Well, going to need more than one Repair EVA for this!

Creepy, and not too cool to use a real vehicle. Should've used a Buran or something of the "could've been" variety.

Technically, doesn't look right, either. The pieces are all too close to each other and they aren't tumbling.

But the CGI is very well done. Agree with Urwumpe. Looks like Michael Bay nonsense.
 
He probably used the shuttle because of the large amount of pictures available.
I don't know if this even qualifies as CGI, since technicaly, all he does is let some images float above another.
 
Maybe its meteroite damage. Lots of rocks heading towards earth each day, maybe a big one hit or several hit the shuttle after undocking.
Armageddon style indeed, but its certainly a possibility. Even micrometeorites can do damage.
Not really a possibility. As I pointed out, there are scorch marks around all of the holes/craters. It's been avoiding being said, but this really looks more like it was done with Star Wars style lasers.
 
Oh no, alien invasion! :rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
This is the wreckage of Buran after the hangar collapse:
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Such a pity to see such a beautiful machine crushed and destroyed. :(
 
Dangit, now the Empire's going to invade earth because you've discovered the plot!
 
Even though the crash footage is not realistic in terms of the scenarios aforementioned... I still must give kudos to the guy who did this. :speakcool:
 
This is kinda off-topic but, where is the music from, anybody know?
 
The first part is from the movie "Sneakers" then at 3:06 it switches to music from "Apollo 13".
 
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The first part is from the movie "Sneakers" then at 3:06 it switches to music from "Apollo 11".

Actually the whole music is from Apollo 13.
The track is called 'The Dark side of the moon', when Apollo 13 flew around the dark side of the moon.
 
Trivia: it was used by Tex for his "Apollo 11: Remastered" video.
 
Oops. You're right. James Horner composed both movies so his style can be heard in both sound tracks. Sorry.:embarrassed:

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James Horner always reuses his music, I think he's only actually written about 4 songs. ;)

All the music from that Stalingrad movie (Enemy at the Gates?) was just remixes Apollo 13 music.
 
I was impressed during the very first seconds. Then I realized that the pieces do not rotate, which is not much realistically after such an obvious damage/collision/explosion. But the damages look almost real. Well done.

As for the music: James Honors Apollo 13 soundtracks are nice but something like well-worn after 14 years. I'd like to recommend Philip Sheppards In the Shadow of the Moon- soundtracks to those who intend to make space flight videos. But honestly, both, James Honor and Philip Sheppard Apollo soundtracks, actually only fit to Apollo. At least to my taste, because they're made for Apollo and I always relate them to Apollo whenever I hear them. But newly, I can not wait to get the soundtracks of When we left Earth.

Anyway, such a scenario shown in this nicely made video is more than unlikely. Such a fatal loss never happened in orbit within 48 years of human space flight history. The most likely scenario for each upcoming Shuttle mission is a damge, similar to that of Columbia in 2003 caused by foam loss during early ascent, so fatal in size and location that it could make a repair and re-entry impossible.

But however, like Chris Kraft (among other things director of Flight Operations - Apollo) tends to say: "We know nothing is certain. And particular in space flight is anything certain"...
 
But however, like Chris Kraft (among other things director of Flight Operations - Apollo) tends to say: "We know nothing is certain. And particular in space flight is anything certain"...

Or perhaps you just want to see a shuttle blow up? :P
 
Or perhaps you just want to see a shuttle blow up? :P

Assuming there was no crew onboard at the time then nothing would make me happier than seeing a shuttle blow up. No more talk of extending the shuttle program then, we'd have to concentrate on the future rather than holding on to the past.
 
Nice funny ride. Too bad I'm not the guy in front of the Shuttle.

Also too bad that they're using the old CRT style instrument panels.
 
James Horner always reuses his music, I think he's only actually written about 4 songs. ;)

All the music from that Stalingrad movie (Enemy at the Gates?) was just remixes Apollo 13 music.

Not to mention that he re-used most of the stuff he did for Aliens in tons of movies, including Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. The dramatic trumpet used in the river-crossing scene in Enemy of the Gates was also in the iceberg crash scene in Titanic and in the beach-head landing scene in Troy.
 
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