Mir Deorbit

[internationalpoma]

A shame. Would have made a good tool shed for the ISS.

[Zebonka]

'My God Bones, what have I done'

[SuperGamingDudesLPs]

Some where the where filming survivor during this

[repairdroid77]

@Outypoo. It does matter in the sense that most of the world seems to think that all Americans were against keeping Mir. If I were not to state my country of origin my comment could be as see as coming from someone in any other country. There is nothing wrong with being proud of living in a country and stating so. Even if you do not agree with it's government. Youtube does not show where people are commenting from. Sometimes you can guess, sometimes not. That's why it matters.

[Taima]

That was pretty awesome looking.

[mrcheeseface2]

THAT WAS COLUMBIA DIDN'T U SEE ALL THE PEICES FALLING APART?!!

[23412nooby]

@mrcheeseface2 Mir also fell apart smartpants.

[mrcheeseface2]

@23412nooby yes i know!!! i did some research and i was wrong...... they both lok strangely familar

[eBiology]

@mrcheeseface2 Most large objects that fall out of space break apart into pieces...

[ZXLNT]

@mrcheeseface2 No this was Mir..

[MrMelgibstein]

My grandmother was aboard Skylab when it deorbitted back in 1979,she ended up in a cow pasture.

[repairdroid77]

I am an American and was sad to see it go. R.I.P. Mir.

[Outypoo]

@repairdroid77 Why does it matter if you are american?

[HongKongKanto]

to all americans go make a station on the moon, we are waiting ahh yeahh you have debt

[eman20083421]

@HongKongKanto to bad for the lender , he aint getting that shit back aaaahhhh eeee ooooo

[eman20083421]

this was the best part of the whole russian space program right here. why didnt they get better shots of the junk burning up?

[HongKongKanto]

@eman20083421 ignorant american iss wouldnt be anything without Russia anyways go pay off your debt.

[tlages]

@HongKongKanto And the RKA would be nowhere without the ESA who would be nowhere without NASA who wouldn't be anywhere without the RKA. We all depend on each other, this bickering is useless.

[flimsyshow]

@eman20083421 That is a pretty ignorant and childish comment you did there

[tlages]

@flimsyshow Thank you for being the YouTube police bud.

[rosiek1990]

@HeildemKrieg no shit! I was just joking!

[rosiek1990]

too bad it was destroyed... they could made it humanity's first space museum in the orbit. I would certainly buy a ticket :P

[tlages]

Beautiful. If it weren't for MIR getting raped by a progress spacecraft then everything would be fine.

[artemisfowl90]

RIP, Mir you were a very nice station...

[BarryDennen12]

Hahaha!! Looks just like the Columbia.

[1Allapattah305]

@BarryDennen12 LOL Man thats evil funny but evil

[HongKongKanto]

@BarryDennen12 just that it was empty

[russelledwards001]

@BarryDennen12 what an idiot.

[BarryDennen12]

It doesn't look entirely dissimilar.

[peznat]

@BarryDennen12 do u have no respect!

[BarryDennen12]

Oh come off it.  Look at this video and tell me that it looks nothing like the Columbia re-entry ...

[AlexisS1985]

thats what killed George Lass :-)

[srmeister1]

lol... some people here seem to think that there were passengers inside ..... loool.....

[SmoothCriminalAaron]

Was people in there when it crashed?

[ZXLNT]

@SmoothCriminalAaron Um no.

[xmanmarkk]

what a speed?

[MynameisElliott]

Poor mir.

[Dralcoffin]

Dos svidaniya, Mir.

[chillaxer1993]

holy shit it's really movin!

[halomand11]

ummm the russians purposly had it re enter earths atmosphere

[wackokicker]

I hope the ISS wouldn't has the same fate. If it's already upthere, why don't they stuff it with water and fuel, attach it some powerful rocket and send it to orbit Mars or their moons to wait for the first humans?

[kosiak10851]

@wackokicker we don't need junk in space. after 5-10 years ISS will reenter like that/

[wackokicker]

@kosiak10851 it is junk as an operational ship, but it would make a good container that could be filled little by little while still on earth's orbit.

