@@mindcrime828 The ironic thing is that Cancer would be perfect for me, because I want to die, and I wouldn't feel it anyways, due to my condition. On the plus side, she's reunited with her son
I was an extra in this film. We had a good time. Lea Thompson was an absolute joy to work with. People were so much nicer back then. The film crew was like a family.
I watched this movie so many times as a kid. I wrote a letter to NASA asking all kinds of questions about it. They didn't answer my questions but they did send me a huge package of NASA swag. 😎
Sts 51-l launch January 12,1986 1986 when the 7 astronauts were killed after the Space shuttle columbia launch rocket booster explode. Space Camp movie
Yeah when everything was simple and the movies were good and the TV was in its prime and the cartoons were great and things were simple back then and things were alot cheaper and we had Erols, turned into Blockbuster, Sam Goody, Tower Records, Waxie Maxies, Kemp Mill Records, Virgin Records, I loved collecting various CDs from different stores and everyone hung out at Shopping malls and things were simple and good and the American Dream was everyone was living now everything sucks now. The 1990s wasn't bad either.
Back in the day before we slipped into the darkest timeline. Been watching this, Star Trek stuff, and 2010 to be reminded of when we dreamed about science and space. We believed we were headed for something greater. I miss that feeling.
@@jonnyblayze5149 Honestly can’t tell at this point if you’re just trolling, or if you genuinely don’t get my point. This is a movie set in space; most movie set in space tend to be action-adventure and/or horror movies. This actually has a more Star-Trek-esque narrative wherein it’s about working as a team to overcome practical issues.
I owned this movie as an 8 year old. I must have watched it a thousand times, without exaggerating! I’m still saying the lines, at 42 I remember every word! Insanity! God bless the 80’s
This sweet little "kids" film now stands as one of the few popular documents of what the Space Shuttle program meant to the sensibilities of a generation. Who would ever have thought that this would be a depiction of a lost world.
That hit way too hard. I was in 7th grade when we lost the Challenger, and VP of the rocketry club. Cut the heart out of what should have been the spacefaring generation.
@@WiseguyThreeOne They delayed the release of this film because of the Challenger disaster too. Was due to be published to cinemas the month after the disaster and they delayed it a year.
I must have seen this over 150 times. I know the entire script man. Amazing childhood memories. This would never happen in a million years but it was the stuff of dreams man.
I love the DVD extras which shows the C-SPAN coverage of the Congressional hearings, where the Director of NASA had to explain why NASA just spent $450 million dollars by accidentally launching a space shuttle with a bunch of children on board.
I went to Spacecamp up in Montreal with my nephew about 15 years ago. It was part of a class trip! What an experience. On our final day we went to Hard Rock Cafe to celebrate... What a time!!!
This was my favorite movie as a kid. Now I'm grown with my own kid who has earned a prestigious STEM award in Cub Scouts, one very few kids ever get, and I am the unit's STEM awards counselor. When we made the presentation video for his awards ceremony, I used the music from this movie as background. Very ethereal!
@@alexshank1414 It had to be approved by the council STEM chair, which involves turning in a notebook documenting everything he did with pictures and full descriptions, which he wrote himself. If you’re implying my kid didn’t legitimately earn that award because his mother was his counselor, I’ll respectfully suggest you know nothing about scouting. Scoutmasters, merit badge counselors, advancement chairs, all of us are the parents of the scouts and occasionally counsel our own kids. But we aren’t the sole authority who signs off on it. The district chair has to approve the work. I want my kid to actually learn something. Signing off on work he didn’t do does not accomplish that. AND if it becomes known that any counselor did this, they would be removed as counselor.
Reasons why this film is TOTALLY AWESOME: 1. It shows a message that if you keep a level head and work together, you can come through anything. 2. Kate Capshaw and Tom Skerritt. Not to mention a young and gorgeous Lea Thompson. 3. Riding the Space Shuttle. 4. Jinx is a cool little robot. Almost as awesome as R2-D2 and C-3PO. Reasons this movie would never have happened: 1. SpaceCampers would never be allowed to sit in an engine test. Remember the Apollo 1 fire? That was an engine test. 2. Each Shuttle was fully provisioned every time it was on the pad. 3. Aircraft seemed to go into flat spins every time Tom Skerritt was in a movie involving planes (this and Top Gun). 4. Jinx had WAY too easy access to NASA's computer! All in all, an AWESOME movie!
Also the radio was patched through the Orbiter relays, not the headsets alone. They would have been able to maintain contact throughout launch, orbit, and return.
I was in elementary school in South Florida when the Challenger disaster happened. We were all gathered in the cafeteria to watch the launch which was the first with a civilian teacher. I remember being confused as to what happened then I saw parents and teacher crying along with out maintenance guy climbing up on the roof to see the smoke trail. Sad day.
@@patrickfarrell5615 I was at college and a student who was *across* the hallway from our quad was from Concord, NH, he came in to our room to watch (hard to fathom in 2021 but not every room had a tv) and he was just stunned at what he saw.
I have worked on multiple movies as a extra, in props and mostly security and also as a personal protection agent for multiple celebrities including Tom Skerritt on Steel Magnolias and he was a wonderful person.
I saw this movie when I was a kid. I kinda wished I hadn't learned much about space shuttles at the time because it made me aware that there was noooo way to accidentally launch a space shuttle in real life. Still, it was fun to watch and has Lea Thompson. I liked her role in the Back to the future movies and saw her at a comic con in Texas a few years ago. They even brought the actual car. Michael J Fox couldn't make the con. His doctor refused to sign a release note. Sadly, his health had greatly deteriorated. I didn't get upset. I instead, felt sad and hoped his family are enough to help him fight his health problems. On a funny note, William Shatner was supposed to appear and the Trekkies showed how crazy they can be. They found out he had cancelled at the last minute and got into a LOUD shoving match with the convention center staff. I had to walk faaarr to the other side and wait for the shouting match to stop before going back to the display tables, LOL...
Oh my good God. This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I don’t think I’ve seen this scene in 20 years and I still knew it almost line for line. What a trip. Totally unrealistic, but man did this make me want to go to space camp when I was a kid. And Joaquin Phoenix as a kid. Wow.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the 1980s super casting of Cate Capshaw (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) Leah Thompson (Back to the Future) Kelly(๏人 ๏)Preston (John Travolta’s Wife) Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) Tom Skerrit (Alien) Larry B Scott (Revenge of the Nerds)
You've got Lea Thompson and Kate Capshaw in the same movie with a score by John Williams -- feels like a forgotten Spielberg classic, but he had nothing to do with it.
Cast was really good with alot of up and comers. Didn't do well though. Movie that gets left out alot when talking about 80s movies. One of my favorites.
Well, since Kate Capshaw is married to Steven Spielberg, it does have a little to do with it. The only reason John Williams wrote the original score is because the director asked Kate to ask Steven to ask John to score it.
Lea Thompsonnnnn....And Kate...and KELLY PRESTON. And I had forgotten it was a Williams score. I enjoyed the hell outta this movie even if it was ridiculous and I knew it when I was 13.
