I watched this live, and held my breath all the way thru final approach, landing and rollout. My dad's last project at Rockwell International had been building the tooling for the Shuttle Orbiter Assembly Building at Palmdale, CA. A certain family pride was in evidence at that moment.
I was 9 and watched this live on CBS... when Columbia came to a halt Dan Rather said "there's plenty of time to talk and plenty to talk about, but let's take a deep breath and suck up this moment" and that's exactly what I did.
I have to hand it you you Americans. You guys rock when it comes to space flight. But to be honest. Concorde wad probably the greater invention. Mach 2.2 drinking champagne on the way to new York in 3.5 hours. But I love the shuttle. You guys are awesome.
@Kitfugl Chase plane. I think it carried out an external inspection during the approach and called out the heights as Columbia touched down. I may be wrong about that though.
We were driving about 60 miles west of this on the day it touched down. We were driving from LA to San Francisco just south of Bakersfield. We saw lots of planes buzzing about presumably chase planes and support in case it went off course, but never saw the shuttle itself. Heard it all live on the radio.
I was eight years old when they showed this landing live on national tv in mexico, I can't believe how long ago it was and still gives me chills to watch it....
@andybabig It would have been so fitting for Columbia to have finished it off. But for it to end without her shows just how much sacrifice goes into something as complex as this.
Great footage, probably lot's of people like me looking this up with the news the final launch is almost upon us. I was a 10 year old kid who liked to look up at the night sky and wonder, when this happened. I remember being glued to the tv here in the UK for the live launch footage too. Presented by the BBC Tomorrow's World host Michael Rod.
A multi million dollar flying machine being met by cousin Eddie's RV. Dont forget the ruber sheets and the gerbials. So sad to see the end comming soon!!!!!!!
@vonkiser Not exactly sure which space shuttle you saw at White Sands, but it wasn't this one. This particular shuttle, STS-1, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Remember this well.The launch and the landing. If I'm not mistaken this was the only time the main fuel tank was painted white. All other launch's remained unpainted to save on weight. Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen was the crew.Young had flown on Gemini 2 times, Apollo 2 times and had walked on the moon.He was the veteran and Crippen was a rookie.At launch Young's heart rate never went over 75 beats per min.Crippen's heart rate went from 90 to 155 beats per min.Mine did the same
Its such a shame to think how this particularly iconic space shuttle ended its career on February 1st 2003. I was only eight years old but i remember it well. RIP to the seven who died on that day.
Wow 30 years went SO fast now looking back!! I remember this landing so very clearly. Hats off to our great "space men/women" over the years! You've done us proud!
I dig this clip, I remember how amazing and inspiring the Shuttle was to myself & lots of other kids back in the 80s.. & incidentally, was that a roach coach rolling out there at the end ?.. I guess the astronauts earned a coupla' burritos after that landing.
Very memorable. I was there watching Columbia's first landing. Hard to believe the program ran this long. We need to continue our adventure with new and better vehicles.
Bless the crew of Columbia's last flight STS-107.
i saw a shuttle about a year ago comming in to land at cape canaveral from halfway across Florida. and if you think this thing shouldnt fly, this thing was whipin accros the sky.
I was out there on the lakebed for this landing along with a few 100,000 others. I will never forget people pointing out every bird or dust spec in the sky waiting for the shuttle to arrive. The double sonic booms that signaled her arival and the roar of the crown that followed are something I will never forget as long as I live.
I was fortunate to attend this historic event. To see a real space ship come down from space and land for the first time (and it was ours!) was something I'll never forget. JD
Lembro q atrasei pra entrar na escola só pra ver esse pouso historico. O futuro para nós na epoca era ja estarmos em Marte por esses anos de 2010. e com colonia na Lua.
Not the first ever Space Shuttle landing, there were many test landings before it actually went into space (worth mentioning because Fred Haise was in charge of a number of them). Having said that, STS -1 was always going to be OK under John Young; can't you see his elbow on the window as he lands it with one hand?
@cammiedelany John Young landed the shuttle since he was the commander, it is the commanders job of landing the shuttle not the pilot who was Robert "Bob" Crippen.
@KeenCapt The chute was not an upgrade to Challenger. It was 1st used in 1994, eight years after Challenger. It was part of a mod to relieve the stress on the orbiters axle, tires and brakes which themselves were all modified also.
