How The Space Shuttle Worked | Full Documentary

[@adrianen9440]

This really shouldn’t be free but I’m grateful we got this quality for free

[@vyvianalcott1681]

Knowledge should be free, but he should be paid for making it. It's a hard problem and I'm not sure advertising is the solution, but nobody has any money for anything else.

[@halfsourlizard9319]

lol, imagine thinking that things are 'free' just because you didn't pay monetarily ...

[@GarageSupra]

Just get YT premium its worth it

[@Hypnotic.-.]

Nothing is free. If you aren’t paying with money, you’re paying with attention.

[@bluemookas]

Agreed, would totally pay for this. We're blessed with such brilliant and dedicated people 👍

[@sekelus]

i will NEVER get tired of watching awesome documentary on the space shuttle

[@LastGoatKnight]

Is that curse even possible?

[@Borgforce]

You need to get see it in person - I went to see the Endeavour in Los Angeles… breathtaking doesn’t describe it. I got to see it when it was on stilts about 10-15ft above your head, got to walk underneath it - absolutely stunning. Tried to take my Dad to see it later that year but they closed it down because they were building an enclosure to put it into launch position with an external tank and boosters. - The museum was completely free, but I would’ve paid $100’s to go inside the shuttle - unfortunately it was a No when I asked! 😂

[@brianuuuSonicReborn]

but you have watched this video already, in separate videos

[@GHProductionss]

There's something to say about how even today, the Space Shuttle is still shown in media and across the internet as the default option for a modern spaceship.

[@its_clean]

It was an incredible piece of engineering, but it also unintentionally put the idea in the mind of the public that spaceplane configurations are the best solution for all space exploration, when in reality Shuttle was exactly what it said on the tin: just a shuttle bus for getting astronauts and payloads to and from orbit, that's all. Not an appropriate design for deep space or long-duration missions, yet every few years someone else comes out with a never-to-be-built concept design for another fancy looking spaceplane. As laymen we just can't get the image of a sexy winged starship out of our minds, and accept that vertically stacked rockets are the way to go.

[@Carboncluster]

And yet it's a terrible piece of tech. It was expensive and too dangerous. Some rich guys have a cheaper and safer option now.

[@Toefoo100]

I think that's mainly due to not wanting to associate with SpaceX

[@Sajuuk]

That's because its superior to anything we have today with the possible exception of SpaceXs reusable rockets. Building new Shuttles today with modern materials technology and manufacturing techniques would make them almost foolproof. Mothballing them and going back to 1960s "space capsules" was short sighted. Thank fuck we have SpaceXs Starship reusable ships.

[@GHProductionss]

@@Toefoo100 Rule of cool.

[@utofbu]

Can't help but notice that there is audio-drift. By 30 ish minutes in, interview audio is pretty off... Maybe it's just me?

[@adityaanimations7638]

No you’re not alone 😅

[@SpaceflyerGaming]

I noticed it too. It’s also off later in the video as well

[@stalesvindland5101]

No, your right. I noticed there is some audio desync at around 31 minutes

[@TheSadButMadLad]

Synchronising audio and video requires real engineering! 🙂

[@corvusfoxen]

Thank fuck, I thought it was just me. Spent some time troubleshooting Bluetooth before I tried with the built-in speakers and it was still very out of sync

[@redoberon]

I knew some day this absolute legend would star in a full hour video of Real Engineering

[@JoJoDo]

Is this not a collection of a few of his video's?

[@MADmosche]

0:57 and then get basic altitude numbers wrong

[@TheMysteryDriver]

@@MADmoschedid he? 22,000 miles is geostationary

[@avdheshrohila4328]

Maybe you will unemploy NatGeo

[@punitharamasamy138]

Natgeo is no where near the research and information density of the current Real Engineering video. Good luck on keeping up the incredible work

[@TheKdcool]

Is this a re-upload? I feel like I've already watched this

[@RealEngineering]

It’s the 3 episodes of the Space Shuttle series combined

[@LastGoatKnight]

​@@RealEngineeringjust as I thought so

[@gunsandgranola7262]

I had the same vibes. But worth the re-watch. 👍

[@MartinFroland]

Excellent video

[@brianuuuSonicReborn]

I hate when channel does this

[@yognot678]

40:01 “allowing any two spacecraft to mate, as Goddard intended” 😂 didn’t catch that on the first video but that’s hilarious!

