STS-133 Lands at Kennedy Space Center for the last time
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2011
- 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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"Discovery now dropping 212 feet per second." Thats a descent rate of 12,720 feet per minute. I'm an airline pilot. To put that rate in perspective if I had to do an emergency descent with the thrust levers at idle, the speed brakes at full, and the gear down I could MAYBE do 4,000 feet per minute. Flying brick indeed!
Иниверсальный.шатл!
And only the USA was able to pull it off. Not Russia, Japan, India or China. The USA had a lot of might back then. Now we are a nation of beta male simps.
“Sonic booms now heard at the Kennedy Space Center, announcing Discovery’s arrival.”
Chills...
3:57
I'm just glad that Discovery and it's crew made it back safe and it's now preserved at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.
They dust the shuttle every 2 weeks and the inside once a year. Its safe and preserved for sure!
Ever been there? I went yesterday and and it was incredible. These space shuttles are incredibly large. They also had the Enola Gay and a Concord there. Tons of ww2 aircraft that saw service and they even had FedEx's first rapid-delivery aircraft lol
It should’ve been Columbia at the Smithsonian
Discovery will be dearly missed... my favourite orbiter too. Where ever she ends up, I will visit her one day.
...for the final time, wheels stop... made me cry like a little girl :'(
That landing was amazing if you understand what's involved. I loved the Shuttle program and followed many, many flights on NASA TV, from launch to recovery. To see a huge, extremely capable spacecraft land like an airplane was always a thrill. I'll miss that.
The Space Shuttle Discovery will be remember forever at Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center and as we say goodbye to the Space Shuttle Discovery for the final time
Thank you very much for sharing this video with me and my family. And most of all thank you very much for your support to the Space Shuttle Discovery at Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center in Florida, congratulations .😀🚀🇺🇸🇺🇸
I think that one was of the best landing any Space Shuttle have ever had ... so smooth and perfect, very experienced pilot!
A Perfect Final Landing .... :(
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Is landing on one gear considered perfect?
@@_S.H_ Well, for a spaceship with no prop, high approach speed, and a thing not really designed to fly pretty well in atmoshpere...i guess it's a smooth landing.
@@Mr-Patate87 better than any Ryanair landing. Not peeeerfect technically because two main wheels have to touche the ground simultaneously. So I give a 9.8.
@@_S.H_ all pilots make the back wheels of the gear land first, landing on one side first may have been cross wind. 10/10 for pilot 9/10 for weather, 10/10 pilot handling, 10/10 pilot control so i guess almost perfect
10 years ago today, I was watching in amazement from the Kennedy Space Center, the final landing of my favourite spacecraft
"Discovery, Houston. Go around."
+Adam Ahmed "Unable."
That would be a Dick Move! X3
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XD Epic comment
"Houston, Discovery. Go f*ck yourselves!" 😂
What a wonderful machine...a true testament to humanities urge to invent and discover
Welcome back, Discovery! Congratulations to the crew and all involved at Nasa!
What a monumental achievement that program was, considering all its design compromises, which led to tragic accidents
An era passes. Another starts. History will richly reward the Shuttles for their major part in the first move into Space. Well done.
Every time I hear "KSC" I think of Kerbal.
Ryan Evans Lol me too xD
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!
lol same
i was landing my space shuttle while watching this
Ryan Evans o
"And I like to thank KFC..." XD
Yea, I know, he said KSC.
lol thought the same thing
Most skillful landings ever.
Arfdog cause it’s a computer
Trombone Kid What makes you think that.
Dino Studios bruh because it is look it up. They use computers to land airplanes now as well. Why do you think the landings are so smooth and precise. Computers
Trombone Kid No they don’t. The shuttle had autoland capabilities but it was only used once to test it and resulted in many problems and the commander took over.
Dino Studios That was the case in the early stages of shuttles, but it became way safer for a computer to land it. Even on airplanes today, the pilots have little control of the landing, they can override, but it’s very rare
ssaulsserrato1,
The space shuttle program has been cancelled, and each orbiter remaining in the fleet (Endeavour, Atlantis, and Discovery) each made one final flight. This was the last landing of Discovery before she was shipped off to a museum. STS-135 was the final shuttle mission.
Hope that helps. :)
Robert
They say farewell at KSC, here around Washington DC is Discovery's new home and I feel so fortunate to have it close by!
Just finished watching "Challenger" on Netflix and now I'm emotional and binging all my favorite Shuttle vids.
Perfectly beautiful
Gorgeous piece of Engineering
This is so epic... goosebumps everywhere..
Beautiful bird
Super video. Many thanks.
Farewell to all the missions. Well done! :)
God bless Discovery
BEAUTIFUL !!!
"We're not flying, just falling with style."
