Space Shuttle: Final Countdown - History Documentary

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Space Shuttle: Final Countdown chronicles the end of an era as the iconic Space Shuttle programme concludes on July 21, 2011. Through rare archival footage and insightful interviews with astronauts, NASA scientists, and designers, the documentary delves into the programme's monumental achievements and tragic losses, including the Space Shuttle Challenger and Space Shuttle Columbia disasters. Witness how the shuttles Atlantis, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Endeavour transformed humanity's understanding of the universe and our planet, leaving behind a profound legacy for generations to come.
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[@minddude1673]

24:29 how he explains it makes him sound like he's telling a legendary tale, and its so satisfying..

[@faktisletztenendes]

Been all the way from Germany to LA just to see Endeavour, being close to one of the most impressive machines ever built... Can I just say I stood there and was crying? 😢

[@N1njaSnake]

I understand you. I did the same, flew in from Europe just to see a Shuttle up close.

[@TheMrSafeTheFirst]

Ditto - Saw Atlantis in Kennedy. It was an emotional moment.

[@chouetteperspicace1631]

I'm waiting to do the same 🥺

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

You should cry because the Americans stole German scientists to create NASA.

[@IdeologieUK]

I never saw it in real life, but as a kid of 11 I watched the first launch and was in awe, and every other mission thereafter I’d never lost my awe, interest and respect.

[@DeSantiagoDavid]

Challenger disaster, terrible moment... Saddest thing watching live how 7 beautiful and brilliant people went that way ❤️🌹 same with the Columbia disaster, beautiful people gone

[@peterdhafa4362]

Best documentary ever

[@johnkean6852]

All alive apart from one. Not dead.

[@carldennishowardroberts3952]

Bring back the best piece of engineering in history.i was there when challenger blow up so sad.

[@zerg9523]

Just some added info, the 6 shuttles were: Atlantis Challenger - destroyed on launch Colombia - destroyed on reentry Discovery Endeavour Enterprise

[@TNsher776]

Enterprise was never space worthy!

[@zerg9523]

ProGreen LAWN - It’s still a shuttle though, and the one with the best name.

[@TNsher776]

@@zerg9523 the runt of all shuttle! The red head step child shuttle!

[@craigmackay4909]

Buran

[@SIXITHS]

@@TNsher776 The Enterprise is the reason that the others even made it into orbit.

[@siiedkazem4090]

Thanks for all the best documentary

[@jimparr01Utube]

Great documentary. Thank you for producing this. From waking in the morning to switch on my tiny transistor radio and hear voices from the Moon - Oh Wow. That will never leave me. So I have lived through most of the space exploration era and am grateful that I did so.

[@raymonddollan4221]

got to be one of the best Documentaries i have watched

[@itmethang]

Thank you all the shuttles Atlantis Endeavor Challenger Discovery Columbia and Enterprise

[@MrMAReitz]

A fantastic documentary. The loss of lives are a tragedy that we cannot undo. We can only improve processes and technology. Failure is part of progression. RIP all those brave souls that sacrificed their lives in the name of science.

[@johnkean6852]

Wake up they're still alive see you tube.

[@311076]

I love the "ooh whoo" part! It's very strong feeling of faceing death and succeed.

[@dlm808101]

Why did we stopped building and improving such wonders? The concorde, the space shuttle, ? Why did we stopped going back to the moon? just when technology has reached its peak.

[@vijayvarun6385]

Awesome documentary

[@Vishalkumar-mu5hy]

Really a heart melting video

[@giannireggianini1362]

m olto istruttivo sia emotivo sia tecnico grazie gianni

[@anthonyjohnson8672]

glued to the screen,,,great documentary....

[@felicianogoisdefreitas3159]

Restored a bênção. Blessing for all humanity,

[@gracemollel1482]

Best documentary and such an inspiring one

[@rschulek]

The worst part of this that they knew that the O rings will fail, but as a program must go ahead....

[@chouetteperspicace1631]

Amazing documentary ! I love the space Shuttles, can't wait to see one !

[@Sparklingtube]

Never gonna happen mate

[@chouetteperspicace1631]

@@Sparklingtube in museums

[@Sparklingtube]

@@chouetteperspicace1631 ik

[@johnkean6852]

Its a plane with 2 jet engines you can see the jet stream as it lands in the opening video. It was supposed to GLIDE from 'space.' Do research.