[wackokicker]

@NelielTuOderswank hi Neliel, what's your expertise? fatigue comes with stress (e.g. loads on a plane's wing) or constant bending of a metal rod, but I doubt it may occur by microimpacts as you said. (They would damage a new ship also)Again, I know it's unreliable, my point is that it could act just as a container, it has a lot of potential energy already, and small addition of supplies probably would save a lot of fuel and launches. It would be nice to read a space engineer's opinion.

[wackokicker]

@NelielTuOderswank of course I'm not a space engineer, but I had physics 101, and fatigue is the progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loadings, not to micrometeoroids. The plane was just an example, your comparison makes me think that: a).- you can't read or... b).-you are plain stupid.

[wackokicker]

@NelielTuOderswank It is better than your lame comments...

[wackokicker]

@NelielTuOderswank hahaha that's the best you can reasoning? poor stupid, pretending to learn science watching Galactica. Grab a real book, you moron!

[64MojoMan]

thats the space shuttle challenger

[kirza94]

@64MojoMan ?? hows that the space shuttle challenger, challenger exploded 2 mins after take-off at Florida heading east , this video was shot in Fiji, and also challenger's debris headed 90* down not re entering the atmosphere at 7000mph at like a angle of -20*

[srednaslenoloc]

@64MojoMan challenger blew up on takeoff

[LazarusOwenhart]

@64MojoMan No it's not, don't be retarded.

[hans1066]

Where was this movie taken?

[YoureAllPeach]

I was in fifth grade when I heard about the decision to deorbit mir. I was amazed that there were actual spacestations in orbit. I always thought they should have left it in space even if they werent going to use it anymore, just for nostalgia.

[hampsons1]

They had to deorbit it, as left unattended it would have come down on its own and if not controlled properly could have fell on a metropolitan area.

Agree though, it is pretty amazing.

[Kingfordian22]

@hampsons1

Which did happen with skylab. It fell over Western Australia,

[ThumbsDown112]

if they did I would use it for my secret hide out. lol jk

[topgundave1981]

the iss is a major station it will surve as long as it can untell it rots then it will ocme down on its own, thay dont plain on it comeing down for oue life time or the next our grand kids of our grand kids may see it

[LCPStud]

I recommend not posting while drunk.

[snedie69er]

How can you proclaim to know anything of space stations and their designs when you cannot even make a coherant sentance.

[chocolate45689]

operations end 2015

[thegundamguy]

no offence but the official deorbit date is june 2020

[Kingfordian22]

@thegundamguy

That is for ISS

But it has been extended to 2025

the construction was delayed by the Shuttle Columbia Disaster in 2003. They are behind schedule so they will most likely delay so that they have appropriate time to perform all research tasks.

[thegundamguy]

@Kingfordian22 i hope they delay it, i get a kick out of watching it pass overhead at night. and the british space agency have proposed two additional living quarters for tranquility. if these are approved then they will have to keep it in orbit

[dahunterfromrune]

why did they de-orbit mir? will they do the same with the iss?

[SellingPeace]

Because NASA wanted the Russian space station down, so the Russians would focus on the ISS. Some day, yes, the same will happen to ISS

[dahunterfromrune]

:0 will the iss live longer thou? cause the iss is huge

[Douken]

In reality it was because the mir was unsafe, many accidents happen and the russian money was going to ISS and left no funding for the old Mir.

[FreedomBunker]

Now there are three space stations up there. The ISS, bigelow Aerospace's flying billboard, and the Chinese have just recently started building their own station.

[rohkanempire]

sometims gravity really sucks... ;(

[kitesurfer91]

what an idiotic coment~

[lxjilyfe]

What a sad footage.

[shadowspork]

That was godawfully fast!! The camera person must have been having a field day, with that footage, along with the sonic booms that came along the streaking remains of the station heading towards oblivion into the Pacific Ocean.

[Coastergeekperson04]

It resembles the Columbia disaster alot.