Somehow watching SpaceX capsules splash down and then get fished out of the ocean just won't be quite the same! So much for progress....
Hooray Discovery! I was on the causeway for the launch. Happy retirement!
@delorien06 This was only the last flight for Discovery. There are still two more shuttle flights. One on April 19, one on June 28. That's the last one, STS-135.
@karjens41 A lot of manufacturers for components of the orbiters were no longer in business a short time after Endeavour was built, and she was built from a lot of spare parts, simply to replace Challenger. It costs 2 billion dollars to make an orbiter. There are some components, like the Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels whose manufacturer no longer exists, thereby making the warranty expire after 10 years. Atlantis is literally a ticking time bomb on the pad the last 4 days before a flight.
superb landing... perfectly predicted
Who else cried?
@Astrobrant2 The announcer is inside, the camera tracking the orbiter is outside. The orbiter is a few miles away when it's supersonic. It slows to subsonic before getting close, but the pressure wave carries on until it's dissipated beyond the landing site.
congratulations!
@popsupercorn The US will be getting rides from Russia aboard Soyuz as well, for about 5 years, perhaps more.
Ciao Bella Discovery. Thank's NASA and STS 133 Mission.
@theuserofmynameisme The commander is the one who actually flies the landing. While the shuttle is in the HAC (Heading Allignment Cone) the pilot takes over for a bit to get a little stick time flying the orbiter. This is customary on every shuttle mission. Then the Commander will take back over to actually fly the final approach and landing.
"..Always/&\Forever.." 🤩
R.I.P Discovery
dennis045 Where is she now? Has she been scrapped?
what a question... you can take a research at google. by far faster then ask the question.
scrapped. tzz.
Museum.
Shaf Hoque in a museum
typing museum would be easier also
@@shax232 She's at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.
I already have when i worked at Lockheed and other groups inside the aerospace industry.
Job Well Done!
never forget my favorit shuttle will never fly :(
Same here. I love Discovery. My friend is going to the Smithsonian Museum in a couple days and I asked her to take a picture of Discovery for me if she goes to the Air and Space part of it.
Same, I live 2 hours from Discovery so I get to see it a lot.
Awesome...
@aimhigh59 The avionics and computers are from the VERY early 80's. Pretty much every cell phone in the US has more computing capability than the shuttle does. Biggest reason; heat is hard to dissipate in space. That's why the shuttle orbiter's radiator panels are so massive (they line the inside of the payload bay doors)
80s? Try 1970s with some 1960s stuff thrown in.
How Could A Parachute That Big Stop It That Quickly!
Mission complete
How come every shuttle landing so much smooth than any commercial jetliner???
Rizwan Khan Because the pilots have to be specially trained to fly that thing. It's a fragile beast, and also glides like a brick too.
Years and years of training in simulators and practicing emergencies,plus the delta wing really helps to slow down
@Gearsofwarboy2009 it has air brakes as well as disk brakes in the wheels too
Farewell Discovery.
Goodbye Discovery :(. We'll miss you.
Wonder full mission
@alienhunter36 Yep, those are birds. Not sure of breed, but they are. Kennedy Space Center is in the middle of a wildlife preserve.
WOW!
was that the USAF Thunderbirds in the background at 7:30
Flock of seagulls?
+Palmerrip Yes i think you are right there
Chase planes recording the landing?
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@oomblikkies I was talking about from the ground. I think I know why now. I think the announcer was where the camera was since you could tell he was outside, and that appeared to be over 30 miles before the cape. I wondered why he said "about to go sub-sonic" when the speed was already down to 654 mph. I suspect it was because he hadn't heard the sonic booms yet, but it probably took two minutes or more for the shock wave to get there.
never forget
Space Shuttle returns into SLS-Orion ;)
when did they stop doing the fighter jet escort?
They had a fighter flying combat air patrol after 9/11 for awhile and that went away. They really never had fighter escort during landing. Those planes were for video and observation. A weather plane has been there for every landing though.
They never used fighter jets. They used NASA training aircraft early on, to observe landings, but they were not needed on later missions.
I saw this live when i was 21 years old and felt sad, but now i have faith in Nasa with spaceX that we will one day go back to the moon and beyond.
@spacevidcast but we should keep in mind that President Obama cancelled the Project Constellation, which was supposed to continue the space exploration after shuttles' retirement.
Oh nice
My big problem with Constellation is the approach using Shuttle parts. It seems to more about jobs that progress. We use to feel we had to do everything in one or two launch's like Skylab. But, later we found we can assemble something better with several launches like ISS. We can go to the moon the same by assembling parts using Falcon9. If it takes 10 Falcon9 launches to assemble a moon / mars system it would still be safer and cost less than a single Ares1 rocket.
