NASA Space Shuttle Launch FRONT WINDOW On-Board cam

[delaney12]

have u ever been driving towards a big city and the whole sky is pink above the city..thats the citys lights...once in the city or "under" that pink glow u cannot see the stars thru that light

[MrLoneWolf009]

I can't wait for humanity to shed its level 0 societal mark and advance to a level 2. (that's space exploration for the noobs that don't know terms, and by space exploration I mean go to another system other than Sol). *sighs* but alas there will always be the stupids ruling the intelligent masses, and people like Rick perry will... Uh... Uh... I-I can't... I forget..... Oops... The entirety of humanity back to the stone age.

[delaney12]

@MrLoneWolf009 nice rick perry joke..hes very forgetful that moron

[centurion180ad]

Discovery “makes one last reach for the stars,” but somehow NASA video cameras never seem to ever record one. Never is 1 star, 1 planet or the Milky Way *ever* visible.

How in Hell is LEM & CM video orbiting across the dark side of the moon, devoid of stars?

Why the Hell wouldn't astronauts pointedly video & photograph such a spectacle, rather the lie their asses off saying the did not see and do not remember seeing any stars?

NASA is gangsters, and Apollo is a mega crime.

[predatortheme]

@centurion180ad Go back under your rock.

[centurion180ad]

@predatortheme Drop dead.

[MrAJR76]

@centurion180ad You can't photograph the stars in the night sky. They don't show up - try it yourself.

[centurion180ad]

@MrAJR76 I'm not going to use photographic film.

I'm going to use a cheap ass cellphone video camera, and I am going to capture an image of a big fat bright planet on a clear night.

[jerseyemt]

@MrAJR76 Uhh...yes you definitely CAN photograph the stars in the night sky....and they show up just fine.

[delaney12]

@jerseyemt uhh actually MrAJR is correct...depending on where u live...if u live in the country where there are less lights...see i live in toronto Ont. and its impossible to take picutres of the stars becasue there is too much city lights...so ur wrong and MrAJR is right

[MultiReginator]

what the hell are those balloon things at 00:54 ?



[blablubb12345]

@MultiReginator

Those are covers on the front reaction control system thrusters. They are designed to be ripped off during launch.

[ALFPAJARITO]

the left (12:05 to 12:09). Then from 12:09 to 12:11 the ice pieces seems moving from left to right and right to left several times, but actualy what is moving from one side to the other is the shuttle due to minors adjusts to its traveling direction, actualy the ice particles keep moving at the same speed and direction. Well that was the best explanation I found to my question for the momment, hope someone who realy “knows” can explain to both of us, Best regards.

[centurion180ad]

@ALFPAJARITO So as Discovery crosses into the dark side of earth orbit, we are able to see shiny crystals but no stars, planets or the milky way.

The dim reflection of the ice crystal is clear, but we can't see mars, venus, saturn, none of the high luminosity stars, nor the patch of the milky way.

STINKING BOGUS NASA CROOKS

[blablubb12345]

@centurion180ad

Try to film stars for yourself instead of making dumb assumptions. And btw. you can't see stars in films taken by the russians, europeans, chinese, japanese or any other space fairing nation. So i guess they are all into the hoax?

[centurion180ad]

@blablubb12345 TV or video cameras don't have FILM.

I understand that film requires exposure time. All video has to do is send bits to a digital device, that was analog back in the days of Apollo.

[blablubb12345]

@centurion180ad

It doesn't matter if the camera uses film, video tubes or CCD chips, all need to be exposed to the light source to get an image.

[delaney12]

@centurion180ad u cant see the stars becasue there is too much light under the the camera....if the sun was gone from the sky/universe ud be able to see everyhting including the milky way and mars and venus..but there is to much light...u would know this if u paid any attention in grade 10 science...they also covered this in the moon landing conspiracy...im from toronto and unles i go out to the country its impossible to see the stars at night becasue the city emitts to much light

[centurion180ad]

@delaney12 Apollo T.V. video in question does not have the sun in it, because from both the LEM & CM the video was shot from DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.

THERE IS NO SUN VISIBLE FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

[ALFPAJARITO]

The heat produced by the jets looses some pieces of ice from both sides of the shuttle and start to moving free in the space at the same initial speed of the shuttle. Then as the trust takes effect the shuttle start to slows down, but the ice pieces continue to traveling at the initial speed. So we see the ice pieces as they are going forward from our point of view, that is the ice pieces loosed from the left side seems to go to the right and the pieces loosed from the right side seems to go to

[ALFPAJARITO]

@Hritzness: Thanks to your comment and reviewing the video I´v arrived to what I think could be the right answer to my own question. Please feel free to share your point of view to the following: Supose the shuttle first is traveling forward at a given speed, then supose it needs to make some fine trajectory adjust and needs to reduce its speed just a Little; in order to do so it fires some of those smalls jet nosles or hornets it has all arround (don´t know how to say that in english)....