[thesouthparkguy]

This video, while a depressing reminder of the end of a great space station, is a great way to illustrate the tremendous velocity needed for orbit. Sure you can go outside and see satellites and the ISS zooming by over head and you hear about "17,500 MPH" and you think "that's fast!", but when things de-orbit, they're closer to the ground and you can get a better idea of their speed.

It's so amazing to see that white-hot incandescent metal hurtling through the upper atmosphere that fast!

[Megahugo2007]

emotional moment... see it the first spacial station that down.... very good job Russia

[jbird38]

Wish that had audio. There were rumors of a tremendous rumbling of numerous sonic booms!

[lagobaikal]

it was just a rumor

[gavinovz]

Did any peaces service. If some peaces lasted it would make a great peace for a museum.

[kdmq]

looks just like columbia bye bye mir and columbia!

[admiralnomad]

Nice of you to be so glib about tragedies. Have your family let me know when you die so I can chuckle and say "bye bye!" Show some respect, please.

[kdmq]

i meant to show respect like tis: looks just like columbia boo hoo mir and columbia u will be 4evr missed

[Kingfordian22]

@admiralnomad

No one was onboard. It was empty. A planned re-entry breakup. The pieces of Mir now lie on the ocean floor in the south pacific. This was its planned fate. It had been vacated for about 6-12 months

[wackokicker]

@Kingfordian22 It really was a shame, probably they could have docked two or three progress modules full of fuel and supplies and headed the station to Phobos, to wait for the first humans to arrive.

[lysandermegas]

@admiralnomad lol

[andeegreen]

thats a real shitty thing to say. u should feel ashamed of yourself for talking about columbia in that manner!

[thesouthparkguy]

You should go fuck yourself kdmq.

I mean it, too. Go masutrbate. It's a much better use of your time than making sick comments on Youtube.

[kdmq]

it was by accident i didn't mean for the comment to be that bad

[mir20100]

Miì forever!

[faida81]

mmm.. those look like columbia disaster debris..

[JephN]

not so. The SSME's were ahead of the rest of the debris due to higher density and momentum. the rest of the orbiter debris was slightly less dense, so didnt carry as quickly.

[ornellitax]

buenísima la filmación!!

[OiAnjinSama]

Let us hope they still build 'em like that...

And a scale replica would be appropriate at the air and space museum - it was a piece of world history.

[sexysteveroticeric]

everyone justs ays it a shame cause pieces didnt hit the taco bell bullseye

[Truth666]

Google

Putin end ISS Hoax blogspot MattMarriott

[Aranzubia]

Конец Нашей Истории.

Станция Мир Всегда В Моей Памяти.

МКС До Неё Ещё Далеко...

Станция Мир - Навсегда!

[http69ing]

RIP, Mir. You served us well...

[soapybumwank]

like it

[Pavlenciya]

Все разрушают нынешние демократы в России! Нихрена ничего сделать не могут, только ломают то, что было построено нашими дедами и прадедами!

[thedragonfly]

idd

[Bananaishness]

Sad day indeed..

[littlepyro]

Nobody was in it, it was just time to come down.  This started the ISS.

[Coastergeekperson04]

What? ISS was launched in 1998. This was in 2001.

[fighterpilot122]

this is the space station mir not iss

[Coastergeekperson04]

I know. Read the comments I replied to. Somebody said "This started the ISS", and I pointed out the ISS was launched years before Mir's deorbit.

[Evi1D0c]

Well, actually, in a way it DID start the ISS, as the Russians new this station was failing and begun work on MIR2. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War (and the space race), there was a general lack of interest in space and thus, lack of funding. The project was aborted, and the materials went into the ISS project along with Columbia (EU space station project) and the Freedom (USA's aborted space station project).

[Evi1D0c]

Woops... that was supposed to be: "Columbus" (EU) not Columbia. Also the Japanese contributed their own lab called: "Kibō", to the station.

[georgH]

very sad video

[Andersonbmx]

very, very sad video.

what a shame!

[phhph]

why a shame?

[Coastergeekperson04]

It was intended. Nobody died, this was all supposed to happen.

[kachala]

mega

[lisaro]

very cool video