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Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?
Zero. You dont list the name of the movie. Unless the title is "Space shuttle lands on LA" COME ON
The Core @@tazanteflight8670
@@tazanteflight8670 I am no them but "The Core"
The Core is my favorite movie.@@Roseneck12
-10/10
I feel robbed having watched this sinful scene. The rest of The Core is no better. A movie heavily dependent on science get's exactly none of it right.
If that shuttle had come over the Baseball game during the National Anthem, fans would remember it as the greatest pregame fly over EVER.
i'm dead ☠
That would have taken a massive crane to lift out of there
@@aucoinroland9072 He said fly over, not land. The stadium is too small to make for a runway, so it would've just crashed otherwise, killing everyone there. Also, *would have taken. Sorry.
I bet the fans will be having the best flyover show the have seen in their life.
I love some of the comments here, seriously if you have ever seen the film the landing of the shuttle is one of the most realistic parts of the entire movie
Must be a real stinker.
@@dorbie It's a Science FICTION movie, if you accept that its FICTION it's ok, certainly not the worst I've seen
@@davidorf3921 I like science in my science fiction to be grounded in reality, that's the point of it. Otherwise it's just fantasy fiction, which is OK, but sci-fi as a genre exists and is popular because of its futurism and potential plausibility. Clearly we have different standards. The real problem with his kind of Hollywood garbage is it starts with a director saying "I want the Space Shuttle to crash land in downtown LA." and works back from there. So you get a load of implausible fantastic nonsense to get to that point, and the more you know the more BS it is. Yes the rest of the movie is spectacularly worse, but a turd in a cesspool is still a turd. For you this swill might be entertaining, for me it's not & calling it science fiction doesn't excuse it, it just insults real science fiction.
@@dorbiei remember the waves of NASA based science fiction movies that we got for a while ten years ago. It was very boring to me. The Expanse was the series to get me back into it, since it was the most realistic thing around without being all “we could build it today if we wanted”.
This movie, the Core, has a train made in a special heat-absorbing metal that can go down to the center of the Earth, it’s not the best movie, but it had some cool ideas and designs.
@@dorbie Can you not just sit there and enjoy the spectacle of a movie about a made up scenario? I mean, it is a sci-fi movie. They do not need to be realistic, in the slightest. Sure, its cool if there is some real science behind it but if not, who cares?
love how the astronaut busts out a basic sectional chart and E6B flight computer like they are on a student pilot cross country flight in a cessna. very realistic lol
LOL I KNOW
I like that the sectional shown repeatedly shows all the friggin airports around and they just ignore them for the freeway…
@@davidkamerath7749 RIGHT THEY WERE COMING FROM THE WATER LIKE BEST OPTION IS DEF 07'S OR 06'S OF KLAX NOT THE FUCKING RIVER
or ontario, or ANYTHING but the river
@@davidkamerath7749 Shuttle needed a special 15,000' runway to land on. Longest at LAX is 11,000'. Not that it makes the canal landing more realistic, but it at least tells you why the airports weren't considered.
This movie is technically flawed, but I love how this scene is showcases good crew management. Captain calls, copilot confirms. Copilot presents options, captain takes them in advisement. When captain declines an option, he immediately says why, so every pilot has the same situational awareness. Crew stays in touch with air traffic control to declare intentions, but keeps flying the ship first in mind. ATC tries to organize a ground response while staying communicative with as much information as they can give the crew. Third pilot doesn't try to make command decisions, only provides information to the two with the hot seats. No egos, just coordination.
What movie was this?
@@mediawarrior5957 The Core, 2003.
And to reward him for his amazing emergency shuttle landing, they went on to give him command of the Enterprise upon its completion.
But first, he must Journey to the Center of the Earth on a Fantastic Voyage.
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...I can dig it. Ba Dum, Tish.
@@dmadd4643Well you don’t know, what we can see, why don’t you…
Actually the shuttle enterprise was 70s 80s it retired when challenger and Columbia were entered into service
@@tylerbuckley4661Starship Enterprise
@@tylerbuckley4661
he doesent mean THAT enterprise
He means THE enterprise
You know it's a movie based on how fast the LA fire department got there .. without a preexisting appointment
You do realize this isn’t a Hollywood thing, right?
