The Final Launch of Discovery
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
- The Space Shuttle Discovery flew every kind of mission a Space Shuttle could fly in it's almost 30 years of service.
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 150 million miles. This NASA video (with captions added by the Museum) captures its final launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station in 2011.
Today you can see the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. Plan your visit today: airandspace.si...
Video courtesy of NASA-TV.
I get chills every time when I hear the call 'you are go at throttle up'. The Shuttle was an amazing piece of reusable space hardware, I witnessed launch 26 and i'll never forget the sound of the Shuttle rapidly rising into the sky.
Wouldn’t expect you to be here, you were my childhood man.
I get chills not only because of how awesome it was, but because of January 28, 1986: The _Challenger_ disaster, where the last callup from the ground to the shuttle was:
CAP COM: _Challenger,_ GO AT THROTTLE UP!
Scobee: Copy, _go at throttle up!_ And then a few seconds later, _Challenger_ exploded.
I'm always in awe when i watch this. The shuttle program was and will always be one of the most amazing achievements of humankind!
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Totalmente de acuerdo
Also a massive waste in terms of space exploration. We could have spent way less on space trucking and much more on hardware to reach other celestial bodies.
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@@randbarrett8706 Eh, it was a needed thing, it was a gateway vessel to the concept of re-use.
Watching the main engines come alive at around the 3:40 mark....never gets old....just an amazing feat of human engineering
It looks oddly satisfying.
This is one of the most crazy moments in human history. The SOUND the VISUALS. insane
@@ryans6280 Facts!
@@ryans6280 3:19
I completely agree. one of the most beautiful things to see
God bless the entire space shuttle crews and personnel who took part in this magnificent program! They made all of America very proud! This is an era of history which will never be forgotten!
For every astronaut, I wonder how many support engineers, technicians, assemblers, managers and parts guys there were.
I was an Electronics Tech at Sperry Flight Systems in Phoenix, we watch Columbia return from that first flight, in the moon room.
But no cigars.
This never gets old. Amazing orbital aircraft!
I could watch this thing 1000 times and it never ever gets old. What a beauty….incredible brains , incredible entreprise.
Same
no DEI involved....thats why back then we could get things done....today we wouldnt make it off the launchpad because the flight director and the engineers would all be hired based on dei slash they must be gay black lesbians....no white men allowed...hopefully trump will turn back the clock to when things were good
Take your pills, gramps. Gunsmoke is on tonight.
There’s just nothing like the shuttle. Just the greatest vehicle a man has ever produced. I feel so blessed to have seen it flying over DC and arriving at Udvar Hazy.
Not greatest, but definitely the coolest.
@vibratingstring mmm arguably.
@vibratingstring yeah I worked at the air and space museum where there was an X15 and also at Udvar Hazy where there was an SR71. I can tell you from everyday personal experience seeing them. Both those airplanes are fantastic, but neither of them takes your breath away like Discovery or the Concorde does.
@vibratingstring the X15 doesn’t even remotely compare, it’s a pipe with stubby wings and tiny cockpit. Discovery has all her heat blankets all burned up from all the times she flew in space, it’s a whole other league.
Don't forget Concorde.
I worked for NASA for 40yrs. 26 of which was on the shuttle program. What an amazing vehicle
Had the privilege to watch this one in person from the Saturn V center. Most memorable occasion!
I was standing off to the right side of the mission timer pictured in those shots. I'll never forget watching Discovery launch.
I lived in Central Florida at the time and I had the honor of watching this in person. Truly something I will never forget
For all the scientists that came before us, for Galilei, Copernicus, Newton. My eyes always fill with tears when I see this video. I am simply amazed at the human brain power behind this.
“Discovery making one last reach for the stars” chills
same here
Well, maybe Low Earth Orbit, anyway.
@@Vector_Ze 🤓
it never fails to make me cry
That boom when the main engines start and the secondary boom of the SLB's makes me proud to be a human being.
