STS-125 Flight Day 1 Highlights

Amazing shot of the External Tank falling back to Earth. In HD of course!

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Science & Technology

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• STS125
• STS-125
• STS 125
• External Tank
• ET
• OV-104
• Space Shuttle
• Atlantis
• Hubble

[eq9ugh]

wow are those fuel residue outgassings starting at 5:02?

[spacevidcast]

@eq9ugh Propellant (fuel and oxidizer) boiloff is vented after separation to impart a slow spin on the tank, which helps it break up more during reentry.

[13holywarriors]

is this tank controled by any mean or it can fall anywhere on earth ???

why they have to cut off the tank from the shuttel, dont they need gas in sapce??

pls answer me,, I really enjoyed your vid and I must htank you>>>

[spacevidcast]

@13holywarriors The tank falls into a predictable area in the Pacific Ocean that's well away from any populated areas. Most of it burns up in the atmosphere. Check out Spacevidcast's website. Search keyword Jeph and look at his two articles about Newtonian physics and orbital physics, as well as the podcast about shuttle flying backwards in space. An object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force (there's no air in space).

[Eimuxxx]

Man I would like to ride that tank screaming YYYHHAAAAAA

[photopawn37]

2:54 Did I just see a boat from from orbit?

[Renzoer]

WACK-AH-MOLEY

[roamingcroat]

@40390576 Thanks, I try.

I'm a big fan of the videos you uploaded. I hadn't seen most of those engineering camera views, so those were great to watch.

[roamingcroat]

@mrjustin5 "Where is that now?! Gone."

Gone for the same reason the Shuttle was what it was - budget. Solids were chosen for their lower initial development costs, the fuel tank was chosen similarly primarily for the development costs (although that wasn't an all-too-bad engineering decision by itself). In part, NASA had to go with work-intensive heat tiles because they couldn't build the airframe out of titanium (which may have simplified heat protection) due to development cost.

[mrjustin5]

The space shuttle. What a joke that thing was. Originally promised to deliver $1,000 per lb payload into space. 1970's design. Actual delivery was $10,000 per lb. Original design did not include solid-fuel boosters (dangerous, cannot be turned off) and did not include the giant external fuel tank. That thing looks like a high school science project. All that crap tacked onto it. The Space shuttle COULD HAVE & SHOULD HAVE been what is now the defunct X-33 SPACE PLANE. Where is that now?! Gone.

[Supermassively]

@Wattsy83 Haha, someone's getting defensive.

[Wattsy83]

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[Supermassively]

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Like I said originally: Shut the fuck up. You contribute nothing to this world.

[Wattsy83]

@Supermassively do u have down syndrome!!! well its not your fault, you can blame your parents for that one, just grab your crayons and helmet and sit down and colour some pretty pictures!!!

[Supermassively]

@Wattsy83 Down's Syndrome, much?

[Wattsy83]

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