This type of quick response is clearly common during emergency airliner landings.
Whenever a plane performs an emergency landing, firefighters and/or police/soldiers are always arriving right when the plane stops.
🤣
Nah, NASA has enough budget to pay for the Deluxe Express package.
That wasn't the fire department showing up. That's just the normal sound of the area
Lol
This is such a early 2000s childhood memory movie that my dad and I loved watching together... some of our earliest inside jokes came from this movie 😂
Imagine you go to work on a normal warm day and a space shuttle is just casually parked behind you.
I had the same thought 🤣🤣🤣
Sir you can't park there
I actually watched the space shuttle being towed by a Toyota pickup down exposition Blvd. Probably stalled in traffic?
Average day in a gta online lobby in Los Santos
It’s funny how i was doing some stunts on the LS canals earlier using a Mallard plane
I was waiting for someone to mention that
at least they landed close to the spawn point and can just call another plane to get out of there
I remember a friend from the Air Force told me once that this scene was actually pretty slick. Something about the shuttle being like, "flying a brick with a bad hangover and your whole arm feeling a piece of beef jerky."🤣🤣🤣
The shuttle glided so poorly that the test vehicle used to mimic it was a gulfstream 2 jet with the rear landing gear permanently deployed and the engines put in reverse!
how bad is it compared to the F-4 phantom
That's why Naval Aviators always made the best shuttle pilots ;)
@@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie Should be way worse. The phantom had a glide ratio of 3:1. So for every 3 feet forward you go 1 feet down. The shuttle? It depends on the speed. While hypersonic it was 1:1, in supersonic flight (about 100k feet up) it was 2:1, and subsonic it is 4.5:1 So about 50% worse, than the F-4 phantom.
It is not without reason, that all pilots had a firm belief, that a box in which the space shuttle could be placed into had a better glide ratio than the shuttle itself.
The story I got is the shuttle flew like a cow, upon reentry it flew like a drunken cow
"The Core (2003)"
While in it's re-entry procedure, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor find themselves several miles off course. Instead of being aligned with Edwards Air Force Base, they are heading directly for downtown Los Angeles. The shuttle makes an emergency landing in the L.A. River, avoiding a catastrophic accident. Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs (Hilary Swank) was the navigator for the mission and is nearly court-martialed before it's determined that she performed her duties perfectly and that the strange magnetic anomalies around the world were responsible
damm throughout my 20 years spent at NASA I never knew the shuttle had a navigator. 😂😂
@@sidv4615 You should if you worked at NASA, their console is two rows down from the flight director next to guidance.
Wasn’t the shuttle crewed by civilians?
@@damienkramer yeppp. They were either ex-military or had always been civilians.
But maybe in the movie it was a military mission
@@sidv4615 maybe, but I’m still not sure why they didn’t even mention an attempt at landing at LAX since a flight path that takes them from the coast over dodgers station (stadium) would place them not far from LAX
Regardless of his unwitting awareness... not only that construction worker got SUPER LUCKY, but now he has an epic story to tell the next time he goes into a bar.
Well he’s probably fucked from the hypergolic fuel that shuttle uses for RCS.
@@RappinPicard well... it's only cancer in a few decades time right?? nothing wrong with getting to live the high life meanwhile....
More like within hours because the RCS system uses MMH and NTO and it’s really toxic just in general. Not in a “you’ll get cancer in 20 years,” but like “you will need to go to the hospital right away.”
@@RappinPicard Only if it leaks, or if the pilot was using the RCS to help brake. Vacuum does not leave residue of liquids on surfaces, nor does reentry. I know Boeing was a contractor for the Shuttle but in those days their shit didn't leak.
The scene where the SpaceShuttle flew over the baseball stadium is so cool
A new fly over
This is the Film " The Core!" And out of 10 - I'd give it a 8 ! As being intriguing!
Yeah, some films, like this and 2012, are just good escapes no matter the BS depicted.