[@jilokizito1705]

Massive respect!

[@edwardghlee5084]

great documentary

[@metam.devad.neimte9212]

😂

[@rswpt]

actually the docu is wrong, it wasnt the space shuttle that did more launches nor delivered more payload to space, that ship was called soyuz, its russian.

[@dreamxd9331]

1:20:30 RIP KALPANA CHAVLA 🇮🇳❤ And All the other American Astronauts ..💐❤

[@johnkean6852]

Theyre still alive see youtube

[@selvakumari1686]

Inspiring

[@DeSantiagoDavid]

Wonderful doco

[@gopalm7749]

Thanks sir

[@ianmangham4570]

Amazing engineering ,totally amazing

[@ramsesrameez5430]

Inspiring stories about mega science.

[@azeetech5826]

great effort, they are world heroes

[@marmitaa8619]

What.

[@paulward4268]

@@marmitaa8619 What do you mean??

[@trevormorara9770]

The narrator makes the documentary sink in your mind

[@montygill2835]

Awesome Episode

[@doddy1974]

The space shuttle is massive my bigger than I ever thought it would be

[@cliffwatson8478]

Coming back again for the next Total Eclipse, will see them again ❤

[@marykumargurung4654]

Natasha Very nic many thanks 🌹🌹🌹☝Ⓜ👌👍🌍

[@pieterviljoen1257]

Fantastic. This is the stuff that America should be about!

[@chiaralily1137]

I keep going back to this documentary because it really got me into nasa and space exploration. I love it :)

[@NT-cj1zj]

0:58 was that John Travolta with the binoculars?

[@nancyhobson9710]

Shuttle: A word that has connotations of just catching the shuttle bus to Margate in order to catch the train to London. But of course, defying the imagination, it goes much, much further!!

[@deepcool5497]

Super cool, amazing work NASA.

[@yoskarokuto3553]

50 years of shame

[@aykay6778]

Wish I could travel to space 🚀🚀🚀🚀 would be amazing .

[@johnkean6852]

Cant get out of the e/m dome. Look up: "project fish bowl."

[@uni-tek4471]

Most scary event live on camera..... very very remarkable moments in space histroy

[@chiagoziemunachukwu]

WOW JUST WOW

[@bennysam5178]

Worth to watch totaly SciFi great job technology mind blowing... Keep go ahead to the end of the universe

[@andrewhillis9544]

HOW WOULD OSCAR WILDE HAVE PUT IT ? ? ? "TO LOSE ONE SPACE SHUTTLE IS UNFORTUNATE, TO LOSE TWO SEEMS LIKE CARELESSNESS ! ! !"🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@cleantok8599]

Wow

[@retard_activated]

At 3:30 I'm almost crying! Why am I scared?! 🥺😳

[@simonabbott4430]

I think it's a shame because it seems that if it wasn't for the management the 2 disasters could have been prevented, Such an amazing piece of engineering

[@KangoV]

2,200 tonnes. Starship weighs 5,000 tonnes. Amazing. Fun fact, every film showing something like the space shuttle gets it wrong. None have it inverted. Only one film got it right. Yep, the james Bond film (thunderball?) and that was before the shuttle first launched.

[@andrewhillis9544]

I Think You Are Confusing Thunderball With Moonraker ? ? ? There Are NO Space Shuttles In Thunderball OR You Only Live Twice, ONLY In Moonraker Do We See Space Shuttle's ! ! !

[@filmshbraj]

Nice

[@andrewhillis9544]

IT SEEMS LIKE THE LESSONS WERE NOT LEARNED 17 YEARS AFTER THE CHALLENGER DISASTER IN 1986 WHEN TRAGEDY STRUCK AGAIN WITH THE COLUMBIA STS-107 IN 2003 ! ! ! ? ? ?😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@sekarhttp]

Great work by USA - wishes from India

[@moisescondor8788]

Abecés ay emoción alegria treistesas pero ay q tener debocion a nuestros sientificos

[@aspn-ender645]

Porq hablaz así

[@felicianogoisdefreitas3159]

a gente busca e encontra é fazendo filho mesmo e mandando pro velho mundo, porque o céu é infinito, temos que conquistar, é o terceiro céu e meu dente dói. Oh cisos de cima pra não cair.

[@ramsesrameez5430]

The great National documentaries.

