STS-134 - The final launch of Endeavour - Full Launch in HD

[faostube]

@Neoli2300 it would not be possible, they would hav rd lots of space garbage.

[faostube]

@BlazingAngels220099 I did not skip that, perhaps you were impatient

[checkCZECHitOUT]

The moment of engines ignition is so EPIC !!!!!!! I can see it thousand times

[Decemberlove61]

Thanks for this Video:-) i miss the Shuttles.....

[baillou2]

Can anyone answer what is meant by "136 by 36 statute mile orbit"??

I"ve always wondered.

[Rangerpl1322]

@baillou2 136 by 136 statute mile orbit - a circular orbit with a perigee (low point) of 136 statute miles and an apogee (high point) of 136 statute miles.

[john3k16]

What does ( nm ) mean?

[sawinskii]

@john3k16 nano meter

[john3k16]

@sawinskii Thanks, but just one more question, why we use nm ?

[sawinskii]

@john3k16 because if you had a small distance like 0.0000000025M you can just say 2.5nm

[AtlantisB737]

@john3k16 nautical miles. 6076 ft or 1852 meters.

[BlazingAngels220099]

Thumbs up if you skipped the 1st 9 minutes.

[Neoli2300]

@BlazingAngels220099 s t f u

[ordi75]

Farewell Endeavour, you'll be greatly missed along with other orbiters!

[Neoli2300]

hey, just watching this. If NASA gets the entire empty and very spacious external fuel tank into orbit, why do they force it to reenter? doesn't it make sense to leave that huge thing in orbit and make it into an enormous space station?

[radzero]

@Neoli2300 That was on of the plans for an American station, before we went into partnership with other countries. It was listed as Plan C of Space Station Freedom, a series of external fuel tanks.

[JDolens24]

@Neoli2300

there is no way of controling what is does

[Neoli2300]

@JDolens24 controlling what?

[chersch5]

@Neoli2300 No, or they would have done that.

[Jamesc457]

I swear i read somwhere that endevour would be last to fly because atlantis wasn't ready to launch at some stage. I wish it was last to launch because of all of the key work it's done for the ISS.

[funkmastertraf]

Unsynced control communication, but still wonderful footage.

[andrewsrtv]

9:47



[sardoniclysane]

I know it's time to retire the shuttle, but by damn I'm going to miss this engineering marvel.

[Cryssoberyl]

No matter how many times I watch the main engines ignite, it sends a thrill through me every time.

[megaswissguy]

lol look at the speed!!!!!

[XPBoeing]

What do they communicate at 16:41?

[aimhigh59]

@XPBoeing Go for the plus X and go for the pitch. That is in ref. to directional thruster firings after the tank is jettisoned.

[XPBoeing]

@aimhigh59 Thank you I knew it minutes after I posted my comment, by thinking more deeply ; )

[jkirchman79]

Thanks for your service, Endeavour! You've inspired countless people and you will be missed.

Now, NASA -- on to the next adventure!

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Sigh....there's always one (below)

[michelb08]

There goes your hard work american dollars up in smoke. What will be the next leaching program to get your money and bail out the banks later on??

[eastsidelife4ever36]

Endeavour has just landed. I just watched it live.

[windatekili]

11:11 is there any video only from this camera ?

[jeanmarc87]

saw it live! i was shaking with excitement in the last 10 seconds before launch!

[LiaMaKaChauHai]

i hope china soon can easy left off the new Space Shuttle for New & Advance Technologies :")

[NickBAnKiD]

i love Endeavour forever

[flchange]

It's great to have the actual flight parameters in the lower slip. This gives an accurate idea of the awesome dynamics involved in the launch and ascent profile. A shame they have no replacement for this wonderful space program.

[PacalB]

It's utterly beautiful watching this & so inspiring. Space programs like this should continue 2 be a major drive for the human race.

If only we could go back in time and tell all those whom have pushed the boundaries of science "thank you", thank you for mathematics, physics, biology & all the wealth of other sciences that made this kind of thing possible.

That door being left open just says to me, "The door to space will always be open as long as we continue to want to explore!"

Beautiful.

[kat00003201]

i dont want these launches to end

[timd941]

15:33-17:52 the altitude went down from 356,000-ish to 336,401. Is that supposed to happen? I've never seen a launch video showing everything on the bottom. Not to mention how many tiles are gone on the shuttle.

[aimhigh59]

@timd941 Tiles have not come off since the 80's

[timd941]

@aimhigh59 then what's coming off the shuttle?

[aimhigh59]

@timd941 The shuttle sheds a few things at launch on purpose. It sheds rain covers on the thrusters that are designed to come off early. It sheds vapor barriors on the aft end near the attachment points of the external tank. In some cases it sheds foam although this is not favorable to the orbiter. Its sheds ice somtimes depending on the weather that day.

[timd941]

you know that 3-11-08 launch? I was in florida several days before but i went to the kennedy space center and at least took pictures of the endeavor on the launch pad.