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 being an escape movie is why it did not land at LAX, diversion to a long runway is no where near as fun as the car chase river in LA.
"Hang on, this isn't going to be subtle."
That should have become a classic.
Oh its a line I use quite often whenever I fly, LOL
I read your comment just as he said that
I don't care how realistic is or isn't .. love this bit of film ology ...
Just like watching the "Mighty Mo" drift in Battleship... Complete BS, but oh, so much fun to watch...
I love how he was so concerned about writing off the space shuttle with the drag chute only to have the space shuttle a 100% write off anyway because it clipped the bridge. Space shuttle contingency plans meant the space shuttle could land at airports that had a runway of at least 10,000ft, and judging by the altitude they had at the start they could have reached LAX which has a 13,000ft runway, Ontario which has a 12,000 and 10,200ft runway and Long Beach which as a 10,000ft runway
Pretty sure he’s thinking if they lose the tail they lose air brakes
Its entertaining but not accurate.
The shuttle has a large cross range capability (upwards of 1000km), several redundant guidance systems. you would have to ROYALLY fuck up to be that short of Edwards (as in somehow bleeding all of your velocity and altitude )
there are many runways it can land on (its minimum safe distance is 8530.184ft, or 2600 meters)
The novelization was a bit clearer on the matter. If they turned towards the airport, or away from the city, they would've lost too much altitude and wouldn't have made it.
fun fact, the landing gear was entirely gravity dependent for deployment and could NOT retract so that part is 100% bullshit, If this scenario occurred , I'm sure they would go for an ocean ditching.
it was on the ground in this scene however. might nit be able to fully retract but it should be able to collapse in under the weight of the shuttle if whatever locks the gear is unlocked
@@randomstuff-cu4of if you look at the final scene it was standing with landing gear fully extended again, so it would've had to retract then redeploy for the 'science' to be accurate
@@randomstuff-cu4of I don't think it was possible to unlock the gear from the cockpit.
Fun fact, this is also entirely bullshit.
They were retractable, just not in flight. The shuttle was rated for 100 flights. The landing gear was indeed retracted each time, obviously.
The main deployment method is hydraulic. One cylinder to release the latch, another to push them down. No way to unlock it in flight. Should they lose hydraulic the gear also had a pyrotechnic charge to blow the latch and gravity used to pull them down.
To stow them, it requires additional steps. Namely, releasing the booster spring. Which cannot be done from the cabin. This scene is pure crap. Especially when we see the shuttle with the gear extended at the end.
A proper landing would be set it up over the ocean and the crew to all bail out. A landing like this would never be attempted.
@@skylerjr2648 While there is a brief shot showing them traveling east over the ocean, a few cuts later they are traveling south, flying at low altitude over the stadium.
This doesn't really make sense, but whatever. At some point before the stadium show, an ocean landing became impossible. Had the production picked a non costal city, it would have been impossible even outside continuity errors.
Clearly the point of the scene is that an ocean ditching wasn't possible, which leaves them with this, or a crash.
Bailing out 5-6 of the 7 crew is still something I'd have done, but there was no autopilot. This was the pilots only hope.
What everyone misses is that the entire flight path of a shuttle was predetermined as soon as the mission was given the green light. The only thing that the Earth's magnetic field does is to induce voltages along the length of the vessel. The ISS has to deal with this too, and the electrical charges between the station and docking spacecraft must be equalized during the docking procedure.
Ironically, Endeavour would have had to have been on a glide path similar to that of Columbia to be where it was.
At the end of the day, it's just a plot device, nothing more.
The movie assumes the Endeavour was set to land at Edwards AFB, not KSC. Edwards itself is just outside of Los Angeles (near Palmdale/Lancaster)
What it would have done is give the automatic navigation a false bias, pointing the craft at the wrong angle when doing its deceleration burn. Change the angle of the burn, you change the flight path. And since the burn takes place on the other side of the planet, it doesn't take more than a foot or two of delta-V to get the path to shift from Edwards to Los Angeles.
