NASA | HD LRO and LCROSS Atlas 5 Launch

[MrInsects]

3 russians watched this video im russian american but fuck i dont give a shit go AMERICA and in russian Flo russka witch means go russia!

[Anymuster]

This craft has a Russian main engine RD-180.

I wonder why nobody discuss that.

[jvirtuarts]

BRAZIL!!

[Masoud5991]

Space is so dark. Shit

[CPWICN]

ohhh skittles 0:32

[niner98]

lol!!

[X4Escobar]

At 3:08 what is that purple thin behind the rocket.?

[cnwaddell]

ozone layer

[senohscrew]

reflection on the lens

[ihavtugo]

Ya you would think a country like Russia would at least try to go.

[deeznukka]

this to me is just about launching a missle into the lunar surface AKA"space weapons testing" haha water on the lunar surface wtf, Y nock into a orbiting moon w is dire to our planet when you can just send a crew w/might be the same cost to do the research w/o impacting the surface for suposed H2o which WE DONT NEED and their is life out ther its called bacteria, so life is not the Q you need to ask the Q why didnt they ask the American people b4 they used our money! For WATER!HAHA BULL SH%T

[lkdsjflskdfj]

In the future, humans will achieve correct usage of "there" and "their".

[ihavtugo]

In the future humans will get a life and stop correcting the spelling of a person on youtube.

[lkdsjflskdfj]

In the future, robots will take over the job of correcting spelling mistakes made by ignorami.

[lkdsjflskdfj]

You are an animal.

[detroitmetro101]

bilderbergz.....im sorry i thought u were from the us.............since you're not this matter shouldnt really concern you............

[detroitmetro101]

no.....the eu didnt do this at any time.................an its not a waste of money to research our sorroundings...until a few years ago we thought that the moon was only sand and rock...and today we could find water..and were water is present theres a chance that life is also...its better to spend our money in scientific reaserch and education than useless wars(iraq)...

[Albellsc]

Most likely ice chunks chipping off.

[chobson123]

That's why i said UFO's because i don't know what it is, it doesn't of to be an alien spaceship.

[chobson123]

i think i saw 2 ufos at 3:09

[ashkan2sahraee]

Yes yes yes, I saw something like a UFO, What was that ?

[Ultra4]

lol the 2 white dots? 1 frame duration each, c'mon dont start those things, morons will read that and start rumors

[cyberspy034]

it might b an asteroid

[slappedcheek]

excellent post.......pure quality.....12.30pm 9-10-09..uk time.....live on nasa tv

[kandtcarroll]

How is the pursuit of science stupid and arrogant?

[Bilderbergz]

what a waste of money they should have done that when they supposedly went to the moon.... didnt the EU already do this like a year ago....

[ihavtugo]

when they went to the moon they didn't land on the polar caps did they? And the US is the only country that has shown interest in the moon. Landing on it a few times.

[summerstarsful1]

Clearly the nasa lcross crash action to the moon is astonishingly stupid and arrogant.

[kamal10928]

why is the rocket frozen?

[5velocidades]

el cohete esta congelado por la altura seguramente,a esa altura la humedad es maxima,hacer frio,fijate como se moja la camara

[kamal10928]

¿por qué tienen que hablar español?

[artwleb]

It is carrying Liquid Oxygen at -297 degrees to allow burning

of the fuel much like a car needs air (oxygen) to allow ignition and expansion of the gasoline..........

[than217]

Once the vid is completely loaded drag the little cursor between 1:40 to the end of the vid, it looks real cool. Really fluid progressive explosion out of the back.

[than217]

I love those flames at 2:15 on, so cool. Nothing like a good rocket launch.

[vicerorome]

With all the time and money spent on these projects will somebody pleaaase budget in a decent sounding mic or an operator that knows how to speak without resting his face on the damn thing... sheeesh haha

[st4ticblu3]

I hope you two are being sarcastic. If not you're morons.

