Rio de janeiro. I´m not yankee, but admirer of the space explorations. I ask for like this the all citizens of the it USA that they help to save James Webb of the cuts of budget of his Congress. Hear the video below. Help to save the humanity's eyes. And spread for his/her compatriots.
Save the James Webb Space Telescope/ watch?v=aZGE86qBxCI&feature=related
The shuttle main engines are incredible. They gave it their all, and then some! The next time anyone tells you to "give 110%" correct them and say "Although it's impossible to give 110%, the space shuttle main engines prove it's possible to give 104.5%". Are there any other operational launch systems with (>75%) the max thrust of the shuttle? The numbers she just spat out weren't far from Saturn V territory.
There are major inconsistencies between the displayed speeds and the speeds the announcer is calling. She calls Endeavor's speed 6000 mph when the display screen only reads it at 5200 mph. Who is correct: the announcer or the display screen?
This will be the last launch where humans are put into space on American made equipment. It's all down hill from here as America becomes a third world country like a cross between Congo and Mexico.
Why does their altitude decrease for a brief period? I'm assuming it's because they go briefly into a nose-down position for extra down-range distance. I've also never understood why the Apollo missions climbed to orbital altitudes much higher than the shuttle at engine shutdown.
can anyone explain why at a given point just before MECO the shuttle experiences 3 times gravity? is it because the plus x or pitch maneuvers? thank you.
@flchange It's because of Newton's second law of motion. F=ma. Force equals mass times acceleration. As the propellant in the ET (external tank) decreases, the force remains the same, so the acceleration increases. They have to throttle back at 2 points in the flight so as to not overstress the spacecraft with the G's.
I used to watch shuttle launches when I was a boy. They were so cool, but I never knew why.
Now that I more fully understand what the space program represents, and the evolution of our species as a whole, watching this in fullscreen nearly made me cry. When they moved the walkway and the beanie cap, it felt like another wave of anticipation, for one of the most important things our race has been able to create.
We have this available, and we're scrapping the program??!
@ViperProductionsFilm Great question! Unfortunately, it's due to age of fleet among other things. The shuttle's iconic. It had its qualities, but also has a lot of flaws. It never lived up to its full potential. Once Columbia was lost, changes have been in the works to find a new way to orbit. There are some rumors that the shuttle may fly to 2013, possibly 2017 (not likely though). Either way, it's bittersweet for us all to see it come to an end. We hope the next rocket is as great or better.
@spacevidcast It really makes me want to cry. Why isn't there a Plan B for this? Space exploration is one of the most important things in humanity's existence. This is the pinnacle of humanity's entire time on this little blue dot of ours. All we have to offer to the universe so far is the fact that we know there's more out there than ourselves...and we don't have a new plan for exploring it deeper? WTF
@ViperProductionsFilm Plan B was the Ares design, which was strongly pushed by the then-administrator Griffin. Sadly, Ares was way too expensive and unsustainable, so that further adds to the delay and charlie foxtrot that is NASA. It doesn't help that congress is pushing NASA from 0.58% of the current annual budget (That's only 18 billion dollars) down to 0.45% for 2012.
You sure it isn’t a THX-13 I heard that George Lucas was into the whole star wars outer space thing.
I can’t find a listing under X-13 NASA and don’t care if NASA is working with a new toy in isn’t my business, just as long as they don’t use it to bomb the moon with.
One last thing in my life was to see a shuttle launch. May be It will still happen even if its a rocket. What an amazing experience it must be to see this go, and look at how the sky glows.....Love it.
@popsnacks2 Thank you. We cover NASA in HD 24/7 now. Please feel free to stop by spacevidcast's website any time to see the gorgeous feed *AND* interact with other folks who have a passion and interest in the space program.
Amazing to see the first launch 29 years ago of Columbia April 1981 and now the curtain is coming to closing on this long Shuttle flight history with only some two flights left now.
@EmpireLS56KW amazing is right, have you heard the rumor or possibly by now fact of the X_13 space craft? i dont have much detail about it but mabey google has some answers!
I Dont think STS-133 should even fly at this point... they oughta put Discovery back in the hangar and pull out Atlantis or Endeavour to complete the 133 mission. these delays are unreal! too many
Much of this video may be up-converted from a lower resolution and that is certainly the case with the main tank camera shots. It may be that the compression rate was excessive which kills the HD shots.
@nickman011 Nothing's official yet, but it looks like congress wants NASA to realign the plans for the next project aftr shuttle retirement. Constealltion may be next, or commercial may be next. We just don't know. It is a safe bet that the current design known as Ares I will be scrapped though.
@ipranges Roll program is a function built into the onboard guidance computers that rotate the shuttle to a heads down position. The reason it does this is because it lightens the stresses on the stack, as well as keeping downlink with communications stations here on the ground. The antennas for the comms are in the 'ceiling' of the orbiter, over the crew cabin.
Down range means the ground distance away from the launch site.
