Space shuttle lands on LA

[@BoxofficeMoviesScenes]

Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?

[@tazanteflight8670]

Zero. You dont list the name of the movie. Unless the title is "Space shuttle lands on LA" COME ON

[@Zavenge]

The Core @@tazanteflight8670

[@Roseneck12]

@@tazanteflight8670 I am no them but "The Core"

[@Blackvertigo1]

The Core is my favorite movie.@@Roseneck12

[@skylerjr2648]

-10/10 I feel robbed having watched this sinful scene. The rest of The Core is no better. A movie heavily dependent on science get's exactly none of it right.

[@Salty_Balls]

If that shuttle had come over the Baseball game during the National Anthem, fans would remember it as the greatest pregame fly over EVER.

[@MondayS2125]

i'm dead ☠

[@aucoinroland9072]

That would have taken a massive crane to lift out of there

[@MrQuest0]

@@aucoinroland9072 He said fly over, not land. The stadium is too small to make for a runway, so it would've just crashed otherwise, killing everyone there. Also, *would have taken. Sorry.

[@shawnofdanaukota3843]

I bet the fans will be having the best flyover show the have seen in their life.

[@1KingsSFS]

Fr

[@davidorf3921]

I love some of the comments here, seriously if you have ever seen the film the landing of the shuttle is one of the most realistic parts of the entire movie

[@dorbie]

Must be a real stinker.

[@davidorf3921]

@@dorbie It's a Science FICTION movie, if you accept that its FICTION it's ok, certainly not the worst I've seen

[@dorbie]

@@davidorf3921 I like science in my science fiction to be grounded in reality, that's the point of it. Otherwise it's just fantasy fiction, which is OK, but sci-fi as a genre exists and is popular because of its futurism and potential plausibility. Clearly we have different standards. The real problem with his kind of Hollywood garbage is it starts with a director saying "I want the Space Shuttle to crash land in downtown LA." and works back from there. So you get a load of implausible fantastic nonsense to get to that point, and the more you know the more BS it is. Yes the rest of the movie is spectacularly worse, but a turd in a cesspool is still a turd. For you this swill might be entertaining, for me it's not & calling it science fiction doesn't excuse it, it just insults real science fiction.

[@EmaRussoUltra]

@@dorbiei remember the waves of NASA based science fiction movies that we got for a while ten years ago. It was very boring to me. The Expanse was the series to get me back into it, since it was the most realistic thing around without being all “we could build it today if we wanted”. This movie, the Core, has a train made in a special heat-absorbing metal that can go down to the center of the Earth, it’s not the best movie, but it had some cool ideas and designs.

[@MikeTheGamer77]

@@dorbie Can you not just sit there and enjoy the spectacle of a movie about a made up scenario? I mean, it is a sci-fi movie. They do not need to be realistic, in the slightest. Sure, its cool if there is some real science behind it but if not, who cares?

[@spavliskojr]

love how the astronaut busts out a basic sectional chart and E6B flight computer like they are on a student pilot cross country flight in a cessna. very realistic lol

[@silverbucketaviation28]

LOL I KNOW

[@davidkamerath7749]

I like that the sectional shown repeatedly shows all the friggin airports around and they just ignore them for the freeway…

[@noahmiller985]

@@davidkamerath7749 RIGHT THEY WERE COMING FROM THE WATER LIKE BEST OPTION IS DEF 07'S OR 06'S OF KLAX NOT THE FUCKING RIVER

[@noahmiller985]

or ontario, or ANYTHING but the river

[@CheapFlashyLoris]

​@@davidkamerath7749 Shuttle needed a special 15,000' runway to land on. Longest at LAX is 11,000'. Not that it makes the canal landing more realistic, but it at least tells you why the airports weren't considered.

[@staticmode25]

Average day in a gta online lobby in Los Santos

[@darkshadowgamingii]

It’s funny how i was doing some stunts on the LS canals earlier using a Mallard plane

[@toptiergaming6900]

I was waiting for someone to mention that

[@bedeckt]

at least they landed close to the spawn point and can just call another plane to get out of there

[@user-tz4nm5rv7g]

😁

[@bruhwot8219]

bro 💀

[@walterengler5709]

You know it's a movie based on how fast the LA fire department got there .. without a preexisting appointment

[@ultralaggerREV1]

You do realize this isn’t a Hollywood thing, right? This type of quick response is clearly common during emergency airliner landings. Whenever a plane performs an emergency landing, firefighters and/or police/soldiers are always arriving right when the plane stops.

