The Space Shuttle (Narrated by William Shatner)

[marecku9540]

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[prchecker]

great video thanks

[AgrivatedKillah]

Can't believe they chose LEO over Mars... previous presidents fucked up space for future generations.

[victoneter]

@urubu2007 Not really, if we had some more common sense we would automatically invest some more in space exploration.

[helljumpr5150]

To be honest, even though the Space shuttle was quite the engineering achievement it was...i think it was the wrong descision for us take after Apollo.

We could've set foot on Mars as early as the 80's if we tried for an Apollo successor, but Nixon wanted the shuttle specifically for lost cost AND military applications. It was designed for some military uses, but it was NOT low cost.

Sure a Mars mission would've been expensive, but we would've gotten more out of it than to be stuck in LEO.

[greenseaships]

Americans don't dream anymore. Americans don't try anymore. Americans don't care if other countries are ahead of us technologically.

I guess it's time for NASA to get with the times.

[PRSOV]

I actually really liked this video. Great photography, music and good narration. 5 star. Go NASA!

[JMCporsche]

Great video, it's just a shame that such an incredible craft has to be retired. Im sure it had so many years left in it.

[TheSupercaitlin1]

I miss the space shuttle so much.

[danehbear]

Space shuttle

[scottlaws39]

fantastic vidio im sure NASA will still be strong players in the space race

[xIIIAlcopwnageIIIx]

Just Amazing 

[vel1303]

What is the song from the beggining, exactly? Batman Begins or Dark Knight or...? Thanks.

[EyeOnTheTV]

@vel1303 It's from TDK. In fact, the very name of it is "A Dark Knight" . The piece of it playing (it's 16 minutes long) is from the ending scene from that movie.

[moko1117]

You will be missed space shuttle. Its not your fault that you have to retire, its the governments fault.

[khunopie]

"May The Force Be With You!"

[teagraphics]

William Shatner (Kirk) should be on the last shuttle flight.

[EpicNoobBoyTV]

2:28 WTF?!?! BOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

[geomodelrailroader]

I can't believe the shuttle is about to retire. my uncles and my grandpa helped build it they worked for ATK Thiokol the company who built the boosters.

[210482fmj]

if nasa is no longer continuing using the space shuttle does this mean they are not going to be bothering with putting men in space in future. Is the future of space exploration going to be unmanned machines just being sent to other planets. According to the internet the ISS is going to be abandoned at somepoint although i have no idea about the truth of a website statement. So is the future of space exploration going to be entirely unmanned. there seems little for man in space

[SageCalvin]

I like the final words "To do what NASA does best....explore" only proves that NASA is comprised of a bunch of expensive kids exploring space! :-) Wish I was one of them!

[Ebhen1]

When I was young (about 1982 I think) we watched the launches live on TV in school here in Sweden and I still remember the thrill and excitement we all felt.

I have followed the space program closely ever since and it is with a tear in my eye I now watch the final voyage of the shuttles.

I am proud of us humans who have achieved this and still aiming for greater adventures in the name of science and understanding the universe. :)

[zakk0211]

Truely one of human's most awe inspiring achievements ever... The space program will be missed.

[Yukiguni1985]

Simplemente increíble!!

[VideoJeff65]

Nice production, Guy!

[hanga73]

I imagine the time when people will look at these footages as we look at black & white films made in the days when people were flying with their first home made machines

[sandamn85]

Why don't we see this on TV anymore??? Instead of the feats of human evolution all we get is fear mongering and trivial entertainment based on lesser human emotions...

Blessings to the men and women who worked and sacrificed in the cradle of science, for theirs are the laurels of human spirit.

sorry if my english isn't clear as i would like it to be, it's not my native language.

[missdexterity]

while it's hard to believe that anything could make this video any more epic, the bsg music at 7:45 does just that

[docatomics]

...don't forget to triple check for parasites,

~been issuing UNwelcome all over my Earth and well not to many other ways off this rock left, wouldn't want to see the flight go errant because of excess mass/energy withing.

=we need all the shuttles solid for there final mission as DNA ARC messages in bottles (no hominid DNA allowed beyond heliosphere boundry layer, sorry fellow bipeds, but we are under singularity containment, with the exception of our story )

>anyone look at nose of dog lately

[samurai1833]

Phase 1: Design replacement for a succesful Space Transportation System

Phase 2: Underfund Program by Billions

Phase 3: ?????

Phase 4: PROFIT!!!

[gliddyg]

Do your job, ET-122.

[heroineworshipper]

3:29 WAY WAY WAY OUT OF OUR LEAGUE

[ace22777]

Американцы молодцы. Жаль у нас Буран только 1 раз летал :(

[missdexterity]

EXPLORE! HELL YES!

[TENJHOTENGE1]

I'm surprised there are no dislikes. yey!!!!

