STS-135 - The last Space Shuttle launch and landing
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- Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched for the last time on 8 July 2011, at 15:29 UTC. Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on 10 July 2011, at 15:07 UTC. The STS-135 mission ended on 21 July 2011, at 09:57 UTC, when Atlantis landed at Shuttle Landing Facility, Florida.
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10:19 “Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other, its place in history secured, the Space Shuttle pulls into port... for the last time. Its voyage had an end.”
The emotion.
It's voyage *_at_* an end.
...and the eight craziest years of my life came to a happy ending.
After the wheels stopped I sent Doug Osheroff an email thanking him for letting me in. He staggered me with the following reply:
"It was mostly you. I just went along as a cheerleader."
Was that Jim Cantore?
Farewell Atlantis, thank you for your achievements, you did well.
And Endeavor and Discovery
And WE'LL ALWAYS CHERISH AND HONOR CHALLENGER AND COLUMBIA!
@@callmemonkh9020 And may the crew rest in peace...
This vid has brought tears to my eyes. We will not see another space shuttle. This was one of a kind. I remember the good and the bad but I had always felt proud of our space program. :-)
We still have rockets
@@RushncrushJasonb 🖕rockets.
We will still have space planes lmao, look at dream chaser
@@boatchips7820 I like the SS more
@@Felontich🤨
11:35 All 5 orbiters are dismissed.
*Thank You Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour, and our ship Atlantis. Thank you for protecting us, and pringing this program to such a fitting end. Godbless all of you, Godbless The United States of America.*
Landing the shuttle is a gargantuan task of complexity. These shuttle commanders make it look so easy and nonchalant.
I really miss the Space Shuttle. It was what excited me into the Space Age... :(
Same it was a historical journey
That noise from the SSME though...
To be honest, the greatest legacy of the Space Shuttles is how they inspired a new generation of scientists.
I miss these times!...
I swear the space shuttle system is going to go down as the most gangster spacecraft of all time.
2:40 Wow don't think I have ever seen that view how awesome.
I visited Atlantis at NASA with my wife and children this past weekend. I have always been intrigued by the shuttle program since I was a young boy. I watched the Challenger launch in 1986 on TV when I was in 5th grade. When I first saw Atlantis this weekend, I was awestruck and in complete tears….
I remember watching with my dad, I was 6 years old
I remember seeing the final landing live on TV almost nine years ago. So many memories made in regard to this magnificent spacecraft, seeing Columbia launch for STS-94 on my birthday in 1997 at the Kennedy Space Center, watching on TV as Senator John Glenn returned to space in 1998 for the first time since he flew on Friendship 7 in 1962, watching the ISS take form as it was being constructed, hearing about Columbia breaking up upon reentry and watching the program resume operations two years later and finally coming to a close in 2011. Part of me wishes that the program would be brought back with a more modern fleet of orbiters and a better launch system though, but that’s just a dream
This shuttle launch is a fond memory for me. I got to see this launch completely by accident. I was in the Marine Corps and was on a flight with my platoon after coming back from and overseas training exercise. It was the inaugural Operation Agile Spirit with the Georgian Military in 2011. The pilot of the flight came over the intercom and told us that we were about to see history coming through the clouds. We were told that Space Shuttle Atlantis was making, not only it's final flight, but NASA's final shuttle flight. Soon after he said that we saw the shuttle shooting through the lower cloud layer, through the upper layer of clouds, and it was moving so fast we thought, even though we were told it was a NASA shuttle, it must've been a missile due to the speed it was traveling. We were about 38k feet on our way to Bangor Maine and, even though thousands of miles away, the smoke trail made us think it was only a few hundred miles away. We only got to see the shuttle for around 30 seconds before it was moving well over 5000 miles per hour, on it's way to ISS. Such an amazing scene and such an amazing part of history that I'll never forget.
Great comment! That must have really been something!
Here I sit, July 10th, 2023, absolutely speechless, and with tears in my eyes for the Challenger and Columbia. Thank you, NASA.
From getting up early in the morning to see Columbia lift off for the first flight of the Shuttle to getting up early to watch Atlantis landing for the last time in the history of the Shuttle program was very emotional to me. I hope to see any of the shuttles in a museum soon.
Regardless of the tragedies, the Space Shuttle was American engineering at its finest, and a beautiful vehicle.
I wish they’d bring it back
I WAS THERE !! The ground shook !!! It was a visceral experience. The roar was deafening !!!
Me too. Banana Creek. Seated with the families of the astronauts.
I like how MCC Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas says to the commander and or pilot after the shuttle lands at a STOP 🛑. "Ok Endeavor we will meet you on page 5-3." Meaning the landing checklist and shut down checklist. Pretty awesome 😎
Doug Hurley on board at the last space shuttle launch and the first manned crew dragon launch.
