Space Shuttle: A Remarkable Flying Machine (1981)
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Credit: NASA/JSC Launch date: April 12, 1981
Astronauts: John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen Takes the viewer through the hours prior to launch of Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spaceship, through lift-off, the successful maiden voyage, and landing at Rogers dry lakebed in California. All test objectives were met or exceeded by the astronauts and the vehicle.
HQ-318 - JSC-814 - (1981) - 30 Minutes
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It’s a tradition for me to come and re watch this video every few months. I’ve been doing it since I was 5 years old and now I’m 16 years old
It's amazingly "retro Sci-fi". "The new wonders of space age and technologic marvel awaits.", just with minor caveats.
It never gets old, even know this program is over with , it's just an awesome sight.
It's amazing to think that the Space Shuttle was designed and built in the 70's
Well, both US and Russia had plans for a shuttle/hypersonic space planes already in the 1960's
John Young was a real life Buck Rogers, I love how he's so exited upon landing...quite rare, apparently the other astronauts of Group 2 would refer to him as "the uncomplaining dark horse ".
I understand he liked corned beef sandwiches.
@@belvert1 So much so that he snuck one aboard Gemini 3.
RIP John Young..You were truly a legend..God bless You.
John Young had the BEST resume of any astronaut!
Him and Charlie duke seemed to have more fun on the moon than anyone else.
An icon.
Died 5 years ago today.
outstanding!!!
rip Commander Young, you truly were, the man with the right stuff, and you did it all!
Освоение.космоса.............это.неизбежно.должен.быть.мирный.........космос!!!
Died 5 years ago today.
what an amazing place America was back then
The way Young keep checking HIS craft, and watching it, and admire it after the landing, full of enthusiasm. What a GOAT of astronaut.
the way that he wanted to thank and congratulate everyone that was part of the team. he knew he didn't do any of this by himself and he was pumped up at the team winning this so hard. i really like john young
lol
@@QNFee Aw your right. I've just discovered Young was nothing but an actorNUT. I'm sooo guillable.
@@valentinotera3244 yeah right they are all actwhorenauts , i use to eat up al that space stuff until i start looking at it with my real eyes, i have many vids about those guys, my latest video was deleted by youtube for showing dirty space diapers , i uploaded another version to my other channel , take a look and laugh your ass of ua-cam.com/video/DamZbtmD42A/v-deo.html
Valentino Tera lol ur more gullible now than you ever were 🤪😂😂
Such an entirely magnificent vehicle. Theres nothing better i would ever give my life to...
I was in Bakersfield CA when this happened. I remember the double sonic booms rattling the building. It was awesome. Couldn't see it though.
i wish the space shuttle was still a thing
It is just not flying
Go to Kennedy space centre and you can see it
Those astronauts had balls of steel.
Could you imagine going to space as the first person to orbit in a spaceship of that kind and risk your life knowing that something unexpected could go wrong, but yet being able to see the earth from a perspective very few humans have been able to experience
In all fairness they tested everything dozens of times, maybe 100s, literally everything.. They built and flew a few of these before Columbia went up
@@brandonryan9582 They built 2 glider versions of the space shuttle that were launched from the back of a 747. This was the first time one launched, orbited, or returned from space. Previous systems (and those that followed) used a capsule and were launched unmanned into space and recovered for testing. This manned test of a new system was unique in the history of space flight.
And then Columbia blew up in 2003.
The astronauts knew the risk. 2 of 5 orbiters were lost in accidents. It was always an experi
emental project
@@mtahausman Yes @ Taha Usman, and of course Challenger before it, in 1986 unfortunately. May all of those souls whom we lost to the space shuttle tragedies continue to rest peacefully 😔😥🙏
Was able to watch it fly over with my binoculars in Australia. Was such a clear night I stayed up until it came over again
In the years to come you will confuse with all these rockets around but you will never be wrong when you come across with the shuttle.
I was 13 years old when this flight was made and I remember it like it was yesterday. What a great time to be alive.
Neat stuff!
Me too..! I was just 8 years old
Same here, not sure we can capture the same excitement for something like this again.