Ackchyually 🤓
@@k1productions87 the shuttle has a huge cross range capability, you would have to royally screw up entry to be that short of edwards, a magnetic field shift would not do this
@@nikelinq2899 assuming you catch it in time. By the time they realized where they were, they were already at 15,000 ft. The "flying brick" absolutely cannot recover from that. Especially not with a 100-150 ft/s descent rate
@@k1productions87 they still have more than enough energy to make it to a runway, or ditch into the ocean as per procedure
“Sorry sir, you can’t park your space shuttle here. I’m going to have to give you a ticket.”
It’s kind of funny how the shuttle in the scene is endeavor when endeavor is actually displayed in LA
Foreshadowing maybe...
"how'd your day go honey?" "Almost got run over by a space shuttle... "
"oh and my co-workers left me for dead, so I quit"
Seriously, they did ditch him to save themselves. I would yell at them, then quit, if I was in his place.
Considering how the rest of the movie is this scene is the most realistic
Imagine being a construction worker going about your day when a space shuttle appears and just starts drifting towards you :D
Very realistic portrayal of a welders helper, just grinding away... completely oblivious to the danger behind him.
That's Admiral Pike!
Kirk is in the back with spock
He was also the CEO of the robot company in I, Robot.
@@cashewnuttel9054and the voice of "Overlord" in MW3
It always amazes me how anytime there is a spectacular natural disaster in movies in takes place in NY city, LA or San Francisco, on the same note anytime an out of control aircraft is crashing or an alien force invades they are doing it in the same areas. Personally I would reconsider my choice of places to live if I were people there
Really though can't we throw Cincinnati, Kansas City, or Phoenix a little bit of love.
And Paris, France.
@@edhanson8214 that's right the Eiffel Tower always seems to be in harms way too
This is one of the few movies where Rome gets its chance at destruction
If it's another country it only ever happens in the capital city.
I still can't believe how many times I've watched this film. It's not realistic but I find it a bit fun.
I remember the scene from die hard 2. When the planes appeared through the fog to land, it was like a row of busses coming down oxford street. Unknown amount of planes, carrying an unknown amount of passengers, all waiting to crash onto Chicago. That was the most scary part of the movie.
It was Washington Dulles, but thanks for playing.
You know its an intense scene when someone mumbles "come on" a few times 😂
I saw this in the cinema back in Melbourne and was blown away.
Such a great scene and so unique.
Kudos to whoever thought this scene up.
every construction worker there gets to go home to their spouse and/or children and/or pets with the line "I was almost run over by a space shuttle today"
0:18 You know they haven’t watched the Space Shuttle approaches before when they show it in a nose-level attitude…
This is my favorite space shuttle landing
1:00 ... the sonic boom would _follow_ the shuttle passing overhead, not come in front of it. Also, a shuttle flying at 300 knots will not produce a sonic boom under any circumstances.
Maybe twice that speed
When the Shuttle drops to subsonic, the shock wave pulls ahead of it. If the Shuttle is high enough, the boom will be heard by a listener as the Shuttle passes overhead. If you watched the coverage of the first Shuttle landing the sonic boom was heard by the observers as the Shuttle was making its final approach.
I love this scene. It’s creative and exciting.
In reality I’d imagine an emergency landing path into the ocean but parallel to the coastline would be feasible…but then not as exciting perhaps lol.
They did not just bust out a sectional chart and an E6B in the space shuttle!!! 😂
Well...the stadium crowd would have heard the two sonic booms that precede a shuttle landing, and seeing as how Endeavour currently resides in LA, they could have just left it there.
One minor goof: once the landing gear is down it has to be manually lifted up when the orbiter is in the processing facility.
To bad the Endevor has to be in that commie controlled shithole.
The sonic booms would have occurred at a far higher altitude than shown when over the stadium.
That thing would be stripped for parts as soon as it stopped 😂
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Why not just aim for LA-X? Wasn't it one of the emergency alternatives? Maybe it would have been too scary seeing the jets have to evade.
LA-X is to small, also due to the earths magnetic field, it screwed up all instruments, making them off course.. but in reality.. due to the events of September 11, 2001, the crew was not allowed to film at LAX. The scene was therefore rewritten with Endeavour landing in the L.A. River.