[@sarkaranish]

39:51 actually haha

[@thetobi583]

I caught it on the first listen and had a giggle 😆 my kind of witty humor

[@SC457A]

Even with all it's flaws, the shuttle line is one of my favorite things ever made. I saw STS 3 launch in person as a lil 9 year old, and it left an impression I will never forget.

[@navypowertv]

The Endeavor’s first flight sounds like a nail-biting adventure, especially the part where they rescued a satellite with their bare hands. Anyone else fascinated by the sheer complexity of the shuttle's launch mechanics?

[@Dinoenthusiastguy]

A new Real Engineering video? That's over an hour? On space? This is gonna be a good day

[@owencwilson2250]

Not new. More like an omnibus edition of an old series. V interesting though

[@ben_ands]

Same space shuttle Video he posted like before, but just complicated

[@jasonsmith2497]

I can't begin to explain the level of gratitude I have for something like this being of this quality, and free online. Thank you!

[@Chaydex]

Built in the 70s but damn she is still a beauty all these years later

[@notmattmclellan]

I love that Bruce's first job was to take a photo of the free-falling external tank, but I forgot, like a giddy kid in a candy store! I don't think any human could fault him for doing that; I sure know I would have had the same response!

[@ChristianAkacro]

Audio sync issues at 43:45 and around there.

[@j.d.5262]

Also 31:15 it seems.

[@mukul713]

Little busy now, will back soon to watch this video, i know it will be a wonderful video. . .

[@BojanMilic84]

It's amazing honestly.

[@brianuuuSonicReborn]

you don't have to, you have already watched it, cuz it's just recycling prevous videos

[@quantumfluxuation]

I'm 20 minutes in and have learned so much that I didn't know and that's someone that was obsessed with the shuttle. This is going to be a great video I'll have to save!

[@thesquirrel914]

I work with an engineer who worked on SLS's RS-25 Block D program. Ive studdied the RS-25 and had a pretty good understanding of how it worked. But when we sat down and went over the design of the powerhead I was dumbfounded at the little design aspects that actually make it work, especially the high pressure oxidizer pump. Its a miracle that thing works at all let alone 100% reliably.

[@conniptions1533]

Waste of a good engineers time, SLS is criminal. NASA is paying over $100 million just to refurbish these old engines, that’s 3 billion for the full Artemis program. An entire starship cost less than a single engine

[@spotandjake1008]

That's really cool. Rocket engines are honestly just unfathomably amazing pieces of engineering that I really don't think can be appreciated by just looking at them, the number of little tweaks.

[@MADmosche]

Definitely not 100% reliability

[@iamthereasonyoucame]

Decommissioned for more than a decade and it still amazes me. Think it's because it is the closest thing to a spaceship little me grew up dreaming off. Hopefully starship will make that dream live longer

[@alijonbekmetov5766]

The 3d animation is insane, thanks a lot to the author of the chanel, I always follow the videos of this chanel from Uzbekistan, Tashkent

[@jackalovski1]

As a fan of space stuff this video didnt tell me anything I didnt already know, but I really love how it's all packaged in a single video. So very densly packed with comprehensive information it's amazing. I planned to have it on in the background but the stunning visuals meant I couldn't keep my eyes off it.

[@Brent-d2i]

This is by far THE BEST SPACE SHUTTLE documentary on the Internet

[@donovanfox419]

Should definitely do some on relativity or other space startups. That would be cool.

[@Dart_ilder]

What a brilliant marketing move of making this video!

[@ATONAL6173]

Heheh... "Umbiblical...". Every time. Teehee... But still, incredible work! Thanks!

[@brendonlind]

And the astronaut says it correctly in the video...lol still great vid though. Sounds like uhm·bi·luh·kl

[@Skwertydogs]

Also, the solid rocket motors burn a "call-yoom" of fuel.

[@ATONAL6173]

Call yoom, I get. I think that's just the lovely Irish brogue that keeps us all coming back. :)

[@ATONAL6173]

But getting biblical about EVA's....wait maybe that's an effect of dominant Catholicism in the beautiful island.... ;)

[@directoryerror6653]

Throttle is such a brilliant idea for a company and I'm so glad they are tied to this channel. KZbin may be a risky business but unmatched quality physics/engineering animations is not! Long live Real Engineering!

[@charlesshieler6459]

Man your the hero we asked for and the hero we needed!!! Thank you for producing the highest quality content on KZbin

[@djgautz]

Thank you for making this video and putting it for free on youtube, groundbreaking engineering.

