History Of The Dangerous Space Shuttle Program

I remember seeing the shuttle for the first time how aw I was of its massive size. I've been very fortunate to witness three launches it's nearly undescribable the amount of power being witnessed

My favorite spaceship even being so dangerous.

Since China started their space program there are no casualties and incidents plus they have an escape capsule that makes their astronauts safe if Shits hit the fan

And Elon Musk wants to land a Heavy-lift rocket the size of an office building back on it's pad!🤣🤣

Space is an inherently dangerous place to go. I worked as a software engineer for the Rockwell STSSOC program at Mission Control, Johnson Space Center for over 20 missions. The launch pad is 39b at KSC. The SRB tests were run at Morton Thiokol testbed in Huntsville Alabama after the Challenger launch failure. The Canadian Arm was the crane mounted on the shuttle. The MMU was the sled used to get astronauts around for service maneuvers. Then there was Columbia crash that was caused by launch damage... You learn as you go; Hubble and the ISS "schooled" us often. Telemetry rules! Lots of moving parts that require some serious coordination.

Just you wait till the optimism over start ship dies once it kills it's crew.

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Chris?

Not Dangerous! Thank you for allowing comments. The Columbia reported seeing bogies before going silent. The networks aired videos from the Columbia and from the International Space Station where they were able to zoom in to check on why the radio went silent. The video from the ISS clearly showed/ shows the Columbia Space Shuttle had been destroyed by shrapnel, separated from it's fuselage, wings and parts floating around it that were not being affected or heated by any atmospheric reentry stage. The bogies were obviously Russian ICBM's seen from the shuttle camera. There are several reasons the U.S. government would sweep the attack under the rug. Conspiracy theory, I was alive and witnessed the newscast in real time. I also have the videos taken from the shuttle and the International Space Station. The Columbia was being used for a military spying mission at the time which the Russians became privy to.
My eyes don't view conspiracy theories in real time.

the fact that a CEO has better tech for flying into outer space and he stole it from us and refuses to give it to NASA and our cowardly government is too chicken to kill the loser makes all the deaths on his family! and some day he will pay!

the shuttle program continues today but it is top secret

Humans explore deal!

135 missions, 2 catastrophic failures. NOTE: The Space Shuttle itself never failed. In both cases the launch system destroyed the space shuttle: SRB's leaked and burned a hole into the External Fuel Tank and blew it up in 1986, and ice+External Fuel Tank broke off and punched a hole in the Shuttle's wing. Now ask yourself this: If you launched the Saturn V 135 times, would you have seen 2 catastrophic failures?

all fake don,t know what to believe anymore

Dangerous to jumpstart a frozen battery.
Deadly to launch a frozen Challenger.
Hole in wing? No problem we will ignore it until you land , after breaking into the atmo at 17 k miles per hour.
We were bizzy going to expensive dinnerz and celebrating our greatness.
Oooopss , oh well space IS dangerous
WHEN MORONS ARE IN COMMAND.

Apollo was more dangerous than the Shuttle. Apollo killed three astronauts and had two mission failures, in only 17 missions. The shuttle had 135 mission and killed 14. That means you are statistically more likely to die on or be part of, a failed mission on Apollo than on the Shuttle.

This barely scratched the surface about the space shuttle, there's so much more to it..

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If it sounds too good to be true..it probably is...when I. read about
Von Braun not going along with the
Space shuttles design and the scathing discussion he had about the boosters and their dangers.. I began to tke notice.
And lo and behold..he was right. and they (NASA) fired him for it.

John Young one of the greatest astronauts to ever live

As someone born early enough to remember the original run of Star Trek and yet young enough to wonder what's all the fuss about landing on the moon, I am amazed at how much of this I did not know.

I knew there were troubles and stumbles with getting the shuttle up and running.

I watched the first shuttle take off on TV. When weather and assent angle allowed, I could go outside and watch takeoffs live as I lived across the state south of Tampa for the majority of the shuttle's run.