I feel lucky to have stood on Daytona Beach sand watching this orbiter take to the sky for its first flight. I had always hoped to see it again someday in a museum. Saddening in so many ways.....
THIS IS FAKE!!! I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!! THEY'RE NOT FOOLING ME!!! IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!! THE GOVERNMENT HAS HATCHED THIS FAKE EVENT!!! YOU CAN SEE THE WIRES AND LOOK AT THE SHADOWS!!! THIS VIDEO HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN DOCTORED!!
The longest runway at Edwards is 7.5 *miles* long, which is probably long enough to land a shuttle with no brakes or drogue; the SLF at KSC is 15,000; two runways at White Sands NM are 35,000 ft each.
See List_of_space_shuttle_landing_runways at Wikipedia.
@TracyAndersonFoxhunt lol, ive seen STS-126,128 and 132 they all looked real to me :-),, im guessing your one of the people who also believes in UFO's
My friends and family have worked with the space shuttle program since the beginning. Some of my friends work for NASA in Florida and at Edwards. My family have built special ground handling equipment for the shuttle program. It hit us hard emotionally at the losses of Challenger and Columbia. We felt that our current President should allow NASA to continue with it's manned rockets to first goto the moon, and then beyond.
Its amazing to think that when this happened, the Moon landings of Apollo were still fresh in peoples minds. I'll miss the shuttle, an amazing feat of engineering and a spacecraft that brought many humans into space, which is something that must be done as much as possible!
the idea of this shuttle came sowhat near to the image of a spaceship becoming reality... but we will have to cope with the thought that riding a rocket in a capsule and returning to earth more like a falling stone than a plane is much more rentable :(.
@jsbruzina the reason is that the landing gear cause a tremendous amount of drag and as a result, they want to wait until the last minute for all of the extra friction to happen. You have to remember that the Shuttle is going well over 200 mph and at that speed, the landing gear doors are quite devastating to the airflow.
They're retiring the shuttle fleet, and the ARES Program has been canceled. Space development is going to be interesting for the next couple of decades.
Its very sad that Columbia will be destroyed upon re entry to earth many years from here and join it's sister Challenger in the dark pages of NASA. May both crews of those shuttles R.I.P.
Must be awesome to be in the chase plane (in real life) seeing the Shuttle fly so close next to you. Especially around @1m15s .. really diving and flying low above the ground. :-D
@trashmail8 must been a goof feeling for the astronauts when they saw the airplane for the first time too :) I saw this landing during my military service in the swedish airforce, we all shouted and applauded.
They do now. They were not out fitted with them until the early 90's. The chute is not required but was added to releave stress on the brakes and axles.
This is not a "real" runway, the shuttle landed on rogers dry lake where you have very long landing strips. The concrete runways at Kennedy and Edwards are 15,000ft long.
@mach25man WoW, I thought the runway that was on the lake bed was an extension of an existing concrete runway. Thanks for the correction : ) I love EAFB
@plumbersteve the shuttles are equpied with parachutes that when contact with the earth is made they will deploy and slow it down to normal speed so yes alot of runway is needed but not as much without the chute
@Corei7Maniac All the orbiters have parachutes. They all got them in the early 90's. Just look at Atlantis when she lands and any other landing video that flew after 1994.
@plumbersteve the first shuttle landing a a desert not in cap canevaral so it will be a very long runway. i thing the space shuttle were landing on the Edwards Air Force Base in Kalifornien
@plumbersteve the one at the kennedy space center is around 3 miles long. the ones at edwards can be up to 11 miles across the lakebed. but ususally 3 miles is enough. has the highest landing speed of any machine, 230 mph at touch down.
@plumbersteve STS-1 has Landed at Edwards Air Force Base. The main Edwards concrete runway is located next to Rogers Dry Lake and combining this runway's 15,000 foot length with a 9,000 foot lakebed overrun gives pilots with an inflight emergency one of the longest and safest runways anywhere in the world.