[@wk8219]

19:12 I’ve been a fan of rockets and space since I was a young. Even built and flew model rockets as a kid. I’ve known about the center of mass but not about the center of pressure and the dynamic interplay of the two. This is the first time I’ve intuitively understood why rockets are shaped the way they are. Thank you.

[@vmachacek]

this channel is best of YT period.

[@pradiyutkumar7315]

Liked even before watching the video

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

I always do with this channel. I hit play & like, one right after the other.

[@jameschartrand7962]

I currently have pneumonia and today I wrote a 4h30 linear algebra final exam on 3h of sleep. Worst day ever. I just got home, opened youtube and discovered that real engineering just uploaded a 1h20 video on the space shuttle. Best day ever.

[@MrEazyE357]

It's all old videos.

[@HACKINGMADEFUN]

Hey Brian, I think you should make more merch. Awesome video btw!

[@baomao7243]

I greatly enjoyed the description of all the challenges/solutions during the descent phase. The speeds and forces involved during its transition from spacecraft to glider are simply incredible, esp. when one considers the requirement for a precision landing w/ no chance of a go around. Wow.

[@Dakiraun]

The Space Shuttle System was an amazing combination of a lot of technologies. I am lucky that I am old enough to have watched the very first launch as a child, and then also get to see the very last launch. What it could do was awfully impressive, though ultimately, not nearly as affordable as they had hoped it was going to be. This is amazing video package highlighting all the main systems in great detail - well done!

[@ashassassin7153]

Oh, this is gonna be a HIT

[@SebPlaySpaceflight]

It’s nice to see your beautiful animations finally being offered as a service!

[@chrisi5739]

As a European student, I had to puke my soul out to see this amazing video after a long night out. I am very thankful for the love spend creating this video. This is not ordinary, at least for us

[@6desk]

I just wanted to acknowledge and thank you for the obvious extreme effort your channel puts in to bring us facts that might otherwise go overlooked.

[@ORANGE29491]

An hour long video grab the snacks sit back nd relax ive always wanted longer vids that go more in depth into certain aspects of

[@gaboxargentina]

Amazing as always congrats the documentary is amazing

[@ErlendBarkbu]

Incredibly well-made and informative - thank you for this fantastic documentary!

[@nunessilva2162]

Blimey! You are good... I just listened to the Intro and I'm pumped! 2:15 mins in... wow Bring it on!

[@jcnwillemsen]

41:57 audio out of sync

[@xpeterx]

53:17: as seen in Star Trek The Next Generation's first season, where Picard guides a runaway cadet to bounce his shuttle off of the atmosphere to prevent him from burning up. what an incredibly great documentary. well done

[@WEPayne]

Good vid, more accurate drtail than others, keep up yer great work!!!

[@PatrickPolish]

Thank you for the time and effort. This is one of the most complete and interesting documentary about the shuttle I've ever seen

[@MrEazyE357]

It's just a compilation of his old shuttle videos. Guess you don't get new views by putting that in the title, huh?

[@willhenry2567]

Awesome video. So much astonishing engineering. It is truly a wonder that we were able to accomplish this many years before I was born, and it is wild looking back to see just how long this marvel of engineering lasted in today's ever-advancing landscape. Thanks for the great watch.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Reading “Truth, Lies and O-Rings” turned me on to how dangerous making those SRB’s really was. I walked away being amazed there weren’t more accidents in manufacturing. I also never really grasped just how much engineering went into them. Made me feel rather insignificant for my small additions to the HTTP protocol in the 90’s which felt like massive work.

[@jameswieler3295]

Truly awesome production level

[@IraqiNerd97]

I love the space so much that I even have a tattoo of it my belly. Thank you so much for this incredible video that is just as amazing as the space shuttle. ❤

[@HyenaEmpyema]

This was absolutely incredible. You gave us a textbook worth of information, along with great video work and narration. Thank you 👍

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

If you’ve never seen it, the video, titled ‘How to Land the Space Shuttle….From Space,’ is a must watch. It’s a real time, pilots view of the Shuttle landing in Cape Canaveral, narrated by Bret (also the name of the channel where you can find the video), who works with NASA & is giving us (and an in person audience) a power point presentation. It’s a lot of fun & has a lot of information about landing what is, essentially, an aerodynamic brick.

[@MrM-h2z]

More than an hour long video from Real Engineering. Christmas came early haha

[@mrgriply]

That was very informative , thank you for this excellent content 🚀

[@Luke..luke..luke..]