I remember when Challenger exploded, and Endeavor came apart. But a lot of this is actually new information

As soon as I heard her accent I knew we were in store for the metric system! We don't use that here! I have no idea how high 4 kilometers is and don't want to have to flip back and forth to Google. Really frustrating

the shuttle wasnt that dangerous it was thee managment who turned it into a dangerous spacecraft .managment didmnt wait to listen to engieers on challenger or ccolumbia tragic flights i dont use the word accidents

What experimental flight test program isn't dangerous?

The base was the X-20 dinasoar and the X-15. The latter had 199 "test flights" get over it.

Without modern re telling of mighty space & technological achievements of decades ago , we’d still be stuck with historic footage being hilariously mismatched with the sound of Woodwind instrumentals -
growing up in the 1970s was so bloody weird

why so many brit-ish speaking people doing American history narration. SO ANNOYING.

I wish I was able to see a launch in person. Maybe if I wasn’t a child in the 2000s 😂 wish the space shuttle returned

Dangero whaaaat? Since 1981 started with Columbia. Many launches completed. Was this disaster avoidable? Yes. Was it preventable? YES. They knew it was a risk to launch that year under those temperatures. They also knew that a space walk around the ship were supposed to be done before returning to earth. Did they do that when Columbia was up? Suddenly TESLA comes to the picture returning to the old single rocket model with top capsule school. The U.S. government sold NASA to this TESLA idiot and the government sabotaged the space shuttle program. After 30 years? Now you think is dangerous?. Yeah,right!

Great watch ❤❤

Even if they knew reliability wasn't as good as they said the fact that they said it was extremely reliable and extremely mundane at that point may have caused some people to act the way they do whenever they are driving a car which is extremely dangerous however because you don't get in an accident 99.99999999999999999% the time well that means that you just go on autopilot and sometimes don't notice things that you otherwise would definitely care about.

There has to be a way to make a hybrid space shuttle that can go to say mock whatever we can (Google says 6.75) and then have the added advantage of being a higher and going a reasonable speed when the chemical engines engage therefore requiring that much less fuel storage needed... I mean yes you would probably not be able to get to the full Mach 6.75 however would be at least reasonable I mean I guess it's spin launch its basically doing that.

MASSIVELY DANGEROUS SHUTTLE. INHERENT DESIGN FLAWS COMPARED TO THE RUSSIAN BURAN. TWO ACCIDENTS KILLING AN INDIAN ASTRANUT.

I have news for you going to space is dangerous no matter what

It was design failure on so many levels and they were lucky that there was only 2 catastrophic failures. Putting the orbiter inline with the fuel tank. Requiring the SRB's rings to absorb the full thrust of the SSMEs trying to push it over during engine ignition verification. Mixing solid fuel and liquid fuel. No real escape system. Shuttle was a compromise that no one was happy with. Shuttle should have stopped after the 3rd launch when its true cost was revealed and improvements to Saturn should have started. Shuttle ended up being a jobs program.

They had trouble with those damn tiles coming loose all through the shuttle program.

The first disaster was on the Challenger in 1986. They launched in below freezing temperatures and the rubber o rings shrank and let the fuel leak. The shuttle blew up right after the launch.
The second disaster was on the Columbia in 2003. During launch a large piece of foam came off the external fuel tank and knocked a large hole on the left wing. During re-entry the hole let in the heat and the wing fell off. The shuttle came apart.
In each disaster all seven of the astronauts were killed, for a total of fourteen deaths.

Dangerous my ass. Complete bullshit

Nice to see the pics of the Enterprise being built, but having “dangerous” in the title of this video is a nonsense. Show me any space rocket that isn’t inherently dangerous.

This is AI generated, anti-NASA propaganda. Probably originates from a Russian troll bot farm.