I know in hindsight the Shuttle was not nearly as safe or reusable as originally intended, but it is the most unique Rocket in history and I still love it lol.
I was privileged to witness Eleven lift off in 1969. Since then, every manned flight has been a thrill for me. There's just nothing like watching these massive, complex machines taking flight.
The Shuttles had such great names didn't they? Enterprise, Discovery, Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Endeavor....I mean damn....poetry. RIP Kelly...you are missed woman.
Oh the 1980s, the decade of dreams for so many kids and how every career was within your grasp. Saw this movie in 8th grade and immediately wanted to go to Space Camp and become an astronaut and work in space on the next generation of space shuttles. Reality, you need to become a senior military officer winged aviator with a PhD around middle age and you too will have a 1 in a million shot of being an astronaut who never sees a mission.
Putting all the inaccuracies of this film aside as a child, i loved it. Made me dream of going into space. Would be awesome if Spacecamp actually let kids into the shuttle for an engine test, but i highly doubt anything would have been permitted.
While the odds of a serious incident are a million to one (or similarly absurdly long odds). . .something like this happening is exactly why they don't do something like this. Putting a bunch of non-flight-rated, untrained civilians in a shuttle that was fully fueled and firing the engines for a test. If this was real could you imagine the hearings and court cases that would follow? I could only imagine Congressional hearings in the aftermath where some Senator looked right at the Administrator of NASA and asked how in the world they possibly thought it was a good idea to put a half-dozen kids aboard a fully fueled shuttle and conduct an engine test. . .not just any test, but the test to see if the engine could be considered rated for human spaceflight, so technically Atlantis wasn't even rated for human spaceflight at that point (which was why they hadn't installed long-range radio on it, or equipped it with a substantial oxygen supply).
@@Fushichou1978 @Joe Osborne I agree, it's also no wonder that this film generated so much controversy bring released close after the challenger disaster, even more ironic that the NASA robot managed to create a fault with the SRB to force the rocket to launch.
While still implausible, a more realistic way of them accidentally ending-up in space would've been to have them allowed aboard the shuttle just to look around, then a fire broke-out on the launch pad such that they couldn't get out & the only way to save them from the shuttle inevitably exploding if it remained on the pad was to launch it & hope for the best...
Considering this movie came out right after challenger, it truly is bittersweet, especially those 5 seconds or so when they call for throttle up and you can see the look on her face, as if they were trying to really portray the challenger blew up prior to this test....and we all know the challenger broke up practically a second after the go at throttle up call. That is too eerie.
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue Not lighting the second booster on the ground, the point where Andy throttles the main engines up mid-flight. Although if I remember correctly the Challenger exploded only coincidentally near to throttle up, as the O-ring that failed and detonated the external fuel tank was not on the main engines at all. The worst thing about Challenger was that had the O-ring failed in any direction other than directly at the external fuel tank the failure would have been survivable.
Maybe I am reading your comment incorrectly, but the movie Space Camp was filmed in the summer of '85 so they could not have been trying to portray anything in regards to the Jan '86 Challenger tragedy.
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ueBecause the failure in this movie was fictional and written and filmed before the Challenger tragedy occurred, and the Challenger tragedy was real life.
@@willythemailboy2 Technically, Challenger survived the breakup that "WE" saw on TV. It was actually torn apart some moments later by flipping tail over nose a few seconds after what we saw as it flew into aerodynamic forces it was not designed for and NOT an explosion. For the record, Challenger had no explosion or combustive marks when the debris was recovered confirming it did fly out of the gas ball we saw on TV. They had been blown clear and in one piece (for just a few moments). It's also part of the reason why Onizuka/Resnik's controls for the air supply were found to have been operated when found at the ocean bottom. It was a long plunge to the Atlantic and there is some debate they were awake. NASA says they passed out, Scobee's fellow astronauts say they were awake. As a result this has generated some controversy of its unknown final moments.
"We have overheat on Booster B...Light Booster A godd*mn it, light this or we're going to explode!!..What's happening???!!!..Light it or they're gonna die!..Go for Launch NOW!!...Light it!!! My God, we have liftoff!" Probably two minutes of the best dialogue, timing, lack of music and action I've every experienced in a movie. All Actors/Actresses were spot on! Every time I see this scene it just gets my heart racing and my adrenaline pumping. When Kelly Preston yells out...What's happening???!! WOW.
I remember watching this in the theater. My buddies and I all chipped in and had enough for one ticket. One of my buddies bought a ticket and opened the emergency exit so the rest of us could sneak in. Watched half of this movie from behind the screen. We stayed in the theater all day and watched about half a dozen movies. What a great time.
I'm turning 50 in a couple months and have not seen this movie in well over 30 years. Thank you so much for posting this iconic scene. I miss the 80's and early 90's really bad. Something is very wrong.
Leah Thompson was in Howard The Duck Back To The Future, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Tales From The Crypt (TV)mini-series. She was the girls of the 80's that did some classic movies. This movie would have been a huge hit if the Challenger Space Shuttle didn't blow up in 1986. The first teacher in space Krista McCluffe.
Was and is still my major crush. Still looks incredible and just seeing her smile makes me feel like a teen boy again. Actually older than me, and yet looks too young for me.
I loved this movie when I was a kid! I haven't seen it in so long and haven't even thought about until I saw this in my recommendations. Such nostalgia!
I worked for the miniatures/special effects company that made the set of the shuttle interior. The whole thing was mounted on a turntable that was in turn mounted on the inside of a vertical circular track. This allowed them to move the cockpit to any angle they wanted, and suspend the actors on wires to give the effect of weightlessness. A LOT of though and planning went into the filming of this movie, and it still holds up pretty well almost 40 years later.
Mom took me to see this on a weekday a week or so after opening. The theatre was almost empty; that blew my mind. Then the movie started! I was floored by what I was seeing and experiencing. What an experience. This is one of the many movies that sparked my curiosity and spirit. I love this flick. I love my Mom; thanks for taking me to a movie I never heard about before seeing it!
When I went to Space Camp in the 90s, the first thing they told us is it is nothing like the movie lol. Was pretty fun, though. During our 12 hour Shuttle/Space Station simulation, the crew had a mutiny and spaced the captain out the airlock lol
@Suq Madiq It was a tourist group, but that's still more believable than the idea that NASA would allow kids on a fueled spacecraft during an engine test.
@Suq Madiq And in Red Dawn a vast number of "extra" commercial flights out of the Soviet Union all at once goes completely unremarked-upon until paratroopers start dropping out of them in US airspace.
Aw the movies of the 1980s, where kids get to do amazing things with their genius minds or just plain cunning spirit! And the adults have to just go along with them, trying to help them get home. But in the end, the kids, however unlikely, end up not only pulling their own weight, but entertaining everyone to death! Daryl, Explorers, The Goonies, E.T., Cloak and Dagger, Space Camp, War Games, Back To The Future. I love the wiz kid movies of the 1980s.
