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  • cOOL ASS CAMERA!

  • he works for the Orlando Sentinel, our local metropolitan newspaper. Nice video

  • Did you think that one guy took enough photos of the launch?

  • LOL only thing you hear is click click click click click click click click click click

  • Someone took a lot of photos... :P

  • I was at Kennedy Space Center during the launch! It was incredible!!

  • I was there on march 15th beautifull shot :-)

  • Cool video. and that camera rocks!

  • god exist

  • I'm a bit of a nerd and really i reckon that was awesome =] (i'm a really nice nerd too)

  • NO U

  • AWESOME 2  great stuff

  • I am a 24 year old Finance major.... Should i go back to 4 years of University get an Engineering degree and apply for NASA or is it to late haha :)

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  • i can't answer your question, but I just wanna say that I'm gonna be majoring in finance too :)

  • INCREDABLE!! video. I wish I could see the shuttle launch live. And that camera adds to the video with the con. clicking. GREAT video .

  • You can on NASA tv. Download livestation and add NASA tv to your channel list. Great channel.

  • got a light? i got a light ^

  • Awesome

  • geeze that camera goin of tap haha. oh nice veiw 2

  • What an amazing sight it must have been for you. I would like to see the shuttle in person, launching.

  • Awesome and frightening. Glad they took off okay.

  • mad

  • beautiful pics. but its the worlds most expensive roman candle. you cant afford the program any longer, stall it and use the money to pay down the debt. that or sink.

  • Every major world power has a space program, if you want your great x10, grandkids to be living, we need to explore space, the world isn't gonna be here forever. Especially if we end up killing eachother.

  • WHY and HOW the FUCK do u think this is fake? do u think someone would really go out of their way to make a FAKE video that has already been PUBLICIZED? god ur soo fkn stupid

  • i watched this from disney world port new orleans riverside

  • Wow! How was it?

  • nice CGI..where do I find the real clip?

  • This IS the real clip, I've seen the shuttle myself.

  • IT'S DARK, DUMMY!!

    Don't keep holding down the camera shutter when it's dark!

  • Awesome...

  • was this in real time or FFd?

  • what's that clicking sound?camera?

  • yeah...damn fast, isnt it ? 3 - 5 pictures a second (hard to count )

  • A camera that I will never be able to afford.

  • Ooooo WOW

  • This isn't the Discovery launch from Sunday, March 15th, 2009, as the video details suggest. That launch was at 7:43PM EST, which after Daylight Savings, should be at dusk, not at night. You can clearly see on the other YouTube videos of the launch that the sky is still blue. I saw the launch from East Orlando and remember vividly the sunset shining on a section of the smoke cloud.

  • I think he may have had a filter on the lense or something... A shuttle launch doesn't seem like something anyone needs to lie about.

  • Who said anything about a lie?

  • From the person who shot the video:

    This was the March 15 launch... since my priority was still photos I just stuck the video camera (a Sanyo Xacti HD1000) on a gorilla pod and set the exposure manually to what my still camera was set to (f6.3 1/640 shutter ISO 200). I did this to avoid confusing the camera which would no doubt be too slow to catch up with the change in exposure automatically.

    Hope that clears things up!

  • Oh ok. Thanks for the reply. It's just that i never saw a nightime space shuttle launch before. I understand that the timing has to be perfect. thnxs

  • everyone should see a launch just once before they die....it's AWESOME!!

  • That sweet! I wish I could of seen that in person. It's pretty cool

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  • Camera's.....

  • WoW...are you really that stupid. It's cameras...

  • called a sequence morons.

  • More man apes in space, i am a rational ape after all...

  • lmao, I love the continous shutter clicking, that'd be exactly what I would do if I could see the launch.

  • they're taking pictures for tomorrow's papers. :)

  • wow somebody likes to take pictures!

  • i like space

  • "what is that mysterious ticking noise" xDDD

  • cameras

  • yeah i know that this "ticking noise" are cameras but it´s a parody of the video "what´s that mysterious ticking noise". have you it?

  • Why launch at night? security?

  • easy to see

  • If anything, probably to put the shuttle at a specific place at a specific time ... or because the weather was good.

  • maybe something called timing

  • Timing is krithical to get in perfecth orbit. Where the sun is, dont matther mutch.!

    The dark off night dont eksacly hide the flaming rockets.

  • Excellent. Now to wait for the shuttle to burn up and incinerate the astronauts on return to earth due to some worthless debris knocking off a heatshield tile.

    This is gonna be some boffo news material!