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

🤣

[@Werrf1]

Nah, NASA has enough budget to pay for the Deluxe Express package.

[@workingbum]

That wasn't the fire department showing up. That's just the normal sound of the area

[@bugattiveyron8282]

Lol

[@cornpowa]

And to reward him for his amazing emergency shuttle landing, they went on to give him command of the Enterprise upon its completion.

[@dmadd4643]

But first, he must Journey to the Center of the Earth on a Fantastic Voyage. ... ... ...I can dig it. Ba Dum, Tish.

[@cattdaddyncornflake3122]

@@dmadd4643Well you don’t know, what we can see, why don’t you…

[@tylerbuckley4661]

Actually the shuttle enterprise was 70s 80s it retired when challenger and Columbia were entered into service

[@HSRUA427]

@@tylerbuckley4661Starship Enterprise

[@chrisfs150]

​@@tylerbuckley4661 he doesent mean THAT enterprise He means THE enterprise

[@TimeSpinner]

This movie is technically flawed, but I love how this scene is showcases good crew management. Captain calls, copilot confirms. Copilot presents options, captain takes them in advisement. When captain declines an option, he immediately says why, so every pilot has the same situational awareness. Crew stays in touch with air traffic control to declare intentions, but keeps flying the ship first in mind. ATC tries to organize a ground response while staying communicative with as much information as they can give the crew. Third pilot doesn't try to make command decisions, only provides information to the two with the hot seats. No egos, just coordination.

[@mediawarrior5957]

What movie was this?

[@TimeSpinner]

@@mediawarrior5957 The Core, 2003.

[@jeffery7281]

Perfect CRM, only problem is why don't they just diverted to LAX.

[@spectrumstudios4848]

Imagine you go to work on a normal warm day and a space shuttle is just casually parked behind you.

[@LeKingGansas]

I had the same thought 🤣🤣🤣

[@lucasgrd4258]

Sir you can't park there

[@LarryZ-t3j]

I actually watched the space shuttle being towed by a Toyota pickup down exposition Blvd. Probably stalled in traffic?

[@GeoffryWK]

"The Core (2003)" While in it's re-entry procedure, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor find themselves several miles off course. Instead of being aligned with Edwards Air Force Base, they are heading directly for downtown Los Angeles. The shuttle makes an emergency landing in the L.A. River, avoiding a catastrophic accident. Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs (Hilary Swank) was the navigator for the mission and is nearly court-martialed before it's determined that she performed her duties perfectly and that the strange magnetic anomalies around the world were responsible

[@sidv4615]

damm throughout my 20 years spent at NASA I never knew the shuttle had a navigator. 😂😂

[@krashd]

@@sidv4615 You should if you worked at NASA, their console is two rows down from the flight director next to guidance.

[@damienkramer]

Wasn’t the shuttle crewed by civilians?

[@sidv4615]

@@damienkramer yeppp. They were either ex-military or had always been civilians. But maybe in the movie it was a military mission

[@damienkramer]

@@sidv4615 maybe, but I’m still not sure why they didn’t even mention an attempt at landing at LAX since a flight path that takes them from the coast over dodgers station (stadium) would place them not far from LAX

[@AB-mw8oz]

I love how he was so concerned about writing off the space shuttle with the drag chute only to have the space shuttle a 100% write off anyway because it clipped the bridge. Space shuttle contingency plans meant the space shuttle could land at airports that had a runway of at least 10,000ft, and judging by the altitude they had at the start they could have reached LAX which has a 13,000ft runway, Ontario which has a 12,000 and 10,200ft runway and Long Beach which as a 10,000ft runway

[@Mgl1206]

Pretty sure he’s thinking if they lose the tail they lose air brakes

[@nikelinq2899]

Its entertaining but not accurate. The shuttle has a large cross range capability (upwards of 1000km), several redundant guidance systems. you would have to ROYALLY fuck up to be that short of Edwards (as in somehow bleeding all of your velocity and altitude ) there are many runways it can land on (its minimum safe distance is 8530.184ft, or 2600 meters)

[@VigilanteAgumon]

The novelization was a bit clearer on the matter. If they turned towards the airport, or away from the city, they would've lost too much altitude and wouldn't have made it.