@Alexfan14, I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
@gimmievids The thrust to weight ratio at SRB SEP is less than 1:1. The orbiter and ET are well above the densest part of the atmosphere at that point, so they use Newtonian physics by trading altitude for airspeed over a bit of an arc above the earth's surface. Once the T/W ratio climbs back over 1:1, they continue in a smaller radius arc, putting them back in an ascentending in a nearly circular orbit at MECO - Main Engine Cut Off, above 105km, or the "border" of space.
As NASA's space shuttle fleet draws close to retirement, aerospace juggernaut Boeing is hard at work developing a new capsule-based spaceship to fly people to and from the International Space Station. Should be launching around 2016. In the meantime we'll be hitching rides with the Russians.
@doginstine This is a footnote from a table of ascent data produced by NASA in one of their "Math and Science @ Work" publications:
Zero altitude can be described as a specific distance from the center of the Earth. Since the Earth is not perfectly spherical the location of the launch just happens to be below this specified point. Also, because this is a calculated number, some degree of error may be present."
source; nasa (dot) gov /pdf/466711main_AP_ST_ShuttleAscent.pdf
What I keep wondering is: what is the typical weight of the shuttle as it sits there on the pad with the 3 main engines running, right before lighting the solid rocket boosters, and what is the thrust being produced by the 3 main engines at that same moment, to enable us to answer the question: what percentage of the weight of the shuttle at that point is being lifted by the 3 main engines, or to put it another way, how close, if at all, do the 3 main engines come to being able to lift it??
@leisulin The 3 main engines cant lift it. I'm going to round the numbers off but the 3 mains produce about 1.2 million lbs. of thrust. The orbiter, tank and boosters weigh 4.5 million lbs. When the SRB's light, there is nearly 7 million lbs. of thrust.
I can't believe it is almost over. I have watched shuttle launches from my front yard since the very first one. Our economy here in Brevard county is not so good to begin with, when they lay off 10,000 people we are going to look like Detroit. So many poeple don't realize that because of space exploration we have technology such as CT scans or MRI's. I guess we will just have to see what happens now.
When will NASA's final shuttle launch forever be? I don't want to miss that. May 31, 2010? What will all the laid off astronauts do for a living then?
Magnificent and wonderful though these vehicles are, we know that, due to the huge distance involved, rockets cannot take us to the stars, but only on short hops to our very nearest neighbours, and then only with a handful of people and at immense expense.
Looking at the bigger picture, is it time for a major rethink about space exploration? Considering at costs, methods, pollution, goals, viability, returns and outcomes.
We know that current science and technology cannot ever lead us to send people far into the solar system, let alone beyond. Our scientific knowledge is still quite modest; perhaps we need to put more resources into learning about the nature of space itself, if indeed there is anything in the concept of 'folded space' or wormholes
Answer is: "Who knows." Obama is trying to essentially kill NASA with some hand picked political appointees and a turncoat astronaut w/ the new budget. They want to kill Constellation and increase the budget to essentially do nothing but toe the line on "Climate Change." There's a chance that Obama's plan will get trashed by Congress, though. Let's hope so.
Wow that sucks, its unfortunate that Obama doesn't understand how much space exploration has advanced our technology. I also hope that Obama's plan gets trashed by congress
@Alexfan14 Yes, we have missions up to STS-134. It sounds like STS-131 has been moved to a night launch as well, so that will be pretty cool if it sticks.
I would argue that the space shuttle killed our space program. Sucked the life out of Apollo. Now it is time to rebuild and build something more awesome. See our show on FY11 for some interesting perspectives on the proposed budget.
@spacevidcast I heard they are moving it to the privte industery, so for the time being we are going to be baying the russians to ride on there rockets, it really sucks that Obama shut down nasa like that
@Alexfan14, I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
@ti994apc In '07, NASA signed a $719m contract for 15 Soyuz seats (15 up, 15 down) along with 5.6 tonnes of cargo. That works out to nearly $48 million per seat, or $144 million for a three seat flight, but the numbers are muddled by the addition of several Progress flights. It would take three Progress flights to handle the cargo, which by some reports would total $150 million. That leaves $569 million for the 15 seats, which is $38 million per seat or $114 million for a Soyuz mission
@Alexfan14, I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
11:49 the shuttle hits sonic boom thats whats the pop is by the engine. Ive witnessed 2 space shuttle launches, one at night one at day it is simply amazing to watch that. i saw STS 129 land i was on Cocca Beach. It was amazing watching it land i mean you hear the sonic boom and then its there, i have also witnessed 3 rocket launches, so ive witnessed a total of 5 launches and i live in OHIO, very lucky vacatios
This is not necessarily the final night launch.. a slip by even a couple weeks for the remaining flights could potentially push them into a night launch. You never know.
Thank-you so very much for posting this! We were at Kennedy Space Center for this launch (thank-goodness stores, facilities,amusements were open, as was COLD outside!) so we didn't see this launch like this. I've tried 3 times to post my video of the luanch, even narrowed the 5 min. 34sec. to 2 min. and still can't upload to Youtube. How they did 19:40 is incredible! Thank-you very much! I love it!!!
