STS-121 Space Shuttle Discovery Launch

[bygota]

no problem. we're all star dust anyway...

[shreemanmohankharek]

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[Superiorer]

Sucks to know ill never see a shuttle being launched. Must be epic to see for real.

[c00lrthnu]

@Superiorer you ca still see a rocket launch as far as i know its just that keeping a shuttle in shape in order for it to launch is a tremendous amount of money and to add maintaning it is a lot of money piling up. Now NASA will be launching rockets that break up upon re-entry and entering the atmosphere so aas to cut maintaning costs ;)

[zander2gameplay]

Watched this in a hotel lobby in Washington DC.

[HOLLOT1PS]

sucks to know i will never be in space

[yeye11117]

i would kill to be in that ship :c

[bratsrule97]

I was there! My first shuttle launch in person. It was awesome!

[DrPoon]

0:47 is awesome

[apoc6400]

i was working in channelview tx one night at lyondale and the operators came outside and just started looking into the night sky i join them and said what yawl up to and one said see that tiny star keep your eye on it. well seconds later it flamed up an shot over our heads moving so fast i damn near wet myself. the plant was a gas plant lol. i feel in love with them things that night

[apoc6400]

no matter how many times i see this i get chills . sad to know i may never have the chance to see this in person

[lowellbarn]

What a beautiful sight! Godspeed to all of them!

[AmericanAirlinesRule]

Man, it sucks that the shuttles are being retired. They are beautiful birds.

[thechevyman999]

@AmericanAirlinesRule whats happening ive been seeing lots about this

[artisttutorials]

lol its like scarty starty

[gbsons]

this was one of my favorite things to do growing up was turn it to the news to watch the shuttle blast off.

[Alexc2777]

@gbsons it still is my favorite..even tho im 18

[robotandlegolover]

did he say scart start?

[vegetable925]

actually the trick is to click to ugetify (dot) com to download the high quality mp3 for this song.

[Roadracer987654321]

why weren't the Shuttles fitted or originally designed with an ejectable flight deck Module that would be able to blast away from the rest of the Orbiter if disaster struck on Acsent, Descent or while in Space ? The crew would be Safe no matter what. An old style heat shiekld could have been built onto and under the Ejectable Module .

A Heat Shield like what was on Apollo should have been applied anyway as a Redundancy onto the underneath of the shuttle. So no matter what the Crew is safe .

[MetusModus]

This situation is very controversial. I think the Mach 18 on launch is too fast to eject from even in a pod, it could hit the wings etc as the pod could no move out of the way quick enough. NASA have been posed these question in the past about human life over cost in dollars, and the long and the short of it is NASA don't think it worth while fitting them. They would have done it before now if it were something they thought would be a viable option. I agree save the lives not the shuttle.

[Roadracer987654321]

@MetusModus Could the shuttle br redesigned as a series of Modular units in that in case an Ejectable Crew Module containing the Astronauts had to be jettisoned then the Vertical Stabilizer and OMS Pods would eject as inpedendent podsincluding the wings so that the crew would be safe. The OMS Pods and Vertical Stab since they are more compact would be salvageable and retrievable. if the Main engines could eject then the shuttle would be lighter and be able to return 2 Earth with less speed.

[MetusModus]

@Roadracer987654321 Main engines ejected? That's a bit far fetched mate, that's an engineering nightmare, maybe years ahead but that is not going to happen this decade. Even if yu could the shuttle would crash land, irreperable damage, The multi pods leaves a weak point in the cockpit, on re entry the shuttle has to structurally sound as a pound, with zero fault lines. Wings MUST be sound. Nice idea though. The last bit is somewhat strange "shuttle would be lighter?" It is travelling Mach 18

[KabouterwesleyFTW]

This is awesome!

[Roadracer987654321]

@KabouterwesleyFTW

The shuttle could have been redesigned with a Docking Collar built into the Fuselage in front of the Cargo hold. The crew deck could have been built into a detachable module and placed in the Cargo hold.Shuttle Generation 2 could and would have been more multi purpose and easier to build. The Next Generation Shuttle would have been , lighter, more maneuverable, weighed less and used less Fuels to get up. The Main Tank of the STS system would also be smaller.

[Roadracer987654321]

Could a Heat Shield similar to what was on the Apollo Rockets be attached under the Heat Resistant Tiles ? That would have been a back up in case some of the Tiles came loose on launch or descent .

