It’s absurd to think about how basically everything has to go perfectly in such a complex machine full of things that can go wrong for a mission to succeed. And despite the issues there were only two catastrophic failures and sadly they were preventable.

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Back to 1959 Mercury capsules!

Hola Chris, buenas noches. Totalmente de acuerdo. Los extraño mucho. Gracias.

yea, seemed like a pretty steep landing angle too. not much room for error there. top notch piloting.

@@geerstyresoil3136 they gotta do that bc the shuttle was nicknamed the fly brick lol

Like everything it seemingly takes a-lot of practice and training, It took me a few simulated runs before I started getting center-line with shuttles in KSP, Lol.

@@Memonater3000he’s not referring to the game

R u scientist dear?

That would be honestly awesome welcome back on Earth

Was just thinking that

Exactly how it SOUNDS just like a jet engine aye 😉but don’t they tell us all it’s just a glider as there’s no room for jet engines. Hmm 🤔 😂😂😂

@@Pipemonkey they are behind

@@Pipemonkey you're a special kind of stupid if you think this has jet engines.

Flat earth!!

This is not the final frontier. This is the beginning of the real frontier.

The most impressive part is how it is treated as the most modern and futuristic form of travel when we could've achieved interstellar travel by the 2000 if nasa or roscosmos got half of their countries militaries budget

@@zengerz Hold on, you're not one of these delusional flat earth believers are you? Too funny - LOL.

@@zengerz imagine you having a brain larger than a raisin. I can't! 😂 😂 😂

@@zacharyj6465 no it didn’t it was actually pretty useful unique, yes it did cost lots of many and maybe it wasn’t safe, however I am pretty sure the space shuttle had a big role in spaceflight history.

@@zacharyj6465 and? You do realize that the ISS would probably never existed without the space shuttle, also NASA isn’t really the type of organization that can bring the costs down, same thing is happening with the SLS. Also 135 missions with only 2 failures is something unique tbh, also spaceX is working on the starship that is 10 times more capable than the space shuttle. Also wdym a “space plane that cannot land on other planets” do you even know what the purposes of spaceplanes are? Plus the Apollo program is extremely useless right now considering that the space race is over and going to the moon would be a huge waste of time, and finally the purpose of the space shuttle is to deliver large satellites, space station modules and other heavy payloads into space.

@@alanmaclaren4118 can’t believe how stupid you have to be to believe that ISS couldn’t have been built without the shuttle. I Guess you believe that cause it was so large and had to be transported in pieces? The soviets did it decades ago. The mir was a modular space station.

I saw it to but it was a few weeks ago so I could only see the outer side of the orbiter

I SAW IT TOO. I would go to the KSC a thousand times again

Just made my 10th visit to the KSC Visitors Center a couple of weeks ago when I was there for the first 2 Artemis attempts. Every single time the Curtain comes up to reveal Atlantis - I cry like a baby. Such a beautiful machine. :-) NEVER gets old.....

@@troyhammond3494 yeah! the first time I watched that presentation, I got a lump in my throat. 5th time....same

I was just there on Friday and I don't know where it came from but I watched the Altantis video and was overcome with emotion as it touched down....then door opened and there it was! What a great experience!

a high tech flying brickyard

Absolutely fascinating

I thought it was the floating barnyard….

@@LTV_incI thought it was brick with wings

@@Plane-animator ~ I thought it was John Young’s chariot….the only astronaut to fly the Gemini spacecraft #3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, spent 3 days on the moon, flew STS-1. I’m not that smart but I believe that’s his chariot…. 😎

_Atlantis_ and _Endeavour_ never get enough love. The Quiet Sister and the Baby Sister.

Thank you for sharing this!

I agree it looks really neat, but calling it a glider may be stretching things a bit. It’s kind of the Buzz Lightyear of gliders. It doesn’t fly as much as it just falls with style. ;)

@@FS2K4Pilot, sorry calling it a Glider, yes its coming down like a stone, but still able to land! With 60 years I miss the Space Shuttles!

@@kulmainer No worries, I was being a bit of a wise guy. ;)

@@FS2K4Pilot , still I must say - the American Nation did a great Job - see this huge Craft landing! Oh Man! And they did so many Orbits around our Planet!

