The Space Shuttle's 12 Nightmare Scenarios

Created by amateur special effects artist The Faking Hoaxer, this video shows the Space Shuttle in 12 different horrifying situations, be it breached or exploding at launch. It's real enough to be stomach-churning.

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Science & Technology

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• space shuttle
• crash
• explosion
• nasa
• fx
• scenario
• nightmare

[aqwaman]

you forgot one, the shuttles get retired and placed in a museum and no replacements are made...

[cube252002]

@HuskyMaxx Um, check your facts, Bush retired the shuttle program pending the completion of the ISS, in January 2004 when he delivered "The Vision For space Exploration" Obama did not cancel the shuttles, it just happened during his time in office because the ISS was essentially completed, and the age of the airframes of the remaining shuttles, as great as they were, their time was up. no need of r partisan politics, besides, facts get in the way of it, sorry bud.

[divedevil985]

@divedevil985 If you had ever experienced the environment the shuttles were processed in (humidity and temperature controlled) and the thoroughness of the processing flow to inspect the spaceframe you would know the immaculate condition of the structure. Ever been inside the wing structure of an orbiter? I have...and it was like new off the showroom floor.

[divedevil985]

@divedevil985 I don't care that I lost my job, or that Obama is a liberal or black. I do care that his actions undermined 50 years of infrastructure investment and leadership in space. I do care that his aversion to use SRB severely handicaps the solid rocket industrial bas when we need them most for the next generation Trident Missiles which are currently reaching their retirement age due to solid rocket motor age limitations. Didn't know that either did you?

[divedevil985]

@divedevil985 The SRB and ET production could have been restarted even after the last launch. The SRB casings were merely preserved and shrink wrapped...I know because I did it! The SPOC prime contractor, United Space Alliance, proposed operating two orbiters as a contingency for resupplying the ISS. Didn't know that did you? Of course it was rejected.

Typical liberal...if someone calls you out you try to shut them down by throwing out the race card.

[divedevil985]

@cube252002 I built SRB's and serviced the Orbiters dumbass. Don't tell me about production schedules and where I got my facts from. I was in the morning meetings every single day from Obama's election through the assembly of the last flight hardware when as we desperately hoped for some common sense. I built the Ares I-X prototype and took it apart when returned.....in comparison to the first Falcon IX launch from which nothing but pieces was recovered, it was a complete success!

[cube252002]

@cube252002 The reality is, you clearly did no research, and based your comment solely on partisan rhetoric you have heard or read. Simple google searches and Wikipedia articles for example, tells me that you are more interested in slinging mud than knowing facts for partisan purposes. Yes, I know the president is a Liberal, and black to boot, but do you really have to make your bigotry and bias so obvious? Try harder.........

[cube252002]

@cube252002 Oh, and B-52's do not go through anything like the airframe stress and fatigue that a shuttle goes through, just because that design has been flying for nearly 60 years, does not mean that the current oldest flying B-52 is original, only 10 years after introduction, the B-52 entered major structural retrofit programs, and this was after an average of 2000 hours flight time. How many hours do you think the shuttles have? there were over 700 B-52's built, 5 flying shuttles

[cube252002]

@cube252002 Obama's 4 years on the replacement, an ill conceived replacement at that. Obama did extend the program by 2 flights, using the "spares" available. The reality of tooling up and starting to produce new ET's and SRB's again was as costly as starting a new program, and came at the time of a world wide financial crisis, partly thanks to deregulation of US banks. Putting the blame solely on Obama's shoulders is purely partisan politics, and noting to do with reality.

[cube252002]

@divedevil985 why the desperate need to blame Obama for everything, Bush announced the "Vision For Space Exploration" in Jan 2004, v years before the end of his second term. In those 4 years, the building of ET's was halted, and the production/rebuilding of SRB's wound down when there was enough to maintain the Shuttle program until it's retirement with a few spares, and the tooling/infrastructure dismantled, no more was accomplished in those 4 years than in Obama's. >>>More>>>

[divedevil985]

@Marty933 Wrong...the srb cut a hole in the tank with the leak escaping at the aft segment. The damage to the tank caused a structural failure when the shutlle was under tremendous aerodynamic loads...literally ripping it apart.

[divedevil985]

B-52's have operated for over 50 years under far worse conditions than the orbiters. Their airframes are in immaculate condition...and there is still no other vehicle in the owrld that can match their payload capacity. At the end of the program the program was flying at record levels. The Bush VSE, was a reaction to the Columbia disaster, but contained provisions for the recertification of the space frame in the event it was necessary.