[remyton05]

Very grateful for the video, I love the earth, fascinated by space, very grateful to the American people and NASA.

[omegaka1]

lol batman soundtrack.

[mccarrmb]

The song in the background is "Passacaglia" by Bear McCreary. You can find it, as well as his other works, on the "Battlestar Galactica Soundtrack: Season 1" album. I also recommend McCreary's "The Shape of Things to Come" from that same album as well.

[shanedac]

anybody know the song in the background?

[Sweetheart12922]

Watching the shuttle program come to a close is the most painful thing I've ever experienced in my life.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@Sweetheart12922 Watching American taxpayers pay 1.5 billion dollars pr Shuttle launch is actually even more painful especially in todays financial climate. If you buy a Ferrari and you actually cant afford it and the payments on the damn car is keeping you from acquiring an affordable car which actually can serve your needs then its might be painful to let it go but the real pain is that you made the wrong financial and technological choice. America could have been on Mars with a low cost model

[MrAnalpfropfen]

I bet the NASA Folks are already secretly developing some badass technological breakthrough vehicle we can't yet dream of... Give it time :)

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@MrAnalpfropfen First of all NASA do not develop anything at all. They are forbidden to do so by law. The government must not be in competition with private space contractors like ATK, Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Thats why NASA is hiring those firm to run the shuttle program and to launch its satellites. Like Orbital that recently dropped a 400 million dollar satellite and a 50 million dollar rocket into the ocean. Again! Making it twice now.

[MrAnalpfropfen]

@SquirrelFromGradLife You sound pessimistic

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@MrAnalpfropfen Its called realism..Nothing get developed without money. A lot of money if NASA keeps on going to the conventional contractors with the conventional cost structure. We can only hope that ATK, Lockheed Martin and Boeing dosnt succeed in shutting companies like SpaceX down like they have every intention of doing and actively trying to when they make cost 1.5 billion pr Shuttle launch. SpaceX is aiming at about 100 million with the Falcon Heavy with twice the lifting capability!

[MrAnalpfropfen]

@SquirrelFromGradLife This is a reasonable opinion and i think it could be prooven a good thing to commercialize space flight and exploration in terms of long-sight development. I dunno exactly, there aren't that much options available i guess.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@MrAnalpfropfen Space flight is solely commercialized and monopoliced by ATK, Lockheed Martin and Boeing- that the whole problem. Commercial interests stand above the national need for innovation and space exploration. Why do you think when president Obama cancelled Constellation suddenly congress found a bag of money to carry on some parts of the program?Why was that?

Why would anyone pore billions into a cancelled program waisting taxpayer money? because they buy politician with taxpayer money

[MrAnalpfropfen]

@SquirrelFromGradLife Oh, okay. Now i'm pessimistic again. HOW CAN HUMANITY INTO SPACE? 

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@MrAnalpfropfen big elastic band and some ACME rockets....

[MrAnalpfropfen]

@SquirrelFromGradLife lawl

[docatomics]

@SquirrelFromGradLife ...don't forget to triple check for parasites,

~been issuing UNwelcome all over my Earth and well not to many other ways off this rock left, wouldn't want to see the flight go errant because of excess mass/energy withing.

= make shuttles final mission as DNA ARC messages in bottles (no hominid DNA allowed beyond heliosphere boundry layer, sorry fellow bipeds, but we are under singularity containment, with the exception of our story

>anyone look at nose of dog lately

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@docatomics you really need to smoke less pot..

[y2knoproblem]

Space: The final frontier

These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise

Its 5 year mission

To explore strange new worlds

To seek out new life and new civilizations

To boldly go where no man has gone before

[tnhl77]

That was awesome great narration Bill

[theparadisedream]

All the respect for William Shatner. as for the space program ...well it suffed a lot because of money. In the past was religion that was stopping progress now is money so... there could have been made many more stuff that what was achieved

[DamienZshadow]

We've built a brilliant history of achievements but it's not over! Our future has always been unsure but our strong legacy pushes us forward into the unknown. I hope for the day when I too can break the binds of this planet and taste true freedom in space.

Onward and upward for everyone on this planet!

[Roky1989]

Did anyone, besides me, hear one of the songs of the BSG OST???

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

Did NASA just put the cancelled Ares V rocket into the video and say "soon America will again send astronauts into orbit"...ooooh...on a cancelled rocket that is? Its great to see that America has to rely on Russia to ferry the astronauts to the ISS.

We lost the space race in the end... such a shame..

With a strategy of a low cost vehicle like the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy years ago America could be on Mars by now, but now we cant even make it into low earth orbit.