    *** Crosses fingers for thumbs down even though you know I'm totally right about this flawed bullshit design... bring back the Saturn 5.  That thing could launch all of France into space. God damn, it was awesome! ***

  • The big problem with Saturn 5 though was that it wasn't reusable...and one of those missions failed too. I think the Shuttle is a very good design...think of how many missions have gone right...

  • Saturn V never failed. There was a loss of the center J-2 engine on the upper stage of Apollo 13, but it didn't affect flight performance. The problems later during the mission were unrelated. The problem with the Saturn V is that is was insanely expensive. Shuttle is also very expensive to operate, less than Saturn V, but no where near what they predicted. When the Shuttle was designed, they thought they would be launching one every 2 weeks.

  • True, true...Saturn V never had any missions with fatalities.

    Funny how they seem to overpredict some stuff and underpredict other stuff...people thought back then that we'd be on Mars right now. Heh...that idea is still far from reality. However, when my grandmother watched Saturn V take off, she's told me that back then she wondered if she would see the day when space flights were normal and regular...and I think that's happend :D

  • I guess no one remembers Apollo 1...

  • i can hear someone shooting 100000000 photos wit his fast camera ;]

  • BEAUTIFUL! I think the space shuttle is a remark. piece of machinery. It has been around since 1981! LONG time .

  • yay for discovery

  • 300 000 $ to 10 million $ depending on what you want to do and for how long. there are zero gravity tourist atractions across the world though that go for a couple of hundred dollars.

  • I live here in Titusville (city where this short video clip was shot from), and if you want to come here to see the shuttle all you really need to do is drive here and book a hotel ahead of time. Watching the space shuttle is of course free, you just have to pay to transport yourself here and pay for somewhere to stay. Oh, and plan on a lot of traffic you're better off bringing some extra sodas with you or whatever and waiting a little while after the launch before leaving to avoid traffic.

  • what was that awful clicking sound?

    was that a shutter?

    were they all individual shots?!

  • was probably a camera taking a lot of pictures

  • the cake is a lie

  • the cake is a pie

  • A badass camera in continuous shooting mode.

  • didnt seam that fast, but would be ok for the speed of the rocket

  • Fake

  • WHAT???!!!! your retarded.

  • Wow,this video looks awesome in HD.

  • yea. i tried that. too bad it lagged like a mother fucker

  • awesome

  • Cool!

  • alien species of some hot sexy chicks of some kind,where on are way!!

  • A pity you're pathetic existence is using valuable resources.

  • Thanks for letting me know that you were annoyed with my comment.

  • Dude that was dope.

  • whats the clicking in the background? Camera?

  • We have to learn about all of this stuff in science class, and I find it so boring most of the time, but whenever I watch a launch, I get chills, and i find it so fascinating. I guess studying for me is boring but taking the studying to action, or in this case, watching others take action, isn't crappy.

  • You ever want to work on this type of stuff, better learn to love math. If your teachers suck, just learn it on your own or hire a tutor. Engineers make mad bank straight out of college & it beats working as a waiter at the local Olive Garden cause you were bored in HS.

  • Hehe, yeah, me too. =)

  • yes,built in to labtop.see cant even email u rite

  • I saw the launch from the west coast of FL it was awesome and still light outside not dark like it was at the launch site.

  • same here, the white cloud was up there for while. the sky was sort of orangish, blue

  • hey sorry guys,new to u-tube.love space ..how come when i vidio responce,have no audio,can someone help.signed no pc usin sob

  • It wasn't dark at the launch site... I watched it from my girlfriend's front yard (in Titusville, right across the Indian River Lagoon from the space center). It was right before sunset.

    I don't understand why the video makes it look dark out, it was definitely still daylight.

  • Gavrilo Princip

  • This time not with that wimpy winky of a scarf wiggling in the draft (haha, joke taken from a Baker interview on youtube.

  • black hole?

  • no "whole"..look it up

  • i've searched for it here on youtube, and i didn't really find anything interesting :/

  • nvm.

  • have you seen the black whole in the sun @fred

  • Yeah would to nice to see it in another perspective :)

  • yea whos post got removed

  • Lol they removed he's post!

  • rapid19 ur probably canadian and dont even realize that the shuttle was largely built by canadian engineers after the cancelation of the the arrow program by avro

  • the ony thing we as a mankind has discovered or achieved is how to luanch a shooting piece metal in to space..

  • you are "D" king :D ahaaaahahhaha

    read some book...or torture your parents for not learning you more than that c c c

  • These events never cease to amaze me. I can't believe how far the world has advanced on its sciences. One day, exploring a foreign galaxy will be equivalent to a mission to our moon.