@plumbersteve its huge, and empty, its light for the amount of wing area it has, its good :)
the shuttle landing facility on the east coast is about 3 miles long, its the longest runway of its type in the world, this is at edwards air force base and has a different kind of runway, this landed on one of the painted on runways of the lakebed, i dont know which one or howlong it is but i think it is 23R and the runway is 14999FT long, it might have been another runway but im not sure
Normally at Cape Canaveral, the runway there is 5 miles long and follows the curvature of the earth, the heightdifference between the start and end of the runway is only 1 inch and is considered to be the most perfect runway on earth, these guys leave nothing to chance..
@plumbersteve Google: shuttle runway length; should be the first result: (wikipedia article) 15,000ft. so nine months for an answer. or 15 seconds on the internet. which i assume you were already on.
That's really cool! I never knew that spaceships landed the same way as an airplane like that. I always thought they land the way they do in cartoons, like pointing up and slowling coming down haha xD
wow, itl be sad to see the shuttle go, the new Aries and Orion spacecraft seem like a backwards step to me.. Oh well, its still damn exciting! Hopefully NASA can finaly do that Venus flyby that they planned in the 70's..
Welcome home Columbia beautiful
15kjc 6 days ago
Welcome home Columbia beautiful
15kjc 6 days ago
Welcome home columbia beautiful
15kjc 6 days ago
I watched this live, and held my breath all the way thru final approach, landing and rollout. My dad's last project at Rockwell International had been building the tooling for the Shuttle Orbiter Assembly Building at Palmdale, CA. A certain family pride was in evidence at that moment.
jrcadet4 2 weeks ago
I was 9 and watched this live on CBS... when Columbia came to a halt Dan Rather said "there's plenty of time to talk and plenty to talk about, but let's take a deep breath and suck up this moment" and that's exactly what I did.
ahrimanes 2 months ago
I've always thought how amazing it would have been to be in one of the "chase jets" escorting the shuttle to safely.
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i was not even born when this happened and i now work for NASA. This is truly history.
djpeppasauce 2 months ago
Seems like they needed to tune that speedbrake/nosegear touchdown timing a bit better... And I was 3yrs 'old' when this happened. :)
Randomnick123 4 months ago
what a clean looking shuttle. as if it was new.
jelneutron3 4 months ago
@jelneutron3 It WAS new...! This is a video of the first shuttle (orbiter) landing!
telescopereplicator 2 weeks ago
Man, I was born 4 months later. Just turned 30 last week.
JoeyLeafRunner 5 months ago
@JoeyLeafRunner i was 11 at the time. And what good times they were!
zestydude87 5 months ago
amazing stuff.got hand it to the yanks just great
hassannassaralah 5 months ago
I have to hand it you you Americans. You guys rock when it comes to space flight. But to be honest. Concorde wad probably the greater invention. Mach 2.2 drinking champagne on the way to new York in 3.5 hours. But I love the shuttle. You guys are awesome.
babymike737 5 months ago 2
Viene giù come un sasso!
PIEDEDIPIOMB0 5 months ago
5..4..3..touchdown
SGKoyama 5 months ago 2
Whats that below the craft?
Kitfugl 6 months ago
@Kitfugl Chase plane. I think it carried out an external inspection during the approach and called out the heights as Columbia touched down. I may be wrong about that though.
We were driving about 60 miles west of this on the day it touched down. We were driving from LA to San Francisco just south of Bakersfield. We saw lots of planes buzzing about presumably chase planes and support in case it went off course, but never saw the shuttle itself. Heard it all live on the radio.
lucavigg 6 months ago
T minus 7 years until my birth :-)
Hubieee 6 months ago 3
1:23 smooooooth landing, nice guys! =)
EIM2307 6 months ago
I was eight years old when they showed this landing live on national tv in mexico, I can't believe how long ago it was and still gives me chills to watch it....
healthdios 6 months ago
I took the day off tomorrow to watch the last one. I grew up with this baby. there will be tears! Oh man I wish Columbia did it to finish it off!
andybabig 6 months ago
@andybabig It would have been so fitting for Columbia to have finished it off. But for it to end without her shows just how much sacrifice goes into something as complex as this.
spparodi 6 months ago
I took the day off tomorrow to watch the last one. I grew up with this baby. there will be tears!
andybabig 6 months ago
Great footage, probably lot's of people like me looking this up with the news the final launch is almost upon us. I was a 10 year old kid who liked to look up at the night sky and wonder, when this happened. I remember being glued to the tv here in the UK for the live launch footage too. Presented by the BBC Tomorrow's World host Michael Rod.
whisky110 6 months ago
I wasn't even born when this happened, but I have a ticket to go see the last launch at the Cape :D
f40f50enzof60 7 months ago
I was only 9 years old at the time, but thought that it was amazing that USA did this and was glued infront of our television in Aalborg, Denmark.
