Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Space Program Highlights - Mercury thru Shuttle pt. 4

The space shuttle Columbia launching on a 1982 mission.

PRE - LAUNCH

Space Shuttle Launch

Space shuttle launch, interior of shuttle, ext of satellite payload being launched from Shuttle. Saudi astronauts doing tests inside Shuttle

Space Shuttle launch. High-speed (slow motion) footage of a launch of a Space Shuttle. This footage shows the base of one of the booster rockets, including the moment explosive bolts fire to release the rocket for launch. The Space Shuttles were spacecraft designed to be launched into low Earth orbit. Operated by NASA, the US space administration, they flew 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. They were launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, USA, attached to an external tank and two solid rocket boosters. Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel from the external tank was used to run the Shuttle's main internal engines. Most of the thrust was from the two booster rockets that used an explosive solid fuel mixture. An ascent to Earth orbit took about 9 minutes. The rocket thrust accelerated the shuttle upwards, achieving an escape velocity of over 40,250 kilometres per hour. Footage from launch pad cameras were used to monitor and analyse each launch.

SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH, NOVMEBER 12, 1981

1980s: Satellite launched into space from Space Shuttle. Space Shuttle lands on runway as people watch. President Ronald Reagan gives speech. Space Shuttle on launch pad at night. Earth from space.

Space Shuttle Atlantis before launch at Pad 39, Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Orbiter 104 Atlantis is on Mission 51-J. Clouds in the background. The space shuttle is launched. Smoke rises in the sky. Location: Cape Canaveral Florida USA. Date: October 3, 1985.

space shuttle launch - w/s launch - camera tracks shuttle in flight

Various shots angles of Space shuttle on lift-off.

SPACE SHUTTLE, LAUNCH

Space Shuttle Columbia, embarking on the first orbital flight of the Shuttle (mission STS-1), taking off from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA, on April 12th 1981. Two days later the Shuttle, piloted by veteran astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, returned to Earth at Edwards Airforce Base, California.

1960s: Space shuttle launch. Rocket takes off. Sputnik 1 satellite.

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