[Italiangangst3r]

i got to see these one launch! something ill never forget

[clydeburkey]

less air and drag faster it can go

[CarlaLR74]

I cannot believe that this fleet of shuttles is being mothballed:(:(

[predatortheme]

@CarlaLR74 if NASA is smart, then they would take the shuttles and put them into the halls , maybe in future missions a space shuttle of the new fleet cant launch cuz of problems or something, then there is still the old shuttles for rescue

[alex62495]

@predatortheme There's not going to be a new Space Shuttle fleet. It's a whole new rocket design that will take us back to the moon and possibly even Mars. The Space Shuttles are being retired. The shuttles are almost literally falling apart, and it's an expensive program.

[sebbeweiwei]

Thats just to burn money... why not save the world insteed?

[predatortheme]

@sebbeweiwei fuck u

[makka432]

@sebbeweiwei Why not take the united states military funding and put it to World Aid? That would REALLY do something. This is only represents a very, very small percent of US federal budget, and that goes towards so much scientific discovery.

[Andrewmcmelonse]

What is that stuff that seems to melt from the main engines when they ignite?

[TheMightyAtomNL]

You mean those 3 holes that seem to tear open (at 0:45) as soon as the main engine are fully ignited?

I've heard its some sort of fabric or plastic cover to keep any rain and other materials from getting into the orbiter's aft area wich could cause damage to the internal components of the orbiter.

The holes are actually thrusters used to manoeuvre while in space.

[Andrewmcmelonse]

I know what the holes are, I was talking about that plastic stuff

[laxedskater009]

their sending another one, in 20 hours, you can check the timer on the web site, under satellites.

[syanarasucka]

Hi! I'm traveling to Florida to see the launch on Monday. What is the viewing area at 28 seconds? Is this the VIP viewing area or can anyone go to this place? Thanks

[Chrisjr2007]

Press site..Only for the press :)

NASA causeway is the most nearest for the public ;D

[tototub]

Super la vidéo !

[jeffo9111]

pulled over on the side of the highway to watch this.. worth it

[winterstellar]

kdmq. I would love those parts too! I mean, isn't that THE ultimate "roller-coaster ride" ? : )

[kdmq]

i would love to be in space but i would not love to experience the rigors of the launch and (worse), re entry

[AL3J4NdR001]

fuck you then

gay

[Starfox818]

I wonder, how fast can a shuttle go? Reply ASAP

[donutey]

Up to 17500mph (this is orbital speed).

[FeexDHA]

Yeah.. if u don't reach this speed u can't reach the space! :D

[heven729]

while its in orbit its going about 17,500 mph..

[Salguodelaev]

up to 17-20thousand miles per hour. The escape velocity of earth is about 7 or 10km/second I believe. Thats FAST as FUCK

[Starfox818]

How would you feel if you were launched into Space?

[Fraberic2]

Ha estado muy bien, me encantan estos lanzamientos, son de lo mejor

[Sierrainthehouse]

When was this?

[futurecf18pilot]

ok when they say throttle up or down, what engines are they controling all of them or the 3 ssme's

[sledger25]

the Three SSME's...

[donutey]

Just the SSMEs, the SRBs are not remotely controllable, although various thrusts are "built-in" to the shape of the solid propellant within so the SRBs provide different levels of thrust when needed.

[sbenschwartz]

wow amazing vid ur great! :)

[spacedogs]

1:11 how can shuttle roll ? how?

mystery for me , long time..

it has anything like side-mini engine?

[crooks1996]

The shuttle has 2 engine thrust that turn's. this is how the shuttle roll's.

[7t8y]

The 3 SSMEs control pitch, yaw, and roll of the shuttle during ascent.

[Spades0207]

the engins on the shuttle pivot slightly using a kind of thrust vectoring and it turns the thing. :D

[crooks1996]

0:45 awesome

[LaurenFromMI]

I'm going up there man. No fair.

[luisfranciscanora]

im really curious to know who thinks of those lines they say after lift-off...

[UdallIn72]

I'd like to find a list of them.

[KAYROSE91]

holy crap wrong video oops

LMFAO

[KAYROSE91]

I was at the titusville public library and saw them launch that day :(

<3 rip

[odyma43]

i love it when he says everthing lokkin' good on the bird

[lexichronicle]

0:45 = ultimate getaway ride

[railroadtycoonz]

what did he say after t- 15 min ???

