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The Rise and Fall of the Space Shuttle | Free Documentary Space

209K views · May 2, 2026 · Science & Technology

Comments · 119

  • @cornelldgreen · 4 months ago

    Fascinating that, in Star Trek, the <b>Enterprise</b> was a <b>Constitution-class</b> vessel…

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  • @heyitsvos · 1 day ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN7P9wBruD4&amp;t=1588">26:28</a> that is the BEST view of the roll program I’ve ever watched. Just wow

  • @dldavi · 4 months ago

    Fun Fact: @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN7P9wBruD4&amp;t=2350">39:10</a> - NASA thought about retrofitting Enterprise to replace Challenger. When they added up the cost of the retrofit, it was cheaper to just build a new shuttle, so that’s how we got Endeavor.

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  • @LeeAxonisDigifin · 4 months ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN7P9wBruD4&amp;t=996">16:36</a> dude just chilling on a BMX as a Shuttle pulls by. Peak chill life 👌🏼💪🏼

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  • @chrisbrown6548 · 1 month ago

    The video quality is amazing for the footage to be recorded in the 80’s

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  • @RustyShackleford667 · 4 months ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN7P9wBruD4&amp;t=14">0:14</a> that is one of my favorite parts of the Saturn V launching. The vapor swirling around the booster looks beautiful. It showcases the raw power of those F-1 engines.

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  • @NeneLemin-f1o · 2 months ago

    I&apos;ve always been fascinated by space exploration. Absolutely amazing footage.

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  • @JSRO-k4r · 1 month ago

    Fun Facts about the Challenger and Columbia accidents: The 1986 movie Space Camp was released in theaters a few months later around the same year as the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy. &nbsp; <br> <br>Little Mammoth Media did the The Big Space Shuttle video during the STS 83 and STS 94 flights before the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy happened a few years later. <br> <br>Both the 1986 movie and the 2003 Little Mammoth Media documentary video made for kids are released in different years in different times both of these tragic events happened. &nbsp; <br> <br>Back in 1997 I&apos;m glad that Little Mammoth Media went to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and got a chance to the video before the STS 107 flight. Also, back in 2003 I was 7 years old and I didn&apos;t know about the Columbia tragedy and I was very young at the time.

  • @DisasterxUs · 4 months ago

    Pretty bummer way to end the film, the program accomplished a lot.

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  • @roboflier2000 · 4 months ago

    If only they made the orbiters smaller and lighter, thus less complex and less costly to operate, the Shuttle Program might have survived longer, even until present day.

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  • @jray1429 · 2 months ago

    It’s amazing they flew over 130 missions!<br>Overall the program was successful and ground breaking. <br>Its season ended and it was just another step forward.

  • @MuhamadAimanHakim-c6k · 4 months ago (edited)

    Damm the quality is un real

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