The Space Shuttle Program

With the triumph of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the rearview mirror, the world needed a new way to remain in space. In 1972, the Space Transportation System (STS), also known as the Space Shuttle Program, continued NASA's legacy of leading the world in space exploration.
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[@jacobandmore3915]

Space Shuttle Endeavor is in a hanger at Southern California Science Center. I have seen it twice and it is one the most amazing machines I have ever seen. It is worth the visit.

[@bjbeardse]

You should go see Atlantis at KSC. It's even more impressive the way it is displayed.

[@joedurran3122]

God damn I teared up at that speech by the Captain of Space Shuttle Atlantis near the end of the video

[@TheGreatBigMove]

joe durran What’s wrong with the speech?

[@jon1477]

The Great Big Move , it’s heartwarming

[@zinussan50]

12:18 That is such heroic speech by commander.

[@boecraft1]

very thorough and well made video. I noticed you have great potential for this channel. Keep up the good work!

[@TheGreatBigMove]

Thank you, I appreciate that. I'm aiming for a video every 2 weeks based on my current schedule, so be sure to check back soon for the next one.

[@busterbeagle2167]

I was in 5 th grade and in class watching the challenger launch/disaster God bless their souls For those younger then I- the country always came to a halt when the shuttle launched. EVERYONE was watching it launch.

[@davidmyersretiredaerospace8038]

My daughter worked on the program.

[@crakkbone]

Neat :)

[@uncleshark1103]

Having been born in the mid 1980s and growing up in central Florida, the Space Shuttles were almost routine background actors in daily life. We'd go out the back door and watch shuttles take off in the distance, and several days later, when a massive double shockwave they called the "Sonic Boom" would occur upon re-entry, we would shrug and say "another shuttle landing..." Strange now to look back at how rare my childhood experience was in the grand scheme of human history, compared to how completely normal and mundane it felt back then.

[@ez4039]

Great content man keep it up

[@TheGreatBigMove]

Thank you!

[@burroaks7]

between the abom logistics video and this I am completely shocked as why these are the least viewed of this entire channel..... keep it up this is incredible and people need to know this stuff

[@TheGreatBigMove]

All of my non-maritime history videos are significantly less popular for some reason, but I'll continue to make videos on aviation and other non-maritime topics nonetheless. Thanks for watching!

[@burroaks7]

@@TheGreatBigMove Excellent content , don't stop em they well eventually come around in views. trends and algorithms.... lol.. also people love ocean liners.... i mean how many Titanic movies are there even the nazi one lol

[@burroaks7]

also have you ever sailed the SS Badger??? from Manitowoc Wisconsin to Ludington Michigan??? Last coal fired steamer on the Great Lakes also Manitowoc is a pretty cool town good cheap eats, close to Oshkosh for Airventure AAAAaaand a submarine USS Cobia... unfortunately not a Manitowoc built boat but still awesome none the less.. also Sputnik IV crash site in the middle on one of the downtown streets. It's pretty awesome

[@augustosolari7721]

@@TheGreatBigMove I Will tell you the reason. There are no dedicated channels on civil transatlantic shipping except Honor&Glory AND that one Is focused mainly on Titanic. There are many channels devoted to the space rave but we ocean liner fanatics were quite starved!

[@GarfieldRex]

Awesome! Now we need a brief video about the automatic Russian shuttle. I wonder if they ever imagined a rocket landing to be reused, space x like.

[@EstorilEm]

The statements from the mission director are taken completely out of context. It's common in test flights and in other high-risk environments monitored by ground-based stations to NOT TELL THE CREW about potential risks that they have absolutely NO chance of fixing or even impacting in any manner. Doing so is a "human factors" issue, which impairs a crews judgement and may become a contributing factor to some other unrelated issue due to crew performance. If they can't change it, don't tell them - he wasn't saying "the space shuttle sucks" - he was just explaining a LONG-understood policy with mission control, etc. Similar moments occurred during Apollo 13 and others.

[@905JimRaynor]

the crew was in a secret military installation and never left the ground. none of them died. relax man.. its all good.. no one was hurt.

[@WeWuzKangs]

I dont understand how everyone is sleeping on this video

[@TheGreatBigMove]

What do you mean?

[@rex_animations6955]

Dang I was actually kinda bored since this was assigned to me by school lol but I still liked it

[@TheGreatBigMove]

@@rex_animations6955 What class was it for?

[@rex_animations6955]

Science, we recently ended the space race and we’re moving on with the history. We were gonna have a field trip to the Kennedy space center, but online school

[@TheGreatBigMove]

@@rex_animations6955 Glad to hear they're covering some of the scientific history. The space race is an inspiring story. If you're interested but don't want to watch a documentary, the movie First Man gives a very compelling account of the space race from the American perspective.

[@robertettinger9698]

More dangerous than Apollo...

[@Theironminer-ky2pg]

No. the space shuttle program had a shit ton more missions and therefore had two failures.

[@anticarrrot]

This video felt a little brown-nosey. It skipped over all the important shuttle related decisions and events that happened before 72, and passes little 'in hindsight' judgement on the programme. It is very hard to look back and call the Shuttle anything other than a series of monstrous errors of judgement that held human spaceflight back for decades.

[@sudonum3108]

Yes, I learned many years ago that there were many proposed designs for the STS put forward. The one chosen was the least favoured by the aeronautical engineers as it was the cheapest proposed and inherently dangerous; an important detail methinks.

[@rapidhistory3344]

Good video but not very thorough ive studied the shuttle for over. 8 years But. Good job i started watching cuz of the nazi ship

[@TheGreatBigMove]

It definitely is. This is one of my first videos, so I was still figuring out the format of my videos. If I were to make this video today, I would likely split it up into two parts and go into more detail.

[@rapidhistory3344]

@@TheGreatBigMove ik ik Dont worry im not criticizing it dw

[@rapidhistory3344]

Its a good vid

[@rapidhistory3344]

I love ur vids

[@bjbeardse]

@@TheGreatBigMove I am working on one right now. Currently is about 4 hours long, but I really want to get into the nuts and bolts of the program.

[@busterbeagle2167]

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