She is a great ship!
Thnx for flying over my dads house and waking me up at like 5am.
I still miss this beautiful bastard.
0:41
I like this part
Really a great achievement, to watch the shuttle perform the pitch manoeuvre,just before releasing the main fuel tank was spectacular, more people should see this, I really think the BBC should do a series or documentary to publicise this more,very inspiring,thankyou NASA 👍
Told my friend I would be late to meet up because I have to watch this video. I don't feel bad about it, that's for sure.
I have never watched the launch of the space shuttle because I was 2 during the last launch, but I know she was an amzing space craft :)
Amazing*
It's Rewind Time!!
The space shuttles were part of my childhood. Sad to see Nasa just being a shell of it's former self.
Do not worry In the next 25 years or so I will run for president and if I get elected I will bring Atlantis back as a aircraft
Would love to know if that flag is still onboard the ISS. Shouldn’t be too much longer and it’ll be coming home on board a dragon!
It is and is waiting for Dragon to pick it up :-)
Congratulations !
0:38 LIFTOFF! 🚀❤
"In the bucket" I'll never understand exactly what he means by that, but somehow it is appropriate.
Such an awesome and inspiring machine
Crazy to think that for 30 years we were launching people and things into space on a spaceplane. Its so inefficient and complex compared to a rocket and a pod, and yet its beautiful.
It's so sad to watch such a beautiful and successful vehicle like the Shuttle be retired from service.
Beautiful? No doubt. But successful...it's kinda hard to swallow. It was forced into success, not on it's merit. Shuttle was riddled with issues since day one, and program never ever worked how it was advertised. It was too complex, far too expensive, and in the end unfortunately - not very safe. In public mind Space Shuttle is no doubt a success. A symbol as bold as an American eagle itself, an icon for generations. But being rational entire program was not a success. It was a three-decade long experiment that failed to achieve it's goals.
But again, I do love Space Shuttle. I love it to bits. But you have to look at things for what they are.
I remember when I was 6 years old, my dad pulled me into the home office and had me watch this. I knew I was watching a rocket launch but didn’t know why. I didn’t know the significance of it until a few years later. He says that if he could, he could, he would’ve taken the family to Florida to watch the launch, but I guess something got in the way of that.
I’m going to watch the Artemis III launch in a few years. Nothing will stop me from watching that launch. I am willing to loose everything to ensure that I watch launch.
really we all gonna miss this type of space shuttle
a good friend of mine shot the footage at 10:04
Awsome
The most complex flying machine ever built.
9 years. 9 long god damn years and we’re a month away from demo-2
So, what we see happening on top of the Shuttle from 11:41...
Is that what we hear around 10:48?
The APU and PTU although I do it know what the smoke was
The smoke is the hot exhaust gas from the three IAPU's (I for improved), take a look at page 85 of the Official Shuttle Crew Operations Manual for a diagram. www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/390651main_shuttle_crew_operations_manual.pdf
I can't believe Doug Hurley was on this and then on Crew Dragon 1!
End of an era
amazing how time has passed. Falcon 9 and Dragon are so different and amazing too. great continuation by SpaceX !
Hope humanity discovers a very efficient way to repel gravity.
the space shuttle program was just going to space with style
There will come a time when getting to space is as easy as driving to work.
Space Shuttles have that extra Magic to fly into Space
Are you talking with yourself?
donnieb talking no, reminiscent of those times
Now suitcases got to be packed ahead of time, then it was take your suitcase with you!
2:40 just wow
I remember being at coco beach when the shuttle launched
It was just dawn in Pittsburgh when they landed. I watched it with my wife.
I never knew that there were 135 space shuttle missions over 30 years
It was kinda hilarious whatching dough Hurley leaving the flag only for him to be the one to bring it back
It was incredibly stupid that they flew these things without a proper launch abort system. At least Gemini had a somewhat better system.
They had launch abort plans. In case of an emergency the shuttle would detach from the launch vehicle to try to make a runway. If they couldn't reach a runway they would put it in the ocean I believe. In the case of Challenger, the degradation of the space craft was so quick and violent that there wasn't time to detach the shuttle. The loss of Columbia could only have been prevented if they detached after the foam strike. However, foam strikes were all too common so there was no apparent need to abort the mission.
Also due to the nature of the Shuttle, it wasn't really possible to use a traditional launch abort system, as there wasn't a detachable crew compartment in the shuttle.
TheGTschmidty NASA acknowledged that they could have installed a launch escape system but they didn’t do it... would have been possible for the crew of challenger to be saved
@@damian4583 No, it would've been possible to have better launch abort and even ejection system if the craft was designed with it from the very beginning. Retrofitting something this radical to such design would've been not just unfeasible, but complete insanity. In fact, some early flights had Shuttle fitted with special ejection seats, however they were deemed impractical as their operational range was too limited. And there were only two of them. Buran also had those. They would've been of no use in both Space Shuttle disasters.