[@gstar1309]

Went everywhere but to the moon

[@erkasherif9931]

GREAT MISSION HAPPY FOR AMERIKAN TECNOLOGY VERY HAPPY

[@tanthiennguyen9308]

Vielen Dank Bond

[@anthonytindle5758]

I remember the first space shuttle launch our class was all sat in our history lesson wanting to listen to the launch on BBC radio but our teacher disapproved of radios during class but one of us gt one into the class we said to her the teacher let us lisson because in a few years we will be covering the space missions in class and she said give her the radio, we thaught that she is going to confescate our radio but she came took it off of us and put it on her desk only quiet but enough sound so we could hear it when quiet and at the countdown she turned the noise back up and when we heard launch sequence complete with a smile on her face stood up smiling and wrote the time and date on the blackboard whilst doing a little dance after that class we all said that she was the best teacher in school, even though I can still remember her face but not her name only Miss.

[@override7486]

Wow, no wonder I can't understand it, even after reading it few times. There's literally a single dot, as a full stop, in entire sentence.

[@ronaldhamblin4615]

The USA are so far advanced this was something back in the 70s with the six million dollar man now it was realistic what a great piece of engineering 😊

[@kukakevin]

nice buran

[@annacarolinacancado]

Would it be possible to make the KZbin automatic translation tool available?

[@GB-vn1tf]

I watched the first launch and landing and the last launch and landing. Amazing but it seems like the US could have done so much more than have a space truck for satellites. Anyway, it's done now, let's see where NASA goes next.

[@ae29productions]

I mean a step is a step

[@anonymoussaitama725]

Starship: Hold my Melrin Engines

[@HarbingerOfTears]

Raptor Engines*

[@69cornelix]

"living in the past for menage the future"

[@jslugbug37]

I went to the last auction at u.s.a. headquarters in Houston I get to live with my stuff everyday

[@felicianogoisdefreitas3159]

Vamos pra aldei[on]

[@johnkean6852]

If 'space' was real and the shuttle was real, it would have flown to the moon and back lol

[@ramsesrameez5430]

yes this is reality and the life of a shuttle. Final stop

[@johnkean6852]

It was a jet plane never went to space

[@simbonisiwemadaza7453]

hi, cim here from South Africa, please explain to me, how do you synchronise the speed with the ISS while doing the docking process considering that it is at 28000km/h?

[@Aus_mma]

At 53:00 can anyone tell me what is the music name please 🙏🙏🙏

[@flamingoinblue]

The Crew never died. They are still alive and well!! Just do your own research!!

[@spankflaps1365]

When I first saw the Shuttle on the back of a Jumbo Jet in 1981, I thought it looked pretty mad. Maybe building reusable aircraft that big and fast is just a step too far. Concorde also ultimately failed due to take-off debris.

[@naturali-teaph5461]

Elon Musk gets the deal. Low cost yet efficient and new upgrades.

[@ZYDALingzi]

It is the dream of mankind to build a spacecraft that can go and return, and the Space Shuttle Orbiter was the very first step in this direction. I hope that the next generation of engines will be invented and that the new Space Shuttle equipped with such engines will once again go into space.

[@johnkean6852]

Cant get into space lol

[@Flippiz]

@10:53 is starship... interesting

[@jaimesegura7318]

came here to leave the same comment

[@andrewhillis9544]

SOME OF THE STS-107 COLUMBIA DEBRIS/WRECKAGE ENDED UP ON eBAY ! ! !🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@felicianogoisdefreitas3159]

scale in the scope... more, more more... compacted in 3 persons the universe, you have to procrastinar um pouco... suns na mão de um guerreiro são filhos Abraão... Saiba contar... Não sabia contar as estrelas e te dei nações para o meu Herdeiro.

[@ytadltspv]

so nasa and washington was responsible for the tragedies and the end of the project. 1st they cut corners in absence of ideal launch conditions and in the 2nd, they forgot the 1st - refusing to act on the immediate evidence. if they could repair a telescope,the crew mightve worked something out even if they hadnt carried a bunch of spares - they couldve just docted into the ISS and waited for the pickup. so much talent and precious lives just evaporated

[@wiebeslootstra9066]

or build new shuttles, spending money for space is better, than use money for millitairy.