[ALFPAJARITO]

Is there anyone who can "scientificaly" explain to me what are those white dots moving in random directions at 12:00?

Please if you do not "know" do not answer, do not say " I think are....,or may be are... or they are UFO´s, or bull shit like that".

Are they some kind of debriss? Paint from the fuselage? Ice? or what?

Why aren´t all they moving in the same direction?

[Hritzness]

@ALFPAJARITO It seems to me like it's ice flaking off due to exposure to the sun. The shuttle is visibly turning with help of it's thrusters. Being in the vacuum of space, the ice that comes off would be traveling the same speed as the shuttle without the flow of air to blow it behind the shuttle. The particles seem to move in different directions because of the force of the thrusters. Just my best guess, though.

[paktony2]

at 2:52 i wold have been like,OH SHIT!

[nathansthebest]

just watching this video makes my hands swet!! they have got some big balls

[A86]

I've always been curious what it looks like to go from the ground to orbit from this point of view in a spacecraft. Thank you for uploading this breathtaking video! My life is a little more complete now. :)

[lexichronicle2]

"it sounds like K.F.C. (Kentucky Fried Chicken) instead."

The shuttle appears to be stopping at the drive through, this is certainly breaking with tradition.

[yonz2nugget]

Notice how dark the view starts to gets around 1:55. The view gets darker and darker. Pretty cool.

[PRSOV]

STS-133?

[TJD24tamebandkk]

Between 5:39 and 5:43 the commentator says " 229 miles down range from K.S.C." (Kennedy Space Centre) but it sounds like K.F.C. (Kentucky Fried Chicken) instead.

[MrComando96]

@TJD24tamebandkk :DDD

[amgen52]

Although a cool view, this camera was only installed to check the upper part of the external tank for foam loss near the O2 line. As on all cockpit view cameras during launch, the view is recorded to a DV tape and sent down by the crew the 1st or 2nd day. It is never shown live...

[ezzmannoob]

can someone tell me what the 3 to 4 iraticly moving objests are please at 12 mins 7 secs pls ?

[dairwin2000]

@ezzmannoob Ice flakes.

[DIGITALSCREAMS]

amazing video. Ive never seen one from this angle before.

was it my imagination, but at some point the engines stopped making the rocket noise. Is that because they had entered space. In space you cannot hear the noise?

Thnaks

[lolle18]

@DIGITALSCREAMS The noise ceases, when the vehicle goes supersonic. It's faster than its' own noise then :)

[aferjani]

@lolle18 The noise ceases when the space shuttle flies in space cause there is no sound vibration in space!

[747qantas]

What's the flicker after MECO and ET sep? Around 11:00 Is it a reflection of an OMS burn? Thought they were cut off at this point to??

[andresggcf]

now the landing??? please>

[centozo]

FINALLLLLLLLLLLLLLY!!!

[nasastronaut]

beautiful videos ;D

[mrsanneharrison]

i love to be in to space shuttle

and in space

[apsscinc]

Amazing to see the blue sky fade into black!

[sparky577]

This has got to be one of the coolest space shuttle launch videos I've ever seen!!! Puts you into the pilot's seat! How incredibly COOL is this!?!?!

[Greggkrieger1994]

one word.....EPIC

[BushWomanOtter]

Meanwhile, back at NASA, the traffic jam has still not begun to move...



[fallen6from9grace]

Thank you so much for uploading this, it's amazing. I had gone down to watch the shuttle launch two weeks ago, drove 21 hours only to have them cancel it ten min after us finding a spot to watch it, I was heart broken. One more left hopefully I can catch that one. Thanks again for this amazing video

[McChuugy]

wow!



[lolatyou666]

i love how it goes from blue to black in 5 sek

[Eagle1Division2]

@lolatyou666 Remember: The Shuttle is accelerating this whole time! Faster and faster acceleration, too! That's the amazing thing about it :D (And booster separation is only at about 1,300 m/s, at MECO it's going 7,800 m/s! Eight times faster!)

[hardstyle905]

@Eagle1Division2 It sure is! If you wanna see (and hear!) an impressive launch, check this one out: youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_shHu4lA­s

[Eagle1Division2]

@hardstyle905 That link fails to load for some reason :p

[indigotoblue]

Beautiful film. Love and light to humans everywhere.

[rystube1]

Nasacar!