@@Quicksilver_Cookie engineers surely tought of thag, they probably have reasons why they cant fit an ejection or separation(capsul) sytem
Not in 135 missions would a launch abort system have saved any lives.
The Challenger disaster happened due to an O-ring failure which caused a rapid disintegration of the craft, due to aerodynamic forces. There would have been no time or opportunity for the crew to abort and safely escape from the stack, in the microseconds between O-ring failure and the Orbiter destruction.
And the Columbia disaster happened during re-entry. Again, launch abort wouldn't have changed a damn thing.
You want to know why 14 astronauts died. Because NASA didn't listen to its engineers about the limitations of its craft. Challenger should never have been launched in such cold conditions, and if NASA had heeded the advice about the freezing temperatures, Challenger would probably be in a museum today. Likewise, Columbia was the result of years of ET foam shedding not being addressed.
The failings of the Shuttle program came from the people who operated it, not the craft themselves.
Si el Columbia no se hubiera accidentado al ingreso, sería quien cierre el programa espacial de Transbordadores :(
Reminds me of power rangers space😭🥺🤍, AMERICA!!!!🤍
Wow
10:01 epic shot
I wish I could have flew on the shuttle, it's so sad that they are retired.
Orion will be great once it really gets going...fingers crossed.
@@sce2aux464 starship is where its gonna be at in a few years
Can someone tell me how they get the amazing overhead shot of Atlantis in space?
These were taken from the crew on the ISS. Subsequent missions to the final Columbia flight photographed and filmed the shuttles to detect any physical or mechanical abnormalities
I just watch one launch off and I can't find out any information about it! I know this is an old video but anybody that gets the notification that can tell me what launched off November 13th 2020 it looks to be out of Kennedy space center it had solid rocket boosters that fell back to Earth seen them plain as day... SpaceX is supposed to launch tomorrow so I'm not sure what's going on inquiring minds would like to know
Atlas V launched NROL-101 czcams.com/video/W4fMu_il4FM/video.html
Atlas V
We are going backwards in space tech. Spaceshuttle was a proper space vehicle. And now we have come back to small tiny capsules that land on water lol.
The space shuttle was unsafe. It was designed in the 70s. There were no real benefits that specialized expendable rockets couldn't match or exceed in
You call this vehicle a proper space vehicle? I only call them proper if they have an escape system.
Goodluck Nasa😡😓may god bless the entire space shuttle program and all those brave souls who were lost Challenger and Columbia, hopefully someday America will be back in the space race again. 🌈
We're Back With Crew Dragon And Boeing Starliner, And we are going back to the moon in 2025 With Artemis
Ya hoooo
Shuttle needs to come back! Going to rockets is backwards in space evolution.
Rockets are safer. The space shuttle had no abort capabilities in case the orbiter had a problem
@@mechanicalturkproductions7349 Well there were only 2 accidents of the space shuttle. And both could have been prevented.
What are those flaps open at 3:48?
The cargo bay doors, they’re opened to launch the payload into LEO
@@coltentucker8851 In fact, they were always open except for launch and landing.
Why'd they land it at night? Nobody saw this piece of history 😭
She flew well just like her other siblings
Am I the only one seeing plasma around the ship?
I was 10 years of age
There were literally no lights when it landed
9:45 yeah not a single one...
STS-135 was the first time I watched a space shuttle launch live. That really got me into watching launches and tests more and more especially those from SpaceX's, I still remember vividly watching the first crewed launch Demo-2 by SpaceX.
(Been living in Hong Kong for 28 years, so my first live launch gotta be a Chinese rocket)
😢
why did the retire the space shuttle?
As a start, please see Criticism & Retirement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Criticism
It had no real abort capabilities. It was wicked cool, but wicked unsafe
Hope, NASA brings a new reusable Shuttle 2.0
They won't
No they won’t the future is vehicles like Crew Dragon and The BFR
Dream Chaser czcams.com/video/4Q8tGVUnoZg/video.html
Shuttle parts will fly again though. SLS will fly us 2020/2021.
No longer needed, these things are orbit crafts
Schutcha beaty
I have seen the New Crew Exploration Vehicle... Is there no other way to propel Man to the Stars...! There must be a more simpler, cost efficient and easier way to go out of the hold of Earth's Gravity...
If there were, they would use it.
I am the 1st one to view :/
I don't care
Dad: "Why are you crying so damn loud?"
Heh 6:43
Little did we know that it would take 10 years for us to come back to going into space from America. Pathetic.