Both Space Shuttle disasters were TOTALLY preventable. The culture at NASA was to blame and also the US Congress and every Presidential administration for not funding the program enough to make totally reusable vehicles and only funded just FIVE orbiters. Meanwhile the Congress has used our taxpayer money in the amount of $1.5 TRILLION to get the "bugs" out of the Lockheed/Martin Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35, which still has a ton of problems as is by now probably obsolete. Also, it was NASA's culture that caused the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion. In a book on space flight missions during Apollo, it was written that the oxygen tank that exploded had issues before the launch. After filling the tank and draining it several times, that one particular tank wouldn't completely drain the liquid oxygen during several tanking/de-tankings. To get the remaining LOX out of the tank, the engineers used heaters in the tank and during those several times the heat had frayed some insulation around wires in the tank. That LOX tank should have been replaced before the flight but to remove it and put in another tank was tedious and would delay the mission so that faulty tank was left in place. And the Apollo One fire was another disaster that could have been prevented. NASA knew about the lousy construction issues of the initial design if the Apollo capsule and idiotically decided to have a "hatch" that opened inward to that tiny capsule as well as pressurizing the capsule with our 100% oxygen. The Russians were inn a way ahead of the US space program in that the craft and the 50 plus year old Soyuz design (and now the Chinese copy) had a top module that acted as an airlock so that the middle module which ultimately returned to Earth could have a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere as later did the shuttle. Yes, the Space Shuttle did not live up to its very frequent reusability nor inexpensive access to low Earth orbit as mentioned in this video. But that was due to a lack of proper funding by Congress and the Nixon/Carter presidencies to build what NASA initially wanted. Everyone is flouting SpaceX's Starship that hasn't flown a completely successful flight and there are many unknowns about how capable it really will be an unlike the Saturn V it will need an estimated 6 to 8 other Starship launches just to refuel in microgravity, which has never been done in any quantity, the Starship to leave Earth orbit. According to Wikipedia the Saturn V could launch 116,000 plus pounds on a translunar insertion. Only time will tell how well the Starship performs and its reusability. The Space Shuttle did what other spacecraft could and the "Starship" won't have all the Space Shuttle's capabilities.

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I have a cousin who participated in the engineering of the robotic arm.

Such a shame the development of this incredible flying craft ceased.
Imagine the modern space shuttles.
That programa should be restored

I grew up in the shadows of KSC. My wife and I worked for EG&G for several years to include the time frame when the Challenger exploded.
This however is a way more recent revelation regarding the loss of 2
Shuttles and 14 astronauts.
Think it was Nov. 2017, while sitting in my friends living room discussing Nobel physicist Richard’s Feynman’s last book “What do you care what other people think” much of the book was an expos’e of his travails while investigating the Challenger explosion…in a passage from his book Feynman stated that he smelled rats at NASA, and I hate the smell of rats.
Our conversation detoured to the Colombia’s breakup. My friend had worked 20+ years on the shuttle’s heat tile program. She told me we knew we had a problem with Colombia’s wing. (Review the NASA flight directors defiant / calloused transcripts after several engineer’s requested ground and space based telescopes examine the suspect wing)
I was gobsmacked disgusted as she explained that her father was a member of NASA’s inspector general office at KSC. She told me he reveled within his task, and was giddy explaining that he summoned whistleblowers into his office, then without their knowledge he recorded the whistleblower’s interviews. Then he cut and pasted the conversation into a completely different context to discredit the whistleblower and have them fired. My friend said she despised her father, and elaborated that he was a sociopath who would provoke turmoil within the family, then he’d sit back and enjoy the melee. So there folks is just one of Feynman’s NASA’s reeking RATs.
She further elaborated that her father married a Russian bride half his age was also obligated to her children. His bride made life so miserable he eventually gave her 150K to contract a divorce…My friend related that her father’s misery couldn’t have happened to a better guy.

The $huttle boondoggle was amplified when it became financially dependent and mission constrained to deploy military payloads to supersede other delivery systems.
Sociopaths gravitate to the highest eschelons of gubment, industry, clergy...

“Dangerous” space shuttle program. Please, space flight was never safe, and if you think it is, you are highly delusional.

You're going a shuttle!
Awesome... Wait.. does it's name start with a "C"?
Yes
Na I'm good.

Do not shame this work of art. If given a chance with same materials as space x but same aero. That thing can go anywhere.