@@duomaxwell2293 dodger stadium to lax is maybe 14 miles as the crow flies...at 300 knots and 15,000 feet they could have ditched in 20 feet of water at el segundo
Probably should have tried for Edwards, might had enough to reach Palmdale.
@@shepardbook if they were dropping at 300 knots and 15,000 feet at dodger stadium and barely made the LA river.....el segundo was a better chance...the San Gabriel mtns (average 10,000 feet plus ) were between chavez ravine and edwards afb
LAX wasn't ever an official alternate or emergency landing site - probably because Edwards and Vanderburg AFB's are both so close by, far less busy, and designed for shuttle landings - indeed, the first shuttle landing from orbit happened at Edwards AFB. There's not much to hit and plenty of open space in the middle of the desert on a dry lake bed, after all.
That said, all but one of LAX's runways are at least 3KM long, which is the minimum distance needed - so it would be absolutely possible. One does wonder why they didn't consider Hollywood-Burbank: its runway is only 500m short, and they could have used the chute. But, then again, no one ever gives Burbank the love it deserves.
Reminds me of Airport '77. In the eighties this would've been great!
Wow, Grease hits different these days.
Wow! And didn't even use the parachutes and to land in water canal totally Awesome!
BUT! Only in the movies!😂👍
That’s actually addressed at 2:34 in the video.
A water landing just off the beach would have been better. . Should have added some turbo prop sound to this. Authentic!
Movie: The Core (2003)
Guy in the scaffolding should have knocked on the windscreen and loudly told them: "Can't park here, mate!"
Now that was comical when the shuttle stopped the look on the construction workers face looking at the shuttle that close would be priceless as with the skidmarks in his pants lol
Especially since the venting hydrazine probably would have killed him a few seconds later.
@@cmalberts true but remember this is a Hollywood bs movie where the land of lies happens on a set if that were me on that scaffolding I would have many skid marks in my undies plus a major heart attack in real life to worry about some chemical I would have be already toast lol
@@cmalberts Why would they vent hydrazine? I know Boeing was a contractor, but in those days their stuff didn't leak.
@digitalnomad9985 historically the shuttle couldn't be approached on foot or exited for at least 30 minutes after wheels stop until the scene had been ventilated
@@cmalberts only a movie but I remember that the shuttle had to be decontaminated before the crew could leave it
No pilot crashing an aircraft ever said, " It's out of my hands. "
Only on Airplane, lol!
Striker!!!
I think it was already "kind of crashed"!?!
When "hydroplaning at 300 knots" is your current best option you just might
Hold on is that the guy who played pike in star trek 2009
Bruce Greenwood. Excellent actor.
People can say what they want I still really enjoy this movie and this scene alone is one of the most intense moments in so many movies compared I still feel anxious seeing it and it's been about 50 times I have already
Putting aside the absurd science in this movie (which I do enjoy), this scene in particular is my favourite.
This is the only landing of Endeavour without a dragchute and the only landing of a Space Shuttle in a river.
You say that as if it.. actually happened?
amazing landing
3:39 when you realize already finish time in exam
3:38 Lmao that guy 🤣
The Shuttle's gear isn't able to be retracted in-flight. The shuttle would be a burning wreck by the time the wing clipped the bridge.
It's a movie, enjoy it.
Why is there always the one construction worker guy that’s so into his job, he doesn’t even notice the other workers in the crew running for their lives. He is just too focused on the work to sense impending doom 😂😂
I wonder why noone thought to land the shuttle at LAX?
The runway is too short, and the space shuttle is a brick that makes it a stretch to say that it glides. They would have gained way too much speed to drop down fast enough to attempt a landing at LAX even before considering the runway length. It just isn't feasible to even consider it.
@@OfficialMageHDWhile I agree that LAX is unsuitable as a shuttle landing site, it’s competition was the LA river.
Given the choice, I know which one I’d feel most confident making a controlled crash at.
Range might have been a problem though. They cross Dodger stadium flying south (in spite of approaching LA from the west???) and land around 7th street, 3 miles away. LAX is 12.8 miles away, and poorly lined up.
