Space Shuttle Documentary (Narrated by William Shatner) Part 1/6

This feature-length documentary looks at the history of the most complex machine ever built. For 30 years, NASA's space shuttle carried humans to and from space, launched amazing observatories, and eventually constructed the next stop on the road to space exploration.

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• William Shatner
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[kayper54]

@ludocrat I feel the same way: that vague sense of slight anxiety, wondering if there IS a "next." I hope there is a next, but I'm not sure it will be in my lifetime; not in the US anyway. Other countries, though, aren't giving up. I really am indifferent as to which nation(s) will aim for that next step, just so long as humans beings somewhere are being sent to explore ever further from "home."

[blakscal]

whats with the editing, too many dissolves.

[douvil]

Dark Knight Soundtrack...Good choice



[geomodelrailroader]

the Shuttle is an amazing machine my uncles and my grandpa worked on the shuttle they worked for ATK Thiokol the company who built the boosters I can't believe it is going to retire.

[ludocrat]

Funny, even though I'm British, I suppose this is as much a symbol of my generation as any American of the same age (although I had just come back from the US, where my family had lived for some years, when the shuttle was unveiled). I was nearly seven years old when my teacher showed the test flight of the Enterprise on a big old TV set in school. Now it's made its last voyage I feel an odd, disconcerting sense of loss. And I look to America again wondering "what's next?"