Philip Zamora - it did. There was no way around the marketing disaster. And audiences were too depressed about the tragedy to want to go see it. I was 13 and loved the concept of the film. Saw it twice in the theater and enjoyed it for what it was. I still like it even though it is beyond silly. I suppose I'm a sucker for just about anything that has a John Williams score attached to it.
The Challenger disaster really screwed this movie's chances at becoming an 80s classic. I mean, to some people it is a piece of classic 80's nostalgia, but it doesn't rank very highly on most people's lists largely because it did so poorly at the box office. Being released just 5 months after the Challenger exploded, nobody was going to take their kids to see this. I was 9 years old at the time and I remember watching the shuttle explode at school. It was a national tragedy that haunted us for years, largely because it was the first time a civilian was actually aboard and it was a teacher at that. I remember watching this on VHS and loving it when I was a kid. I still enjoy it as an adult, but it light of both the Challenger (and Columbia disasters) this film requires even more suspension of disbelief than before given the absurdity of the plot which has children aboard a live engine test of a shuttle. One absurdity I never really considered as a kid: why was there an advanced AI (Jinx) which not only appears to be sentient, but also had the ability to interface with and override NASA's computers allowed to just roam around unsupervised? Why was there no security whatsoever at this government installation? I understand it's a plot contrivance to serve as a means of getting them into space, but they could have come up with something more realistic than that.
Watching this movie was the first time that I wanted to be an astronaut. In fact, they put out a Space Shuttle Operators Manual that had all of the cards shown in this movie, plus other stuff. The only thing it didn't have was how to fly the shuttle home - you have to be a pilot to be able to do that. When NASA sent an astronaut to talk to the Science teachers in my county at the beginning of the school year, I just about freaked out. Then when NASA said they were ready to try to send another teacher into space (RIP Christa), I jumped at the chance! I got all of my paperwork completed before the deadline and got all of my qualifications done, but they chose someone else. I just about cried. I still love this movie. ❤ I used to show it to my classes (with the PBS special Living and Working in Space) every year. The kids always had a lot of questions, and I answered every one of them. They were amazed that Space Camp was a real place, and that it was basically right next door (I live and taught in Georgia). I even found and downloaded a couple of videos about people who attended the camp. The kids loved those videos, too.
One of my favorite quasi disaster movies. My kids loved it growing up and, as an adult, I was right there with them. I have it on VHS and actually watch it from time to time.
Omg !!!!! I’ve been looking everywhere for this movie !!!!! I know many people who claim to specialize in hunting down hard to find movies, and they all claimed that I dreamt this movie up !!!!!
It is definitely a good movie. I can rap watching it every single time. It will come up on the TV on cable I would always watch it and I also had the VHS tape of it and wore it out. I thought I was about ready to drive my mom nuts on it because every single time, it would be on or if I wanted to watch it on VHS. It was there and I Telya from start to middle to finish. It is really good and it makes you think not like what they have now which is nothing but a bunch of crap. Movies and TV shows rolled into one and that’s sad but at least we have these movies made back in the Day to remind us a better days and we can watch them any time we want and have a nice day
Reading these comments makes me so happy I am not the only one who thinks like you all. It has been an hysterical read! Me in the 80s when I was 11 years old, "I want to go to Space Camp so I can ride in the Space Shuttle!" Me now knowing everything I do about how the SLS works, "There is NO WAY this would EVER HAPPEN!"
One of my FAVORITE movies from growing up. I was 13 when it came out. I saw it in the UK though, because I lived in London from 1984-1987. As an American living abroad at that time, it was nice to see the tribute this was to the The Challenger disaster. I felt like it was a nice homage. Still even holds up today, and is a VERY important reminder of what the world of space exploration was/still is.
Just as there would be no Star Wars or Indiana Jones without John Williams, there would be no Space Camp without him. All of those movie's opening credits should have said, "A Spielberg and Williams Film"
B. Victor Adams - So true. It makes it possible to get encapsulated in a completely implausible movie. He states in his liner notes on the soundtrack album that he was saddened about the reception of the movie, like it himself and feels it was one of his favorites of his own scores.
I love how it shows them going up in space! By mistake! I remember how great the 80s movies were and I would love to go to Space Camp but its expensive.
I actually went to space camp and got a seat in the Shuttle Atlantis....of course there would *never* be a "test run* of the ME's, let alone any poossibility of one of the SRB's igniting, it was still an awesome time.....the simulators left some jobs for the poor janitors as some, many could not handle the g's. This was 1992.
No you didn't. I went to Space Camp twice in the 80s and you'd never, EVER be allowed near an actual Orbiter. Especially since the main campus was in Huntsville, AL. (Yes, there was a 2nd location in FL for awhile, but again, you'd never be allowed to enter an actual Orbiter)
Checklist for a successful space launch: - Put on your motorcycle helmet - Get your Donald Duck voiced robot ready - Check your rocket booster-shaped column diagram for heat level - Tell your unexperienced buddies which buttons to press rather than reaching over and pressing them yourself - Rather than crapping your pants, goof around in zero gravity and go all Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
This was the first movie on VHS that we found in a video store (after calling around) & went to buy. We've since purchased it on DVD. * we lived in Florida, grew up in awe of NASA & the Space Program & visited the cape for rocket launches & visiting the museum.
Was just at Kennedy Space Centre and walked under the Atlantis in its new "home" watching this gave me chills, and at the same time knowing now what we do now about the perils of shuttle launches...
Well kids of 2020 also have interesting thing happen to them when they go outside. But it less go to space and more like being an extra on the movie Contagion or national geographic documentary of the 1918 pandemic .
I haven't seen this movie in years and when I first saw this scene one thing has always bugged me is there such a thing as thermal curtain failure in the early days of the Space Shuttle program.
Wow! Talk about blast from the past. I loved this movie when I was a kid. It made me want to go to Space Camp so badly, though never got the chance. I even lived right next to the California location just outside the main gate at Moffet Field in Mountain View. I was a military brat living in the base housing.
Funny thing is, Terry O'Quinn played as an Admiral in Star Trek The Next Generation who was running some test on his Science Ship and it went haywire resulting in the ship getting embedded in an asteroid.
@@xaenon It always amazes me that the critics don't get that! Its not like any of them are ACTUALLY astronauts themselves so can criticise. I mean I an ex military, ex firefighter so I sometimes wince at the way Hollywood portrays both but at the end of the day its storytelling not documentary. Mind you there are a few documentaries that are REALLY storytelling!
@@wilson2455 They lit the second one so that it wouldn't. While this kind of an accident could never happen in real life (SRBs were physically "turned off" during an FRF and it was physically impossible for one to fire accidentally), one booster firing w/o the other would do exactly what the movie described. Notice the part where the controller hits the button and the second booster goes red too--that was to keep it from going out of control.
This was the first time that I saw Kelly Preston
Sad that she passed away...cancer sucks.