@@danodamano2581 Passenger flights to space is probably the next big "OOOOOHHH" event to happen.
@@danodamano2581 Starship, coming soon.
It just never gets old.
Columbia was so shiny and new. She would complete this voyage many many more times
This is Unbelievable awesome footage!!
Dwayne Chapman. Who are you talking to? Want to come over and play in my sandbox?
Scary to think 21 years later that Colombia would be destroyed RIP to all 7 onboard
tkx to american stupidity !!
@@Bakus74 the very thing that destroyed Columbia 20 years later happened on the first shuttle mission. They even had meetings about it during the flight.
@@youbetcha6880 Not to mention STS-28. If NASA had taken the tile problem serious then, Columbia would not have been lost. And the shuttle program would be ending probably around now rather than back in 2011.
25:00 makes me nostalgic for the old times "basic building block for the future" ... now can't even get the Senator Lunch System up and running
RIP Commander John Young
The footage of the first shuttle taking off is amazing enough. The first time people have seen this thing take off. The whoops of joy in one video at booster sep. But a whole documentary on the first flight? Amazing. Thanks soo much for sharing!
Crazy how now it's in pieces.. R.I.P. to those who lost their lives on it.
How is that "crazy"? It's life. Space travel is very risky.
remarkable , we need more of this documentaries
We want to see more of this in the future... LESS WARS... MORE SPACE EXPLORATION pls.
War, war never changes. It's a never ending vicious cycle because humans need someone to blame.
Easier said than done.
@@yukiiscrazy5676 But we can still call for its end and if enough of us do changes may come
Everyone hates eachother but countries have wars because money is their drugs because they are addicted to money and fight for religions or money. War will never change I would prefer to have my own war against who ever I wish to declare war against.
Space scams will replace war. Extortion. And fairytales will keep the sheeple in debt
Saw it live on tv while listening to Boston 😎At 9 yrs old😉🤔☝️
Since I was 4 years and 2 days old, I heard ABC's coverage of the launch on UA-cam. Frank Reynolds was anchoring. What a great newsman he was.
I was in basic training for the USAF when the Challenger and it's brave crew were lost in 1986. All of us in our Flight took on extra duties, so the artist among us could paint a tribute to the crew on our dayroom wall at Lackland AFB. Anyone that has served in the armed forces, knows how little free time you get in basic. We shined his shoes, washed and ironed his clothes, took his KP and night watches so he could finish the tribute. It was well worth it. I doubt that it is still there. If the dorm is still standing, some dumb ass LT probably had the mural painted over. Luckily, for me, my memories are not painted over yet!
January 28, on my birthday.
A horrible disaster, indeed... Also what is LT supposed to mean exactly?
@@alexilauto1419 ,it's a junior officer's rank = Lieutenant.
@@irishstock2108 Ah ok
@@alexilauto1419 ,Happy Easter Alexi. :)
Coldwar era video and music. I love it!
who is the performer of that music, does somebody know ?
@@ericksuarezb.5994 ua-cam.com/video/Qyes4YwqW7E/v-deo.html
@@DMSP thank you so much, i've searching to this music for years, thanks so much !!!
@@ericksuarezb.5994 you are welcome.
@@DMSP Could you please provide me the link too? I've been wondering for years who's this tune from and I come back to this video from time to time to see if someone has found it :)
God Bless America ! and God Bless all the scientists, researchers, engineers, builders, support staff, and especially the Astronauts.
One More Step forward for our species... reaching out from our crib... exploring the universe !
I was not old enough to know what was going on in 1981 but I'll hopefully still be young enough to know what is going on when Starship launches :-)
I went there in 81 to see Columbia. Kennedy site
Heady days; I remember this momentous flight. I took off from work to watch the launch and then again the landing.
I'm digging the 80's techno music at the end :P
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@@DMSP You are a gentlemen and a scholar!