[@dannysunay4386]

The stats! Your comment gave me a headache!!!!

[@andrionmehani6641]

The scene where the SpaceShuttle flew over the baseball stadium is so cool

[@jaredbrown3249]

A new fly over

[@Mr_cube.]

That has got to be the most kerbal space shuttle landing i have ever seen

[@sunayocarissime5309]

I remember a friend from the Air Force told me once that this scene was actually pretty slick. Something about the shuttle being like, "flying a brick with a bad hangover and your whole arm feeling a piece of beef jerky."🤣🤣🤣

[@gabrieldarcy9067]

The shuttle glided so poorly that the test vehicle used to mimic it was a gulfstream 2 jet with the rear landing gear permanently deployed and the engines put in reverse!

[@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie]

how bad is it compared to the F-4 phantom

[@donsmith2833]

That's why Naval Aviators always made the best shuttle pilots ;)

[@h2835]

@@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie Should be way worse. The phantom had a glide ratio of 3:1. So for every 3 feet forward you go 1 feet down. The shuttle? It depends on the speed. While hypersonic it was 1:1, in supersonic flight (about 100k feet up) it was 2:1, and subsonic it is 4.5:1 So about 50% worse, than the F-4 phantom. It is not without reason, that all pilots had a firm belief, that a box in which the space shuttle could be placed into had a better glide ratio than the shuttle itself.

[@matthewcaughey8898]

The story I got is the shuttle flew like a cow, upon reentry it flew like a drunken cow

[@eTraxx]

I don't care how realistic is or isn't .. love this bit of film ology ...

[@Arcturus572]

Just like watching the "Mighty Mo" drift in Battleship... Complete BS, but oh, so much fun to watch...

[@Corruptinator]

Regardless of his unwitting awareness... not only that construction worker got SUPER LUCKY, but now he has an epic story to tell the next time he goes into a bar.

[@RappinPicard]

Well he’s probably fucked from the hypergolic fuel that shuttle uses for RCS.

[@PrograError]

@@RappinPicard well... it's only cancer in a few decades time right?? nothing wrong with getting to live the high life meanwhile....

[@RappinPicard]

More like within hours because the RCS system uses MMH and NTO and it’s really toxic just in general. Not in a “you’ll get cancer in 20 years,” but like “you will need to go to the hospital right away.”

[@digitalnomad9985]

@@RappinPicard Only if it leaks, or if the pilot was using the RCS to help brake. Vacuum does not leave residue of liquids on surfaces, nor does reentry. I know Boeing was a contractor for the Shuttle but in those days their shit didn't leak.

[@dannysunay4386]

You know it's movie when the construction workers speak english!!!!😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@spaceflight1019]

What everyone misses is that the entire flight path of a shuttle was predetermined as soon as the mission was given the green light. The only thing that the Earth's magnetic field does is to induce voltages along the length of the vessel. The ISS has to deal with this too, and the electrical charges between the station and docking spacecraft must be equalized during the docking procedure. Ironically, Endeavour would have had to have been on a glide path similar to that of Columbia to be where it was. At the end of the day, it's just a plot device, nothing more.

[@k1productions87]

The movie assumes the Endeavour was set to land at Edwards AFB, not KSC. Edwards itself is just outside of Los Angeles (near Palmdale/Lancaster) What it would have done is give the automatic navigation a false bias, pointing the craft at the wrong angle when doing its deceleration burn. Change the angle of the burn, you change the flight path. And since the burn takes place on the other side of the planet, it doesn't take more than a foot or two of delta-V to get the path to shift from Edwards to Los Angeles.

[@_IMNNO]

Ackchyually 🤓

[@nikelinq2899]

@@k1productions87 the shuttle has a huge cross range capability, you would have to royally screw up entry to be that short of edwards, a magnetic field shift would not do this

[@k1productions87]

@@nikelinq2899 assuming you catch it in time. By the time they realized where they were, they were already at 15,000 ft. The "flying brick" absolutely cannot recover from that. Especially not with a 100-150 ft/s descent rate

[@nikelinq2899]

@@k1productions87 they still have more than enough energy to make it to a runway, or ditch into the ocean as per procedure

[@lachlankeddie7]

The fact that this was showing in cinemas just a few months after the Columbia disaster was bold, to say the least...