@@mindcrime828 The ironic thing is that Cancer would be perfect for me, because I want to die, and I wouldn't feel it anyways, due to my condition. On the plus side, she's reunited with her son
@Ridin' With Biden Agreed i came here when I heard about her passing. An amazing beautiful actress
RIP
Aaron Ludwiczak she had breast cancer
I was an extra in this film. We had a good time. Lea Thompson was an absolute joy to work with. People were so much nicer back then. The film crew was like a family.
That's sooo cool! I use to watch this when I was little! I loved the robot! I think his name was jynx haha
@@rickyminjarez44 Max was the Robot's name. Anyhoo, I get nostalgia for this film.
@Maxwell Murmur Max was the little boy Jinx was the robot.
Twitter wasnt around to ruin society like today.
Did you try to bone her?
I watched this movie so many times as a kid. I wrote a letter to NASA asking all kinds of questions about it. They didn't answer my questions but they did send me a huge package of NASA swag. 😎
Cool!
That is cool.
now you can look up the answers online ,
fun huh!
Your reply from NASA was probably ''you'll shoot yer eye out, kid.''
Cool!
Firmly in the 'overdue a rewatch' column.
This scene still gives me chills to this day. I watched this movie countless times with dreams of going to space when I was 11.
Eu me emociono muito com esse filme. Eu acho ser o sonho de qualquer pessoa que adora assuntos do universo. Eu adoraria um dia conhecer a Nasa
Sts 51-l launch January 12,1986 1986 when the 7 astronauts were killed after the Space shuttle columbia launch rocket booster explode. Space Camp movie
@@ArthurHILL-xp8bv incoming: 01/03/2024
Came to say the same thing
The 80's what a gift to grow up in that era.
Yeah when everything was simple and the movies were good and the TV was in its prime and the cartoons were great and things were simple back then and things were alot cheaper and we had Erols, turned into Blockbuster, Sam Goody, Tower Records, Waxie Maxies, Kemp Mill Records, Virgin Records, I loved collecting various CDs from different stores and everyone hung out at Shopping malls and things were simple and good and the American Dream was everyone was living now everything sucks now. The 1990s wasn't bad either.
Indeed. If you were a kid in the 80's you felt like you could do anything.
MTV, back to the future, breakfast club, and Ferris buellers day off! Great movies and no social media. Things felt simpler back in the 80’s
Yes it was. GI Joe, Voltron, Transformers...and that was just mornings before school. I miss my family. 2020 sucks.
Only if you were older the 80s was cool . The 80s sucked for me . Too young. :(
Loved this movie as a kid, and now I'm 39 and still love this movie! God bless 80s movies!
Control this is Atlantis we are burning up in reentry🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was an 80's adult and loved this movie then. I am now 74 years old and still love it! 😍🥰😎
Back in the day before we slipped into the darkest timeline. Been watching this, Star Trek stuff, and 2010 to be reminded of when we dreamed about science and space. We believed we were headed for something greater. I miss that feeling.
I've always thought of this as a "spiritual" Star Trek movie, given the similar themes of teamwork & indomitable courage in the face of adversity.
@@CtrlOptDel oh like EVERY movie with more than one person huh.....🙄
@@jonnyblayze5149 No.
@@CtrlOptDel so you havent watched any other movies then huh
@@jonnyblayze5149 Honestly can’t tell at this point if you’re just trolling, or if you genuinely don’t get my point. This is a movie set in space; most movie set in space tend to be action-adventure and/or horror movies. This actually has a more Star-Trek-esque narrative wherein it’s about working as a team to overcome practical issues.
I owned this movie as an 8 year old.
I must have watched it a thousand times, without exaggerating!
I’m still saying the lines, at 42 I remember every word!
Insanity! God bless the 80’s
Every T crossed, every I dotted. That’s how I learned it, that’s how you’ll learn it. (I use this today with my staff, lol)
Same here. Was going to fly jets but my eyesight let me down. So much for space.
This sweet little "kids" film now stands as one of the few popular documents of what the Space Shuttle program meant to the sensibilities of a generation. Who would ever have thought that this would be a depiction of a lost world.
Wow. True, man
That hit way too hard. I was in 7th grade when we lost the Challenger, and VP of the rocketry club.
Cut the heart out of what should have been the spacefaring generation.
@@WiseguyThreeOne If that accident had not happened, social media would barely be a thing today.
@@WiseguyThreeOne They delayed the release of this film because of the Challenger disaster too. Was due to be published to cinemas the month after the disaster and they delayed it a year.
this, short circuit, flight of the navigator, back to the future to name but a few .. was great time to be a kid lol.
Definitely some of the best.
First half of Explorers cause the second was dumb IMO.
Enemy Mine, The Last Starfighter.....
@@thebeagles2025 damn! You got to them first!
Oo flight of the navigator. That was a gooooddd film.
I went to space camp in 2008, and they showed us clips of this film. Made my entire damn experience.
Kelly Preston died of Breast Cancer. She was in alot of movies back in the 80s
and I loved Secret Admirer, Space Camp.
I must have seen this over 150 times. I know the entire script man. Amazing childhood memories. This would never happen in a million years but it was the stuff of dreams man.
I love the DVD extras which shows the C-SPAN coverage of the Congressional hearings, where the Director of NASA had to explain why NASA just spent $450 million dollars by accidentally launching a space shuttle with a bunch of children on board.
Now that's something I'd like to see.
$1.6 billion per launch today.
@@jstrike82 We don't have any Space Shuttles today. The last launch was in 2011.
@@mse3700 and it cost $1.6 billion, space x are aiming for $2 million a lunch, amazing difference 👍
@@jstrike82 Well that's easy to accomplish when the launch vehicles that SpaceX use are nowhere near as complex as the Space Shuttle.
This movie made us feel better as kids, it's as if we redeemed the Challenger disaster and honored them.
The movie was made before Challenger, and was released late because of it.
We need more movies like this today for kids. When I was young this got me excited about science and space.
I went to Spacecamp up in Montreal with my nephew about 15 years ago. It was part of a class trip! What an experience. On our final day we went to Hard Rock Cafe to celebrate... What a time!!!
3:49 I just love the part where the technican is urging 'Go Baby Go!' Then Viper from Top Gun goes ' My God, we have lift off!'. Such a great film!
This was my favorite movie as a kid. Now I'm grown with my own kid who has earned a prestigious STEM award in Cub Scouts, one very few kids ever get, and I am the unit's STEM awards counselor. When we made the presentation video for his awards ceremony, I used the music from this movie as background. Very ethereal!
Your kid gets a STEM award and you’re the STEM awards counselor. What a coincidence…
@@alexshank1414 It had to be approved by the council STEM chair, which involves turning in a notebook documenting everything he did with pictures and full descriptions, which he wrote himself. If you’re implying my kid didn’t legitimately earn that award because his mother was his counselor, I’ll respectfully suggest you know nothing about scouting. Scoutmasters, merit badge counselors, advancement chairs, all of us are the parents of the scouts and occasionally counsel our own kids. But we aren’t the sole authority who signs off on it. The district chair has to approve the work. I want my kid to actually learn something. Signing off on work he didn’t do does not accomplish that. AND if it becomes known that any counselor did this, they would be removed as counselor.