[mrwaffles58]

2:26 looks fake

[whiskers123]

This is so fake.

[IIJETHROII]

Fake? Why?

[whiskers123]

Ahh never mind. :) I was joking. Anyway this is a really neat video I am amazed it does not have more views.

[trucho519]

Let's all stop arguing and appreciate the awesome footage NASA has provided us with. I hear this mission will prove ,if in fact, our moon contains water.

[jorgeguberte]

Still...their architecture sure supports that ammount of data. Of course, huge ammounts of packets would be lost in the way.

If the "common" people have access to a 12MP camera is because NASA had access to it a looong long time ago. I'm sure they learned a lot since then.

[alienmoonbase]

WTF? 12 mp is nothing dude.

A forty dollar wifi can do it in about five seconds. and yes, radio waves work the same in space as on earth

[jorgeguberte]

I think a 12MP image transmitted through space wouldn't be a problem for NASA.

;)

[richardschumacher]

Why th' heck did NASA post it with the wrong aspect ratio?

[JustShoveJayOhBe]

@ 2:50 that's a longgggg way from Florida! It's mind boggling that I was only just pulling back onto the road in Port Canaveral to head back to the hotel at the time that this thing was already in space!

[Androly]

That is mind-numbingly awesome.

[AstronautGallagher]

If we can land Robots on MARS and other planets in our solar system - What makes you think the moon landing was fake - The flag moves due to an effect caused by Solar Wind. If you don't still understand the effects of Solar Wind - Go Earn a Degree in ASTROPHYSICS, Dont make yourself look like an idiot on the internet.

[WalhamptonCrew]

As far as i know US people landed in Iraq to kill innocent people.

[JenjuroX]

Looking back at my comment I can't seem to find the word "entertaining" anywhere at all in there. So please don't quote what isn't there.

It's costing them virtually nothing to take these videos.

I believe you have a biased opinion against NASA and your comments have absolutely no real motive as to put down any of these videos of which you ARE watching.

[purpleflith]

Stupid!

[diasflac69]

FAKE!

[JenjuroX]

Some people find it interesting and educating to watch these launches...and I think NASA realizes this.

You're not a bright one eh buddy? Also, If they didn't show these on here...you'd some how bring up the question of "why aren't they showing these videos publicly?!".

[balderdash707]

I'm paying them all this money to launch the rocket, I don't mind them spending 0.1% more to show me what's going on.

[historico69]

i wouldn't call this 'heavy advertising.' in fact, posting things on youtube and twitter is free, compared to a 21 minute spot on one of the big 7.

[juztAkick]

2:55 no oxygen

[smcalmebra]

lol historico69 u proud that the US touched another planet huh? and which one wud that b..

[historico69]

so astute! yeah nomenclature is a bitch on sundays.

ps we also invented the internet and the computer, both of which you are using right now.

"" for the other word policeman.

[historico69]

USA owns. I'm liberal as shit, but i love to know I was born in the country that first had a citizen touch another planet.

[MyUsernameOwnsU]

If you're talking about the moon, that's not a planet. It's a celestial body knows as a "moon". Go figure

[my9ite]

U.S education at its finest.

[historico69]

yes, the US education system is the finest. Denial is like an addiction huh?

[historico69]

you're the one with the HUGE sign in your profile that says:

HONESTY = ISLAM

lol.

[227lion]

For some reason I always though when it went threw the atmosphere it was look different.

[sld312]

why is nasa returning to the moon?

did they find something?

[everygreatpowerfalls]

they wana map out the hole surface of the moon with lcross and lro i think is guna have something crash into it so dust and rocks can fly out and they could have samples .

and have a map so they now where it would be safe to land when they send people up there. but i think there doing more things that they don't tell people . its funny i watch the nasa channel and they always take out the stars

[ggfer1981]

my understanding is hellium3 it is to be mined for the purpose of creating fusion H3 is better than hydogen because it contains fewer neutrons an does little dammage to the reactor containment walls

[qyk1984]

super!!!!