ConTonkTen 7 months ago
seems to be like the only air to air shot of the space shuttle landing
wtficantgetausername 7 months ago
Look at that old Winnebago! Lol.
jonesy97 7 months ago
That was the 2nd Space Shuttle Landing.
The First being "Enterprise" during a Test
Pickuptruckdude 7 months ago
A multi million dollar flying machine being met by cousin Eddie's RV. Dont forget the ruber sheets and the gerbials. So sad to see the end comming soon!!!!!!!
crissy214 7 months ago
A multi million dollar flying machine being met by cousin Eddie's RV. Dont forget the ruber sheets and the gerbials
crissy214 7 months ago
My brother, my cousin, and me were watching it live on TV. We were bringing it in vocally. We were like - "Come on baby! Come on! Woooooooo!!!!
sastaroo 8 months ago
WIN
Benderrr111 8 months ago
I was there!!!I was at White Sands when it came in. Unforgettable.
vonkiser 8 months ago
@vonkiser Not exactly sure which space shuttle you saw at White Sands, but it wasn't this one. This particular shuttle, STS-1, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
mcotter03 8 months ago
@mcotter03 It was STS 3 I witnessed, sorry I was only half ass watchin this.
vonkiser 8 months ago
@mcotter03
It WAS this particular shuttle (Columbia), but on flight STS-3. The only mission ever landing at White Sands.
blablubb12345 7 months ago
@mcotter03
And maybe, i should read all comments before answering as it was already explained ;-)
blablubb12345 7 months ago
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mcotter03 8 months ago
Remember this well.The launch and the landing. If I'm not mistaken this was the only time the main fuel tank was painted white. All other launch's remained unpainted to save on weight. Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen was the crew.Young had flown on Gemini 2 times, Apollo 2 times and had walked on the moon.He was the veteran and Crippen was a rookie.At launch Young's heart rate never went over 75 beats per min.Crippen's heart rate went from 90 to 155 beats per min.Mine did the same
profsat5 8 months ago
@profsat5 STS2 was also painted white, From STS-3 and after, the tank was unpainted.
apodino 7 months ago
"Beautiful, Beaufiful" is not enough!!! These guys did something IMPRESSSIVE!!!! John Young rules!!!!!!!
machadojr 8 months ago
anyone know when they started using the drag cute?
rmhoman 9 months ago
@rmhoman
They started using the drage chute at the STS-49 landing of Endeavour in 1992.
Babelsberger82 9 months ago
I skipped school to watch the launch.
marvchomer 9 months ago
@marvchomer I did too ;-)
MrJumper68 9 months ago
Sad to say that that beautiful shuttle desintigrated in our atmosphere only a few years later. :( RIP
Astromaster90 9 months ago 2
Its such a shame to think how this particularly iconic space shuttle ended its career on February 1st 2003. I was only eight years old but i remember it well. RIP to the seven who died on that day.
jameslikeinnit 10 months ago
Good old "Flying Brick" Will miss the shuttle program
dickturnipmarlboro 10 months ago
Its the real life Millienium Falcon!
jigalojim 10 months ago
5, 4, 3, TOUCHDOWN!!!....xD
alifajardo1999 10 months ago
@alifajardo1999 he's going by feet from the ground, not time
CaNaDiiAnBaCoN 9 months ago
@CaNaDiiAnBaCoN i know that.... i haven't thought about time.... it's just funny how the radio said it... that's all :)
alifajardo1999 9 months ago
Well, you've cooked the brakes on it
newtongrace 10 months ago
20 years after Gagarin flown with a tiny 4 ton spacecraft, we can travel to the space with a 120 ton monstrum. Engineers rules!
panoz0 10 months ago
@panoz0
but where are we now?
FuckYouPBL 9 months ago
Great perspective of how small the fighter jets are next to the shuttle.