Skipping 45 (relatively boring) minutes is inexcusable? I'm sure the video author is sincerely sorry. He should have known that we all want to sit here 45 minutes watching the shuttle sit there.
I was at this launch and it was amazing to watch from across the bay or river. I was right in the port by the cruise ship's. Sadly my cideo is not as clear as this one. That you for posting this and capturing history as it was the last night launch. I usally watch from my front yard. but i was on my way home on I-95 and a freind called and said it didnt go the night before. So i went to sleep on the side of the road and woke up at 3:45 to stand out their freezing to death. AMAZING SIGHT!!!
Space development is essential for our future, if an asteroid hits us, it's all over! How much money you have, everything doesn't matter anymore then. So pick ur choice.
Not just for that, but the very understanding of our chemical construction, and the function of life is out there, waiting for us. People look for religion and something to worship everywhere, it is not a coincides that people look upwards, to the stars;)
You cant launch Shuttle missions when your country is broke and defaulting on loans from China. Not to mention that the current American president has spent more than any other president combined.
You also can't fight a war with Al Queda, bail out the auto companies and the bankers, build highways, and spend a trillion dollars on the military. Granted we have our priorities messed up, but we spend more on military assistance to Israel then we do on our space program. I would much rather be spending money on something that advances the human condition like space then on the process of killing each other. China can afford a space program.
It is about time that we start exploring the secrets of the universe. Just imagine the vast endless sea of knowledge and understanding that is out there, waiting for us, perhaps event sentient life. We stay here fighting and arguing, over resources and religion. We need to turn our eyes to the stars.
Don't give up hope, they're phasing out the space shuttle for a new vehicle called the Orion. It's going to be used for travel back to the Moon, then to Mars. And even if you can't get into space with NASA, you can still go on a private ship (Virgin Galactic, Space Adventures, SpaceX, etc.), though it'll be expensive.
Orion has been cancelled also along with Ares. Virgin G. is an accident waiting to happen and basically done 50 yrs ago with the X-15. Nothing new there except the cost of the ticket. Space X is not really proven yet and 10 years away from launching people. It took them 8 years to get this far. Just an opinion.....
@rinceresource. I'm sure it is the space program holding us back from sorting out the problems on this planet.(sarcasm)
Thank you for commenting to my previous post and showing me and the Youtube community that you are a total moron. Now go back to your basement and watch porn on your mom's computer. HAGD
@rinceresource yea, I'm sure your going to convince many people on youtube.
NASA gets 0.01% of the governments budget, were as all the global warming, and environmental protection agencies get 100% more than NASA does and NASA has brought back real science. What makes you think we can't do both? We have loads of money obvious just ask Obama. 11 trillion to bailout banks. Why can't we do both, give me a valid excuse.
My opinion is that first of all its not Nasa's job to fix the problems of the world and second if Nasa gave its whole budget for a year to the social programs, it would be spent in 2 weeks not solving anything. Thats how fast the social programs spend that kind of money. It would help but fix nothing. Nasa's budget is spent all right here on earth already.
11:21 - What an extraordinary sight to behold. The feeling is beyond words. This is the type of things that make life beautiful. The majesty of the human mind is deeply moving. Thank you everyone.
To clarify, at 2:48 in the video, the countdown clock resumes from T- 9:00. Launch occurs at 10:59 in the video. So 9 minutes of real time took 8:16 in the video.
@jetfreak4 the numbers displayed are taken from the space shuttles on-board computers... So I would believe them.
PRSOV 2 months ago
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Rio de janeiro. I´m not yankee, but admirer of the space explorations. I ask for like this the all citizens of the it USA that they help to save James Webb of the cuts of budget of his Congress. Hear the video below. Help to save the humanity's eyes. And spread for his/her compatriots.
Save the James Webb Space Telescope/ watch?v=aZGE86qBxCI&feature=related
aczjbr 2 months ago
Night launches are the best!!! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!
IDoNotBlameYou 5 months ago
The shuttle main engines are incredible. They gave it their all, and then some! The next time anyone tells you to "give 110%" correct them and say "Although it's impossible to give 110%, the space shuttle main engines prove it's possible to give 104.5%". Are there any other operational launch systems with (>75%) the max thrust of the shuttle? The numbers she just spat out weren't far from Saturn V territory.
wlmason73 7 months ago
The juice stuff starts at 00:04:20 in the video, where the crew acsess arm retracts
kcaplan 7 months ago
There are major inconsistencies between the displayed speeds and the speeds the announcer is calling. She calls Endeavor's speed 6000 mph when the display screen only reads it at 5200 mph. Who is correct: the announcer or the display screen?
jetfreak4 7 months ago
@jetfreak4 I believe it is because the number you are reading is the velocity. The speed is shown in Mach which at Mach 8 is just under 6100 MPH.
TheJoePepper 5 months ago
Can someone explain to me what is the difference between the "Range" you see on the screen and the "down range" that the announcer says?