@@ashxf I never imply.
@@alexshank1414 Uh huh.
There was something just so magical about a shuttle liftoff! Goosebumps.
wait wait wait hold on how does taking off stop the shuttle from exploding?🤔
Reasons why this film is TOTALLY AWESOME:
1. It shows a message that if you keep a level head and work together, you can come through anything.
2. Kate Capshaw and Tom Skerritt. Not to mention a young and gorgeous Lea Thompson.
3. Riding the Space Shuttle.
4. Jinx is a cool little robot. Almost as awesome as R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Reasons this movie would never have happened:
1. SpaceCampers would never be allowed to sit in an engine test. Remember the Apollo 1 fire? That was an engine test.
2. Each Shuttle was fully provisioned every time it was on the pad.
3. Aircraft seemed to go into flat spins every time Tom Skerritt was in a movie involving planes (this and Top Gun).
4. Jinx had WAY too easy access to NASA's computer!
All in all, an AWESOME movie!
Also, same year as Challenger explosion.
Apollo 1 was a test, but not an engine test. There was no fuel in the booster.
Also the radio was patched through the Orbiter relays, not the headsets alone. They would have been able to maintain contact throughout launch, orbit, and return.
Also....there were a few places during the launch they could have bailed before getting to space...Africa is one example.
@bblande Also Torreon AB in Spain, Woomera in Australia and supposedly there was a landing strip in Texas somewhere.
I was in elementary school in South Florida when the Challenger disaster happened. We were all gathered in the cafeteria to watch the launch which was the first with a civilian teacher. I remember being confused as to what happened then I saw parents and teacher crying along with out maintenance guy climbing up on the roof to see the smoke trail. Sad day.
Wow..yes same here , I was in Brockton Massachusetts. That teacher was from new Hampshire, I remember that day .
..oh shit, it was actually 34 years ago TODAY!
@@patrickfarrell5615 I was at college and a student who was *across* the hallway from our quad was from Concord, NH, he came in to our room to watch (hard to fathom in 2021 but not every room had a tv) and he was just stunned at what he saw.
same here my elementary school class was doing a book report about it 👀😱😥😢😭🕯
I remember watching this in the theatre. Rest In Peace Kelly Preston. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Wow this movie brings back such childhood memories, thanks for sharing!
Kylo Ren I hope you went back on your meds
This and Iron Eagle were probably the most true-to-life, fact based, and realistic documentaries ever shown.
Hahahahaha 100 percent true
And Larry B. Scott starred in both. Go figure 😆
They even got Viper from Top Gun to be flight director. Why'd he never tell Maverick he worked for NASA also?
Yes those commodore 64 graphics scream nasa
😂😂😂
"Light it or they're gonna die!" is a quote that has stayed with me for over three decades! Totally forgot Joachim Phoenix was in this 80' flick lol
*Joaquin
Joaquin, sorries
Apologies, not "sorries"...though "sorries " sounds cute
Actually, he was Leaf Phoenix back then.
I have worked on multiple movies as a extra, in props and mostly security and also as a personal protection agent for multiple celebrities including Tom Skerritt on Steel Magnolias and he was a wonderful person.
Such a great movie. Once they launched I was at the edge of my seat gripping the armchair the whole rest of the movie.
You know it's an 80s movie when the music is whimsical and then turns into a 90s drama.
I always knew it from scenes like this where I NOW think: “why did they…. Well that’s a lawsuit”. At the time I saw no issue.
It took me years to find out the soundtrack was written by John Williams, but it just makes so much sense in hindsight.
You can tell it's a John Williams score right from the start. The opening score pretty much cinches it, along with the music from this scene.
I watched this movie so many times as a kid and wished I was one of them going to space, what a great movie this was.
I saw this movie when I was a kid. I kinda wished I hadn't learned much about space shuttles at the time because it made me aware that there was noooo way to accidentally launch a space shuttle in real life. Still, it was fun to watch and has Lea Thompson. I liked her role in the Back to the future movies and saw her at a comic con in Texas a few years ago. They even brought the actual car. Michael J Fox couldn't make the con. His doctor refused to sign a release note. Sadly, his health had greatly deteriorated. I didn't get upset. I instead, felt sad and hoped his family are enough to help him fight his health problems.
On a funny note, William Shatner was supposed to appear and the Trekkies showed how crazy they can be. They found out he had cancelled at the last minute and got into a LOUD shoving match with the convention center staff. I had to walk faaarr to the other side and wait for the shouting match to stop before going back to the display tables, LOL...
@@largol33t1 that's interesting. I didn't realize Lea played the part of Fox's young mother in Back to the Future.
Oh my good God. This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I don’t think I’ve seen this scene in 20 years and I still knew it almost line for line. What a trip. Totally unrealistic, but man did this make me want to go to space camp when I was a kid. And Joaquin Phoenix as a kid. Wow.
Holy Crap! Their trashcan totally shot them into space and made them all astronauts.
I wish my trashcan could do that.
jake armitage Most underrated comment on UA-cam.
All mine does is stink of bad diapers no matter how often I wash it. Plot twist: I don’t even have a baby.
That was the Roomba's ancestor.
Wrong movie, you're thinking about, "The Explorers" in '85. :D
Shuttle Orbiter remains the most complex and capable machine ever constructed and made operational.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the 1980s super casting of Cate Capshaw (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) Leah Thompson (Back to the Future)
Kelly(๏人 ๏)Preston (John Travolta’s Wife) Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) Tom Skerrit (Alien) Larry B Scott (Revenge of the Nerds)
Larry B Scott (Revenge of the Nerds) also in Top Gun, albeit a smaller role. He was Mav's co-pilot after Goose.
J̅o̅h̅n̅n̅y̅ F̅a̅v̅o̅r̅i̅t̅e̅ yeah the young Joker in space that’s what really made him change personalities...lol
goatcheese4me haha, that was not him
James D holy crap you’re right. All this time I thought they were played by the same guy.
Don't forget Terry O'Quinn (John Locke from Lost and many other things) saying LIGHT IT at mission control.
You've got Lea Thompson and Kate Capshaw in the same movie with a score by John Williams -- feels like a forgotten Spielberg classic, but he had nothing to do with it.
Let's not leave out Tom Skerrit.
Cast was really good with alot of up and comers. Didn't do well though. Movie that gets left out alot when talking about 80s movies. One of my favorites.
Well, since Kate Capshaw is married to Steven Spielberg, it does have a little to do with it. The only reason John Williams wrote the original score is because the director asked Kate to ask Steven to ask John to score it.
Lea Thompsonnnnn....And Kate...and KELLY PRESTON. And I had forgotten it was a Williams score. I enjoyed the hell outta this movie even if it was ridiculous and I knew it when I was 13.
@@daveschwartz5893 I doubt it would have been a huge success but after the Challenger disaster it was never going to do great box office.
