad?

  • because NASA uses the best pilots in the world to land the shuttle. I'm sure that wind didn't even challenge that pilot's abilities.

  • is it a powered landing?

  • it must be hard to do a crosswind landing in a glider with wings like a brick

  • I always loved how it falls like a brick! Stae of the art 1970s technology! Great clip and a great craft. 5 stars!

  • wow cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!:)

  • Nice graphics, Is this game on the 360?

  • lol wow this is not a game ! I think you were joking

  • no its ps3 only sry =/

  • don't they come in gliding(no thrust)?

  • bst lndin yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooo

  • its was great to hear them say "welcome back to earth"

  • Right, and the driveway of my house is 4572 meters or 15000 feet long...

  • lol

  • does anyone know how long the runway is for the shuttle?

  • lol 55km?? u gotto be kidding me right.

    55km is almost the whole city highway, not an airport anymore lmao.

  • It's 15,000ft long and 300ft wide.

  • If a shuddle lands in Florida you can hear it from 300 or more miles away I live about 400 miles away from KSC and you can hear that bitch and see it taking off

  • The Orion Orbiter which is being designed as a replacement, should not be made. It is just a rocket like the Saturn-V really. They could design the space shuttle better though. They could design it to take off like an airplane.

  • Awesome!

  • i know where to get the space shuttle for flight simulator x just ask me

  • Where? in Florida beach?

  • where?!

  • Wow that was a great landing. Does anyone know if you can fly the space shuttle on Microsoft Flight Simulator 10? Please give me a link.

  • yes you can fly a space shuttle.. search for captainsim.. im not really sure this is it, but if u wanna know, give me a message;)

  • how fast does a space shuttle go to land

  • 350km/h

  • touch down speed range from 170 knots to 195 knots. initial approach is about 680 knots.

    final approach is 270-290 knots.

  • thinking how it will be to be up in space and come back and try landing this super sonic flight and try landing it

  • When it frist enters the earth atmosphere the auto pilot flyes the shuttle. But when the shuttle reaches a certain speed(out of super sonic flight) the pilot takes over because he/she can fly the shuttle better than the flight computer. And you are correct the shuttle does not have engines so it cant Go around to line up for another landing attempt. It is a one try, one landing attempt.

  • i was just thinking, why spend money on a 747 SCA when a detachable pod powerful jet engines can bu mounted on a shuttle and let her fly back?

    that removes the time consuming mounting and demounting on a 747.

  • That would be almost impossible the space shuttle can't fly like a regular airplane it can only glide. I doubt that even if you could mount jet engines on her she could fly. They are just to heavy they weigh about 100tons. Look at the 747 and the wingspan on it, the shuttles wings would not be able to get enough lift.

  • impossible?

    take a look at the russian's shuttle trainer.

    its same weight size as their Buran shuttle but has FOUR AL-34 afterburning turbojet engines.

    lifts off @ 300 kts.

    see watch?v=TF_6iZIlYrE @ 1:12

  • That was a test vehicle much light our Enterprise, half of the cargo bay was a fuel tank. The vehicle you are talking about was meant as a test vehicle and never meant for space flight. It was used to understand the gliding cabablities of the full size Buran.

    Also it did not fly cross country it flew up a few thousand feet and then turned its engines off. So it couldn't be able to fly any distance, that is why the Russians built the An-225 to carry Buran.

  • well maybe use eight PW-100 jet engines like those on F-22 raptor.

    naaahhhh just being imaginative.

  • where would it get the fuel for that? It would barely be able to fly around the airport.

  • as i said i was being imaginative...

    well if you add wing extension and winglets that may squeeze some lift.

    again i was just being imaginative.