[Scridar]

So freakin' awesome

[crasc222]

0:46 WHAAMMM! That's what u can call power!

[Apollo580]

That's nothing compared to the Saturn 5 rocket though. Makes this look like a mini van. :D

[emomufin69]

i did the math on the nifo he gave at 2:38 and i got ~1100mph and the rocket is on a slope of 39 deg.

[JDolens24]

@emomufin69 how if at SRB seperation the rocket has to 3000mph

[enzo9239]

@emomufin69 I know this post is over 2 years old and you probably don't remember it anymore but your math is way off. 1100 mph is very slow at 2 minutes after launch. With that acceleration force it never would've left the ground. The 2600 mph is right and the 39 degrees you got is off as well. The reason you're off is because you assumed linear motion.

[aviaal]

At the end of the video the CAPCOM says: .....we should have good (...) and s-band. This means that the "sounds UHF only" probably meant that there was a communications problem.

[aviaal]

CDR Lindsay responds "Roger, go at throttle up! Sounds UHF only" to the throttle-up call. The "sounds UHF only" probably means that there is some disturbance on the Ultra High Frequency range of radiowaves.

[Shlomo374]

warning : Yahweh will destroy shuttle discovery if America withdraw from Iraq...

[MarkWilliams212]

that doesnt make sense you say you will destroy america if it "withdraws" from iraq shouldnt it be if they stay there??

[willsund]

"-Roger, go at throttle up. Sounds UHF only." is my take.

[zanzibardelight]

Sounds GREAT with the headphones on.

[Apollo580]

Ya and with the sound up all the way.

[thebluets]

He said... Something like "...unexpected dead end cleared shortly.." But my be he just thew up ! ;-))) Blurp !

[AstroSpace18]

why???????????????????????????­??????????

[frreeaakkdude]

this is the best launching video ive ever seen....

[lunokhod27]

homygosh... what the hell is your problem? you want everything to go up in smoke! no more shuttles are going to lost before their retirement!

[TheGodParticle]

Is there any left?

[guitarjed]

Fantastic, a wonderful sight!!

[doxinjo]

Great!!

[thinkglobalwarming]

GREAT!!!

[obuolys6]

lol nice vid... i like when the engines started

[TopGunAnthem]

Very very nice engines sounds.

I love it.....

[SegaJackNLS]

amazing how they do all that stuff

[scienziatapazza]

Love this.

[toodoo213]

that was nice when the engines started! The sparkers bounced off the flames as if it was a forcefield!

[Zaarin2007]

Cool to see the shuttle lift off, but "Star spangled start to Discovery's mission"...give me a fucking break.

[laserfloyd]

Perhaps 'Rockets red glare' would have been a little more fitting :)

[laserfloyd]

I've watched every launch since this one and the audio on this one is the best (as far as feeling the rumble)

[smekeer]

are hew schol for this

[futurfocus]

turn those bass speakers up when the bird takes of...

[sadbaby01]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Whateveryousaypal]

top quality video balablebaldo! thanks for sharing

[j538uuj]

what happens to the rocket boosters when they are deployed from the shuttle

[laserfloyd]

They land some 140 miles downrange from the launch pad. A couple of boats go pick them up so they can be reused.

[h2odkl]

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!!

[3230MK]

wow i watched one of the discovery launches when i was around nine from coco beach in florida it was out of this world pardon the pun just explaining to my two littlens how fantastic it was to experience something soooo amazing wow

[futurfocus]

go bird

[CPRinfringer]

weeeeeeeeee!

[bassman5588]

a great way to celebrate the 4th of July.

[sidgovi]

"everything looking good on the bird" ... made me laugh, dunno why.

[benoitdumesnil]

on reste de glace tellement c'est impressionnant....et le meme systeme dure depuis 26 ans maintenant.est-t-il dépassé?

[Whateveryousaypal]

english please

[vfFokker]

Man that was cool!!!!

[Lbertucci4132]

i jump when the engies burn under the orbiter

[dwyanewadeflash3]

waste of money and polluting the atmosphere

[DaBeste1]

idiot... the SSMEs(main engines) do burn oxygen and hydrogen.... and whats H2O???? water... the "smoke" is no smoke, it's just water vapour....

and the SRB (solid rocket boosters) use aluminum... what's so polluting on the rocket???