[tnhl77]

@SquirrelFromGradLife *picard facepalm*

[Sweetheart12922]

@SquirrelFromGradLife It wasn't a cancelled rocket in the video. It is supposed to be a model for what the next space transport system will look like...Similar to the Ares.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@Sweetheart12922 the rocket shown in the video is the cancelled Ares V cargo lifter... if you are confused go check it out...and btw Constellation and Ares cost American taxpayers billions og dollars with absolutely nothing to show for it... oh wait thats not entirely correct because theres erected a 500 million dollar monument at KSC praising the glory of the NASA subcontractor cost plus financial structure in the form of a launch tower... 500 million for a tower used once!

[aimhigh59]

@SquirrelFromGradLife The tower was never used. Ares test flight launched from Pad B. The tower cost $300 million to construct. Another $300 is needed to outfit it to be able to launch anything from it.

[cruxader27]

anyways you guys can still go to space...just go to russia and ride the soyuz

[GaboBB1]

I know what the world needs, it needs inspiration, to have a common goal that will only be achieved by forgetting our diffences, that goal is something that all us humans could be proud of: eliminating global hunger, educate every single child, peace, reach the stars and make our most unbelivable dreams come true.Inspiration that is what we need, inspiration that will move mountains and people towards a better future.The space race should be not between countries it should be against mediocrity.

[SchmidtyXX]

@GaboBB1 Yea, well you also forgot, you need to rid the world of people who use their religion to manipulate the realities of life.

[GaboBB1]

@SchmidtyXX That is absolutely true.

[turtlewings]

Shatner is the man.

[userwl2850]

what a great way to finish its work with captain kirk speaking.

[ChrisAstro30]

Watching it again!So beautiful :D

[mrrn100]

Columbus was not the first sailor to circumnavigate the Earth, that was Fernão de Magalhães, Magellan. Columbus never did that, anyway.

[DamienZshadow]

@mrrn100 Columbia the navy vessel, not Columbus the person.

[dzonikg]

To bad Buran was made just before colapse of USSR ,it was 2 awsome machine ,with out competiton i dont see 2 much progress in space because politicans who give money are not interested if they cant get popularity from it.NASA budget now is just 1/40 of military.

[z0nt21]

OMG, that first footage of gliding flight by Enterprise left me speechless... as two fighter jets accompanied it to the landing strip for a safe touch down!

[mindyhertzon]

STS-134, BABY! I can't wait! Thanks for all the years of exploration and everyone's efforts over at NASA and the other space agencies. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! God speed!!!!!!!!!!!

[peppeddu]

They should have mentioned the software that runs the Space Shuttle.

It is the best in the world, not for what it does but for how it does it.

Since STS1 it has carried astronauts into space and back to earth safely, no problem ever in 30 years.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

@peppeddu So you are saying not a single line have been changed. Not a single fault have ever occurred. Thats amazing. To bad its pure fantasy....

[swiFtey08]

the LHC is the most complex machine ever build ... and NASA does not own the worlds largest indoor pool... in fact I found allot of the facts on here to be wrong.

[swiFtey08]

the LHC is the most complex machine ever build ...

[Tifflet]

The space shuttle is the most iconic and beautiful vehicle ever designed and built, for the few that have travelled on them, they are the brave and honored. Such a pity they are being retired, they will be missed.

[dumbnetworks]

AMAZING!

[AmusingYeti]

NASA makes me proud to be human.

[superman55566]

I'm gonna miss the Space Shuttle Program :(

[009Fahim]

now tat the space shuttle is gone what is NASA going to do to replace it? orion?space x dragon? soyuz?

[screamjackson]

i cant wait until the day we all can fly to a city built in space for just the price it takes to fly to Egypt today, i love outer space, the big space that shines in the little place in my heart. we are like a small germ on a huge beach which we know very little of.

[kavlo26]

Great video of the shuttle program! So many hard working men and women have made this possible. Thanks to all of you! Hopefully we get to see more space travel in the future!

[sachibbsr]

Well, the shuttles will still be remembered a thousand years from now.

Knowing that should be some consolation to the thousands of people who have worked and loving cared for the shuttles for 30 years.

[leeesaable]

Thank you shuttle engineers for your lasting dedication to this program. People don't really understand what you have done.

[Panthiest]

 These days nearly everyone takes for granted what the space program has given us and will give us in the future. Just the same it will continue.

[miles2057]

Absolutely awesome, all that started from an idea 7 years before I was born and the first shuttle launched when I was 2 years old. I wish I could work for NASA.

God bless every single person involved from the beginning to now for a job well done.My thoughts are with the astronauts who passed away and their families.

[Pouncer3]

Amazing!!! I hope the future will be just as bright!!!! Tell people to watch this video!!!

[8UP1977]

Nice use of a Star Trek narrator, and music from Battlestar Galactica.

[CaNaDiiAnBaCoN]

Fred Hayes was the first pilot of Enterprise? That was a member on Apollo 13 correct?

