The Evolution Of The Space Shuttle | Cosmic Vistas | Spark

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For more than 25 years the shuttle was our ticket to space and our laboratory in orbit. So what did it teach us about its playground?
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Season Three of Cosmic Vistas zooms in to focus on some familiar solar bodies within our reach. How well do we really know our celestial neighbours such as Saturn and Mars? What do we have yet to learn? With the help of satellite technology and the incredible shuttles that put them into orbit, many questions about our solar system's past and future are finally being answered by science.
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  • @espoespo3557
    @espoespo35572 жыл бұрын

    When I was 11, my father gave us the most beautiful gift ever. We flew on the Concord. That plane reached so high into the sky you could see the outer space. It's just dark, black and you can't see the stars. But you're between earth and space. I don't know how long it lasted, but man it was epic. I saw space while I was still within the earth. I'll never forget it.

  • @marcocambray7725
    @marcocambray7725 Жыл бұрын

    I love the space orbitor

  • @seanmcgee8184
    @seanmcgee81843 жыл бұрын

    Love it

  • @jimmyryan5880
    @jimmyryan58803 жыл бұрын

    This guy makes my favourite topics like watching paint dry

  • @seasong7655
    @seasong76553 жыл бұрын

    Amazing vehicle. They never should've cancelled it!

  • @tylerdurden4006

    @tylerdurden4006

    3 жыл бұрын

    But it was a super expensive failure, they lost 40% of the vehicles and lost 14 astronauts with a blowup rate of almost 1 out of 50 launches. Way too many billions for a huge failure to be kept in use

  • @seasong7655

    @seasong7655

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tylerdurden4006 They could've still worked on it to improve safety and reduce the costs. And it's still better than to have no rocket at all.

  • @heyyzim2.09

    @heyyzim2.09

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tylerdurden4006 they could've improved it and making it safer and cheaper. For the disasters, challenger Exploded because the O ring seals on the SRBs were not designed to handle the cold temperatures, also the workers warned before the launch it could've failed, for columbia it was the chunk foam from the external tank. The thing with columbia is they could've have avoided it since it was captured on camera. But they still proceed with the mission. They could've avoided all both of these disasters but no they didn't. If they had spent more time on the shuttle before it first launch. It could have been alot cheaper and safer. Also the technology at the time the shuttle was first launch was limited compared to now. Also if they painted the external fuel tank like the first couple of missions did they could've avoid it. Also due to political stuff in the USA at that time the shuttle became what it have been today. Inefficient and expensive.

  • @heyyzim2.09

    @heyyzim2.09

    3 жыл бұрын

    One of the reasons it was cancelled was due to it aging. So it was time for it to end. Yeah could have built new ones but it would be expensive. Sad to see it go but that what is gonna happen.

  • @tylerdurden4006

    @tylerdurden4006

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@heyyzim2.09 saying why they blew up doesn't mean it wasn't a failure when they blew up. And explaining that it could be cheaper is proving my point of too expensive, so thanks for proving my point more...

  • @paulsnickles2420
    @paulsnickles24203 жыл бұрын

    Very good documentary

  • @ivankirov3676
    @ivankirov36763 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @user-ec2ty7hu2b
    @user-ec2ty7hu2b2 ай бұрын

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  • @virendrachaudhary4251
    @virendrachaudhary42513 жыл бұрын

    Love

  • @QueenDaenerysTargaryen
    @QueenDaenerysTargaryen3 жыл бұрын

    I wish to see new space🌌🚀 ✈plane.

  • @sharadshelar
    @sharadshelar3 жыл бұрын

    A possible solution for ultra cheap 'near real space travel experience' in just a few hundred dollars or even less e.g. Lift off, touch down, low orbit flyby on earth, moon, mars and comets, all in just 60 to 90 minutes of realistic experience. One can safely watch the recorded and/or illustrated space views- videos that astronauts see sitting in a replica spaceship-simulator with glass windows kept in a room with walls, floors made up of giant digital screens. People can then see breathtaking 3D space views through glass windows on the spacecraft ( so no VR glasses needed) which are synced with movement created by the mount beneath producing a near real experience barring weightlessness.

  • @tylerdurden4006
    @tylerdurden40063 жыл бұрын

    A very good theory of a spaceship but in reality they built it really bad, you lost 2 of the 5 vehicles killing 14 astronauts and having a failure rate of almost 1 out of 50 launches, and considering they promised 100's of launches a year but fell way way way way way ways short of that, it is one of the most expensive failures in history.

  • @sharadshelar

    @sharadshelar

    3 жыл бұрын

    A possible solution for ultra cheap 'near real space travel experience' in just a few hundred dollars or even less e.g. Lift off, touch down, low orbit flyby on earth, moon, mars and comets, all in just 60 to 90 minutes of realistic experience. One can safely watch the recorded and/or illustrated space views- videos that astronauts see sitting in a replica spaceship-simulator with glass windows kept in a room with walls, floors made up of giant digital screens. People can then see breathtaking 3D space views through glass windows on the spacecraft ( so no VR glasses needed) which are synced with movement created by the mount beneath producing a near real experience barring weightlessness.

  • @Markle2k

    @Markle2k

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's the failure rate of Soyuz by 2011. And your math is poor. There were 135 Shuttle launches. Soyuz had flown just over 100 launches by 2011. Nobody ever promised "100s of launches a year". The original design life was 100 launches over 10 years. It was far from a failure. But it has its share of haters who have no perspective, just a loose association of like-small-minded individuals.

  • @marcocambray7725
    @marcocambray77253 жыл бұрын

    First

  • @Pedro8k
    @Pedro8k3 жыл бұрын

    It was not a space plane it was a space truck

  • @Unknown_Ooh
    @Unknown_Ooh3 жыл бұрын

    Announcer has a slight speech impediment

  • @RonaldPatrickMarriott
    @RonaldPatrickMarriott3 жыл бұрын

    How the Space Shuttle Columbia was shot down

  • @thehandlesticks66

    @thehandlesticks66

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do you have a source that isn't a random youtube video or blog/forum post?

  • @RonaldPatrickMarriott

    @RonaldPatrickMarriott

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thehandlesticks66 lots of pictures

  • @djbeezy

    @djbeezy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thehandlesticks66 Of course he doesn't. Just another conspiracy theory loon.

  • @riskucal
    @riskucal3 жыл бұрын

    i lost faith in this channel lol , everyone that into spaceflight know how inneficient space shuttle was it was great vehicle to space indee , but to say " revolutionized " it was little overrated and missleading would you change the topic to falcon 9 instead shuttle ?

  • @riskucal

    @riskucal

    3 жыл бұрын

    how about the heatshield tiles that nees to be changed every flight and each heatiles is unique shaped ? yup really efficient and "revolutionized"

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