[@WASTEOFTIMESTUDIOS]

fun fact, the landing gear was entirely gravity dependent for deployment and could NOT retract so that part is 100% bullshit, If this scenario occurred , I'm sure they would go for an ocean ditching.

[@randomstuff-cu4of]

it was on the ground in this scene however. might nit be able to fully retract but it should be able to collapse in under the weight of the shuttle if whatever locks the gear is unlocked

[@LouEstes-k2p]

@@randomstuff-cu4of if you look at the final scene it was standing with landing gear fully extended again, so it would've had to retract then redeploy for the 'science' to be accurate

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

@@randomstuff-cu4of I don't think it was possible to unlock the gear from the cockpit.

[@skylerjr2648]

Fun fact, this is also entirely bullshit. They were retractable, just not in flight. The shuttle was rated for 100 flights. The landing gear was indeed retracted each time, obviously. The main deployment method is hydraulic. One cylinder to release the latch, another to push them down. No way to unlock it in flight. Should they lose hydraulic the gear also had a pyrotechnic charge to blow the latch and gravity used to pull them down. To stow them, it requires additional steps. Namely, releasing the booster spring. Which cannot be done from the cabin. This scene is pure crap. Especially when we see the shuttle with the gear extended at the end. A proper landing would be set it up over the ocean and the crew to all bail out. A landing like this would never be attempted.

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

@@skylerjr2648 While there is a brief shot showing them traveling east over the ocean, a few cuts later they are traveling south, flying at low altitude over the stadium. This doesn't really make sense, but whatever. At some point before the stadium show, an ocean landing became impossible. Had the production picked a non costal city, it would have been impossible even outside continuity errors. Clearly the point of the scene is that an ocean ditching wasn't possible, which leaves them with this, or a crash. Bailing out 5-6 of the 7 crew is still something I'd have done, but there was no autopilot. This was the pilots only hope.

[@stephenfarthing3819]

This is the Film " The Core!" And out of 10 - I'd give it a 8 ! As being intriguing!

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

Yeah, some films, like this and 2012, are just good escapes no matter the BS depicted.

[@filanfyretracker]

​@@k.chriscaldwell4141 being an escape movie is why it did not land at LAX, diversion to a long runway is no where near as fun as the car chase river in LA.

[@baneblackguard584]

"how'd your day go honey?" "Almost got run over by a space shuttle... "

[@DanielTAKD]

"oh and my co-workers left me for dead, so I quit" Seriously, they did ditch him to save themselves. I would yell at them, then quit, if I was in his place.

[@mattep74]

Considering how the rest of the movie is this scene is the most realistic

[@zydration3538]

That's like being the tallest dwarf.

[@TheLeveledUpMan]

Imagine being a construction worker going about your day when a space shuttle appears and just starts drifting towards you :D

[@pschroeter1]

"Hang on, this isn't going to be subtle." That should have become a classic.

[@k1productions87]

Oh its a line I use quite often whenever I fly, LOL

[@MyToastyToast]

I read your comment just as he said that

[@Schwxrzritter]

This is such a early 2000s childhood memory movie that my dad and I loved watching together... some of our earliest inside jokes came from this movie 😂

[@MaheshWalatara]

I saw this in the cinema back in Melbourne and was blown away.

[@Rei_doll]

It’s kind of funny how the shuttle in the scene is endeavor when endeavor is actually displayed in LA

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Foreshadowing maybe...

[@DwarfingtonVR]

2:20 smoothest Ryanair landing

[@TheQuinto2010]

@3:27 WTF was Mitch even grinding on that scaffolding? He was either grinding air or the scaffolding itself.

[@oof326]

Clearly it’s a square hole

[@overlord57911]

3:52 best time for avengers theme

[@PanAm747av]

3:59 emergency department driving in water 💀

[@ST19859]

It always amazes me how anytime there is a spectacular natural disaster in movies in takes place in NY city, LA or San Francisco, on the same note anytime an out of control aircraft is crashing or an alien force invades they are doing it in the same areas. Personally I would reconsider my choice of places to live if I were people there

[@jamesbridges6502]

Really though can't we throw Cincinnati, Kansas City, or Phoenix a little bit of love.