[ksaloverksa]

nice !!

[m1sterh0tsauc3]

very sweet!

[nildurx]

Niesamowite niecałe 3 minuty i jesteśmy w kosmosie, a żeby dostać się z ameryki do polski samolotem to ho ho, blizej w kosmos do najblizszej stacji kosmicznej niz gdziekolwiek indziej!

[serp0201]

ten dym na końcu filmy wygląda jakby był... graficzny...

[paszczurnen]

Bo paliwo spalalo sie juz poza atmosfera i nie bylo plomienia.

[ThePankracy]

lol jaka śmiechowa rakieta xD

[87ramasaurus]

What are the white chunks around the body that look like ice ?

[Anjum48]

That would be ice! The liquid hydrogen and oxygen tanks are very cold, which causes water vapour to condense and freeze on the tanks.

[michaelbuddy]

Whoa, if you quickly scrub through it from the 40% mark to the end, it looks really awesome.

[unregisteredcoward]

Photon detectors? What are you, a basement Trekkie? If your going to correct someone, at least have correct and verifiable information.

[balderdash707]

Photon detector, you know, a CAMERA.

[ChildOL]

I doubt we will ever get people anywhere beyond earth because of the Van Allen radiation belts. We couldn't do it in the 60s and 70s I don't see how we can do it today.

[balderdash707]

Yes, because obviously if humanity lacked the technology for something 40 years ago, we will never be able to do it.

Do you realize how dumb that sounds?

[ChildOL]

@balderdash707...

Do you know how dumb it sounds when NASA and others say that when we go _back_ to the moon we can test the soil and learn about it and see if it has water etc etc. when we supposedly went to the moon many times 30 years ago and got lots of soil samples and moon rocks?

[balderdash707]

Way to bring up a completely irrelevant, yet still completely idiotic point. If you're going to straw man, at least do it well.

The apollo missions never spent more than about 3 days on the surface, and were only in areas best suited for landing, not research. Only one professional geologist ever went up, the rest were pilots, not scientists. Water could be found deep beneath the surface or in permanently shadowed craters, neither of which were explored back in the day.

[ChildOL]

@balderdash707...

We supposedly made _6_ _manned_ moon landings (and for what, to jump around for a bit for fun?), so you can't possibly tell me that they would not have gotten what they needed during all those missions. I mean they supposedly even got crater core samples.

Also they did not need geologists to take samples since they did not need to analyze them there, the geologists _on earth_ I'm sure told them what they needed to get and the provided the tools to get them with.

[balderdash707]

Yes, because it takes only 12.5 days to explore THE ENTIRE MOON.

Also, have you ever tried to help somebody find something at your house over a phone? Now imagine doing that from a quarter million miles away, over a shitty radio connection, while they're wearing clunky space suits, in a place neither of you has ever been (nor anybody else in the entire human race), with mission controllers and the rest of the scientific community breathing down your neck for using up precious minutes.

[ChildOL]

@balderdash707...

You made a point for me, thanks for making their missions even more improbable especially with 0 failures except for the staged failure of the Apollo 13 mission to get interest back. Also they do not need to be directed via radio they could have been fully briefed on what to look for before leaving earth etc.

[balderdash707]

They can be briefed to the extent of "look for rocks that look like X", but to really know what you're doing when choosing rocks you have to spend years at a university. I wouldn't be surprised if the astronauts just took a random sampling of rocks from the moon (which would still be very useful in learning about the average makeup of the surface, but not if you're looking for something in particular).

[WhoIsMarkLeeming]

Not true where talking about the Earth. Infact NASA have actually used Hubble to take pictures of Earth, they just dont use it all the time because they have other specialised sattalites for that job.

[unregisteredcoward]

Nope, dead wrong. Hubble is incapable of taking images of earth or even the moon due to it's exposure timing. There are plenty of eath imaging satellites in orbit, including the Ikonos/GeoEye/Nextview series.

[MargieDee11]

Space has always fascinated me..