It feels like the world had such enthusiasm for spaceflight and lost some of it for some reason...
r.i.p columbia
Columbia luckily had the SpaceHab module aboard, and could have stayed in orbit longer than a normal flight. Atlantis was luckily already far enough along in pre-flight processing that we could have gotten up there with several days of mission overlap with no skipped safety checks. That kind of coincidental luck is unheard of in spaceflight, yet there it was. We could have scrambled Atlantis and brought the crew of Columbia back alive. Instead, NASA insisted there wasn't anything wrong, and Columbia broke up on reentry with loss of all hands.
Ditto for Challenger in January 1986. Shouldn't have launched, but they did. I remember being at my job (between high school and college) and the practical joker of the department came in and said that the shuttle just exploded. We didn't believe him. "Come on, Ken. Stop it already. That's not funny." And he kept insisting it was true. It wasn't until late afternoon (almost evening) when I was almost home from work and saw the info-bar above a subway station in DC and realized that the practical joker unfortunately hadn't been joking after all.
Hail Columbia! I wasn't yet born for Challenger but know enough about the incident. I was 13 years old for columbia and remember it vividly because of the situation I was in.
Rip challenger and Columbia you will be missed
Instead of interrupting the Space Shuttle, NASA should have investigated how to improve its subsystems: how to simplify the maintenance of the thermal shield, how to replace the two side solid accelerators (which seen from 2019 would consist of a first recoverable stage F9 style).
30 years flying, 135 flights, 2 accidents, 98.5% reliability, 14 astronauts dead but 1000 astronauts in orbit.
NASA didn't make that decision, George Bush did...
There were proposals for liquid-fuel boosters and an ejectable crew deck, but those were too expensive to develop. #FundNASA
Watched this in primary school... never has an 8 yr old English kid been so proud to be an American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Jonny Birchall Apollo 11?
My recollection was that we all got herded into the main assembly hall and the school's elderly black and white TV was wheeled in on a trolley for us to watch the launch. It might have been live (the launch was at midday UTC) but UK television didn't normally televise rocket launches.
If I remember correctly, this happened on a Sunday morning Florida time.
@@TheKeenTribe You are correct .... it was launched on a Sunday.
I live in cape canaveral and saw this live from my back yard. The rockets now days are so tiny in comparison to the shuttle. Falcon heavy is really cool though because the other boosters come back and land. It's pretty amazing. Bucket list thing to see in person
Who'd have thought that this Virgin craft would have ended up in a fireball re-entry. RIP Columbia crew...
Great video & great bit of histroy. I remeber rushing home from school to watch the launch.
Thanks for the uploads Airboyd, please keep em coming.
I remember skipping school to watch the launch, but after several delays and rescheduling, I couldn't risk taking another day off. So I missed it.
I myself predicted both shuttle disasters but unfortunately I was in a psych institution from 1975 through 2008 so nobody listened to me
I remembered lettung me stay home from school to watch the launch but yesterday realized this was on a Sunday at 7:00 am eastern time. No way I skipped school that day. I must have remembered a different launch. Still a really fond memory and a beautiful ship!
Wow! Great achievement for mankind
This is amazing. This video was uploaded on the same day when i'm doing my project on the space shuttle! Thanks for the upload
is sad the final of this beauty.......RIP columbia
Geez.. 1981 seems so long ago. This doco makes it seem like the 1960s. Lol
They were still using Nixie tubes in Mission Control, like in the 60s.
5:26 Napoleon Dynamite? Gosh! Sweet!😅
I love that the end credit song was in 7/4 for some reason.
prog rock time sign ala Rush
That was interesting.
@@gungadin1389 Or Cannonball Adderley's "74 Miles Away" (74 as in 7/4 time)... :)
So awesome. Even love the quirky 70's music. To be the first, to trust the science and calculations. Amazing feat for its time.
I was in grade school when they launched it for the first time they shut down the whole school to watch it launch live they had tv s on a cart in different rooms to watch it .
Ahhhhh the A/V cart. Good memory
Dude, it was launched on a Sunday! I remember waiting anxiously in front of the "tube" with my family, probably 7 or 8 yrs old. This was a huge thing back then.
