STS-133 Lands at Kennedy Space Center for the last time

The final landing of Space Shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center. OV-103 has flown over 365 days in space in total. This final landing took place on March 9th, 2011 concluding the success mission of STS-133.

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Science & Technology

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• STS-133
• NASA
• Space Shuttle
• Discovery
• KSC
• Landing

[alienhunter36]

at 7:31 check out the left hand side of screen i thought it might be birds i zoomed in on my mac, are they birds? or have i seen my first ufo i'm sure there is a simple explanation

[spacevidcast]

@alienhunter36 Yep, those are birds. Not sure of breed, but they are. Kennedy Space Center is in the middle of a wildlife preserve.

[karjens41]

Obama and Bolden have said we don't have the technology to get back to the moon without international help. That confuses me as we did it before, 50 years ago. So, are they saying our technology has gone backwards? They don't have confidence in the NASA engineers or that the moon landing never really happened?

[spacevidcast]

@karjens41 Some of the Spacevidcasters don't feel the administrator is capable of making the right decisions to get us back to the moon without help from others. The engineers are certainly capable of making it happen if they got the funding Apollo did.

[spacevidcast]

@Beergut222 Well, lets be fair. The Space Shuttle Program was cancelled by President George W Bush back in 2005, which would be Republicans. Obama and the Democrats opted to not reverse that decision. So both parties canceled the shuttle, not just one. Also note that the shuttles were built in the 80's, and in my opinion it is time to move past LEO which the shuttles can't do. This isn't the end, this is just the beginning of something new!

[flchange]

@spacevidcast yes, but the problem is that that "something new" is decades away...

[135poly]

Look at the left near Discovery at 7,30 minutes of video. There are some lights? or something else? what do you say?

[TrainGuy33]

Makes Me Cry Seeing The End Of Discovery. :(

[nascar1998]

For a second I thought he said KFC 9:01

[hderhty]

The last day landing

[adamsachs2]

@Gearsofwarboy2009 it has air brakes as well as disk brakes in the wheels too

[Gearsofwarboy2009]

How Could A Parachute That Big Stop It That Quickly!

[vicorly]

@spacevidcast The engineers know what to do, but NASA only get 0.5% of the federal budget. Back during Apollo, NASA got 12% of the budget. NASA's budget is only about $20 billion, but we waste $2 billion a week on useless wars. If they would cut defense spending by 4%, they could double NASA's budget.

[10CMilesS]

@AVMamfortas what new era? The shuttle era is nearly finished. Obama decided a year ago to cancel Constellation so until mid 30's with the proposed mars missions NASA will be 2nd rate.

[Aviator0x8]

reminds me of a AC-130 Lockhead but with out the guns