[dwyanewadeflash3]

any burning substance is going effect the atmsopere you tool.

[Filipe112]

"dwyanewadeflash3" You better look up a book or do some research on how the burning fuel of the rockets affects out atmosphere before talking things you do not know.

It contributes for a small percentage. But, since you are talking cheap, isn't smoking polluting our planet too? It actually pollutes more than rockets because millions smoke. Now, that's a waste of money and polluting the atmosphere for no necessity!!

[Filipe112]

The rockets have only a minute impact (less than seven-thousandths of one percent), both in absolute terms and relative to other chemical sources. It is much less than total ozone variability associated with volcanic activity and solar flares. So, get yourself a book and read.

[BigBlackBubble]

Well, try and imagine how much (fossile) energy is needed to get the oxygen into liquid form, or to collect hydrogen in it's pure form as rocket fuel. A refrigerator doesn't 'save' or 'extract' energy. It actually heats up our environment more. Same with the energy supply for the shuttle. So, why loosen up?

[laserfloyd]

So basically you're saying stop living and just die because we're all worthless and destroying the planet anyway? Ok, you first :)

Google 'nasa spin off' and educate yourself a little bit. Do you even know how much meteorological data they help provide?

[Mundellproductions]

Everyone is stupit if everyone says lol. what the hell is lol. What the hell does that mean?

[Dantezero2]

it means laugh out loud...I can't believe you didn't know that. (LOL)

[Mundellproductions]

oh.

[Mundellproductions]

lol

[Mundellproductions]

your the stupidest

[DaBeste1]

do you see the shuttle tilting forward after the SSME's start, and then tilting back?

when the shuttle is at 0° grade the SRB's start and the shuttle lifts-off. So awesone the tilting^^

[Mundellproductions]

I saw that, too. That's a little scary ^-^

[mangravet]

that was so cool

[sublimeade]

hope they brought enough pepper spray to keep that crazy bitch in check

[yorkuni]

Lol! So true!

[aviaal]

lilhoehoe: The exhaust plume of the main engines and the SRB's consist mainly of water vapour.

[chaos694]

WOW!!!

[Mundellproductions]

your stupider

[FUSER2K07]

bet they butterflys in there stomach i did lol

[Mundellproductions]

your stupid

[MegaUltraGalactic79]

The STS-120 Crew are:

*Pamela Melroy (Previously flew on: STS-92 and

STS-112)

*George Zamka

*Scott Parazynski (Previously flew on: STS-66, STS-86, STS-95 and STS-100)

*Stephanie Wilson (Previously flew on: STS-121)

*Douglas Wheelock

*Paolo Nespoli

*Daniel Tani (Previously flew: STS-108)

[MegaUltraGalactic79]

The Crew of STS-120 are:

*

*Pamela Melroy

*George Zamka

*Douglas Wheelock

*Stefany Wilson

*Paolo Nespoli

*Daniel Tani

[msanhuez]

I wouldn't imagine a thing like this 30 years ago when I was a 11 years old kid living in the far south at Chilean Patagonia and I have to seek the entire city for an Astronomy book. Now I can look at this amazing things from my home. Congratulations to NASA.

[lilhoehoe]

these solid propulsion may somehow contribute to global warming, i would rather like the soyuz propulsion sys. much cooler to watch lol

[e53e54]

i don't wanna stand below the burners. :P

[omegamike15411]

Thats coooool!!! I want to see it live at Cape Canavral.

[Mundellproductions]

Nice,adding to favorites.

[go4idiots]

do they have laserswords on board? i mean, what about darth vader? he is bad

[jlaughli]

what a thing space travel is indeed...thanks for the vid!

[Misio29]

my dream is to go to the space

[cochowolper]

i'd never go to the space...

[WiccaChicka]

gotta be there at least once...but they don't launch too much in holland :-D

[ixvolt]

i was there the day this launch took place. it was unbelievable. the whole ground shakes and you can feel the shockwave when the rockets ignite. it's amazing also how fast it goes after take off, it was all over in like 10 minutes. you really need to see it and be there to believe it.

[joshh44]

i wish i can feel the G's taking off. that be wicked awesome. be forced back into your seat pretty much threw out the whole flight. just dont blow up!

[Sagan777]

un gran video del lanzamiento del discovery... se merece 5

[deltawing777]

kwel check out my simulator videos