CamCam8771 7 months ago
This will be the last launch where humans are put into space on American made equipment. It's all down hill from here as America becomes a third world country like a cross between Congo and Mexico.
joel053 8 months ago
Why does their altitude decrease for a brief period? I'm assuming it's because they go briefly into a nose-down position for extra down-range distance. I've also never understood why the Apollo missions climbed to orbital altitudes much higher than the shuttle at engine shutdown.
jetfreak4 8 months ago
Amazing video! Space exploration is the coolest thing in the world, hands down.
sritger 8 months ago
can anyone explain why at a given point just before MECO the shuttle experiences 3 times gravity? is it because the plus x or pitch maneuvers? thank you.
flchange 10 months ago
@flchange It's because of Newton's second law of motion. F=ma. Force equals mass times acceleration. As the propellant in the ET (external tank) decreases, the force remains the same, so the acceleration increases. They have to throttle back at 2 points in the flight so as to not overstress the spacecraft with the G's.
spacevidcast 10 months ago
@spacevidcast thank you. it´s understood.
flchange 10 months ago
@flchange
is it just me, or does anyone else think the female flight anouncer sounds really smart and sexy :>
MegaDogwater 4 weeks ago
THATS WAS BADASS when it hit the clouds!
homes12345 11 months ago
the USA needs to make a big shuttle so when something happends to the earth we can all leav this planet
axeala 11 months ago
@axeala I think you're watching waaay too much "2012", buddy.
DeepAbsentia 11 months ago
I used to watch shuttle launches when I was a boy. They were so cool, but I never knew why.
Now that I more fully understand what the space program represents, and the evolution of our species as a whole, watching this in fullscreen nearly made me cry. When they moved the walkway and the beanie cap, it felt like another wave of anticipation, for one of the most important things our race has been able to create.
We have this available, and we're scrapping the program??!
ViperProductionsFilm 11 months ago 5
@ViperProductionsFilm Great question! Unfortunately, it's due to age of fleet among other things. The shuttle's iconic. It had its qualities, but also has a lot of flaws. It never lived up to its full potential. Once Columbia was lost, changes have been in the works to find a new way to orbit. There are some rumors that the shuttle may fly to 2013, possibly 2017 (not likely though). Either way, it's bittersweet for us all to see it come to an end. We hope the next rocket is as great or better.
spacevidcast 11 months ago
@spacevidcast It really makes me want to cry. Why isn't there a Plan B for this? Space exploration is one of the most important things in humanity's existence. This is the pinnacle of humanity's entire time on this little blue dot of ours. All we have to offer to the universe so far is the fact that we know there's more out there than ourselves...and we don't have a new plan for exploring it deeper? WTF
ViperProductionsFilm 11 months ago
@ViperProductionsFilm Plan B was the Ares design, which was strongly pushed by the then-administrator Griffin. Sadly, Ares was way too expensive and unsustainable, so that further adds to the delay and charlie foxtrot that is NASA. It doesn't help that congress is pushing NASA from 0.58% of the current annual budget (That's only 18 billion dollars) down to 0.45% for 2012.
spacevidcast 11 months ago
why did they skip the part when he says throttle up
unknownx420 11 months ago
@unknownx420 They didn't. The female PAO cut off the space-to-ground communications (stepped on them, according to our ears)
spacevidcast 11 months ago
NASA USA STS-130 LAUNCH AT NIGHT 2010
www41WorldUSAcom 11 months ago
this was so amazing to watch... for some reason it gave me a very emotional response
AdioEmerica 1 year ago
You sure it isn’t a THX-13 I heard that George Lucas was into the whole star wars outer space thing.
I can’t find a listing under X-13 NASA and don’t care if NASA is working with a new toy in isn’t my business, just as long as they don’t use it to bomb the moon with.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
It must a bit tenser for night launches but they’ve trained for it. Flipping heck its pitch dark out there!
10:51 wow that’s a blinding light coming from the main engines! Now that is a firework display that lights the night sky up!
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
One last thing in my life was to see a shuttle launch. May be It will still happen even if its a rocket. What an amazing experience it must be to see this go, and look at how the sky glows.....Love it.
shammon1 1 year ago
wow such clear quality
popsnacks2 1 year ago
@popsnacks2 Thank you. We cover NASA in HD 24/7 now. Please feel free to stop by spacevidcast's website any time to see the gorgeous feed *AND* interact with other folks who have a passion and interest in the space program.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
Amazing to see the first launch 29 years ago of Columbia April 1981 and now the curtain is coming to closing on this long Shuttle flight history with only some two flights left now.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
@EmpireLS56KW amazing is right, have you heard the rumor or possibly by now fact of the X_13 space craft? i dont have much detail about it but mabey google has some answers!
popsnacks2 1 year ago
@popsnacks2 I think I’ve heard about that the X-13 project.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
@EmpireLS56KW yes i have not yet googled anything but if it is it probably is classified and will have minor detail
popsnacks2 1 year ago
@popsnacks2 Ryan X-13 Vertijet
Doesn't look classified to me unless its an obsolete piece of hardware from the 1950's.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
Thank's for the great video!!!!
kycruisecrazy 1 year ago
looks like there will be one more night launch 12-17-2010
shidoski 1 year ago
I Dont think STS-133 should even fly at this point... they oughta put Discovery back in the hangar and pull out Atlantis or Endeavour to complete the 133 mission. these delays are unreal! too many
Trex1094 1 year ago
@Trex1094 dumbass, it has nothing to do with the orbiter Discovery. do some research and inform yourself before posting stupid crap.