WereAllThatBored 10 months ago
FAKE!
BRUTUALTRUTH 10 months ago
I'm part of history.....I was born that day...damn to think almost 30 years ago this happened...
ChrisHoyt 10 months ago
RIP
haywood16 10 months ago
the smoothest landing i have ever seen!
abhiginimav 10 months ago
Wow 30 years went SO fast now looking back!! I remember this landing so very clearly. Hats off to our great "space men/women" over the years! You've done us proud!
Cheers from NYC.
TiramisuHappy 11 months ago
what computer game is this?
marshalllucky 11 months ago
lol thanks for clearing a RUNWAY for us!
rumpastumpa 11 months ago
I dig this clip, I remember how amazing and inspiring the Shuttle was to myself & lots of other kids back in the 80s.. & incidentally, was that a roach coach rolling out there at the end ?.. I guess the astronauts earned a coupla' burritos after that landing.
GeorgeWashingtonX 11 months ago
watched this live in 5th grade... can still remember it perfectly!
ptdnet 11 months ago 2
Today i'm 9 years old and i'm going to be 10 years in a couple of months.Great mission and when i grow up,i want to be an astronaut!
Javann100 11 months ago 2
Today i'm 9 years old and i'm going to be 10 years in a couple of months.Great mission and when i grow up,i want to be an astronaut!
Javann100 11 months ago
At this Day I´m 10 years old and we watch that live on German TV. Unforgettable!!!
eastender1971 1 year ago 19
thats right, land in edwards AFB :D
edwinshap1 1 year ago
John Young is THE MAN...Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9
bennyvega100 1 year ago 63
@bennyvega100 wow i was unaware he flew in pretty much every space craft. Thats a damn impressive feat in such a business
memberHD 11 months ago
@bennyvega100 John Young was the first person to fly in space on five or six different times.
Given that he was the most experienced astronaut in the program in 1981, it was no susprise he commanded the first shuttle mission.
He likely had the most successful career of any of the "Next Nine" (NASA's second class of astronauts, who were selected in the Fall of 1962).
I also suspect this video was pool footage.
altfactor 10 months ago
@bennyvega100 And a GT grad! GO JACKETS!
lvbfan 10 months ago
@bennyvega100 : Too bad he didn't try Mercury.
nice0051 5 months ago
Wow. The guy (John Young) went to the Moon, and then commanded the first Shuttle mission. Hell of a career!
Zebonka 1 year ago
Yep the flying brick is what all the pilots call it, aerodynamics of a pair of pliers. Lol
mocklerchris 1 year ago
@mocklerchris Pretty sure the pair of pliers is substantially more aerodynamic. ;-) Magnificent ship. She and her crew are sorely missed.
mjkobb 9 months ago
Very memorable. I was there watching Columbia's first landing. Hard to believe the program ran this long. We need to continue our adventure with new and better vehicles.
Bless the crew of Columbia's last flight STS-107.
hbgregg 1 year ago
I think it should fly, under power. Otherwise, it flys like a brick.
lilryry2121 1 year ago
i saw a shuttle about a year ago comming in to land at cape canaveral from halfway across Florida. and if you think this thing shouldnt fly, this thing was whipin accros the sky.
BlackOpsFever 1 year ago
where is the drag chute?
jasonyeozhishen 1 year ago
I was out there on the lakebed for this landing along with a few 100,000 others. I will never forget people pointing out every bird or dust spec in the sky waiting for the shuttle to arrive. The double sonic booms that signaled her arival and the roar of the crown that followed are something I will never forget as long as I live.
MangoHombre 1 year ago 2
thanks to all of you who have answered my runway length question without being presumptuous and rude!!
plumbersteve 1 year ago
I was fortunate to attend this historic event. To see a real space ship come down from space and land for the first time (and it was ours!) was something I'll never forget. JD
Dumitru777 1 year ago
@Dumitru777 I AM PILOT
mrmakemakkara 1 year ago
from logical point of view all those tons the shuttle weights are dead weight
ww2footage 1 year ago
i think i had an orgasm about 3 and a half times while watching this.
mtdeezy 1 year ago 3
What a beautifull landing, so smooth and perfect
MaistoHelix 1 year ago
Go around! lol
cjellwood 1 year ago
Lembro q atrasei pra entrar na escola só pra ver esse pouso historico. O futuro para nós na epoca era ja estarmos em Marte por esses anos de 2010. e com colonia na Lua.