@@foobarmaximus3506 Ahh, memory is prone to failure. Probably thinking of the Challenger launch and disaster.
must have been a different launch we watched one live at school I was thinking it was the first one
I wonder if we were just watching a rebroadcast or if one of the teacher was wealthy enough to own a VCR
Very proud. Thank you very much for the video.
What an amazing feat, still.
That was one unbelievable achievement... Unbelievable
12:21 the booster recovery boats were clothing optional during the early part of the shuttle program
👁 👁
👄 KЯAZY!!! LOL
Those were the good 'ol days before health & safety ruined everything for humanity
@@PenisMcWhirtar would you like to be in a car crash without a seatbelt?
No Andy, but as a pedestrian, I kinda like teh idea of seatbelts and airbags being against the law...
👁 👁
👄 for drivers!!!
I'm just gonna say it: It's Florida!!
@@fionawimber1028 yep. Unless someone has actually gone there, and gotten out of a vehicle, and felt the 'wall' of intense heat, and humidity... they simply cannot understand.
Lived in Key Largo, and Key West for combined 15 years.
It's still impressive...the heat.
Certainly it beats being in the cold, and rather dark and gray for 3-4 months of the year though.
Excellent!!!
The space Shuttle was very advanced in its look and design.
I was coming up on 9 years old when this happened and boy was I ever intrigued and excited.
Amazing footage
Other than my 2 sons I have 2 heroes - John Young & Ayrton Senna. They don’t come more heroic as these 4.......
What was an Ayrton Senna and what Shuttle flight was he on??
Bruce Merrill very funny lol
I miss the shuttle. Though unlikely, I am hoping it returns one day.
@GTA5 Eye I don't deny the impressiveness of Space X as I was completely blown away by how Falcon Heavy operated but I still miss the shuttle regardless since I pretty much grew up watching the launches on television and having the privilege of seeing one live.
@Jordan Raffety Incredible. The ground shakes as the shuttle lifts off.
Awesome! Keep up the great uploads!
this is a proud understanding on space shutle(space craft)
Columbia - one of them birds who forever fly!
Atomized
The female at Mission Control is definitely NOT Christa McAuliffe. She was only selected to fly on the Shuttle in 1985 and would have been just an ordinary young teacher in 1981.
Orange is the "natural" colour of the foam insulation used on the ET. Originally the tank was sprayed with a protective white paint but the painting of the tank was discontinued to save weight.
The tanks ALWAYS shed foam, from the 1st flight right through to the last. It was something that they never learned how to cure.
that was not an amazing achievement, but a pile of commercial and marketing crap...
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@@zdzichus.3264 And what have YOU done that's so great in life other than show up here TO BITCH...
Oh, that's a remarkable achievement that ONLY 300 million people haven't done on UA-cam already!
2 weeks before I was born! Awesome footage
Awesome and amazing Making of history for the future.
So amazing they made it back but at the same time super tragic that some years later Columbia would burn up on reentry from broken tiles.
The only launch vehicle powered by three main engines and two volcanoes.
The deadliest space vehicle in the world. Killing an astronaut every ten launches, at the catastrophic failure rate of 1 every 68 flights. Forcing the American taxpayer to pay for rides on the Soyuz. A modified ballistic missile designed in the 1950. In part to prove the superiority of communism over capitalism.
Duffman15000 you’re an idiot ..... 833: The total number of crewmembers of all 135 space shuttle missions, with some individuals riding multiple times and 14 astronauts killed during the Challenger and Columbia accidents. 789: The number of astronauts and cosmonauts who have returned to Earth on a NASA shuttle....... try again ...
great video
I have a Kiwi newspaper for STS1... cool vid.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
I just got a NASA DVD 2 disk package the other day and this program is on it (Disk 1). The package is called "40th Anniversity Man On the Moon with Walter Cronkite" For all you, youtubers information if interested in seeing this on DVD. I enjoy the music during the landing segment. It sounds like the spaceship ATARI video game of the times. RIP Columbia
I have this collection too.
Beautiful!
Восхитительный корабль, огромное уважение всем инженерам и конструкторам. И вечная память погибшему кораблю и астронавтам...