[@edhanson8214]

And Paris, France.

[@ST19859]

@@edhanson8214 that's right the Eiffel Tower always seems to be in harms way too

[@k1productions87]

This is one of the few movies where Rome gets its chance at destruction

[@Indoor_Carrot]

If it's another country it only ever happens in the capital city.

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

Very realistic portrayal of a welders helper, just grinding away... completely oblivious to the danger behind him.

[@mroctober3657]

The whole movie shoulda been filmed from that welders POV. Woulda saved a fortune on the budget too.

[@jackterrariangamer2783]

“Sorry sir, you can’t park your space shuttle here. I’m going to have to give you a ticket.”

[@stephenc4790]

That's Admiral Pike!

[@robertsneddon8764]

Kirk is in the back with spock

[@cashewnuttel9054]

He was also the CEO of the robot company in I, Robot.

[@scarecrow108productions7]

​@@cashewnuttel9054and the voice of "Overlord" in MW3

[@pauldelaney5990]

I remember the scene from die hard 2. When the planes appeared through the fog to land, it was like a row of busses coming down oxford street. Unknown amount of planes, carrying an unknown amount of passengers, all waiting to crash onto Chicago. That was the most scary part of the movie.

[@strikerdelta]

It was Washington Dulles, but thanks for playing.

[@mroctober3657]

"They're using the friggin' fire to see!"

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

I still can't believe how many times I've watched this film. It's not realistic but I find it a bit fun.

[@jaypaint4855]

0:18 You know they haven’t watched the Space Shuttle approaches before when they show it in a nose-level attitude…

[@KamalaChameleon]

Finally watched this movie.. it was fun!

[@AJFisherDesign]

Such a great scene and so unique. Kudos to whoever thought this scene up.

[@1KingsSFS]

The Fact That The Shuttle Got Damaged Yet Still Survived Is Crazy

[@AJFisherDesign]

I love this scene. It’s creative and exciting. In reality I’d imagine an emergency landing path into the ocean but parallel to the coastline would be feasible…but then not as exciting perhaps lol.

[@spaceflight1019]

Well...the stadium crowd would have heard the two sonic booms that precede a shuttle landing, and seeing as how Endeavour currently resides in LA, they could have just left it there. One minor goof: once the landing gear is down it has to be manually lifted up when the orbiter is in the processing facility.

[@James-kd5oe]

To bad the Endevor has to be in that commie controlled shithole.

[@sosaix3545]

The sonic booms would have occurred at a far higher altitude than shown when over the stadium.

[@Liam0878]

dude nice shuttle space landing

[@batman_2004]

3:38 Lmao that guy 🤣

[@wjpshaw]

Wow, Grease hits different these days.

[@iitzfizz]

It says they're going to hit down town LA at 300 knots yet when it flies over the stadium there is a double sonic boom implying it's travelling faster than the speed of sound which is well over 600 knots

[@Incognito-vc9wj]

Reminds me of Airport '77. In the eighties this would've been great!

[@brazed420]

You know its an intense scene when someone mumbles "come on" a few times 😂

[@DarthAverage]

1:00 ... the sonic boom would _follow_ the shuttle passing overhead, not come in front of it. Also, a shuttle flying at 300 knots will not produce a sonic boom under any circumstances.

[@derekhartig1492]

Maybe twice that speed

[@digitalnomad9985]

When the Shuttle drops to subsonic, the shock wave pulls ahead of it. If the Shuttle is high enough, the boom will be heard by a listener as the Shuttle passes overhead. If you watched the coverage of the first Shuttle landing the sonic boom was heard by the observers as the Shuttle was making its final approach.

[@ganeshayahyasutedja5757]

3:40 PEEK-A-BOO!!!!