Yess i love the time of starting engine😢
Awsome footage of an historic last flight of the Space Shuttle "Discovery".
Was there and we can see ourselves to the left of the clock. It was a good day but too cloudy to really enjoy the full view of a great machine taking off.
Something I never hear anyone mention, do you get to hear the 2 sonic booms as it takes off? On landing I had some co-workers in Tampa mention how the shuttle landing would scare the crap out of them because the shuttles sonic booms would be close by
Disco's launch was clear - the last two didn't have great weather.
The last launch where the weather was beautiful. Endeavour's last launch had a thin cloud cover come in about 30 minutes before launch, so you had moments of watching it launch, and Atlantis' last launch was cloudy as well.
Discovery was my favorite Shuttle.
I liked Challenger.
@@VoodooDangerbird rip challenger crew
any particular reason?
@@NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd because it failed, duh
@user-xl2px8hr2l Challenger was the workhorse of the Shuttle fleet back then. In many ways it was also NASA's favourite.
The high flight rates it went through probably meant if any shuttle was going to go first, it would have been Challenger.
I think I remember this launch. I was in 2nd grade at the time and the teacher took as all outside to go watch it launch. It was quite chaotic because the whole school was standing outside in the field and we were all looking up towards the sky. Once it was out of view every kid rushed back to class to continue to watch it on the TV. I miss those days
Here again ….cannot stop watching this over and over …just magnificent ❤❤
The Space Shuttle was a beautiful piece of Engineering. This last video really captured its glory.
Brings tears to my eyes. If only I could have seen this up close. OMG! PRICELESS!
3:40 is pure beauty… I can’t imagine the temperature there
I miss that Times so badly.. was always a Highlight❤
Look at the articulation of the Shuttle’s thrusters! That’s incredible!!!
what is a truster ? this is nothing but CGI for your te lie vision all lies and bull shit
They had one of the highest gimbal ranges out of any engine. This was needed to prevent the pitching effect of offset thrust (because the center of mass was at the tank, not the orbiter, the engines would spread and pitch inward heavily to control the Shuttle's pitch.)
This audio is the most realistic audio I've ever heard.
This is pretty much exactly what they sound like in person.
Roaring crackling power, which gradually fades into deeper, less detailed extremely low pitches booming. Which gets quieter and quieter as the rocket both gets further from you, and when it breaks the sound barrier, you pretty much stop hearing it entirely. Though you can likely see it well after that point.
Seeing the Discovery with the naked eye is super amazzzzzing! Priceless experience!
This is so cool. I love this video channel. I’m gonna subscribe.
I cannot express how much I miss the shuttles
I've watched live footage of the first and the last ever shuttle launches (and a few in between 😉) and it has always been a great thrill to watch these amazing machines take flight...
Watching it in person was amazing. I live about 8 hours away, and made it a bucket list item to catch the last launch of each shuttle.. I achieved it. The camera cannot accurately capture the glowing color of those SRB's as they propel the shuttle to space.
Except maybe the final challenger launch. But we don’t talk about that one…
Saw her last two launches...amazing, wonderful!
Decided to pay a visit here after digging an old toy of Discovery from a box of my old stuff.
It's so cool how as soon as those engines are ignited you can just see the shuttle trying to go... Anyone know how they produce those sparks?
I think it was burning magnesium?
its called CGI on your TE LIE VISION NASA means to decieve in hebrew all lies
They're like a small solid fuel rocket or a firework. They're intended to burn off any hydrogen spills and prevent them pooling under the shuttle and possibly exploding.
@@attilalako9491 Luckily for us, science keeps progressing no matter what idiots like you say.
@@attilalako9491 Thanks for confirming that you don't speak or head Hebrew. LOL.
Another hard fail, bro. Not a good look.
Thank you for this upload :)
The shuttle program is one of mankind's greatest achievements to date.
I can't believe ,us, humans, have gone space so much time and on the moon, it amaze me how much technology it needs and brilliant ppls. That is incredible I wish to see a rocket launch in my entire life !