Genuinely beautiful animations. ❤

[@royalal]

I love this video and series. I always wanted to be an astronaut and have been to Kennedy space center during and after the shuttle years. Thank you so much

[@gunsandgranola7262]

SpaceX has done a great job in efficiency and cost cutting. But the shuttle is such an engineering flex, it’ll always be awesome.

[@weekiely1233]

Both are incredible. Falcon 9 is no chump. It’s by far one of the most advanced rockets ever built and set new boundaries for rocket design Starship also builds on that. But shuttle is ofc iconic

[@GreenGoblinDK]

It is a different engineering approach. The first shuttle launch was mand and landed a beautiful touchdown.

[@weekiely1233]

@ thankfully. It VERY nearly ended in disaster too The acoustic levels were higher than expected and damaged the vehicle, the shock of SRB ignition also did the same and the control surfaces were actually pushed well beyond limits and thankfully didn’t fail because if they did they’d either have had to attempt an RTLS abort (dangerous af) or survive entry and descent low enough to eject and parachute down (also dangerous)

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

@@weekiely1233 The statisticians Bendat and Piersol were hired to analyze acoustic data from static tests, in order to estimate the combined effects ahead of first flight. They mostly got it right ; ) Not just control surfaces: The basic wing structure out near the tips was also inadequate for reentering with a design payload weight. Fortunately they had strain gauge data from the first flight before such a flight occurred.

[@spherhy]

It was a complete piece of shit that murdered 14 people through utterly incompetent engineering. Imagine stanning for something that managed to kill nearly 4x the number of cosmonauts that have died, ever. Completely idiotic.

[@KellicTiger]

Is it just me or is Bruce's audio not synced well? I've played 5 other videos. No issues.

[@darealsherlock8026]

Perfect timing for weekend.

[@Datacod]

Although the future of spaceflight looks awesome. For me, nothing can beat the excitement and thrill seeing a shuttle launch!

[@maffysdad]

As a space vehicle that is considered a museum piece now, I think retiring it was a huge mistake, but I appreciate the level of detail that went into describing something that we will never see fly again yet was a part of my childhood. I remember watching on TV the test flights to show proof of concept, and then the first launch... A wow moment in my life that was for me, as special as my parents must've felt watching the first moon landing.

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

The longer they continued to fly the greater the chances of another fatal accident. What is a shame is that they never tried to update it but that's likely because that would have been little more than a complete re-design of the whole stack.

[@bluerider0988]

This is top notch content.

[@austingirdner92]

For those curious, those 88x771mm hold down bolts were equal to 3.5"x30" Absolute monster bolts.

[@sc1338]

Thank you, just wow

[@zzaaaaap]

I have no need to hire your studio, but I wish I did. This was amazing

[@DoubleFaceReal]

Awsomee videoe!!

[@sapelesteve]

Now that's some mindblowing real engineering related to the operation of the Space Shuttle! Terrific documentary! 👍👍💥💥

[@Nightagain]

Amazing video🔥🔥🔥 10/10!. Falcon 9 and spaceship owe their existence to the geniuses that designed/ developed/ manufactured/ maintained/ and operated this “space plane”.

[@amiguitosdeshutus9233]

The shuttle wasn’t resusable, it was refurbishable

[@jubjub7101]

Our country was born from the appetite of exploration, and our continued successes are what I am most proud of.

[@joshwelbaum]

You are my gateway to STEM. Thank you.

[@mikeg7750]

KSC is incredible. That Atlantis exhibit with the boosters and external tank outside was staggering.

[@DEU_TSCH]

Hallo. I wanted to tells you that your Videos are so nice and detailed. These high quality ducometaries does not only have nice informations but I can learn English with learning sth else together. Thank you so much for these nice videos.

[@ThePulmentinum]

I read somewhere that right after booster separation the shuttle is too heavy to go up with the SSME only (technically speaking it has a thrust to weight ratio below 1) so it temporarily decelerates. This phase lasts a couple seconds because the Shuttle + tanks become lighter due to burning propellant and oxydizer, the thrust to weight ratio becomes greater than 1 and the Space Shuttle starts accelerating once again.

