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Atlantis' Acrobats: One backflip and a dock to ISS

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Uploaded on Feb 10, 2008

Watch the shuttle perform a back flip in space as it approaches the International Space Station. At about 600 feet below the station, the shuttle flips bass ackwards, exposing its underside to the station.

As the shuttle bellies up to the station, the station crew has about 9 minutes to snap up as many photos as it can. The digital snapshots are downlinked to Earth to check for chips and dings on the surface of the tiles, which act as the vehicle's heat shield.

Tiles range in thickness from a quarter-inch to four-and-a-half inches thick. The space shuttle leading edges and the nose cone are made of reinforced carbon-carbon material capable of withstanding temperatures up to 3,600 degrees, now that's a hottie!

The Shuttle Atlantis, which launched Feb. 7, 2007 and flipped upside down before docking to the station Feb. 9, has 24,000 thermal protection tiles.

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  • dalesalsa

    Who is the woman talking... she sounds pretty damn sexy.. I don't know.. something about her.

    Also how fucking cool is that guy doing the space shuttle flip...

    Hey what did you do today?

    Ah.. Flipped a space shuttle... It was alright... it was only at 17,500mph.

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  • Desmond Bower

    What did you do today ??? ohh nothing special .... just back flipped the space shuttle at 17,500mph ....... what did you do today

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  • Gary Williams

    no it's not. It's NASA PAO. Not sure who but maybe Candrea Thomas

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  • MichaelSephiroth

    Where's the HD version of this, you can obviously see by the NASA logo that this is not the original version, just a reformatted low res version for public eyes -_-

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  • ublade82

    This is nothing, give me the keys and I'll show you some real tricks.

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  • Mosku94fin

    now do the same thing with a whole station, for the fun of it

    

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  • Jugulator4

    I'm not quite shure but i would guess it's Eileen Collins.

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  • John Smith

    i want a BARREL ROLL! >.<

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  • xmrtuxedox99

    Your "barrel roll" is actually called an alerial-roll. And this is doing a back-flip not an alerial-roll.

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  • John Smith

    DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL ROLL!DO A BARREL

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  • Sarge Rho

    Gravity is the very reason why they stay in orbit. While it constantly pulls them down, they move so fast that they never actually hit the ground. Basically they are falling in a bottomless pit.

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