PowerEyes7 1 year ago
sell space shuttless to private corporations and then continiue flights ! Thats idea NASA will earn a money and shuttles still be operating :D
ProthSteriel 1 year ago
Not the first ever Space Shuttle landing, there were many test landings before it actually went into space (worth mentioning because Fred Haise was in charge of a number of them). Having said that, STS -1 was always going to be OK under John Young; can't you see his elbow on the window as he lands it with one hand?
cammiedelany 1 year ago
@cammiedelany Bob Crippen landed it not Young.
aimhigh59 1 year ago
@cammiedelany John Young landed the shuttle since he was the commander, it is the commanders job of landing the shuttle not the pilot who was Robert "Bob" Crippen.
mocklerchris 1 year ago
@josephamaker94
It was Edwards. I was there to see it with my own eyes. The only mission to land at White Sands was STS-3
KeenCapt 1 year ago 2
Noticing the missing braking chute
Randomnick123 1 year ago
@Randomnick123
Yep. Endeavour was the first orbiter to have the drag chute, an upgrade following Challenger
KeenCapt 1 year ago
@KeenCapt The chute was not an upgrade to Challenger. It was 1st used in 1994, eight years after Challenger. It was part of a mod to relieve the stress on the orbiters axle, tires and brakes which themselves were all modified also.
aimhigh59 1 year ago
@aimhigh59
First landing with chute was in 1992 on Endeavour's first flight.
blablubb12345 1 year ago
@Randomnick123 They didn't have them back then.
SChaos1701 1 year ago
I was 10 years old when this took place!!! WOWWWWW!!!
blkpylut 1 year ago
edwards?
quadsnipable 1 year ago
Beautify, beautiful!
TheFutureIsRightHere 1 year ago
I feel lucky to have stood on Daytona Beach sand watching this orbiter take to the sky for its first flight. I had always hoped to see it again someday in a museum. Saddening in so many ways.....
85iceman 1 year ago
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THIS IS FAKE!!! I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!! THEY'RE NOT FOOLING ME!!! IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!! THE GOVERNMENT HAS HATCHED THIS FAKE EVENT!!! YOU CAN SEE THE WIRES AND LOOK AT THE SHADOWS!!! THIS VIDEO HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN DOCTORED!!
TracyAndersonFoxhunt 1 year ago
@TracyAndersonFoxhunt prick
datzfast 1 year ago
@TracyAndersonFoxhunt douche
AmeriKenny 1 year ago
That never gets old. Professionals. I love it.
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2:38 ... Ice Cream Van that took a wrong turn?
skipplet 1 year ago
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skipplet 1 year ago
It's basically a guided falling rock
noacronym 1 year ago
The longest runway at Edwards is 7.5 *miles* long, which is probably long enough to land a shuttle with no brakes or drogue; the SLF at KSC is 15,000; two runways at White Sands NM are 35,000 ft each.
See List_of_space_shuttle_landing_runways at Wikipedia.
utubesnamepolsux 1 year ago
@utubesnamepolsux The 15000 ft runways are long enough to land with no chute. They did it for 13 years before the chutes were added.
mach25man 1 year ago
I wonder if the shuttle had that "new car smell" still at this point!
firmingitup 1 year ago 2
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TracyAndersonFoxhunt 1 year ago
@TracyAndersonFoxhunt
Lol.
Boy75402 1 year ago
@TracyAndersonFoxhunt lol, ive seen STS-126,128 and 132 they all looked real to me :-),, im guessing your one of the people who also believes in UFO's
kirza94 1 year ago
@kirza94
he is being sarcastic
monimstarfox 1 year ago
Nothing's going to beat the shuttle. It was amazing, it could do anything!!!!
ShuttleDiscovery 1 year ago
I remember as a little boy watching the TV totally amaze. the first reusable spacecraft and is still the onlyone. a tribute to human ingenuity.
osvaldovillaf 1 year ago
My friends and family have worked with the space shuttle program since the beginning. Some of my friends work for NASA in Florida and at Edwards. My family have built special ground handling equipment for the shuttle program. It hit us hard emotionally at the losses of Challenger and Columbia. We felt that our current President should allow NASA to continue with it's manned rockets to first goto the moon, and then beyond.