[msgsmith62]

Awesome having this on YouTube- to watch. We are amazed. We went to see the original Discovery launch - no go.  So glad to see this. Thanks for the great view! tulsatina@msn.com

[AshtarKommando]

ever heard of the alien liveform named "fly" ?

[NHLinden]

check out the UFOs at 10:00 min. 

[NHLinden]

@NHLinden like my status and get the word out.

[JorJorArmany]

spending our knowledge, spending our life in space...

[71Equalizer]

NASA Studies Tile Damage on Shuttle Endeavour Heat Shield

[craigsjaffe]

Makes Lot's of sense, final launch of Endeavor, but he said "expanding our lives in space " HMMMM when you have to depend on the Russian's to go into space.... I am ashamed !!!!

[cykoelektryko]

9:50 ----> T minus 10 seconds

give me thumb up

[Audiman001]

Video stops at 9:47 and won't load. Too bad. I bet the rest of this video is quite good. Thanks a lot google - yet another failure.

@Christheyogi: Either that was a joke or you really are a clueless idiot.

[ChristheYogi]

@Audiman001 If you have an articulate argument to refute my stance, I'm all ears. Otherwise, your name-calling mirrors that of my 8th grade students. Or perhaps you are in 8th grade...

[Audiman001]

@ChristheYogi And you calling me an 8th grader isn't name calling?

You state: "many very, very smart folks..." Who?

You claim: "whether or not it will even be inhabitable for another 100 to 200 years..." If these people which you speak of are so sure, how can they be so vague with the timing?

You claim: "we have so damaged and disrupted the planet's ecosystem." You know we still have hurricanes and ocean currents, right? That's this planets method of conditioning. I would say it's still working.

[Audiman001]

@ChristheYogi You're also bizarre enough to state: "We must begin to explore and colonize the moon, mars, and beyond for the survival of the human race. Sound overhyped? It's not. It is reality."

You know that neither of these have a strong enough gravitational pull to maintain a "suitable-for-human" atmosphere, right?

You're an eighth grade teacher. Don't think that because eleven and twelve year olds are forced to listen to and believe what you say, intelligent grown adults will too.

[Audiman001]

@ChristheYogi You're what's wrong with our "education system." You and other ignorant "teachers" preach YOUR ideals and YOUR beliefs that cannot be proven, nor do they have any scientific structure. You waste young learning minds to believe anything an everything they hear.

Why don't you stick to teaching what science knows and has proven to be true and let the young minds work with that?

[Audiman001]

@ChristheYogi The truth of the matter is: no one, not even "many very, very smart" people know the future. No one can predict what will happen or what will become, especially in a 100-200 year time frame.

You do know that the era of dinosaurs produced WAY more greenhouse gasses than humans ever have, right? Of course, those who choose to remain ignorant and believe in the false ramblings of thieves like Al Gore will never know this.

[Audiman001]

@ChristheYogi I usually don't bother to respond because as an intelligent human, I know that there will always have to be one person out there that disagrees with me and will disagree to no avail to change their mind. Some minds are just structured differently.

However, because you are a teacher, and are supposed to be a positive influence on young developing minds, I thought that these replies would be VERY necessary. I hope that my children never have you as a teacher.

[ChristheYogi]

@Audiman001 Despite our differences of opinion, I respect your position and sincerely wish you and your family happiness and joy.

[kittypie070]

Yay!! Thanks a million!!

My DSL took a coffee break on me at T-9 minutes, so my own recording of this launch began at T-2 minutes. :P

[oisiaa]

Have the engines always been that dark black color?

[aimhigh59]

@oisiaa Yes, the engine bells have always been black.

[Ratmoonapper]

@oisiaa They have also worked reliably on every mission since the start of the Space Shuttle Program.

[mrbluenun]

Can I take the chance of saying thank you for such a detailed and 'hi-def' video!

Having said that, I am at a loss, as to why we, as humans think this 'Manned Flight" into space is at all necessary? The cost could run many a small country.

If possible, and bare in mind the PR virtue of this, what exactly, other than "Non-stick Cooking utensils and high heat polymers have we, again as the Human Race gained?

Please please do not reply with "Knowledge" 'Manned Space Flight' is unnecessary.

[Backlight22]

@mrbluenun Cat-scans? Cell-phones? An incredible amount of now military systems? Every rocket the military today uses are derived from the space program. And so on. You should research before questioning the need for a space program.

[ChristheYogi]

@mrbluenun I'll make this simple: manned spaceflight is necessary because the earth will not be inhabitable forever. In fact, many very, very smart folks in the scientific community question whether or not it will even be inhabitable for another 100 to 200 years we have so damaged and disrupted the planet's ecosystem. We must begin to explore and colonize the moon, mars, and beyond for the survival of the human race. Sound overhyped? It's not. It is reality.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@ChristheYogi I agree that in order for life as we know it to survive the human race have to find another habitable planet before the Sun dies.

But colonizing the Moon and Mars is not needed if the colonizing takes any resources away from the effort of finding a new planet. Given limited resources the colonization of the Moon or Mars would take enormous resources away from such an effort.