Thanks again to all people making this possible! You all deserve this so much!

Super cool

That's a lie 🤣

What am I lying about?

@@mrflyazz9605 just ignore. It's just a troll comment.

Hello Florida brother😁

Lucky !

Irony is not coincidence.

ikr, they just up and cancelled the program for no reason.

@@tack9571 no reason. the shuttle was old and would have cost more lives. love the shuttle but as I said it was way too old. they could have replaced it with another but they chose not too. and I do not trust Space X and crazy Elon Musk. wait till one of them blows up and Space X will be done.

The shuttle program was to be terminated after the last ISS build mission which was discussed by NASA and president Bush in 2004. There were two missions added after the ISS was done one being a Hubble repair mission and one last resupply mission to the ISS.

@@robertrockwell7581 not a huge fan of musk either but am damn sure his rocket won’t kill anyone. Considering the fact that no human has ever died on any vehicle which had an escape system during launch.

Hazardous as they could potentially be, the shuttle also paved the way for safely reusable rockets. Granted how large those shuttles were, the external tank alone was the size of a skyscraper and one-time use.

7км/сек.ну и что здесь особенного?

Doesn't even come close to Apollo.

@@londislagerhound Saturn V is king

@@skraminc saturn V is king but space shuttle had a different elegance to it

@@londislagerhound Agreed, plus with the STS being so complex and losing 2 of 5 ships along with the crews was just terrible.

Aks4 salon

This is one of the reasons I came to work as an engineer in America in 1992

Because the ship is so damn beautiful!

Ryanair landing.

@@TheBoysTopSecretisOrganizationnah that landing was butter smooth

Now we're told little 1960s capsules are cutting-edge tech.

My drinks were all over the place!

It goes 200 miles up, one millionth of the distance to the asteroid belt.

@@londislagerhound I know, it was a joke

Mike , Right .Magestic Piece Of Engineering.✌️

You saw it at the Kerbal Space Center?

@@WarpOverload Hmm, yes that's it.

Perhaps from a glide ratio perspective it was, but I believe most of the pilots said she handled beautifully.

Most pilots say it handles beautifully because the Shuttle is fly-by-wire, and the control algorithms have been honed extensively over test flights to deliver a good feeling of controllability and responsiveness to the pilot. You don't have that in KSP, so the Shuttle there handles like the flying brick that it is.

I thought it was Shatner? I’ll never forget watching that in IMAX as a kid - absolutely amazing, especially when they jump into the basket to practice the tower escape system, enough to give you vertigo lol.

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See and Hear!!!

Thank you for your comment! The people at NASA have done an amazing work documenting all these historic moments for all of us to witness and be inspired.

Jedi ...I'm a fan of you Americans, Brazil here

in kerbal space program

Bad design concept. these things were too big. think about this for a sec. Apollo was 11 minutes from deorbit burn to touchdown. this thing was over an hour. What's that mean? Well its in the big heat for a LOT longer, that's what. Why? too big. It was also riskier at the other end than Apollo because Apollo's fuel was contained within the envelope this guy had almost all its fuel OUTSIDE of containment. We're gonna lose a lotta people in the future, folks.

It was actually a glider

Orbiter*

Thank people like Katherine Johnson for that for working out the calculations for when to start the de orbit burn and for how long. She worked on Mercury, apollo and the shuttle program. Watch the movie Hidden Figures

It wasn’t just the deorbit burn. When the orbiter was coming down, the flight control computer would make adjustments so that it would reach the destination field at the right height.

If you're talking about spacx landing they're boosters, they're not solid fuel rockets. They use liquid propellant. :)

YOU ARE BREATHTAKING

By the way, and meaning no disrespect, what a pig of an aircraft. Ow.

@CHRIS SAVAGE oh cool another idiot

@@rachaeltho31 their logic is "my 5 minutes of googling is better than years of engineering and planning"

SPace fliught is risky.

I think the programmed approach and landing profile always ensures a correct touchdown point as priority over anything else. Even if you’re a bit off of the HUD cues, you’re guaranteed to make the runway. Even at those touchdown speeds, she seems to stop pretty quick.