Shuttle was supposed to be able to land at Vandenberg AFB just outside of LA. Real question is why it took until they were 100ft off the ground to notice they were in the wrong place.
The only option would be line it up over the ocean and the crew to bail out. Ditch it.
LAX is such a clusterfuck that trying to clear a runway is a challenge of it's own. It's unlikely it had a good angle to line up any airport, even LAX. Too much risk.
Saying the shuttle glides is giving it too much credit. It really is just falling with so much horizontal velocity that it falls forward. You re-enter the atmosphere with the correct angle or you bail. It has to be within 1 or 2 degrees of perfection. You have very little course correction once in the atmosphere.
they had already by passed a landing vector for the flying brick that is the shuttle based on speed and trajectory as soon as they confirmed downtown LA to get LAX. The Space Shuttle flies as a glider during reentry and landing so there is no way to "go around" to bleed speed and altitude
Damn, they deployed that air brake mad late😂😂😂. They have that out long before landing hahaha. Also once the landing gear is down, they can’t retract it back up.
Is the gear an actual one time deploy or do you just mean on the ground
@@nefarioulyte9996 I mean per flight. The refurbishment team were the only ones who could put the gear back in the fuselage I believe. The wear and tear on these machines is insane.
The shuttle commander is Bruce Greenwood, aka Captain Christopher Pike of the Kelvin Star Trek timeline, the co-pilot is Hillary Swank. Why didn't they ditch on the beach? Or the ocean?
Core was actually pretty good
When you have to hit all the quick time events in a game.
An entertaining little flick, downgraded to D level by its leads, and re elevated to a solid B thanks to its amazing supporting cast!
A bunch of those construction workers were on scaffolding higher than 6th and none of them had harnesses on. This movie is so unrealistic.
Whoaaa. So you mean to say that a movie about a group of people using a giant drill to dig into the earth’s core and launch nukes into it is unrealistic? I’m shocked.
See my comment about the REAL incident during the filming of Airport in 1970.
That last guy working on the bridge : Why did they send Space Shuttle for me?
May be my next project is on the moon. 😊
Imagine they get out the shuttle and thrown the keys to the worker and say park this for me 😂
Love this true story. Amazing how actors have proper jobs in real life. And how it did a fly by at the baseball stadium was pure magic. The Red Arrows weren't available that day. 😂😂
This was a good movie..
I been on the dry lake bed when the shuttle came in from space. It is directly overhead and drops down like a falling brick with control surfaces. It does not have glide capabilities as seen in this Hollywood clip.
She's Extraordinary ❤
Space Shuttle landing gear cannot go up like that. When deployed, it just drops. It is not fully powered.
Ok that was glorious.
Lol!! Movies are always so encouraging 😂😂😂😂
I *ADORE* this element of the movie; first they try to pin the whole thing on her, then when the plot kicks in they know the world is going to end without someone as awesome as her, and then her C.O. is bu++-hurt and tries to spin the whole thing that he'd prefer *NOT* to have her on his team because... wait for it;
"Because you're so good, you haven't hit anything you couldn't beat. I mean, h3ll, you were the one who figured out how to save the shuttle. You made me, you made the rest of NASA just look like an 4ss. It's just that you're used to winning - and you're not really a leader until you've lost."
Medals all round for the crew!
give the film a 9, good popcorn movie
I wonder how much of fun for the actors try not to get sick.
I remember watching this very high in high school and my friends cracking up at the music as the shuttle just DROPS into frame like a fatman falling out of the sky. Ah the good old days.
...and that's how we got the Endeavor shuttle into the science museum.
Someone hitting the whammy on the piano hehe.
Bro went from homelander to shuttlelander real quick😂
Chavez Ravine to LAX ...maybe 14 miles as the crow flies..they were at 300 knots and 15,000 feet..a ditching off the end of LAX at el segundo was way more plausible
With only two minutes to work with, there are SO MANY factors that would have to go into a redirect to LAX. Not only clearing the traffic already in the landing pattern, but getting on a proper path to one of its runways. The shuttle orbiter descends at about 10,000 feet per minute, at a 20 degree angle, as opposed to jet airliners that are closer to 750 feet per minute at a 3 degree descent angle. Slotting Endeavour into that pattern (while also getting everyone else around out of the way) is a logistical nightmare.