[@markod5901]

2:30 Ah yes, speed brakes, the one of many kinds of brakes

[@jaredbrown3249]

This is my favorite space shuttle landing

[@350smooth9]

They did not just bust out a sectional chart and an E6B in the space shuttle!!! 😂

[@7318ify]

That thing would be stripped for parts as soon as it stopped 😂

[@SallyRodrigues-i4p]

Honestly I love the attention to detail that that was Space Shuttle Atlantis cuz the other two crashed

[@edutaimentcartoys]

amazing landing

[@tannerbass7146]

Core was actually pretty good

[@Octolicia]

3:40 : That guy's hour didn't come. If he wasn't believing in god, then I think he should. ^^

[@captain_will.]

Hold on is that the guy who played pike in star trek 2009

[@DarkLordDeimos]

Bruce Greenwood. Excellent actor.

[@iLikePlanez]

That would really *SUCK* having to be an astronaut and having to land in a big ass city like LA

[@paulhirst4791]

Happy New Year NASA, Space Force, Space X, Blue Origin and Virgin Space! Best Wishes for the NEW Year! Thank God! Regards! Paul

[@Astro-pilot_Night]

Butter landing 💀 Houston we f up real bad

[@nochannelnamezero]

2:18 nissan silvia s15 in the background, very cool

[@BlancaFierro-Duarte]

Wow. Endeavor landed in its home before it actually knew that this was its home! 😂😂😂

[@unsatisfiedfans7422]

In this movie, it seems that there are no airports or airfields in LA

[@cardboard9124]

well to be fair the shuttle required 3 miles to land, not many runways offer that...

[@kalaong]

I *ADORE* this element of the movie; first they try to pin the whole thing on her, then when the plot kicks in they know the world is going to end without someone as awesome as her, and then her C.O. is bu++-hurt and tries to spin the whole thing that he'd prefer *NOT* to have her on his team because... wait for it; "Because you're so good, you haven't hit anything you couldn't beat. I mean, h3ll, you were the one who figured out how to save the shuttle. You made me, you made the rest of NASA just look like an 4ss. It's just that you're used to winning - and you're not really a leader until you've lost."

[@MatheusDeFreitasSilva]

THAT WAS A PERFECT EMERGENCY LANDING FOR A SPACE SHUTTLE

[@willcall9431]

A water landing just off the beach would have been better. . Should have added some turbo prop sound to this. Authentic!

[@markk3652]

Why is there always the one construction worker guy that’s so into his job, he doesn’t even notice the other workers in the crew running for their lives. He is just too focused on the work to sense impending doom 😂😂

[@jsb1100]

People can say what they want I still really enjoy this movie and this scene alone is one of the most intense moments in so many movies compared I still feel anxious seeing it and it's been about 50 times I have already

[@mtlreiner]

Putting aside the absurd science in this movie (which I do enjoy), this scene in particular is my favourite.

[@izzymiler6974]

I wonder how much of fun for the actors try not to get sick.

[@picharathida]

Endeavour, being the special guest for this movie.

[@repairworld2367]

Love this true story. Amazing how actors have proper jobs in real life. And how it did a fly by at the baseball stadium was pure magic. The Red Arrows weren't available that day. 😂😂

[@r.hernandez6152]

Wow! And didn't even use the parachutes and to land in water canal totally Awesome! BUT! Only in the movies!😂👍

[@blueturret5596]

That’s actually addressed at 2:34 in the video.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Why not just aim for LA-X? Wasn't it one of the emergency alternatives? Maybe it would have been too scary seeing the jets have to evade.

[@duomaxwell2293]

LA-X is to small, also due to the earths magnetic field, it screwed up all instruments, making them off course.. but in reality.. due to the events of September 11, 2001, the crew was not allowed to film at LAX. The scene was therefore rewritten with Endeavour landing in the L.A. River.

[@mattf49006]

@@duomaxwell2293 dodger stadium to lax is maybe 14 miles as the crow flies...at 300 knots and 15,000 feet they could have ditched in 20 feet of water at el segundo

[@shepardbook]

Probably should have tried for Edwards, might had enough to reach Palmdale.