John19182004 1 year ago
@Trex1094 It could have happened with any of the orbiters. It's got nothing to do with the orbiter. Only the external tank.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
latest launch delayed just now! Crap....fuel leak!
guionlawes 1 year ago
Not a fan of this commentator. George Diller for all!
Bororeed 1 year ago
id love to hear that, must sound like god having a good fart
crustybuttnugget 1 year ago
that girl has a nice voice
AstroZane13 1 year ago
What a beautiful voice the girl that's narrating has..
CursedToExist 1 year ago
that girl has a nice voice :)
Unabomber2 1 year ago
This was not HD, even at 720p, and I have a HD screen.
KingOfTheShrews 1 year ago
@KingOfTheShrews If it's not HD, you should take your monitor back.
spacevidcast 1 year ago 19
@KingOfTheShrews since when did u need a HD monitor to watch HD video lol my desktop monitor is 1900 by somthing and dosent say hd anywhere on it :P
tEhNuRsebOb 1 year ago
@KingOfTheShrews
Much of this video may be up-converted from a lower resolution and that is certainly the case with the main tank camera shots. It may be that the compression rate was excessive which kills the HD shots.
JG77Hawk5 1 year ago
it really isnt the last one.
Nolandude13 1 year ago
@Nolandude13 Unless the scheduled 2 (or possibly 3) launches slip, STS-130 was in fact the last night launch.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
is the constallation program still going on now the space schuttle's are on retirement
nickman011 1 year ago
@nickman011 Nothing's official yet, but it looks like congress wants NASA to realign the plans for the next project aftr shuttle retirement. Constealltion may be next, or commercial may be next. We just don't know. It is a safe bet that the current design known as Ares I will be scrapped though.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
What is a "roll program" and what are they talking about when they say "down range"?
ipranges 1 year ago
@ipranges because you have to be at a certain angle when coming out of the atmosphere when they roll it provides that
f22cool 1 year ago
@ipranges Roll program is a function built into the onboard guidance computers that rotate the shuttle to a heads down position. The reason it does this is because it lightens the stresses on the stack, as well as keeping downlink with communications stations here on the ground. The antennas for the comms are in the 'ceiling' of the orbiter, over the crew cabin.
Down range means the ground distance away from the launch site.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
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@Alexfan14, I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
ti994apc 1 year ago
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I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
ti994apc 1 year ago
who did the fucking editing? cutting out some of the best parts -__-
KMSalex 1 year ago
@KMSalex No one edited it. This was recorded live.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
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What happens around 345k ft? The altitude drops?
gimmievids 1 year ago
What happens around 345k ft? The altitude drops?
gimmievids 1 year ago
@gimmievids The thrust to weight ratio at SRB SEP is less than 1:1. The orbiter and ET are well above the densest part of the atmosphere at that point, so they use Newtonian physics by trading altitude for airspeed over a bit of an arc above the earth's surface. Once the T/W ratio climbs back over 1:1, they continue in a smaller radius arc, putting them back in an ascentending in a nearly circular orbit at MECO - Main Engine Cut Off, above 105km, or the "border" of space.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
As NASA's space shuttle fleet draws close to retirement, aerospace juggernaut Boeing is hard at work developing a new capsule-based spaceship to fly people to and from the International Space Station. Should be launching around 2016. In the meantime we'll be hitching rides with the Russians.
Synthetrix 1 year ago
11:21
That's a beautiful sight....
OhMaiLanta 1 year ago
Auh the shuttle is NOT sitting 23 below sea level.
doginstine 1 year ago
@doginstine then why does it say -23ft
strongbowblade 1 year ago
@doginstine This is a footnote from a table of ascent data produced by NASA in one of their "Math and Science @ Work" publications:
Zero altitude can be described as a specific distance from the center of the Earth. Since the Earth is not perfectly spherical the location of the launch just happens to be below this specified point. Also, because this is a calculated number, some degree of error may be present."
source; nasa (dot) gov /pdf/466711main_AP_ST_ShuttleAscent.pdf
spacevidcast 1 year ago
makes me proud to be a human being.
350z350zify 1 year ago 31
@350z350zify 100 ack ! and that make me believe in human kind... Wish i could fly in space too !
zyxman74 1 year ago
Where Zaragosa ?