Plus... it would have taken that full two minutes just to CONTACT the control tower at LAX and get clearance to make said approach in the first place. If you were to instead just fly in without clearance, Endeavour would have surely smashed into another aircraft on the runway, killing at least 100 people in the process.
@@k1productions87 the LA river where they "landed" in the movie is directly in the approach for LAX ...along with a dozen GA airports.... if given the altitude and situation of either pancaking in dowtown LA or in 20 feet of water off el segundo..i'd shoot for the beach ..traffic lands east to west at LAX and the approach would be over the landing aircraft anyways ...any departures would have long since been stopped as socal approach saw a shuttle drop in
@@mattf49006 LAX absolutely IS NOT on the approach from the LA river. The river runs north-south, the LAX runways run east-west, and the two are a good ten miles away. Even if they had turned directly toward LAX the very INSTANT they realized they were off course, they had just enough energy to REACH it, but would have still been going north-east. They wouldn't have nearly enough energy to turn onto final... especially as turning carries with it a cost of precious airspeed they could not afford to lose.
Worse, if they came in from the west, they'd be flying INTO the arriving aircraft, which wouldn't have had enough time to get out of the way.
Seriously, time how long it would take for you to find the number for LAX ATC, call it, wait for them to pick up, explain to them the space shuttle is about to crash into LAX, deal with the inevitable reaction of calling you a prank and either hanging up or putting you on hold for a supervisor, ... two minutes are already up.
That would really *SUCK* having to be an astronaut and having to land in a big ass city like LA
Which movie is this?
"The Core"
Ahh the CGI jank is just mmmm fantastic
Miracle on the Hudson premonition
The core is a great movie. Can’t find it anywhere though
Yipie baseball! A ducking spaceshuttel!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the funniest scene since "Airplane!". 😂 What movie is it?
I'm here in 2024, and just realized the actual Endeavour's resting place is really in L.A. too
I watched this movie a few times and I really like this scene, but why couldn’t they land at LAX?
If it can make the LA river, it can make LAX which has a long enough runway and is able to handle the orbiter...
The section of the river it landed on is a couple miles from Dodger stadium, and barely required a course correction. LAX is 20 miles away.
Even if it could make it to LAX, two minutes would not be nearly enough time to contact ATC, get all the aircraft on final (at least five in a row at any given time) out of the way, and get the orbiter on proper alignment with one of its runways in any meaningful amount of time. The thing descends at 10,000 feet per minute. That's the approximate equivalent to a skydiver in freefall.
Plus,... the runways might still not be long enough for a Shuttle Orbiter,... and if it lands long,... there is A LOT of populated area to crash into.
LAX simply is not equipped to take an Orbiter - that is why Vandenberg and Edwards are there. Thing is though,... by the time this movie came out, they wouldn't have been using Edwards anymore, as the landing strip at Kennedy Space Center was up and running. So, if anything, being off course, they would have crashed into Walt Disney World or something (which would have been friggin' awesome, if you ask me. A space shuttle landing in Tomorrowland LOL )
@@k1productions87 Discovery landed at Edwards as late as 2005 on the first shuttle mission following the loss of Columbia.
@@Tom8201 oh I know Edwards was still available as an option. I just wonder what the circumstances were. As the logistics of ferrying the orbiter back to Kennedy is quite costly. The modified 747 has to make two refueling stops just to get it there.
Sounds like the “being chased by the Terminator“ music found its way into another movie.
So the dimensions of the bridges were on that map? Nope.
The writers of this movie went Raul Julia in Street Fighter.
This scene is unrealistic for two reasons:
1. The fire department got there less than an hour later
2. The fire trucks were driving on the LA river and somehow not hydroplaning
😂Check out the dude coming face to face with the Shuttle,Pmsl watching 😂😂😂😂Whats up up dude you never seen a space shuttle before ?Not that close 😂
Another happy landing