Потерянные корабли, несколько, 14 душ, погибших напрасно
the Shuttle is an amazing mechine I will miss them Columbia, Challenger,Discovery,Atlantis,and Endeavour thank you my brave ships you done a good job
What about Enterprise?
@@dolfyrantsparodies608 , Enterprise never went to Space.
@@colinmontgomery5492 I still consider Enterprise to be a part of the group of space shuttles
@@colinmontgomery5492 did it not?
@@colinmontgomery5492 Yes, it did, or still does. I remember! Go in chronological order, there's missing flights. I used be into this firework show.
great film thanks
Amazing to look back
@ExNASATerry Thanks for responding. Must have been exciting times working with NASA.
I remember the triumph...and the tragedy. Bittersweet memories.
Wathed this launch live at school in 2nd grade...Jesus I feel old
@James Sero 73..but I still feel old..mostly because ..these days..when I try to do some things I used to do with ease, it takes recuperation planning
21:46 I heard this song on Round Trip To Glasgow
Bruce Tharpe You wouldn’t happen to know the title would you?
does somebody know, who is the performer of that amazing music? where can we find it ?
Can't see it, but one of the wheel wells suffered damage from heat getting in due to a incorrectly installed tile gap filler that ducted plasma into the well. Very close to a disaster on flight 1.
Didn't know that
great video...
guy dancing 5:30 is amazing
Hundreds perhaps thousands of years in the making...many have dreamed!
Ah, the days when you could smoke indoors anywhere 😆
good thing they banned it
@@foobarmaximus3506 I worked at CCAFS and KSC during that time period. Electrician working on the construction of pad 37 and some maintenance of 39A and B.
Of course no smoking on the launchpads but I don't remember smoking in meeting rooms. Maybe I just never cared to pay attention.
Now construction job trailers(next to the pads) were a different scene all together. Seen guys doing lines off the print table. Others passed out(too many Xanax) under the print table. Can't make this shit up!
I remember smoking in the doctor's office with the doctor while explaining my health issue lolololol
fran mellor lmfao! :)
@@DBR00 ha! Those were the days
Awesome!
It's amazing that in its first mission to space had a tile problem (not in the same place) and that 22 years later Columbia would break up over Texas due to a tile problem.
STS 1 the flight that started it all
@23:39 Amazing! Love the music! Cold War Music
16:25 Did anyone else see that thing speed past in the background as they were closing the payload bay doors?
whatever it was, it was on Earth itself. they were conducting a drill. listen in on what they are saying.
The music and orator of this TV movie, it sounds as if it was recorded back in the 50s. Anyway, I like it. I watched it lift off on TV. Sweden, April 1981.
This is the second time im watching it💥🖐
Saw the emergency exits. Something very much needed.
Excellent.
It's easy to forget that in the early days, the crew sat on ejection seats. 6:13
mezsh only on STS-1 thru 4
“Columbia, you are negative seats”
Negative seats
It's easy to forget you can do that when you only have upper deck flight crew.
And to think what could have happened if they were still there for Challenger in 1986... because the crew cabin only disintegrated when it hit the water...
See, I miss people just being people. We don't always need polished, practiced verbage, just be yourself.
Well... That's just people being people, though.
I wonder if America would ever be THIS great again.....
I remember watching them lift off in cape canaveral.
James Sero Yes they did from 1981 to 2011 135 launches.
toda una época que se nos fue, junto al concorde, SR-71 «Blackbird» y el saturno V que lujo de tiempos vivimos y se fueron.....
Yeah, Remarkable achievement in the maiden Flight.!
Wish if I could fly without barrier.!!
🇮🇳🙋♂️👍♎
They said it was revolutionary... How ironic that this vehicle and the Challenger would be the death angel for the crew a decade later...
It doesn't change the fact that it was revolutionary. The automobile was revolutionary in the 190x's - consider how many have died in them.
That and the Concord best things to ever fly
@Collidingeorges the Concord is in a class of it's own
@Collidingeorges lol cool
@Collidingeorges Concorde - at least spell it correctly.
Totally agree 👍👍👍