  • Yeah.. something for some reason has not been duplicated since 1960's... You kind of think they would have gone back or setup a base on the moon?

  • i was just thinking that the other day...but there really isn't a need to. The numerous missions we did there got more than enough rock samples, building a station there would just be a waste of resources. They don't expect to learn much more about the moon, so they won't waste money tethering a base to it. (my guess, any corrections appreciated)

  • Advantages of a base on the moon are improved sensor capabilities (especially on the dark side of the moon), and lower cost to send satelites etc into space. Among many others.

  • lol

  • wooooow faggg lmao, USA one of the most retarded, obese countries in the world. You did not create technology, over a dozen countries have space technology, and this just goes to prove how ignorant SOME Americans are, not all because some of them have been more than a few "MILES" outside their house

  • may lord bless you..

    you rock!!

  • Umm you do realise, Nasa has scientists form all over the world to build the Space Shuttle. Maybe you should do some research before you say somthing like that. USA doesn't "invent" technology, it's the collective intellect of scientists all over the world which makes things like this possible.

    Btw USA isn't the only country with aerospace and space technology.

  • It's not smoke it's water actually :P

  • Holy crap thats a ton of smoke, shuttles are amazing

  • beatiful

    but

    lol

  • lol kennedy space center... they dont launch rockets from ksc.. ppl would die

  • yeah they do...

  • not really... they launch em from cape canaveral...

  • KSC is ON Cape Canaveral.

  • WOW this is a beautiful video.....love it!

  • This ROCKS!!!

  • And with the first Puerto Rican astronaut.. Boriiiiiiicuaaaaaas Bestiaaaaleeeeess... :0)

  • i need to be astronuat you noe i am my brother make rocket use bamboo hight like 20.09 foot too make it 5 month then finish we all you highdrotonic gas we do soyuz tma 11 we all mix highdrotonic with hyper powder and black powder but all ppl see our rocket the rock fly but hight already and explosion like nukelear that was amazing........ wait my bother in the video in youtube...

  • very cool !

    That rocket cost al least 100 million $

    I saw on Discovery :D:O

  • the enhanced ability god has given to man

  • sweet

  • COOL ....GOOD LUCK!!

  • Every Space Shuttle launch is a moment of History! I never tire of them. I'm so proud of all the people that make that rocketship get in the air and into space. What an amazing feat!

  • awesome

  • that´s realy coool :DDD

  • This is beautiful

  • more shit in the sky

  • It goes up and comes down to earth in burned shreds.

  • wonderful :}

  • i want the same to go at work :)

  • Yawn...

  • I watched the whole thing on TV ;)

  • great stuff. front row seats are the best

  • Spectacular everytime you see it.

  • man that makes me wana become an astronaut.

  • It's beautiful this shot from pitch black to golden and copper and the tiny shuttle. It's ruined by the advertisement popping at the bottom. And I agree with all the comments I read.

  • Lol dont you just love the camera clicking in the background. sweeet!!

  • damnit I was supposed to watch it and forgot XD!!

  • I don't imagine how much for USA will cost the hydrocarbon energy for lauch dozen space discovey's per year in the future.

  • i don't imagine you actually know dick about how the space shuttle is propelled. the rockets are powered by a special solid fuel of aluminum combusted with a catalyst that's not a hydrocarbon.

    and fyi, the shuttle fleet will be retired by 2011. idiot.

  • Space shuttles RULE!!!!!!

  • fuck the new world order, wake up people

  • saw this from my house in tampa all i had to do was stand on my mailbox lol. cool as fuck

  • perfect..

  • eventually haha. It was scheduled to launched a weeks before

  • F**** Those Bas***** Spending All That Money For Nothing---What You Going Up There For.... People on Earth ---Starving to Death....Fu** NASA....

  • awesome

  • Love how it was pitch black, then it just explodes with light. Awesome.

  • Thanks that was cool to watch. I wish they showed space shuttles more offen on TV. When I was kid it was a big deal and it should be still :).

  • wow cool !

  • KOOL!!

  • I uploaded a video from across the lake its longer than this but i wasnt paying the ticket to stand with the news ppl lol

  • It's truly amazing how far we have come as a species.

  • and still, a far longer way to go...

  • Ya sometimes its hard to imagine what our grandchildren will be seeing and learning about.

  • Check out "max kd drive"

  • We really need more space exploration.

  • i live about an hour and a half from the location in which they launched it and i saw the light from the rockets in my area.

  • my video is way better but it isnt posted yet.

  • that sounded like a 5 fps burst, nice!!!