AIRANORAK 1 year ago
@AIRANORAK Spain !
mach25man 1 year ago
cant wait to see the falcon 9 lauch :D
JjOoNnNnYyBb 1 year ago
What I keep wondering is: what is the typical weight of the shuttle as it sits there on the pad with the 3 main engines running, right before lighting the solid rocket boosters, and what is the thrust being produced by the 3 main engines at that same moment, to enable us to answer the question: what percentage of the weight of the shuttle at that point is being lifted by the 3 main engines, or to put it another way, how close, if at all, do the 3 main engines come to being able to lift it??
leisulin 1 year ago
@leisulin The 3 main engines cant lift it. I'm going to round the numbers off but the 3 mains produce about 1.2 million lbs. of thrust. The orbiter, tank and boosters weigh 4.5 million lbs. When the SRB's light, there is nearly 7 million lbs. of thrust.
mach25man 1 year ago
my dream was to watch a shuttle launch live. i live in singapore. looks like Mr Obama dosent want to fufill my dream.
mrmistercharles 1 year ago 2
jfk made it all happen
pt109girl 1 year ago 2
@pt109girl JFK and a couple thousand engineers, yeah.
Thank you Cold War for forcing us to do this crazy stuff. At least SOMETHING good came out of it.
ScottZirpolo 1 year ago
I can't believe it is almost over. I have watched shuttle launches from my front yard since the very first one. Our economy here in Brevard county is not so good to begin with, when they lay off 10,000 people we are going to look like Detroit. So many poeple don't realize that because of space exploration we have technology such as CT scans or MRI's. I guess we will just have to see what happens now.
Karen32905 1 year ago
its undescribeable!!
il0vepeewee 1 year ago
i still cant belive these things go at 20 times the speed of sound. it's amazing.
cedivad 1 year ago
I was there for that! it was the most incredible thing ever!
JumpingJack12100 1 year ago
a mão de DEUS fez tudo isso
josecarlosvitorino1 1 year ago
When will NASA's final shuttle launch forever be? I don't want to miss that. May 31, 2010? What will all the laid off astronauts do for a living then?
ToxicOdiousOne 1 year ago
i got 2 watch this in person! it was amazing!
rockyfreak0063 1 year ago
So there will be no more launches this year? I would of loved to see one in person
Thanks so much for the upload!
kurosakixIchigo219 1 year ago
spaceship: OVER 9000!!!!
Gravity: 0
rayquezaEXD 1 year ago
Magnificent and wonderful though these vehicles are, we know that, due to the huge distance involved, rockets cannot take us to the stars, but only on short hops to our very nearest neighbours, and then only with a handful of people and at immense expense.
So what really are our goals?
ContemporaryScience 1 year ago
Looking at the bigger picture, is it time for a major rethink about space exploration? Considering at costs, methods, pollution, goals, viability, returns and outcomes.
We know that current science and technology cannot ever lead us to send people far into the solar system, let alone beyond. Our scientific knowledge is still quite modest; perhaps we need to put more resources into learning about the nature of space itself, if indeed there is anything in the concept of 'folded space' or wormholes
ContemporaryScience 1 year ago
looked absolutely AMAZING this morning; prefectly clear skys!
iamsuperbleeder 1 year ago
yepp i got to see this take off from my house! :)
MSchweizer09 1 year ago
wow i want to go! cry cry is it scary can you lose oxx i dont know how to spell it lol um...oxcygen i think can you ?
katherine16695 1 year ago
@katherine16695 its spelled oxygen...and what?!
brnrubber303 1 year ago
wow i want to go! cry cry
katherine16695 1 year ago
szkoda że pocięty i bark szacunku prowadzących do min ciszy
GreenMenGreen 1 year ago
Audible Sonic Book at 11:49:)
bigdrevideo 1 year ago
Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce you to the future of space....Burt Rutan!!!!
foggysnotion 1 year ago
i like to see someone race a shuttle
colorfulhappyness 1 year ago
One question, is space exploration on hiatus after STS-131 or are they are building up a new and more modern means of getting into space?
Alexfan14 1 year ago
Answer is: "Who knows." Obama is trying to essentially kill NASA with some hand picked political appointees and a turncoat astronaut w/ the new budget. They want to kill Constellation and increase the budget to essentially do nothing but toe the line on "Climate Change." There's a chance that Obama's plan will get trashed by Congress, though. Let's hope so.
stuart1097 1 year ago 4
Wow that sucks, its unfortunate that Obama doesn't understand how much space exploration has advanced our technology. I also hope that Obama's plan gets trashed by congress
Alexfan14 1 year ago
Uninformed states ftw
Boy75402 1 year ago
Uninformed statements ftw.
Boy75402 1 year ago
@Alexfan14 Yes, we have missions up to STS-134. It sounds like STS-131 has been moved to a night launch as well, so that will be pretty cool if it sticks.