[@mattf49006]

@@shepardbook if they were dropping at 300 knots and 15,000 feet at dodger stadium and barely made the LA river.....el segundo was a better chance...the San Gabriel mtns (average 10,000 feet plus ) were between chavez ravine and edwards afb

[@kilodeltaeight]

LAX wasn't ever an official alternate or emergency landing site - probably because Edwards and Vanderburg AFB's are both so close by, far less busy, and designed for shuttle landings - indeed, the first shuttle landing from orbit happened at Edwards AFB. There's not much to hit and plenty of open space in the middle of the desert on a dry lake bed, after all. That said, all but one of LAX's runways are at least 3KM long, which is the minimum distance needed - so it would be absolutely possible. One does wonder why they didn't consider Hollywood-Burbank: its runway is only 500m short, and they could have used the chute. But, then again, no one ever gives Burbank the love it deserves.

[@space232_YT_avation_and_space]

Average day in gta online

[@sgtgiggles]

Damn, they deployed that air brake mad late😂😂😂. They have that out long before landing hahaha. Also once the landing gear is down, they can’t retract it back up.

[@nefarioulyte9996]

Is the gear an actual one time deploy or do you just mean on the ground

[@sgtgiggles]

@@nefarioulyte9996 I mean per flight. The refurbishment team were the only ones who could put the gear back in the fuselage I believe. The wear and tear on these machines is insane.

[@Innocentzskully1444]

The cgi looks half baked

[@duvalculpepper]

I remember watching this very high in high school and my friends cracking up at the music as the shuttle just DROPS into frame like a fatman falling out of the sky. Ah the good old days.

[@BTSArmy-xr5nd]

“The Miracle of the Shuttle”

[@abehambino]

An entertaining little flick, downgraded to D level by its leads, and re elevated to a solid B thanks to its amazing supporting cast!

[@jimmywrangles]

Ok that was glorious.

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

...and that's how we got the Endeavor shuttle into the science museum.

[@1stDIEmond]

3:40 This guy gonna have crazy grandpa lore

[@uhdragonmasterhater]

Bro went from homelander to shuttlelander real quick😂

[@anilj4393]

That last guy working on the bridge : Why did they send Space Shuttle for me? May be my next project is on the moon. 😊

[@tylerbuckley4661]

Now that was comical when the shuttle stopped the look on the construction workers face looking at the shuttle that close would be priceless as with the skidmarks in his pants lol

[@cmalberts]

Especially since the venting hydrazine probably would have killed him a few seconds later.

[@tylerbuckley4661]

@@cmalberts true but remember this is a Hollywood bs movie where the land of lies happens on a set if that were me on that scaffolding I would have many skid marks in my undies plus a major heart attack in real life to worry about some chemical I would have be already toast lol

[@digitalnomad9985]

@@cmalberts Why would they vent hydrazine? I know Boeing was a contractor, but in those days their stuff didn't leak.

[@cmalberts]

@digitalnomad9985 historically the shuttle couldn't be approached on foot or exited for at least 30 minutes after wheels stop until the scene had been ventilated

[@tylerbuckley4661]

@@cmalberts only a movie but I remember that the shuttle had to be decontaminated before the crew could leave it

[@rivera5b]

Miracle on the Hudson premonition

[@stevengibilaro2578]

Ahh the CGI jank is just mmmm fantastic

[@-C.S.R]

I grew up in LA and every now and then the shuttle had to land in California and you would hear the sonic boom and you would know the shuttle just passed over you!

[@RiverConway]

10/10 honest answer

[@peaveyst7]

dont care how unscientific this movie is. its fun to watch.

[@deltasource56]

they could land at lax or one of the hundreds of other airports..

[@goldenboyND76]

This is the only landing of Endeavour without a dragchute and the only landing of a Space Shuttle in a river.

[@RealGracefulGoose]

You say that as if it.. actually happened?

[@neogaming7892]

This Scene Belong To "The Core"

[@albertorafaelcisnerosperfe4899]

She's Extraordinary ❤

[@celdo84]

Lol!! Movies are always so encouraging 😂😂😂😂

[@thedemolitionmuniciple]

every construction worker there gets to go home to their spouse and/or children and/or pets with the line "I was almost run over by a space shuttle today"

[@MBCGRS]

No pilot crashing an aircraft ever said, " It's out of my hands. "

[@dangeary2134]

Only on Airplane, lol!

[@spaceflight1019]

Striker!!!

[@kennethhanks6712]

I think it was already "kind of crashed"!?!

[@TimeSpinner]

When "hydroplaning at 300 knots" is your current best option you just might