John28061 1 year ago
Its amazing to think that when this happened, the Moon landings of Apollo were still fresh in peoples minds. I'll miss the shuttle, an amazing feat of engineering and a spacecraft that brought many humans into space, which is something that must be done as much as possible!
nickyp28 1 year ago 32
@nickyp28 It has served well but the USA need something more efficient.
bobian414 1 year ago
Enterprise really had the First Ever Space Shuttle Landing but nice anyways!
nick0912nascar 1 year ago
too bad that this space shuttle never again flied after the cloumbia misson....
rip
alex111222333444 1 year ago
the idea of this shuttle came sowhat near to the image of a spaceship becoming reality... but we will have to cope with the thought that riding a rocket in a capsule and returning to earth more like a falling stone than a plane is much more rentable :(.
Hubieee 1 year ago
I remember watching this and the launch live on tv....
statelinebristol 1 year ago
I wonder why they wait so long to put the landing gear down. The wheels don't come down until they're almost on the ground.
jsbruzina 1 year ago
@jsbruzina the reason is that the landing gear cause a tremendous amount of drag and as a result, they want to wait until the last minute for all of the extra friction to happen. You have to remember that the Shuttle is going well over 200 mph and at that speed, the landing gear doors are quite devastating to the airflow.
TheSoarer151 1 year ago
They used no brakingchute back at that time?
labacu90 1 year ago
@labacu90 Chutes were not added until the early 90's...
mach25man 1 year ago
lol. was that NASA's motorhome?
arias1772 1 year ago
lol... it fares at like 100 ft
arias1772 1 year ago
They're retiring the shuttle fleet, and the ARES Program has been canceled. Space development is going to be interesting for the next couple of decades.
x64ghost 1 year ago
Its very sad that Columbia will be destroyed upon re entry to earth many years from here and join it's sister Challenger in the dark pages of NASA. May both crews of those shuttles R.I.P.
Avenge911 1 year ago
Must be awesome to be in the chase plane (in real life) seeing the Shuttle fly so close next to you. Especially around @1m15s .. really diving and flying low above the ground. :-D
trashmail8 1 year ago 2
@trashmail8 must been a goof feeling for the astronauts when they saw the airplane for the first time too :) I saw this landing during my military service in the swedish airforce, we all shouted and applauded.
Robfoxman 1 year ago
@bubediscuss Science yeah!
frohman101 1 year ago
no chute yet huh? I believed all the shuttles had chutes.
trechan 1 year ago
They do now. They were not out fitted with them until the early 90's. The chute is not required but was added to releave stress on the brakes and axles.
mach25man 1 year ago
America, FUCK YEA!
bubediscuss 1 year ago
y is there a little plane beside it?
ricocasekfan 1 year ago
Since this was the first landing, the pace and chase plane flies along to verify configuration of the orbiter and take photo's.
mach25man 1 year ago
@ricocasekfan the little plane is a T-38 Talon, acting as a chase plane
planefreak3 1 year ago
sis they landed on dirt
guslb12 1 year ago
the back engines are so big it looks that shit is gonna go to space
ThjeshtLife 1 year ago
lovely audio. great post, thanks.
Rufusdos 1 year ago 2
I don't know how you land a falling rock with no power and little bitty wings. That's incredible. Does anybody know how long the runway is for this?
plumbersteve 2 years ago 26
3 miles
mach25man 2 years ago
I don't know how long this one is but the one in Cape Canaviral is 12,000 ft
rutgersfan7 1 year ago
This is not a "real" runway, the shuttle landed on rogers dry lake where you have very long landing strips. The concrete runways at Kennedy and Edwards are 15,000ft long.
blablubb12345 1 year ago
@plumbersteve i was pointing to the shuttle program itself, sorry if was misunderstood :o) or i explained it badly!
propaghandi2 1 year ago
@plumbersteve
16,500 feet at Edwards.
Knepperify1 1 year ago
@plumbersteve
Edwards has a 15k runway I wonder if this is it ?
