The Space Shuttle's Last Flight - a 4HD documentary
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After 135 missions it's over.. A look back documentary in 1080i .. As Atlantis completes its 135th and final mission, this definitive documentary charts the rise and fall of the most ambitious space programme ever undertaken: the space shuttle. For the three decades since its first launch in 1981, the shuttle has become an iconic symbol of America's technological dominance and has rewritten the rules of space travel. It's a reusable vehicle that could lift off like a rocket, carry people and cargo into Earth's orbit, then land on a runway like a plane, and do it time after time. But two disasters, in 1986 and 2003, and the tragic loss of 14 astronauts shocked the World, and signalled the end of the programme and of an era. However, its legacy has been extraordinary.
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I don't understand all of the competition between countries to "do it first". It seems to me that a lot more can be accomplished if all countries worked together. We'd probably already have landed a human on Mars and beyond if we joined together.
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Death by training - Marines, Army Vietnam! Did 57 thousand die in space? How did the contractors do on this? I know they were unhappy with the end of the War.
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See the TET Offensive not this nonsense.
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Thee peasants of Vietnam were beating us with the Russian technology and destroyed American credibility to its own people was 99 percent of the news then. This was a one day event - I remember to this day. and 13 too. A cover up for Vietnam.
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Bleech, these silly propagandists they hire at NASA. Mining minerals on the moon? What's a lb of ore cost doing that, $100M? These are careerists who want their space hobbies funded by taxpayers. Use space for real objectives, not sightseeing and fullfilling the dreams of hobbyists. They can self-fund if they think it's so important.
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With interest, $8,000 of debt per family in the US today so these astronauts can feel important and look at pretty views. Oh, and do stupid experiments that could be done with robots or automatically. This is over using regular rockets to acheive these goals.
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a spacecraft generating a revenue stream? Yeah, a negative one. $1.5B/launch.
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Is it friction or air compression that causes the heat?
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What does "4HD" mean???
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To bad NASA killed those people at Challenger and Columbia.
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Politics and bureaucracy's triumph over science and engineering.
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No escape tower, no ejection seats. It was a real "all or nothing" machine.
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"For the first time in its history, America can no longer put a man into space." Really??!! What about the first 185 years? Well, we're off to a great start, aren't we? Let's see what else they bungled.
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Why I outta stop this here documentary right now! What do you mean, "that dream ultimately failed?" F@#k you! While you were perfecting fish and chips or bangers and mash or what have you, we were risking our necks for the benefit of everyone on the planet. The only way that we FAIL is if we do not learn from our mistakes! Now, there are several examples of that... true enough... HOWEVER, as long as the rest of the world learns from our mistakes, mankind has NOT failed nor have these astronauts and engineers, they have not died for naught! HATS OFF to all those who died so that the ultra-rich may one day leave this planet and stop telling me what to do! Elites my ass, these astronauts, scientists, and engineers are the ELITES!
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Flatearthers should watch this...heres your satellite images and curvature. You think all these people are actors? They say that the globe model makes us look small...and that we are...but look at all we've accomplished! To think the earth is flat is to say were in a prison and us as humans can accomplish nothing greater...
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Yea, Now the SpaceX's falcon is the true reusable craft because practicaly the whole thing comes back
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@ 19:19 John Travolta
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19:18 John Travolta spotted
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8:15 the heating on a supersonic or hyper-sonic aircraft (or in this case space glider) isn't caused by friction but is actually caused by the sudden compression of air and the transfer of the shuttles kinetic energy into that air. Friction does occur but its contribution to the heating that takes place is negligible. To conceptually understand this phenomenon imagine the shuttle in a hyper-sonic wind tunnel. The particles of air are traveling at several thousand miles per hour and strike the stationary shuttle. The air is moving so fast that it can't simply flow around the shuttle like would happen at low velocities so instead the air compresses against the surface of the shuttle and becomes momentarily stationary. Since energy is conserved we know that all of the kinetic energy the now stationary air particles used to have has to go somewhere. That kinetic energy becomes sound, light and heat.
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Just Really Sad Dunno Why!?!?!?!?!?!
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