Shuttle "Flips" For Safety

As it joins up in orbit with the International Space Station, space shuttle Endeavour performs a Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, a complete end-over-end flip, so Expedition 23 crew members aboard the ISS can photograph the orbiter for any signs of damage it may have incurred during liftoff.

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• STS-130
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• Endeavour

[DackIsBack]

Do A Barrel Roll!!

[Nanoq11]

Orbital velocity in low earth orbit is about 7 km/s. This means that the space shuttle traveled about 3250km, or 2020 miles, just over the course of this video.

That's one sweet-ass back flip. =D

[vreaulamatah]

some soft music would be nice. It would even bring more views. for the people to understand how important this new frontier is it would help if there was apropriate music to each of nasa's vids. few people can understand how important this is but those who can't understand can be helped to feel it's importance.

[Enatbyte]

Haha! I find it funny that if you get enough negative votes that your comment is hidden.

[boogie0815]

i wish youtube had a fast forward button... wanna see the flip in ten fold speed ;)

[mm3guy]

@FranQin I don't think you know much about the space shuttle, do you? The roll was to inspect the heat shield, so a disaster like Columbia doesn't happen again. Also, the shuttle is designed only for maneuvering in orbit around the Earth, and is incapable of traveling to the moon.

[meatconstruct]

I wonder if someone on board said "Does my bum look big in this?"

[FranQin]

Come ON ALREADY, POST SOME VIDEOS OF THE SHUTTLE LANDING ON THE MOON. ROLLING FOR TOO BE SAFE? that does make sense the point of the roll was to put a comm sat in orbit, if it wasn't safe to open the doors from debree they would not be open. I need moon shots, that baby used to cruise man

[kaleyne]

they are flying on the Pacific Ocean, only a small part of it though.

the atoll you see at 4:25 is part of the island nation of Palau about 875km east of Philippines. and the land you see towards the end is part of Papua New Guinea.

it is flying from North-West to South-East.

took me about 15 minutes to find that atoll among thousands of atolls in the Pacific Ocean :)

[TJBlackwell]

I totally reccommend playing this video with The Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss. It's what Kubrick would have wanted!

[serpentasgard]

i guess tha this is filmed from the ISS or some sattelite

since eart is in the background