STS-118 Space Shuttle Landing

Space Shuttle Endeavour rolled to a stop Tuesday at the Shuttle Landing Facility after a perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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[Docbrown777]

I as well would like to know what that noise is. I've heard it at previous landings too. Some kind of APU or something?

[KSCVideos]

The sound you heard was the ammonia spray boilers venting. The reason it was so prominent this landing was the shuttle happened to come to a stop at the location where the NASA TV microphones were placed before landing.

[caa1000]

Can someone explain what is that noise that you hear after landing of Endeavour at 2:50? It was something that you hear and if you look the infra-red screen, there is like lights or smoke and I never heard that on a Space Shuttle.

[KSCVideos]

The sound you heard was the ammonia spray boilers venting. The reason it was so prominent this landing was the shuttle happened to come to a stop at the location where the NASA TV microphones were placed before landing.

[mr12333]

these babies dont have any engines..so they rely purely upon drag and gravity...the nose is pointed down to obtain terminal velocity and so controlling its decent down..as soon as they come down towards the runaway they pull up to cancel out the velocity to a point where there is a fine balance on the decent (angleing up as they come down)..

since the engines in planes slow down on landing, a parachute is used as a substitute.

[balarat84]

it sounds like it just ran a mile

[iwantpk2]

Next thing you know were landing a freckin spaceship. -___-

[o0dekker0o]

it's incredible how it lands like a plane

[Dancrof80s]

lol. it sounds like its out of breath.

[donvit2]

such a funny little aircraft

[victordelolmo777]

''going around''... that will be funny! lol

[kirkmach32]

The chugging sound is the APU chuffing flame, it's not quite visible but believe me, it's HOT and it it's there. Right up near the base of the rudder, above the OMS pods.  At night you can see the flame chuffing out. It's normal. Usually you don't get the audio like in the one.

[saintmirrenmalky]

Absolutely perfect.

[Dreama40]

20 times steeper decent than a commercial airliner, wow!!