This was really awesome to see..

Thank you for sharing..

Sending Smiles:)

Margie D

[perfectionbox]

Probably the cleanest launch I've ever seen. Nicely done.

Fly me... to the moon... :)

[0blivionStar]

wow. That looked freakin awesome.

[mccoyc]

Kudos to the Russians.  The RD-180 engines sound awesome!

[ImHated1986]

wow :O amazing

[ulryrke]

Fantastic video, precious images

[35ciencias]

Fascinante!

[michchap]

My partner and I watched the Atlas V launch on NASATV on 18 June 2009. It was cool to participate, in a very small way, in America's return to the Moon.

[socratic1968]

great video.

Doesn't it seem a bit odd you that the so called "transparency" of the new administration doesn't extend to the LRO?

We are looking at MONTHS before the public is ALLOWED to see the images that we paid for.

Anybody else think this is a bit strange other than George Leonard, Alan Sturm and others who have identified SPECIFIC areas of interest that appear to be anomalous?

[professorbuglefarts1]

Bloody brilliant...not too many machines will hit 4400 miles per hour two minutes after takeoff...and flying straight up, no less! This thing is bloody cool.

-I'm sure some brainy person can tell us why the brown skin shrunk inwards as the altitude increased- look at the ribs getting more and more prominent...Also the flame changes colour after about 2.10- finally becoming clear-(Hydrogen burns with an invisible flame)...

Here's to space flight ;-)

[Dellpodder]

I think the skin might appear to be shrinking because the shadows are changing. It isn't flying straight up, but rather at an angle relative to the earth.

[nwalcott12]

you need to have a correct exit velocity and attitude to ensure the greatest efficiency. as a result, less fuel is burned to put the rocket in orbit as one example.

[Anjum48]

That's a good point but I think there's a different reason:

The brown stuff appears bigger because there's a small layer of ice all over it, and it melts and evaporates as it goes higher, making it appear to shrink. Notice how the colour changes (although this could be due to the shadows) and also notice how you can see more detail in the ridges when the ice has gone

[Dellpodder]

@Anjum

That sounds like the most likely explanation. I hadn't thought of the ice before.

[buzznjackal]

Awesome, thanks for posting this here and providing the iTunes link, now I'm subscribed to your podcast.

[TOkLungu]

whow after the vid i feel like being in space !!! THX, i like to be a part of space age at least on youtube!

[GoreTorn16]

Spectacular!

[mahindra123456789]

wow amazing thank you for sharing

[austpom333]

Well done

[demonslayer55555585]

Love it.

[IFloridaMotocrossI]

Wow, I didn't think that camera would work once it got out of the atmosphere.

[beeohhski]

its electric

[CounterNerd]

Yay,you answered my request!! Thank NASA!!

[digitalxn3]

traveling at 666.67 m/s. Dammnn

[anmoose]

Beautiful launch! It doesn't get any better.

[beeohhski]

also nasa we want our prometheus class ships back on the drawing board :P

[beeohhski]

can i live on the moon i dont care if its as a janitor ill be the most scientificaly competent janitor in the world (or moon)

[ALaudun]

A beautiful position for an onboard camera, I hope they get more use out of it later in the mission.

[Jordache22222]

Superb image. It seems this rocket climbs with higher acceleration than those with people on board.

[beeohhski]

when there are no people on board then they can go as fast as they want with people they got to make sure that the gs stay equal through speed so its a slow start but they constantly increase speed and keep the gs areound 5-8 cause higher than that and you may pass out but i think that they go through training for extra gs

[bsamuels453]

i dont get why this comment was marked down, it is correct in every way

[Keylimedelight]

hells yes.

[65536nojijou]

A continuance wants to look.

[karlanime]

Amazing ^^

[BYMYSYD]

good work NASA!

[BYMYSYD]

good work nasa...and everyone

[RoryM07]

Amazing!

[markojustas]

cool

[DaftKnightXBL]

Freakin' cool!