[@weekiely1233]

Yes although those boosters get it far enough for the vehicle to compensate well

[@thetobi583]

Even in Kerbal Space Program, the number 1 rule of rocket building is to keep each stage above a TWR of 1. I often use Asparagus or Onion staging for getting bigger crafts into orbit, and I check the TWR all the time to ensure when a booster set drops, the ratio stays above 1.0. If the ratio drops from 1.7 at launch to 1.4 with 2 boosters gone, it's fine, but if it was to drop from 1.4 to 0.7 while still in the atmosphere, the craft would lose speed and apogee height while burning fuel until it reaches a TWR of >1.0 again, wasting fuel in the process and making the whole ascent less efficient... Sorry for nerding out

[@RG-tm7uq]

Absolute incredibly how they created this. The space shuttle is pretty cool too

[@karlmoore1837]

What an outstanding piece of engineering. I feel like we gave up on this design and concept far too quickly: did we put the future into a museum? Yes, imo.

[@TheOrgil220]

Sunday morning an hour long video from real engineering. Sign me up.

[@jeffwrightsman7797]

Brilliant video. You missed the part about closing the doors on the bottom of the shuttle for the tank connections. I always wondered about those and what closes them since I saw the shuttle at the Smithsonian.

[@Ionee-q4f]

such an iconic spacecraft, did so much over it's lifetime.

[@Que.96]

Amazing.

[@sanahaskuranage8071]

cant believe this is free!

[@UmbreonTheLoner]

Real cool to watch this breakdown from my perspective. I work on the Aft Skirts for SLS.

[@sya_7489]

helll yea it's the entire package!

[@Yintii]

How wild! I was just on your page looking to see if there was a new video

[@thedarkside13]

59:52 not anymore. SpaceX has already solved that problem.😎

[@kizzashammah6468]

Who said before that rocket science was hard? 🤧

[@DC.402]

Needed this video

[@ddaveeddd]

Amazing animations!

[@Zerobar78.]

I would give anything to see this planet from orbit just once in my life......amazing video, thank you!!

[@AndrewDasilvaPLT]

Give 500k to Daddy Bezos.

[@Zerobar78.]

@ I’ll just put it out of my petty cash… 😎

[@AryanGoswami-k5y]

Not a word to say but Quality❤

[@DoubsGaming]

I still cry everytime I see the Orbiter Space Shuttle. It just makes me so happy to that engineering marvel fly.

[@baomao7243]

I remember being in Texas and watching a nighttime descent of Shuttle as it headed toward Florida. Traversing the sky, it left behind a long glowing ribbon in the blackness of night. I thought to myself, “What an amazing machine.” Long live the complex systems that we dare to build to make normal what is otherwise impossible.

[@Arrowspear]

Wonderful video, thank you for this information

[@digitaldyslexia7589]

15:13 bro forgot to render the vertical stabilizer on the shuttle

[@kohanrains776]

1:50 no they arent... the sls srbs are bigger... theyre literally the same booster with a new segment added so they're definitely bigger

[@slurpytoe8290]

Biggest of there time

[@marcusrauch4223]

And even then, there were solid rocket motors tested, that were MUCH bigger still. I don’t remember the name though.

[@DeepSpaceIndustriesLOL]

Beat me to it

[@DeepSpaceIndustriesLOL]

@@marcusrauch4223AJ-260?

[@charlienyiti5880]

He said "to date"

[@wyattrobinson3647]

Fantastic video

[@bhuuthesecond]

Hell no. I'm not watching this right now. I need to make a proper dinner and buy a good bottle of wine first.

[@coolbugfacts1234]

It's mindblowing to me that they managed to do this, and even though there were two tragedies, they launched 135 times.

[@stephenosinde9637]

Epic videos 🎉

[@edwood5602]

That was pretty awesome! I think it would have worked better if you used stainless steel. You would not need to bend all the tabs. You would need a tig welder with argon for a shielding gas. Tig Welding is super easy to get beautiful welds. And if you flow argon through the inside of the part by putting a tee on your shielding gas line with a shutoff valve to the part then tape off all holes with aluminum tape then put a small hole so the argon can replace the air. Your welds will be beautiful inside and out. Make sure your skin is completely covered when welding but especially TIG Welding. You would probably need a couple of other tools a way to cut stainless best would be a band saw. 2 other cheaper options would be a hand grinder or chop saw. And a carbide hole saw for stainless. You can pick up all the tools for pretty cheap at Harbor Freight. I love the channel and all the things you have successfully made using the 3D printers.

[@naota3k]

The story about how Mr. Melnick forgot to do his first job because he was so blown away by seeing our planet is just plain fantastic.