[@momotarono]

リスニングの練習になる

[@carlrichardson5347]

I built the New Lego Nasa space shuttle model with the Hubble space telescope that came with the set it's awesome and very big.

[@ktmbikes9227]

The launch craft is covered in ice and the temp will stay at 0.C during the day, The boosters arnt safe ..... Nasa: Nah it will be fine

[@CousinTito]

I LOVED the shuttle, but I can see why they went obsolete. Maybe we'll have something similar in the near future, but I see it having modular pieces depending on the mission. We kept launching a "cargo ship" into orbit no matter what the payload.

[@override7486]

It if was made just as delivery system or cargo vehicle, there was no need for a crew. Most of the missions, except "research", was just flippin' the switches or other minor things. Maybe the Hubble Telescope or ISS couldn't be made without use of the Shuttle, but we know EVERY single flight was a huge risk, with millions if things to be aware of, and where single problem/fault means loose of entire vehicle and/or crew. Space Shuttle is entirely different thing compared to the rest of regular spaceships. And still not even close routine "space shuttle" flights. How anyone could come to conclusion space flights would become normal, regular thing, like going to the shop doing groceries or whatever. It's insane. With the best vehicle ever, it always will be a huge risk, no matter what. Just thinking about it. it's silly.

[@HarbingerOfTears]

@@override7486 I want to see you eat your words in a couple of years when SpaceX’s Starship makes it routine. Heck, for cargo, Falcon 9 has already made it routine with Starlink launches.

[@SIXITHS]

The space shuttle never _"went obselete"_ as there is still no replacement for its capabilities even a decade after its retirement.

[@johnmurray9526]

Ofcourse its high risk. But I bet every astronaut was more than willing to accept that risk. I agree it never went obsolete. Bush decided a war in Afghanistan was a more important thing to waste money on than the shuttle program 🙄

[@johnkean6852]

@@HarbingerOfTears All snake oil and bolloney. Nothing in space. Cant get through the dome. See: " Project Fishbowl." Wake up

[@andrewhillis9544]

THE SPACE SHUTTLE NASA GOT WAS NOT THE DESIGN THEY WANTED ! ! !😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@jamesrobert4106]

The nerve of Rogers to describe it as an "accident".

[@teknoaija1762]

I was in 6th grade here in Finland and the landing was due 15.00 local time and it was shown live in tv.When we are leaving the classroom our nutty teacher says:"It s going to crash,nobody is able to do something like this."He was quite embarrassed next day.

[@johnkean6852]

Wake up its a fantasy not real

[@teknoaija1762]

Your poor trolling isn t catching any of my fish.@@johnkean6852

[@LastEmperor86]

Russians have used the Soyuz space capsule since 1959 to date and never had a single accident,it's actually nicknamed the Volkswagen beetle of space travel.NB:The Soyuz is what Americans have been using since shuttles were grounded in 2011.

[@effingcool1780]

Agree. Soyuz is extraordinary with its 60s technology. Of course it is not big as space shuttle, if Shuttle is a bus,Soyuz is just a taxi. It can't carry much stuff. But surprisingly long living ,economical and safer.

[@LastEmperor86]

@@effingcool1780 the shuttle is a technological wonder nevertheless

[@johnkean6852]

Nothing in 'space.' Wake up.

[@onakoyayemi8985]

America conquers the world 🌍

[@edwilko8819]

And nothing to replace it with nothing to replace Concorde either its like we're going backwards and slower oh wait we are 😂

[@TheMrSafeTheFirst]

Columbia’s crew spent more than 16 days in space - 22 days, 10 hours, 16 minutes.

[@johnkean6852]

No

[@felicianogoisdefreitas3159]

Vida para sempre. ארבור דה וידה. דייווי-דה. ADN-COD-DNA

[@tanthiennguyen9308]

Unbelievable, what were happend...............? NASA

[@elciosampaio2018]

26:37 someone from space talking via phone!!??

[@jchrg2336]

Start the tele-time-travel(traveling) machine

[@heruwahyudi6060]

Slamat pagi sadarra jaya 3x slalu slamahnya dunia aman semoga sukses slamah 2nya slamat pagi 🌟❤🌟

[@mikewillis44]

why didn't the heat the joints like you heat racing car tyres. or some other way.

[@KepokLekor69]

And now.. space X taking over..and took human to Mars..

[@denzilblack3121]

Went everywhere but space