I know in hindsight the Shuttle was not nearly as safe or reusable as originally intended, but it is the most unique Rocket in history and I still love it lol.
Gear from STS-1 was still flying on STS-135
The shuttle was not a rocket, though it had rockets.
@@krashd The Orbiter did have two Apollo SM engines at its aft end.
I was privileged to witness Eleven lift off in 1969. Since then, every manned flight has been a thrill for me. There's just nothing like watching these massive, complex machines taking flight.
The Shuttles had such great names didn't they? Enterprise, Discovery, Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Endeavor....I mean damn....poetry. RIP Kelly...you are missed woman.
*Endeavour (named for James Cook's HMS Endeavour)
Ela morreu?
NASA director: Hey let’s put a bunch of kids and a former astronaut up in a shuttle and fire the engines. What could go wrong
A bunch of kids and his wife.
Sounds like something a government agency would do. 😒
she not a former astronaut....she is a current one.
Cute movie but NASA would never test fire an engine with kids in the shuttle.
Movie director: Let’s launch a teacher into space right when one died doing that.
Oh the 1980s, the decade of dreams for so many kids and how every career was within your grasp. Saw this movie in 8th grade and immediately wanted to go to Space Camp and become an astronaut and work in space on the next generation of space shuttles. Reality, you need to become a senior military officer winged aviator with a PhD around middle age and you too will have a 1 in a million shot of being an astronaut who never sees a mission.
You mean a pilot. Mission specialists were not military and payload specialists were not career astronauts.
Putting all the inaccuracies of this film aside as a child, i loved it. Made me dream of going into space. Would be awesome if Spacecamp actually let kids into the shuttle for an engine test, but i highly doubt anything would have been permitted.
This is exactly why they don't do this.
While the odds of a serious incident are a million to one (or similarly absurdly long odds). . .something like this happening is exactly why they don't do something like this.
Putting a bunch of non-flight-rated, untrained civilians in a shuttle that was fully fueled and firing the engines for a test. If this was real could you imagine the hearings and court cases that would follow? I could only imagine Congressional hearings in the aftermath where some Senator looked right at the Administrator of NASA and asked how in the world they possibly thought it was a good idea to put a half-dozen kids aboard a fully fueled shuttle and conduct an engine test. . .not just any test, but the test to see if the engine could be considered rated for human spaceflight, so technically Atlantis wasn't even rated for human spaceflight at that point (which was why they hadn't installed long-range radio on it, or equipped it with a substantial oxygen supply).
@@Fushichou1978 @Joe Osborne I agree, it's also no wonder that this film generated so much controversy bring released close after the challenger disaster, even more ironic that the NASA robot managed to create a fault with the SRB to force the rocket to launch.
While still implausible, a more realistic way of them accidentally ending-up in space would've been to have them allowed aboard the shuttle just to look around, then a fire broke-out on the launch pad such that they couldn't get out & the only way to save them from the shuttle inevitably exploding if it remained on the pad was to launch it & hope for the best...
@@Fushichou1978Atlantis had already flown by the time the movie was out so she was flight rated
Considering this movie came out right after challenger, it truly is bittersweet, especially those 5 seconds or so when they call for throttle up and you can see the look on her face, as if they were trying to really portray the challenger blew up prior to this test....and we all know the challenger broke up practically a second after the go at throttle up call. That is too eerie.
why does taking off stop them from exploding when challenger exploded after taking off?🤔
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue Not lighting the second booster on the ground, the point where Andy throttles the main engines up mid-flight. Although if I remember correctly the Challenger exploded only coincidentally near to throttle up, as the O-ring that failed and detonated the external fuel tank was not on the main engines at all. The worst thing about Challenger was that had the O-ring failed in any direction other than directly at the external fuel tank the failure would have been survivable.
Maybe I am reading your comment incorrectly, but the movie Space Camp was filmed in the summer of '85 so they could not have been trying to portray anything in regards to the Jan '86 Challenger tragedy.
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ueBecause the failure in this movie was fictional and written and filmed before the Challenger tragedy occurred, and the Challenger tragedy was real life.
@@willythemailboy2 Technically, Challenger survived the breakup that "WE" saw on TV. It was actually torn apart some moments later by flipping tail over nose a few seconds after what we saw as it flew into aerodynamic forces it was not designed for and NOT an explosion. For the record, Challenger had no explosion or combustive marks when the debris was recovered confirming it did fly out of the gas ball we saw on TV. They had been blown clear and in one piece (for just a few moments). It's also part of the reason why Onizuka/Resnik's controls for the air supply were found to have been operated when found at the ocean bottom. It was a long plunge to the Atlantic and there is some debate they were awake. NASA says they passed out, Scobee's fellow astronauts say they were awake. As a result this has generated some controversy of its unknown final moments.
"We have overheat on Booster B...Light Booster A godd*mn it, light this or we're going to explode!!..What's happening???!!!..Light it or they're gonna die!..Go for Launch NOW!!...Light it!!! My God, we have liftoff!" Probably two minutes of the best dialogue, timing, lack of music and action I've every experienced in a movie. All Actors/Actresses were spot on! Every time I see this scene it just gets my heart racing and my adrenaline pumping. When Kelly Preston yells out...What's happening???!! WOW.
Everyone working at Command Center: "We just launched a bunch of teenagers into space. I am SO FIRED."
They'll spin it say the first children in space. The Soviets would have been totally confused on how to pull that off.
even though they were near 30
You're not fired! You quit!
and one 12 year old-ish Jaquin Pheonix
I remember watching this in the theater. My buddies and I all chipped in and had enough for one ticket. One of my buddies bought a ticket and opened the emergency exit so the rest of us could sneak in. Watched half of this movie from behind the screen. We stayed in the theater all day and watched about half a dozen movies. What a great time.
Hey punk. You trying to sneak in?
I'm turning 50 in a couple months and have not seen this movie in well over 30 years. Thank you so much for posting this iconic scene.
I miss the 80's and early 90's really bad. Something is very wrong.
Me too
What do you mean something is wrong?
I was so in love with Lea Thompson back then. She was like the smart "hot girl".
Ha. Me too. And I knew no one else that was in love with her too. Smart hot girl is dead on.
You and every other heterosexual male in the free world! :-)
Leah Thompson was in Howard The Duck Back To The Future, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Tales From The Crypt (TV)mini-series. She was the girls of the 80's that did some classic movies. This movie would have been a huge hit if the Challenger Space Shuttle didn't blow up in 1986. The first teacher in space Krista McCluffe.
Was and is still my major crush. Still looks incredible and just seeing her smile makes me feel like a teen boy again. Actually older than me, and yet looks too young for me.
@@Choices2aa All the Right Moves from 1983, with a young Tom Cruise, long before this film.
This was the best movie. I remember going to the movies for $.75 with my $.25 popcorn and $.10 drink in 1987.
imagine having sex while floating
I loved this movie when I was a kid! I haven't seen it in so long and haven't even thought about until I saw this in my recommendations. Such nostalgia!
RIP Kelly Preston
It may have done lousy at the box office but I loved it!