I would argue that the space shuttle killed our space program. Sucked the life out of Apollo. Now it is time to rebuild and build something more awesome. See our show on FY11 for some interesting perspectives on the proposed budget.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
@spacevidcast I heard they are moving it to the privte industery, so for the time being we are going to be baying the russians to ride on there rockets, it really sucks that Obama shut down nasa like that
LordEarth69 1 year ago
@Alexfan14 The US will be paying Russia to launch it's astronauts on Soyuz spacecraft after the Shuttle retires. Thats the new Obama plan.
graymattermarketing 1 year ago
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ti994apc 1 year ago
@Alexfan14, I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
ti994apc 1 year ago
@ti994apc In '07, NASA signed a $719m contract for 15 Soyuz seats (15 up, 15 down) along with 5.6 tonnes of cargo. That works out to nearly $48 million per seat, or $144 million for a three seat flight, but the numbers are muddled by the addition of several Progress flights. It would take three Progress flights to handle the cargo, which by some reports would total $150 million. That leaves $569 million for the 15 seats, which is $38 million per seat or $114 million for a Soyuz mission
spacevidcast 1 year ago
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@Alexfan14, I think the question should not be "new and more modern means of getting into space." The question should be "a practical, safe, and low cost way of getting to space." The Shuttle is $750 Mil p/launch, Soyuz only $45 Mil p/launch. Thus, after 131 shuttle flights, they have had 1800+ Soyuz flights. Falcon9 might be able to carry 7 astronauts for the same price as Soyuz if all goes well.
ti994apc 1 year ago
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ti994apc 1 year ago
i don't think the word "epic " can be used for ANYTHING but this.
herdofsheeple100 1 year ago
Good Night Launch :-)
kieranj1989 1 year ago
I would love to travel at 16,000 mph!! I'm down to be a Guinea Pig for the orion program!! Anything for my Country!! -TX
Faztlan 1 year ago
11:49 the shuttle hits sonic boom thats whats the pop is by the engine. Ive witnessed 2 space shuttle launches, one at night one at day it is simply amazing to watch that. i saw STS 129 land i was on Cocca Beach. It was amazing watching it land i mean you hear the sonic boom and then its there, i have also witnessed 3 rocket launches, so ive witnessed a total of 5 launches and i live in OHIO, very lucky vacatios
uhsgolfman 1 year ago 2
whos the guy counting down
penfat1 1 year ago
Faszinierend!
LordViogor 1 year ago
epic just epic....
s70driver2005 1 year ago 5
10:49 is the beginning of liftoff.
sinblesser 1 year ago 3
This is not necessarily the final night launch.. a slip by even a couple weeks for the remaining flights could potentially push them into a night launch. You never know.
John19182004 1 year ago 3
Thank-you so very much for posting this! We were at Kennedy Space Center for this launch (thank-goodness stores, facilities,amusements were open, as was COLD outside!) so we didn't see this launch like this. I've tried 3 times to post my video of the luanch, even narrowed the 5 min. 34sec. to 2 min. and still can't upload to Youtube. How they did 19:40 is incredible! Thank-you very much! I love it!!!
desfees 1 year ago
Wow. How did they blow this video? The screwed up edit and video when leaping from t-20 to t-10. That was pretty inexcusable.
eromacque 1 year ago
There's a 45 minute hold that they skipped.
Skipping 45 (relatively boring) minutes is inexcusable? I'm sure the video author is sincerely sorry. He should have known that we all want to sit here 45 minutes watching the shuttle sit there.
Boy75402 1 year ago
I was at this launch and it was amazing to watch from across the bay or river. I was right in the port by the cruise ship's. Sadly my cideo is not as clear as this one. That you for posting this and capturing history as it was the last night launch. I usally watch from my front yard. but i was on my way home on I-95 and a freind called and said it didnt go the night before. So i went to sleep on the side of the road and woke up at 3:45 to stand out their freezing to death. AMAZING SIGHT!!!
Southernborn761 1 year ago
Space development is essential for our future, if an asteroid hits us, it's all over! How much money you have, everything doesn't matter anymore then. So pick ur choice.
barthoedemaker 1 year ago 4
Not just for that, but the very understanding of our chemical construction, and the function of life is out there, waiting for us. People look for religion and something to worship everywhere, it is not a coincides that people look upwards, to the stars;)
norsknerd 1 year ago
@norsknerd
finally someone who gets it :)
monimstarfox 1 year ago
You cant launch Shuttle missions when your country is broke and defaulting on loans from China. Not to mention that the current American president has spent more than any other president combined.
Reality check please
wingofflight 1 year ago
You also can't fight a war with Al Queda, bail out the auto companies and the bankers, build highways, and spend a trillion dollars on the military. Granted we have our priorities messed up, but we spend more on military assistance to Israel then we do on our space program. I would much rather be spending money on something that advances the human condition like space then on the process of killing each other. China can afford a space program.
spacestevie2 1 year ago
It is about time that we start exploring the secrets of the universe. Just imagine the vast endless sea of knowledge and understanding that is out there, waiting for us, perhaps event sentient life. We stay here fighting and arguing, over resources and religion. We need to turn our eyes to the stars.
"ad astra per aspera"
norsknerd 1 year ago 3
my teacher showed us this on the 2/8/10
rickrocks899 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
another few billion down the tubes. complete waste of time.
rinceresource 1 year ago
Means they can reach back to earth on 1 engine.
barthoedemaker 1 year ago
what they are saying here?