I believe that finding another planet should be the number one priority of the human race.

[Tubeglowfun]

Fly away birds! Fly away!

[NHLinden]

@Tubeglowfun iv never seen a bird fly that fast in my life...

[Picklesthedrummer7]

I was there!!!! I dont care that the cloud cover made me only see it for a few seconds, it was still just amazing.

[mrbluenun]

@Picklesthedrummer7 Please forgive me if I am answering and sending to the 'wrong person'.

I completely agree with you brilliant and a real site to view! … But, there was never any reason whatsoever to go for the complication and cost of 'Manned Flight in Space'. I am not talking of the USA but all and any Countries going into space.… I wonder why the next people sent after the horrendous disasters continue to travel? It makes no sense. It is also the cost of continuing to train Astronauts!

[AstroZane13]

Godspeed Endeavour and We Thank You!!

[lonnybonks]

black objects in sky at 10 minutes ???

[gergelyszakacs]

@lonnybonks birds

[Jamesc457]

I was sat in english watching this and there were people around me saying they wanted it to blow up because a shuttle launch is boring they are absalute dicks how can it be boring it's not exactly routine.

[gravity93zyr]

@Jamesc457 No biggie - they're just retards who don't know any better. Probably never will either.

[HiAdrian]

Finally the full thing on youtube, thanks spacevidcast.

[BooBoop69]

I sure hope you won't go down in vein Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor...you've served us well...

[simmons3d]

Goodbye proud bird. An interesting fact is the USA could have built 1500 space shuttles for the cost of the Iraq war...

[Ralph64]

@simmons3d Well, perhaps closer to 25 space shuttles, but a point well taken.

The cost of space shuttles / flights / the STS system is somewhat contested, in part because the huge cost to re-fit, launch and recover the vehicles makes them pricier than expendable rockets--who wants to advertise that fact??

Take the entire cost of the program, divide it up by six operational vehicles, and that's the figure I look at. $174 billion / 6, or $29 billion per shuttle.

[Lexem100]

godspeed.

[BitstreamDreamer]

So, what is going on now? Will there be another Space Shuttle, another missions in the near future...??

[Picklesthedrummer7]

@BitstreamDreamer The final shuttle mission will be in late June or early July. The date will be determined in the next few days.

[BitstreamDreamer]

@Picklesthedrummer7

THX for your reply!

[MrAbsurde]

China said that they will put a men on Mars until 2040 and they will make it's own space station until the end of this decade, maybe a new space race is coming .. I hope so, during the last one a man walk the moon.... 40 years ago...

[AlexandruUrsachi]

@MrAbsurde

The Chinese said that they consider a manned Mars mission in the period 2040-2060, but a manned Lunar landing early next decade. They are also considering mining helium 3 from the Moon. Yea, I hope you're right, we need to get back to space frontiers, and competition is the best political motivator.

[MrAbsurde]

@AlexandruUrsachi Actually they change their mind... New plan announce...

[AlexandruUrsachi]

@MrAbsurde

Who? What plan? The Chinese?

[MrAbsurde]

@AlexandruUrsachi Yeap. on the additional watch?v=oq6kwX0jkMo&feature

[wildwizardplanet]

@MrAbsurde : Dunno about 2040 Mars plans but Chinese space station at the fall of the decade is NO GO man simply, not even a small one let alone ISS caliber. They will attempt Docking this fall which Americans and Russians have done 50 years ago. But yes ofcourse only competition can tempt to go bold. Another SPACE RACE is not only good but a NECESSITY.

[FreedomLiberty21]

so now NASA will focus on creating heavy lift spaceships for the Moon, Mars and asteroid landings?

[william899332]

@FreedomLiberty21 HELLL YEEEEE

[Ali271194]

i waited for this :D

[plumsink]

We have the potential for a much more robust manned space program. We will have SpaceX and the Dragon capsule, possibly a NASA capsule, and possibly a Boeing capsule. The Shuttle was a beautiful machine, but not as safe as it could be.

[7elmig]

Thanks for the scientific, quantified information.

(As a non-American, but space enthusiast nonetheless, I miss units I understand...)

[kosmopolitisch]

This is the last flight for the Endeavor but not our last endeavor of space flight...

[antidiz]

@kosmopolitisch  Ehhhh, not bad..

[MarleneBomer]

Farewell, Endeavour... sorry you weren't replaced by another American program.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@MarleneBomer So you're saying that the SpaceX Falcon 9 is not an American program?...

and in the two periods following the Shuttle disasters did you feel the same why when astronauts were transported courtesy of the russians?..

You can see the period between the last Shuttle launch and the first Falcon 9 liftoff with astronauts as a third period and a testament to the complete stupidity and incompetence of George Bush's presidency.

The failure with Constellation was on his watch!

[rugbytlse]

@MarleneBomer there WILL be another American space shuttle but NASA cannot afford it anymore so it will have to be private. Until then, the Astronauts have to travel aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship (60 yo and still as reliable).