The most beautiful machine ever created 😍
3:42 - love how you can see the boosters and the whole ship flex and contort with the force of the engines firing up.
привет ты что-то опоздал, видео вышло 11 лет назад
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For all it’s flaws I feel like the shuttle program was our last gasp of trying to actually explore space in the next few centuries.
SpaceX has entered the chat.
Huh?
@ space X is a shipping company that happens to operate in space. I’m talking about real exploration for the sake of it.
So a shipping company just like the shuttle was. Got it.
Mars anyone? Yeah, that's not exploration at all.
@ if you really can’t tell the difference between NASA and a company that has no interest in stellar exploration then there’s really no reason to talk to you.
I’ll be riding my flying pig before you’re halfway to mars. As it stands going to mars in the 2030’s is a pr pipe dream.
@@Invisfire777 By far the dumbest youtube comment i've read in quite a while
Saw this beauty at the Air and Space Museum last week.
I can't even imagine the amount of power flowing through the people's body stading nearby
It was epic
Glad I visited discovery in person
I don't know what shuttle it was but walked underneath one at cape canaveral on holiday in 2001 , what a place and experience!!
“Main engine start.” Makes me cry
Remember, this isn't for America, this is for humanity.
For all mankind.
@@phillipbanes5484 Delivering satellites from other countries.
@@phillipbanes5484 It is not for America only then.
@TheGreatSalamander that’s basically the same thing
@@interstellarsnow just an old feminist
Still looks great today flight performance fantastic.I have close friends who work in NASA.
I remember watching the special launches I either got to see them at home or if I was in school. It was a small school so they would get everybody in one room and have the TV either for the launches or for the landings so I was lucky enough to see almost all the different space shuttles , launches and landings
Incredible the difference in the quality of footage compared to the launches from the 1980s.
they used the old analog TV cameras back then. it wasn't until the early 2000s that the High def widescreen cameras began to be used.
I was there the day they piggybacked discovery on a cargo plane from the Kennedy space center to Houston to be put into the Smithsonian. I watched the takeoff at Kennedy space center, I was about 11, and I’ll forget what I ate for breakfast for the rest of my life before I’ll forget that day. Really awesome…
You feel tears and goose bumps when the announcer says 3,2,1,0 blast off to space how me.........
One regret I'll always have is that I was never able to get to Florida to see a shuttle launch.
I was stationed at Patrick AFB and was working at the Cape when Discovery launched. I lucky enough to watch the last 10 shuttle launches 😌
The exhaust plume and shock diamonds of those RS-25's is absolutely amazing... still my favorite rocket engine ever created. Even today, some half a century later, the entire concept seems almost impossible. I miss the days when NASA proved to the entire world that anything was possible with the right minds (and enough money lol.) It will probably hold the record as the most complex machine mankind has ever created for quite some time.
Shuttle's RS-25 engines were not a totally new concept/design. They were based on the Apollo Saturn V upper stage engines, the J-1 from Rocketdyne with modifications for shuttle operations. The Solid Rockets were based on the Voyager and Viking spacecraft Solid Rockets Motors that were recycled from the 1960s Gemini B/MOL program. NASA as it should tends to build from what they know to reduce costs as they should. The only exception was the shuttle body itself. It was totally scrapped to go back to Apollo staged core concepts for deep space exploration as the space EXPLOITation promise during the shuttle years ended up being a nothing-burger because they couldn't get the reusability costs down and flight frequency up to the promised levels.
can you show us shutle at 60miles altitude from ground ? why you cut video ?
Everything I am in town I go see this badass piece of machinery.
It is always amazing to see so much power concentrated into two boosters that propel 100s of tons up in space in a few minutes.
This last flight of discovery, never fails to give me goosebumps. Amazing engineering. The space shuttle was brilliant for it's time. Go Elon. 😊❤
Though it is the most interesting looking pieces of space engineering it is definitely the most effective and beautiful.
End of a beautiful era in space flight.
It’s very cool. I would love to see that plus I like NASA I would try to subscribe.