@oomblikkies I was talking about from the ground. I think I know why now. I think the announcer was where the camera was since you could tell he was outside, and that appeared to be over 30 miles out. I wondered why he said "about to go sub-sonic" when the speed was already down to 654 mph. I suspect it was because he hadn't heard the sonic booms yet, but it probably took a couple minutes for the shock wave to get there. In fact it could have been from well before they went sub-sonic.
Congratulations Discovery. One helluva truck!
Why would they hear sonic booms when the orbiter is going well less than the speed of sound?
i'm not american but this is so moving...
An amazing vehicle considering the avionics its using.
Wow... Amazing.
with this mission over next stop for Discovery is the National Air and Space Museum
wow...
at any rate, I am jazzed up about the one called SKYLON.
Time to build the Millennium Falcon now.
LOL I need to go to D.C one of these days
@Unstung They aren't certified for that 100 flights. They were EXPECTED to be certified for 100 flights when they were originally planned. They were also expected to have a turn-around time of a maximum two weeks too. 1986 had 14 flights planned for that year and everyone from the engineers and technicians knew that was impossible due to the lack of funding (and manpower). Challenger was the second of those 14 expected. It was a matter of time in 1986 before something catastrophic happened.
Muito bom o video,se tivesse um video mostrando os astronautas sendo recebidos,ai ficaria melhor.
If the Shuttle vehicles had to replaced, it should've been by something better, faster, higher, more reliable, cheaper. If they're people willing to risk spaceflight, I want a vehicle waiting for them to man it.......
There is a phrase in engineering - good, fast, or cheap. Pick two.
Christopher Mailloux ur right
Make Space Travel GREAT AGAIN ! :-)
yeah unless trump cuts funding to nasa
I wtf'd when he said "I'd also like to thank KFC..."
Then I figured it must mean Kennedy Flight Center or somesuch.
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
Harry, u the best
A bit nitpicking... STS-133 ist the name of the mission. Each mission has only one landing. Using the word last does not make much sense. But, STS-133 ist the last mission of Discovery. An appropriate title would have been: "Discovery lands for the last time at KSC at the end of STS-133"
Good heavens, mr buzz kill, table for 1. Focus on the beauty of the ship, not mistaken phrasing of the title.
Discovery my shuttle 😊
Its been there for months now.
when I lived in port saint john booms would get you out of bed
Does anyone know if one of these ever had to do a go-around? Is that even possible?
+Who's watching this In comments That's nonsense. It's a glider, it has no power, that's why it couldn't go around.
+ech4949 the orbiter has no fuel left for the main engines when it comes from space. These are the only ones with (theoretically) enough power for a go-around. All other engines are just for maneuvering. Even if there was fuel left, the wings will probably not provide enough lift to much more than a controlled decent from space.
+Jordon and it doesnt have enginex
ech4949
The Shuttles on re-entry, as a wise man once said, "flew like a brick and fell like a rock". Those wings gave it balance and such, but precious little in the way of lift.
Basically, from the moment of the de-orbit burn, the shuttle was absolutely *committed* to landing at KSC. (Or Edwards, although that required a de-orbit burn at a different place in orbit.) There were no do-overs, go-arounds, or anything else. Launch had a few options - the RTLS abort, the trans-atlantic abort, even an abort-to-orbit - all dependent on the problem and when in the launch it occurred. Re-entry was done by unpowered glide, with jets for control, and it got *one* shot at the runway. Either the Shuttle would land - or it would crashland. (Or, if it had been damaged by a foam strike at launch, disintegrate on the way down.)
@spacevidcast yes, but the problem is that that "something new" is decades away...
Just like the concorde, we are now back on sputnik days.
Burt Rutan is a respected engineer who has made significant contribution to the science of aeronautics, he certainly is not an engineer wannabe that publish crappy comments about fellow members of the aeronautical community.
you can see the sts in the air
@theuserofmynameisme It's called experience and training.
@GlenStorageCenter Spelling isn't your strong suit and you can't "send" a space shuttle orbiter to Libya as it would be completely useless there (the OMS doesn't work below 70,000 ft and the main engines need the external tank to operate because that's the only tank used for the SSME propellant), and it's also incredibly expensive to bring back to the states.
Farewell! :-((
6000 ft rollout? Very short!
Dream on.
Farewell Discovery.Good Luck to NASA in the future.
Who else thought he said "KFC" at the end? lol
Actually, you're wrong. STS-135 was originally a LON mission that was converted into a regular mission after it was no longer needed. And the replacement program was Project Constellation that was going to use the Orion spacecraft as its backbone whose booster, the Ares I, had its only test flight in 2009 before Obama killed Project Constellation. The Orion Spacecraft will still be developed but just for LEO operations. Trust me, I know my spaceflight history and I've done my research.
STS - LANDS AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FOR THE LAST TIME.
Well not that last one