[spacestevie2]

@CaNaDiiAnBaCoN Fred Haise was the LM pilot on Apollo 13.

[ChrisAstro30]

@CaNaDiiAnBaCoN yes!

[pokeknowledge2007]

They should start making huge space cruisers

[AvatarOfAvatar]

Stuff like yacking babies goes viral, yet something like this only has 300 views.... kind of a very telling fact about the intelligence of the world right now...

[nickc2202]

@AvatarOfAvatar sad but true

[EndeavourLaunch]

Batman + Space Shuttle + Shatner = Godly.

[1RadicalOne]

So I am not the only one who recognizes a Zimmer score? ;)

[AcrossTheRiverStix]

I do not like....but LOVE!!! Thank you NASA for all the awesome work and sacrifice and dedication towards the advancement of space/science.

[artfrankmiami]

Well edited.



[bobwaci]

amazing vid!

[cartoonkid98]

Does this mean you guys are retiring the Shuttle....

....To be replaced with the Enterprise NCC-1701?

:D :D :D :D

[AVBFANS]

inspiring!!

[IOnGust]

Cool! music from Batman Begins!!!

Amazing video!

[NiklasKing87]

<3 shatner

[orange12301]

excellent video. 

[astrowanabe]

Nice of them to show the Ares Vrocket at the end but wasn't the Constellation program effectively shut down?

[wsvjr]

@astrowanabe yes Obama cut the funding so after the last launch this summer we will rely on the Russians until we get a smart president.

[IntoTheMystical]

@wsvjr So you think that's why they are retiring the shuttles? I hope everyone gives you a thumbs up so people will be able to get a good laugh when they watch this.

Not everything is about politics.

[wsvjr]

@IntoTheMystical Yes everything in life IS about politics. welcome to the 21st century.

[IntoTheMystical]

@wsvjr Surrendering to thinking like yours will ensure that we never make it out of the 18th century. Try living one day without hate, maybe we will make it to a future.

Why do I bother.

[ChrisAstro30]

Just amazing!wow!:)

[MaxSafeheaD]

Very cool but a rationa l animal would realise space is a frontier we simply won't have the technology to exploit for another few hundred years.

Perhaps now we can go bacl to exploring the two thirds of our life support system that we have no clue about before burning another trillion dollars floating about where there is nothing for billions of miles.

I don't mena to piss on any bonfires but it's depressing how litle people realise the beauty and stunning potential of ocean exploration.

[Taco1011]

GOD BLESS ENDEAVOUR, ATLANTIS, AND DISCOVERY AND GOD BLESS ALL THOSE WHO WORK ON IT!! you gave some awesome memories NASA so thank you

[Skytroop]

@Taco1011 yeah and very soon there will only be memories and no dream. TYVM Mr. Obummer!

[indetrucks]

@Taco1011

Agreed. I couldn't have said it better. Cheers

[geomodelrailroader]

@Taco1011 LOL the Shuttle is an amazing machine I hate to see it retire I need to go the National Air and Space Museum to visit Discovery on of these days.

[akaga45]

I'm really going to miss the shuttle. I grew up dreaming of one day piloting one. It holds a very special place in my heart.

[lollywit]

Great video. Nice touch to use some of Bear McCreary's music.

[Ormaaj]

One might say the shuttle being "the most complex machine ever built" was it's most critical design flaw. Complexity is ultimately what makes it dangerous to fly and expensive to compensate enough to fly it safely.

[MaquisDrake]

I love that white tank. If only STS-135 could get one...

(I know it weights more)

[PrimiusLovin]

Already missing the shuttle, landing in a parachuted capsule somewhat makes it all look embarrassing, lacks the graciousness of this amazing machine! :(

[themixeduphippy]

I`m speechless when everytime i see a shuttle video.

[beatmaster23]

brought tears to my eyes. it's quite nice to be able to remember all those years of space shuttle glory. bravo, Nasa!

[hackneysaregreat]

The true beauty of the shuttle lies not only in its unsurpassed craftmanship, but also in the unsurpassed way it has shown and still shows what can be achieved by humanity by really working together and making unlimitted use of our differences and different qualities of countless people and the unlimited bravery of astronauts showing us the unlimitted beauty of space. Some paying with their lives in doing so.

I will miss the shuttle, but it will prove to be the historical basis for far more.

[Xris375]

One day we'll see a new spaceshp named Enterprise...I'm sure of it! Thanks to Shatner and NASA for making this :)

[oomblikkies]

The Shuttle was way ahead of its time - just like the Concorde

[luv4drums1]

great video!

[pabloMTv]

just finished watching it ..... inspirational

[TheDeadlyKind]

And Admiral.... its the Enterprise.

[pabloMTv]

will watch in 240p just because i love william shatner!!!!

[deKay88]

@pabloMTv doesnt matter, most of the video material has poor quality, either on 720p ^^