Amazing shuttle launch 👏 😊😊😊❤❤❤
Awesome. ❤️ 💪
My uncle helped with the final launch of discovery, oh the tales he’s told us of nasa, both a mess and so organized!
I love space shuttles
Shuttle safety record: 50/50
Thanks Great Video For Me Salute to You Sir
Discovery and Atlantis were my favorite 💪🇺🇸
They were sister shuttles.
I was wondering if flat earthers ever go to witness such events with a pair of binoculars
a beautiful piece of engineering, the design and shape are just perfect
I would be freaking out if I saw that thing
The subtitles are the real heroes
She is a beautiful Spacecraft! Not a capsule or a reentry vehicle. A Spacecraft!
The amount of power from that is amazing
A friend of mine used to work for JPL back in the Shuttle days and was in charge of rebuilding the engine's fuel pumps in between launches - he explained to me at liftoff that each of the 3 engines burns around 300 gallons of fuel in one second - so that's 900 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen being consumed in ONE SECOND- UNBELIEVABLE
4:44 you can see the shockwave super clear!
What is speed shuttle shows here
I can't even begin to imagine what the austronauts inside the space shuttle are experiencing the moments before and after lift off... It's truly one of a kind feeling that 99.9% of the people will never experience... The mixed emotions, the excitement, the fear... Jesus!!!
There's an incredible book of an astronaut that has an entire chapter dedicated to describing the feeling of launching. It goes into detail about how awe inspiring it is to gaze up at a skyscraper-sized beast, lit up under spotlights and venting clouds of gasses, and thinking about the incredible and terrifying notion of riding that beast.
Is there a version of this without the always-on subtitles?
what a beauty was that! 😍
¡Qué emocionante presenciar el último lanzamiento del Discovery! Este video capturó perfectamente la grandeza y el asombro de la exploración espacial. ¡Gracias por compartir este momento histórico con nosotros!
It still amazes me that one of the most complex machines man has ever built had its launch timing figured out buy people in the 1970s when a computer was the size of decent room and the physics of the timing for the SRBs was done with pencil, paper, and slide rules. They calculated out the thrust every millisecond of the main engines firing as the shuttle rocked forward, and went it JUST stops rocking back, they fired the SRBs. The math, the minds, the complexity of it all still boggles.
0:37 - What is that smoke-like gas and why is it going out from those nozzles?
That''s oxygen venting to chill the engine, conditioning it for the flight.
3:50 Final flight ❤
Discovery served well, even if she didnt make it past the low atmosphere she still made one finale reach for the stars, god speed discovery o7
Incredible Journey...😊
Can Discovery Fly Again..
Using Parts
From the
Other 2 Shuttles :
Atlantis and
Endeavour
They should of built another 6 brand new shuttles, with modern avionics. Without them, we have no way to recover satellites, or repair equipment like Hubble in orbit.
Roll Program Houston, meaning the shuttle rotates from a 90 degree position to a 78 degree position heading to space.
Anyone in 2024?
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"Go for throttle up"- chills
Need to borrow a sweater?
love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it
Never gets old
I wonder how they launched the international space station?
The international space station isn't build by one launch. Several parts are sent by 40 rockets and they are connected together in space just like lego blocks
@@KarminsLynn Matt Lowne once made a ksp video where he did that
Piece by piece!
We are amazing as humans
Discovery was always my favorite Space Shuttle. I can't stand Star Trek Discovery through.
Discovery is the GOAT
Simply outstanding.
This was the second, and last, Shuttle launch I watched from the vicinity. Even though it was a fantastic sight, shuttle launches can't compare to the three Apollo launches I witnessed from the vicinity. The fleet was was asked to fill a need it wasn't designed for, and did so for far longer than it should have. It wasn't a premature retirement that left us grounded, it was the shortsightedness of politicians.
With wich country as big continent as has been measured by walking or driving in traffic jamed?
Made me tear up alittle. Proud to be a human and American sometimes