Space Shuttle, Best view of shuttle landing Ive ever seen !

[harm04]

Obnoxious banner, even more obnoxious anchorman. Did you have to talk the entire time??!! Jerk!

[GSDirtboy]

It would be great if this guy would shut up and let us just watch! What's with the over-commentary?

[marcs990]

Never mind if this was a fortune to make/ operate, respect for what it is, an amazing craft that has earned a noble place in history. I think this footage is amazing. Oh by the way I'm not American

[Theruben1223]

Shut the fuck up! and Fuck sports!

[ryr067]

beautiful...I just wish those two to shut up though

[HunterPilot24]

300kts on approach.  That's awesome.

[Sefaril]

Was I the only one who wished the news guy would shut up so we could hear the radio?

[ti994apc]

Hard to justify having a space vehicle that lands like an airplane. To land like an airplane you take a major penalty with launch and landing safety. Also, cost ended up being 1.5 Billion per flight. That is about 15 Falcon9 manned (105 people) disposable rockets or 15 falcon9 heavy launches which lifts over double the weight of Shuttle.

[MrLiteBear]

Shuttles are oldschool. They stopped this program to start with the USS Enterprise, which is due soon!

[planetchinchilla]

Beautiful landing! I miss the shuttle program...

[Resemb1ance]

It doesn't have flaps, does it? At what speed does it move along the glide path? At what speed does it land (touches ground with the gear)?

[knightryderrwn]

@Resemb1ance,

The shuttle did have flaps....I believe touchdown speed is around 215 MPH....by comparison, a commercial airliner lands at about 160 MPH.

[ImmortalSynn]

@knightryderrwn

Doesn't have flaps. It's movable surfaces are referred to as "elevons" seeing as they do the work of both elevators and ailerons. An ogee/delta winged aircraft has no need, and really no use, for flaps.

[knightryderrwn]

@ImmortalSynn,

I stand corrected, then.

[leisulin]

It might be the "best view of shuttle landing" if it weren't for the stupid banner across the bottom of the screen that obscures a good portion of the image.

[eastcoast78]

@leisulin my thoughts exactly fucking Noobs!!

[geoffreydlang]

1:40 Anchor: "Let's turn up the audio and listen to this for a minute.."

He catches himself 2 seconds later as he's obviously decided that the world would rather hear him warble until the end of the live coverage.

[RVideoDesign]

SHUT THE FUCK UP when the shuttle is landing news guy, i want to enjoy the landing not your voice!

[smilereceive]

I know lot y'all hatin' on the US at the moment, but surely this is worth a few bombs dropped on Iraq. Peace.

[thatswassup22]

Great coverage...You'll be lucky if you get 30 seconds of this during any NY news coverage..SMH

[theDudeAbides1100]

i liked the shuttle, but it would've been way cheaper to go up the way russians do.seems like a lot of money and  hours got wasted jsut to showoff.

[littlepyro]

@theDudeAbides1100 HA, no. It would have been cheaper, but we would have lost SO much of the capability to haul the cargo we did up to the ISS. The progress ships only bring supplies (food, clothes, etc) to the station, not whole segments to build upon. And, if we went in the Soyuz, we would only get 3 astronauts, and not the 7 we were capable of.

[ImmortalSynn]

@theDudeAbides1100

It wasn't "just to show off"... the shuttle could move both cargo tonnage and cargo bulk at levels that the Soviets could only dream of. That's why they were kept for so long in the first place!

[theDudeAbides1100]

@ImmortalSynn cool cool

[cdjburton]

Fuck sports, wheres the honour they deserve

[kevinkowens]

Wonderful video, however the news man wouldnt shut up so i could hear what NASA was saying. OMG. When its live sometimes the best reporting is the event itself.

[oceantrolls73]

sad we wont be seeing this happen again any time soon... wonderful program it was and amazing achievements. Way to go NASA!. 

[1MtnBoy]

hard to top that ! thanks for posting

[PRSOV]

What a majestic spacecraft, loved the contrails extending off the wingtips. What a shame that moron talking ruined it, I'll just have to watch it again in mute.

[Bonypart]

Would have been even better if that commentator had just shut his mouth for more than ten seconds. Jeez!!

[bankroot13]

they eat humans beware Draco the serpent race

[PaulsR2D2]

Does that commentator EVER shut up?

[rushbh100]

glide

[DEXtr1p]

FUCK. i wanted to hear about the sports!

[TheGreg1010]

awesome landing video! 

[dezmaas]

That camera angle as the shuttle came in was amazing.

[coptafiel]

Does anyone know WTF Playerchess77 is talking about?

[ThomasTrue]

What a wonderful textbook landing. It really moved me when the longest serving shuttle, Discovery, landed for the last time. And when Atlantis ends their days in a few weeks time, I'm really going to miss them. For what some people call "dated 1980s technology" the shuttle orbiters are proof of the old adage, if something ain't broke, don't fix it.

How can one person possibly dislike this?

[sanyo51]

this is so awesome.. i will miss seeing this

[v12tommy]

Gives me goosebumps every time I see one of those. Makes me so proud to be an american.