Space shuttle Discovery STS-128 Landing

[Eagle1Division2]

Start this: /watch?v=HkRtn_8iVNk at 3:38, with the soundtrack at half volume.

[leisulin]

What kind of nimrod would have given this a thumbs down?

[DreadTRex]

Ah yes, the sonic booms. They were kinda loud when they past over orange county, but most likely less loud then when they passed over the Los Angeles area.

[Gecko95014]

I've been fortunate to hear that sonic boom several times and it's awesome.

[newtongrace]

I love the fact that this is the most advanced machine in the World...capable of so much...but it still needs a bit of red cloth at the end of the mission to make it stop :)

[Beatlesandchopinlove]

beautilful video! Congratulation to the whole nasa team !

[jorgc]

4:20 amazing view of the shuttle

[Jordache22222]

This clip is reach of details. Is sad this will be soon history. Unless the engineers are not inventing more powerful propulsion solutions (more kinetic energy/fuel mass/$ than the current chemical engines do) the future of space exploration will be rather bleak

[sinneramugstthesaint]

Facinating O_O

[keyboardsleight]

58 days in space?

[halbtonganzton]

First chute, than nose gear rotation. So what was happening here? too fast.

[blablubb12345]

@halbtonganzton

Late reply, i know.

It's perfectly normal and happens on many landings.

Listen at 0:40

"...for the crosswind DTO we'll be late chute deploy..."

There are 3 different modes of chute deployment.

1. nominal chute: before nose gear touchdown

2. late chute: after nose gear touchdown

3. no chute

It depends on the amount of crosswind while landing.

[BMXorHOMICIDE]

dude omfg CJ manhandled that "son of a brick with wings" you notice how he waited for nosegear touchdown to deploy the drag shoot..

i want to honestly hear him answer whether it was a lucky landing or whether he had the orbiter under complete control the whole time..

[mach25man]

CJ didnt deploy the chute. PLT does it. And of course he had it under control. You either land or crash.

[druxt]

welcome to hell..

[pianorenamon]

Wooow Coll when his landing... very smooth rather of common comercial plane...

[henkeblenke1]

The sonic boom! Is that like when it breaks threw the sound barrier??

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

Yes,

as the space shuttle breaks the sound barrier, the sound waves are pushed together. At first, you hear nothing, and then you hear the sonic boom.

[verticalsmurf]

How does an aircraft create a pair of sonic booms?

[crashdog5866]

@TheFutureIsRightHere No it is not. Regardless of how fast the craft is going as long as it is supersonic it will make a sonic boom. The boom is all the sound that the craft is generating piling up and then hitting you all at once.

[skyprop]

@henkeblenke1 When It goes BELOW THE SOUND Barrier

[freestyle100100]

what sound was it at 2:27 ?? it was like a bang or something, what and why did it sound like that??

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

It was a pair of the sonic booms.

[magick205]

Beauty. Sad to think that there is only one more shuttle mission left. But these girls are showing their age. Time to pack 'em off to the barn and push the next generation up.

[mach25man]

6 missions left. Orbiters are as pristine now as they ever were.

[magick205]

@mach25man: Sorry to disagree. While I don't have access to the orbiters to do a complete inspection, any aircraft that endures such stresses will indeed have a very limited lifespan. Such is the nature of aviation. TBO on many of those components must be very close, if not exceeded, but allowed under stingent inspection. How many more launches left? I'd hate to miss them all.

[dodow1234]

Welcome home

[moetabi]

that was awesome ^^

[sidensvans67]

Excellent.

[wakeup2rhyme]

the sonic boom was loud i heard it at work in LAX at first i thought it was a plane that crash but after i didn't see no fire then i saw the news paper an saw the shuttle was landing here in california

[hamsteralliance]

The sonic boom was incredibly loud here in the Tujunga-Sunland. :)

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

The sonic boom was incredibly loud over the Los Angeles area too.

[Joseph8456]

yes,it was very loud.