If it had been released before the Challenger disaster, attendance probably would've plunged maybe down to zero after the disaster.
This was one of my favorite films growing up. Today. I just can’t imagine how crazy it was trying to film all these microgravity scenes.
I worked for the miniatures/special effects company that made the set of the shuttle interior. The whole thing was mounted on a turntable that was in turn mounted on the inside of a vertical circular track. This allowed them to move the cockpit to any angle they wanted, and suspend the actors on wires to give the effect of weightlessness. A LOT of though and planning went into the filming of this movie, and it still holds up pretty well almost 40 years later.
Mom took me to see this on a weekday a week or so after opening. The theatre was almost empty; that blew my mind. Then the movie started! I was floored by what I was seeing and experiencing. What an experience. This is one of the many movies that sparked my curiosity and spirit. I love this flick. I love my Mom; thanks for taking me to a movie I never heard about before seeing it!
but you never went to Space Camp
Lol in the 80s I was like, "Cool!" Now I'm like: "So they test main engines with kids in the Shuttle?"
That's only the worst of the several dozen issues with just this scene.
When I went to Space Camp in the 90s, the first thing they told us is it is nothing like the movie lol. Was pretty fun, though. During our 12 hour Shuttle/Space Station simulation, the crew had a mutiny and spaced the captain out the airlock lol
@Suq Madiq It was a tourist group, but that's still more believable than the idea that NASA would allow kids on a fueled spacecraft during an engine test.
Haha! Same, I was like "that's one way of many to get funding cut." Lol
@Suq Madiq And in Red Dawn a vast number of "extra" commercial flights out of the Soviet Union all at once goes completely unremarked-upon until paratroopers start dropping out of them in US airspace.
Amazing movie. Watched it over snd over again! Hits you right in the feels!
Despite the flaws, I loved this movie. So sad it came out very close to the Challenger tradegy which hurt it at the box office.
I remember wanting this to happen to me. What a great time for kids movies. The 80s were amazing.
Aw the movies of the 1980s, where kids get to do amazing things with their genius minds or just plain cunning spirit! And the adults have to just go along with them, trying to help them get home. But in the end, the kids, however unlikely, end up not only pulling their own weight, but entertaining everyone to death! Daryl, Explorers, The Goonies, E.T., Cloak and Dagger, Space Camp, War Games, Back To The Future. I love the wiz kid movies of the 1980s.
I agree, that was the time when I was 12 yrs old - 6th grade. Where were you when the Challenger blew up?
And yet somehow this movie got a ton of negative review.
I'll bet it got bad reviews because it was released so close to the Challenger disaster.
Philip Zamora - it did. There was no way around the marketing disaster. And audiences were too depressed about the tragedy to want to go see it. I was 13 and loved the concept of the film. Saw it twice in the theater and enjoyed it for what it was. I still like it even though it is beyond silly. I suppose I'm a sucker for just about anything that has a John Williams score attached to it.
Iron Eagle...
Such a beautiful film, I remember being inspired by it as a kid. Sadly I never made it to space camp, but I was able to become a pilot regardless.
The Challenger disaster really screwed this movie's chances at becoming an 80s classic. I mean, to some people it is a piece of classic 80's nostalgia, but it doesn't rank very highly on most people's lists largely because it did so poorly at the box office. Being released just 5 months after the Challenger exploded, nobody was going to take their kids to see this. I was 9 years old at the time and I remember watching the shuttle explode at school. It was a national tragedy that haunted us for years, largely because it was the first time a civilian was actually aboard and it was a teacher at that. I remember watching this on VHS and loving it when I was a kid. I still enjoy it as an adult, but it light of both the Challenger (and Columbia disasters) this film requires even more suspension of disbelief than before given the absurdity of the plot which has children aboard a live engine test of a shuttle. One absurdity I never really considered as a kid: why was there an advanced AI (Jinx) which not only appears to be sentient, but also had the ability to interface with and override NASA's computers allowed to just roam around unsupervised? Why was there no security whatsoever at this government installation? I understand it's a plot contrivance to serve as a means of getting them into space, but they could have come up with something more realistic than that.
I always enjoyed this movie, the launching of the space shuttles and the Saturn 5 space rockets where always spectacular to watch.
God I miss the time when we made positive movies like this, when anything was possible. What the hell happened to our country? Take me back please.
Watching this movie was the first time that I wanted to be an astronaut. In fact, they put out a Space Shuttle Operators Manual that had all of the cards shown in this movie, plus other stuff. The only thing it didn't have was how to fly the shuttle home - you have to be a pilot to be able to do that.
When NASA sent an astronaut to talk to the Science teachers in my county at the beginning of the school year, I just about freaked out.
Then when NASA said they were ready to try to send another teacher into space (RIP Christa), I jumped at the chance! I got all of my paperwork completed before the deadline and got all of my qualifications done, but they chose someone else. I just about cried.
I still love this movie. ❤
I used to show it to my classes (with the PBS special Living and Working in Space) every year. The kids always had a lot of questions, and I answered every one of them.
They were amazed that Space Camp was a real place, and that it was basically right next door (I live and taught in Georgia). I even found and downloaded a couple of videos about people who attended the camp. The kids loved those videos, too.
IMO, this is the best movie clip in cinema history!
I watched this film last night with my nieces and nephew. We really dug it.
This movie is what made me tell my mom I wanted to go to space camp. Sadly, it wasn’t nearly this exciting 😞
One of my favorite quasi disaster movies. My kids loved it growing up and, as an adult, I was right there with them. I have it on VHS and actually watch it from time to time.
Another terrific score by John Williams. Storywise, this could never happen
Yep, pure Hollywood
You do understand, don't you, that this a science fiction/fantasy movie created for entertainment? It's like it's supposed to be a documentary.
That's why is called a 'movie'.
Now do Jason and Freddy go to outter space, yaeh, that one really seems legit smh
....we shall see
They should play " Mars" on the first manned trip to Mars.....
Omg !!!!! I’ve been looking everywhere for this movie !!!!! I know many people who claim to specialize in hunting down hard to find movies, and they all claimed that I dreamt this movie up !!!!!
It is definitely a good movie. I can rap watching it every single time. It will come up on the TV on cable I would always watch it and I also had the VHS tape of it and wore it out. I thought I was about ready to drive my mom nuts on it because every single time, it would be on or if I wanted to watch it on VHS. It was there and I Telya from start to middle to finish. It is really good and it makes you think not like what they have now which is nothing but a bunch of crap. Movies and TV shows rolled into one and that’s sad but at least we have these movies made back in the Day to remind us a better days and we can watch them any time we want and have a nice day
Reading these comments makes me so happy I am not the only one who thinks like you all. It has been an hysterical read!
Me in the 80s when I was 11 years old, "I want to go to Space Camp so I can ride in the Space Shuttle!"
Me now knowing everything I do about how the SLS works, "There is NO WAY this would EVER HAPPEN!"
One of my FAVORITE movies from growing up. I was 13 when it came out. I saw it in the UK though, because I lived in London from 1984-1987.
