The Space Shuttle - Overview (1980)

[@etbonz3499]

The care they put into the heat shield bricks is really impresive.

[@EdWeibe]

Worked it from start to finish. What a wild 32 years.

[@Zoomer30]

The Shuttle that is on the pad is Enterprise. You'll also notice that there is no LOX vent arm/hood (benie cap).

[@MattyTeare]

"$10M on a shared flight"... Try 100 to 150 times that estimate. Imagine what NASA could have done if it used the shuttle expenditure on traditional rockets

[@EnDSchultz1]

While it was an amazing feat of engineering, and has become an unmistakable icon of the space program, the Shuttle ultimately failed abysmally at almost all of its operational goals. I wonder where the space program would be today if we'd decided to continue use of the Saturn V...

[@davidodonovan4982]

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[@lawrencemanning]

Fantastic video. The Space Shuttle was a failure on many levels, especially on cost and safety, but still an amazing achievement nonetheless. If anyone has a description of the astronauts shown on the JSC sequence, from roughly 18:30 in.

[@pateva2003]

Lawrence Manning The irony is that maintenance required between flights made the reusable shuttle far more costly than advertised. It's reuseability made it more expensive, not less. The propulsion system (SSME) must be refurbished after each firing. It's like overhauling your car's engine after a trip to the grocery store. I fancy myself as one of the biggest shuttle huggers out there. In my simple opinion, the shuttle was kept in service 10 years too long. The ISS should have been constructed after the Challenger accident, then retired.

[@pateva2003]

Lawrence Manning One of them is Ron McNair. Member of STS 51L. (Challenger)

[@jasonseiler5364]

Ride, Resnick, McNair, Scobe, Covey

[@acs197]

More missions than the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo programs. It had flaws, but considering how complex it was, the engineers did a very good job.

[@davidodonovan4982]

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[@jerrybeloin4985]

Amazing decade the 80s were

[@allgood6760]

Cool vid..thanks👍🇳🇿

[@PeachLover94]

Narrator might be Bernie Alan Canter, the voice of KCET 28 Los Angeles from 1984 to 1999, I think?

[@jamiegodman715]

It's too bad that the space shuttle never even came close to achieving all the promises made in this video. Especially on cost. STS launched averaged over $1 billion per launch. It was an awesome vehicle yes, but it failure to reduce cost and inability to leave LEO had NASA stuck for 30 years. Retiring the shuttle has spurred the new space revolution with spacex and blue origin building true reusable launch vehicles.

[@GuiOmania]

Why they decide to put more black paint on the contour windows and nose later before first launch ?

[@josephgibbons1631]

They painted the foam on the tank then deleted that later. Who knew unpainted foam would have such risk.

[@AndrewSmoot]

Painted or not, the insulating foam on the ET still broke off. Painting the ET just made the whole stack heavier and wasn't worth the extra weight to keep the fuel a few degrees cooler.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

It wasn't paint. It was 'green' initiatives that changed the foam chemistry ...

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

All these are fantastic goals that will never be reached, however the Falcon 9 program will meet and in some cases exceed these stated goals. Falcon will also come close to meeting the cost WAG of $10M (in 1980 dollars) per satellite launch.

[@ararapoly]

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