1MtnBoy 1 year ago
@1MtnBoy Nope. The 15000 runway is concrete (runway 22/04). This is the dry lake bed which is even longer.
mach25man 1 year ago
@mach25man WoW, I thought the runway that was on the lake bed was an extension of an existing concrete runway. Thanks for the correction : ) I love EAFB
1MtnBoy 1 year ago
@plumbersteve the shuttles are equpied with parachutes that when contact with the earth is made they will deploy and slow it down to normal speed so yes alot of runway is needed but not as much without the chute
popsnacks2 1 year ago
@popsnacks2 Only Endeavour is equipped with a parachute. (Since it was the last built, they threw some extra features in.)
Corei7Maniac 1 year ago
@Corei7Maniac All the orbiters have parachutes. They all got them in the early 90's. Just look at Atlantis when she lands and any other landing video that flew after 1994.
mach25man 1 year ago
@plumbersteve the first shuttle landing a a desert not in cap canevaral so it will be a very long runway. i thing the space shuttle were landing on the Edwards Air Force Base in Kalifornien
MyF22Raptor 1 year ago
i don't know which of the runways that was used, if i remember correctly the longest one is about 7km
benythebot 1 year ago
@plumbersteve
I don't know about Edward AFB, but at Kennedy the runway is amlost 3 and a half miles!
CubesForAKid 1 year ago
@CubesForAKid Both concrete runways at Edw. and KSC are 15000 feet.
mach25man 1 year ago
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@plumbersteve
It had no power?
jacksonofalltrades 1 year ago
@plumbersteve the one at the kennedy space center is around 3 miles long. the ones at edwards can be up to 11 miles across the lakebed. but ususally 3 miles is enough. has the highest landing speed of any machine, 230 mph at touch down.
lol its really called by nasa "the flying brick"
SoccerBoy77 1 year ago
@SoccerBoy77 that landing speed explains how it doesn't lose lift i guess. man that's fast!!
plumbersteve 1 year ago
@plumbersteve over 18000 yards
K0S0s 1 year ago
@plumbersteve Its at edwards, I believe in excess of 14,000 feet.
FlightSimXPromos 1 year ago
@plumbersteve STS-1 has Landed at Edwards Air Force Base. The main Edwards concrete runway is located next to Rogers Dry Lake and combining this runway's 15,000 foot length with a 9,000 foot lakebed overrun gives pilots with an inflight emergency one of the longest and safest runways anywhere in the world.
asvp1 1 year ago
@plumbersteve about 3 miles
ColeChannel 1 year ago
@plumbersteve its huge, and empty, its light for the amount of wing area it has, its good :)
the shuttle landing facility on the east coast is about 3 miles long, its the longest runway of its type in the world, this is at edwards air force base and has a different kind of runway, this landed on one of the painted on runways of the lakebed, i dont know which one or howlong it is but i think it is 23R and the runway is 14999FT long, it might have been another runway but im not sure
BringEllisTheHoriZon 1 year ago
@plumbersteve
Normally at Cape Canaveral, the runway there is 5 miles long and follows the curvature of the earth, the heightdifference between the start and end of the runway is only 1 inch and is considered to be the most perfect runway on earth, these guys leave nothing to chance..
MaistoHelix 1 year ago
@plumbersteve Google: shuttle runway length; should be the first result: (wikipedia article) 15,000ft. so nine months for an answer. or 15 seconds on the internet. which i assume you were already on.
korrdavl 1 year ago
That's really cool! I never knew that spaceships landed the same way as an airplane like that. I always thought they land the way they do in cartoons, like pointing up and slowling coming down haha xD
ThatFLiPKiD 2 years ago
wow!!! :0 he expends damn late his landing gear! Go Space Shuttle!!!! :p
nvtnvt7 2 years ago 2
he needs to slow down to a safe speed before he can lower landing gear. You dont want to lower your landing gear when you're still going at 280kts!
jammydodgerman 2 years ago 2
Different aircrafts have different limitations for gear extensions. If it were unsafe, then they wouldn't do it.
blakman7 1 year ago
wow, itl be sad to see the shuttle go, the new Aries and Orion spacecraft seem like a backwards step to me.. Oh well, its still damn exciting! Hopefully NASA can finaly do that Venus flyby that they planned in the 70's..
nickyp28 2 years ago 2
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