16:34
single engine "*****" ?
fumfulapenguin 1 year ago
@fumfulapenguin You gota keep the odds in the equation .. =P
Dubaifreak 1 year ago
@Dubaifreak
what u mean :S
fumfulapenguin 1 year ago
Single Engine Zaragoza. It means if two of the three engines fail, they go to Zaragoza, Spain for emergency landing.
Fockboxx 1 year ago
ok. thanks
fumfulapenguin 1 year ago
i would give my EVERYTHING to be a space shuttle astranaut. But Im too young and here goes one of the last space shuttles.
aerospartacus 1 year ago 2
Don't give up hope, they're phasing out the space shuttle for a new vehicle called the Orion. It's going to be used for travel back to the Moon, then to Mars. And even if you can't get into space with NASA, you can still go on a private ship (Virgin Galactic, Space Adventures, SpaceX, etc.), though it'll be expensive.
Fockboxx 1 year ago
Orion has been cancelled also along with Ares. Virgin G. is an accident waiting to happen and basically done 50 yrs ago with the X-15. Nothing new there except the cost of the ticket. Space X is not really proven yet and 10 years away from launching people. It took them 8 years to get this far. Just an opinion.....
mach25man 1 year ago
Orion hasn't been canceled yet. It's cancellation is proposed. Pending Congressional approval (and they so far do not like the new budget plan).
Boy75402 1 year ago 9
That was the last night launch... sad.
ethanbrod77 1 year ago 4
too bad it's not the last launch. how's about we fix the mess we have on this planet and quit messing around trying to get to others.
rinceresource 1 year ago
@rinceresource. I'm sure it is the space program holding us back from sorting out the problems on this planet.(sarcasm)
Thank you for commenting to my previous post and showing me and the Youtube community that you are a total moron. Now go back to your basement and watch porn on your mom's computer. HAGD
ethanbrod77 1 year ago 4
@rinceresource yea, I'm sure your going to convince many people on youtube.
NASA gets 0.01% of the governments budget, were as all the global warming, and environmental protection agencies get 100% more than NASA does and NASA has brought back real science. What makes you think we can't do both? We have loads of money obvious just ask Obama. 11 trillion to bailout banks. Why can't we do both, give me a valid excuse.
EndeavourLaunch 1 year ago 2
My opinion is that first of all its not Nasa's job to fix the problems of the world and second if Nasa gave its whole budget for a year to the social programs, it would be spent in 2 weeks not solving anything. Thats how fast the social programs spend that kind of money. It would help but fix nothing. Nasa's budget is spent all right here on earth already.
mach25man 1 year ago
1 minute and counting is at 10:17, and lift off is....obviously a minute after that, if you aren't bothered with the preparations at start.
29thShoelace 1 year ago 2
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AL3J4NdR001 1 year ago
asombroso
meschini14 1 year ago
there goes my retirement money?
Sonyoooo3 1 year ago
That was great!
WorldWormStudios 1 year ago
cool!
jessejax 1 year ago
We were there too...awesome experience, us and our three children will never forget it!!!
slednek777 1 year ago 4
11:21 - What an extraordinary sight to behold. The feeling is beyond words. This is the type of things that make life beautiful. The majesty of the human mind is deeply moving. Thank you everyone.
BlueNile123 1 year ago 12
Whats happen with T-20s to T-10s? Its lost!
DeinefreieGlotze 1 year ago 2
wow! i was there and it was awsome!!!!
tbroofer 1 year ago 3
I hope space shuttle don't have to retire
jimmylee0413 1 year ago
I was there (for the second night in a row), a sleepless weekend well worth the view!
poserlooser 1 year ago
I was at Kennedy and watched the launch this morning at 4:14 a.m. Unbelievable, amazing.....Thx for posting.
Mitch2556 1 year ago
11:20 What a beautiful view!
D0dgeCharg3r 1 year ago 3
i like the girl announcer's voice :) lol
carpenoctemcarpediem 1 year ago 2
:-D .... me too!
HuntBehind 1 year ago
Awesome!!!! Tnx for sharing !
zordonas 1 year ago
great live coverage last night although i am still tired from last night
toan3465 1 year ago
Over Mach 21, lol
barthoedemaker 1 year ago
the other clock is one sec late.
ramonsosa2 1 year ago
lol i fell asleep like 8 mins before launch.
Nasiar99 1 year ago
What's with the random jumping? It totally ruined the countdown from 17 to 9 seconds! :(
cplsyx 1 year ago 3
@cplsyx Wow, yeah it does! Not sure what happened there :(
spacevidcast 1 year ago
It does that throughout the video. There are numerous jumps of 10-20 seconds.
adamadamadamadam 1 year ago
To clarify, at 2:48 in the video, the countdown clock resumes from T- 9:00. Launch occurs at 10:59 in the video. So 9 minutes of real time took 8:16 in the video.
adamadamadamadam 1 year ago
I saw this live... it was awesome
sithioth 1 year ago
@sithioth The same.You're right.Really Awesome.
Physicspilot 1 year ago
too bad that this was the last night launch and I never had the chance to see one :'(
@spacevidcast
you should add an i to HD Streamng by ustream^^
numi1337 1 year ago