As an American living abroad at that time, it was nice to see the tribute this was to the The Challenger disaster. I felt like it was a nice homage.
Still even holds up today, and is a VERY important reminder of what the world of space exploration was/still is.
One of the best things about this scene is the John Williams score. It's soaring...
Just as there would be no Star Wars or Indiana Jones without John Williams, there would be no Space Camp without him. All of those movie's opening credits should have said, "A Spielberg and Williams Film"
B. Victor Adams - So true. It makes it possible to get encapsulated in a completely implausible movie. He states in his liner notes on the soundtrack album that he was saddened about the reception of the movie, like it himself and feels it was one of his favorites of his own scores.
I love how it shows them going up in space! By mistake! I remember how great the 80s movies were and I would love to go to Space Camp but its expensive.
Did he ever do any other movies about space? I can't recall hearing of any
"...the John Williams score. It's soaring... "
I see what you did there. ;-)
This movie has an amazing soundtrack. Use to listen to it all the time!
I adore this movie! I watched it so many times when I was a kid!
THANK YOU I remember as a kid how amazing space was and this movie brinks it all back. My day is now made
I actually went to space camp and got a seat in the Shuttle Atlantis....of course there would *never* be a "test run* of the ME's, let alone any poossibility of one of the SRB's igniting, it was still an awesome time.....the simulators left some jobs for the poor janitors as some, many could not handle the g's. This was 1992.
I went to Space Camp in 8th grade
So lucky nothing like that in the UK. So wanted to go .
No you didn't. I went to Space Camp twice in the 80s and you'd never, EVER be allowed near an actual Orbiter. Especially since the main campus was in Huntsville, AL. (Yes, there was a 2nd location in FL for awhile, but again, you'd never be allowed to enter an actual Orbiter)
Sorry Chris. You did not sit in the actual Atlantis at Space Camp ;)
I went way back when. Got to sit in the camp simulators in Huntsville for a week. It was well worth the experience.
Grandma Peggy took my sis and I to this at the Galaxy in San Antonio, Texas. One of many such films we watched there with our grandparents.
Checklist for a successful space launch:
- Put on your motorcycle helmet
- Get your Donald Duck voiced robot ready
- Check your rocket booster-shaped column diagram for heat level
- Tell your unexperienced buddies which buttons to press rather than reaching over and pressing them yourself
- Rather than crapping your pants, goof around in zero gravity and go all Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
All at the cost of 1.5 billion dollars :)
I have been looking forever to find this movie!!! Thank you sooo much for putting it on UA-cam!!
Aaaaaaaaand Tom Skerritt wanders on to the set of ANOTHER movie.
I always believe him.
he flew with my old man in Vietnam and told me i had enough to graduate...
@@chefjohnwt Skerritt was filming _M*A*S*H_ in 1968-69.
This was the first movie on VHS that we found in a video store (after calling around) & went to buy.
We've since purchased it on DVD.
* we lived in Florida, grew up in awe of NASA & the Space Program & visited the cape for rocket launches & visiting the museum.
Was just at Kennedy Space Centre and walked under the Atlantis in its new "home" watching this gave me chills, and at the same time knowing now what we do now about the perils of shuttle launches...
In the 80s this kind of thing happened to kids all the time.
@MrCloudseeker yeah like getting beat up, shot, run over, chased by drug dealers because you saw something you shouldn't have...
Like the goonies finding a pirate ship.
Well kids of 2020 also have interesting thing happen to them when they go outside. But it less go to space and more like being an extra on the movie Contagion or national geographic documentary of the 1918 pandemic .
Like turning a Tilt-A-Whirl car into a space sip. (Explorers)
I haven't seen this movie in years and when I first saw this scene one thing has always bugged me is there such a thing as thermal curtain failure in the early days of the Space Shuttle program.
OHMYNOSTALGIA. THIS WAS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE MOVIE AS A KID. I'm dead serious; I watched this movie more than I watched The Lion King.
Wow! Talk about blast from the past. I loved this movie when I was a kid. It made me want to go to Space Camp so badly, though never got the chance. I even lived right next to the California location just outside the main gate at Moffet Field in Mountain View. I was a military brat living in the base housing.
A young Joaquin Phoenix and LOST's Terry O'Quinn with hair...all in the same scene? Golden!
Joaquin went by "Leaf" back then.
Funny thing is, Terry O'Quinn played as an Admiral in Star Trek The Next Generation who was running some test on his Science Ship and it went haywire resulting in the ship getting embedded in an asteroid.
@@Scioneer I forgot all about that! The Pegasus episode what a classic!
I'm turning 49 this year I was 11 when this came out and i must have watched it at least half a dozen times back then i love it as a kid
Tom Skerritt: lets kids aboard the Shuttle and yet STILL gets a ticket to Vega ;-)
Contact is a good movie - for the 90's.
Sadly, his space travelling never ends well
Nicely done!
I remember seeing this movie a million times as a kid.
Cinema is where you suspend disbelief and enjoy the show!
A great load of hokum but great fun!
Thank you! Somebody GETS IT! It's not a documentary, it's just for fun!
@@xaenon It always amazes me that the critics don't get that! Its not like any of them are ACTUALLY astronauts themselves so can criticise. I mean I an ex military, ex firefighter so I sometimes wince at the way Hollywood portrays both but at the end of the day its storytelling not documentary. Mind you there are a few documentaries that are REALLY storytelling!
@@lauriestlyon8773 I laugh when people criticize STAR TREK and STAR WARS as 'inaccurate'. Talk about completely missing the point...
This brings chills and tears to me because, I was lucky to watch in person the launch and landing of the space shuttle
8:30 "We're gonna die.... We're already dead...." Favorite line from the whole movie! Lol
I actually prefer Kelly Preston's other line when NASA answers in morse code....."Whip me, beat me, take away my charge card! NASA IS TALKING!"
RIP Kelly Preston ☹
@@mindcrime828 😢😢
Grew up watching this movie dreaming of being at Space Camp. Got to see Atlantis fly her last time in July 2011 from the Cape when i was 31 years old.
NASA puts kids in a shuttle for an engine test.... mechanical problem forces them to launch the shuttle. Seems legit.
Yeah. Iron Eagle was just as plausible........somethin' about '86.........
I'd be loading my pants about now.
so the (R) SRB lit & the shuttle didn't yaw ???
@@wilson2455 They lit the second one so that it wouldn't. While this kind of an accident could never happen in real life (SRBs were physically "turned off" during an FRF and it was physically impossible for one to fire accidentally), one booster firing w/o the other would do exactly what the movie described. Notice the part where the controller hits the button and the second booster goes red too--that was to keep it from going out of control.
It's called a "movie."
What a fantastic movie. Still like it as an adult. A regret is that I never did get to see a space shuttle launch
John Williams music for this movie is fantastic.
One of my all time favorite films, even with all its inconsistencies.
Most epic scene in movie history!
The sheer ridiculousness of an unprepped shuttle making orbit was overridden by the fun.