reduce cost :-) and turn around time 2wks WOW, that was a dream to far
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I remember watching the maiden glide test on TV when l was a kid. l woke up early to watch it!! I still remember then saying that there were four spots on a memorial wall for test pilots if something happened, and there were four test pilots in this test.
John Young and Bob Crippen were the first orbital test pilots. During re-entry, Young was instructed to switch off the computer and to fly the shuttle manually. This was done to assess whether or not the shuttle could be safely flown by hand in the event of a computer failure at very high mach numbers. This had to be known because the computer automatically performed a series of S turns to slow the shuttle down and not overshoot the landing area, since the shuttle was far more aerodynamic than a space capsule. After several successful zigzagging S turns, Young famously performed a barrel roll with the shuttle at somewhere around mach 20, if I remember correctly. What a pilot. A real space cowboy.
Whatever the pros and cons of the Shuttle project versus Apollo, you can’t deny it was an engineering marvel. One can only imagine what it could have been had an egomaniacal South African loudmouth chancer been in charge...
@@stargazer5784 20/20 hindsight, better to have overhauled the Shuttle program than do away with it. How many of those making that decision went to higher-paying jobs at SpaceX?
The perfect craft, the Space Shuttle, that could have taken us back to the moon, and built research facilities, in comfort was wasted on being an expensive Ecnoline Pick Up Truck for building the Space Station that serves no further purpose
I guess the footage of Columbia was from after a drop test from the 747 since it seems to be before the first space flight. I knew it lost some heat tiles at its first space flight but it seems it lost a hole lot already at the drop test which didn't put any significant stress on the tiles compared to a reentry. It was such a cool spacecraft, too bad it was too expensive and dangerous.
The Columbia never did any drop tests from a 747. It's first mission was STS-1 on 12 April 1981, which took it into orbit. There were a few tiles lost on that mission which came off the Orbital Maneuvering System pods on either side of the tail of the orbiter, and their loss had no effect during reentry. The only orbiter that was ever tested by being released from the back of the 747 was Enterprise, which accomplished 5 Approach and Landing Tests in the summer and fall of 1977. The images in this video of Columbia with many tiles not installed were taken after the orbiter first arrived at Kennedy Space Center to prepare for launch. Those tiles were never "lost" because they were not installed on Columbia until after being at KSC.
It doesn’t. But spaceX can do what it does for 1/1000 the cost. So one shuttle is better the one Falcon. But you can launch 100 falcons for the price of one shuttle.
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And then reality struck. No amount of propaganda makes the rocket equation any different.
Born '65. I remember the shuttle being all the rage growing up. It was a topic for all types of school teaching and discussion.
Periscope, this was awesome!
Fred Haise Jr. was Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13.
I love that Haise wore his Apollo 13 mission patch on his flight coveralls for these tests (look on his right shoulder).
2 weeks maintenance? The reality was significantly longer 3Mo? 6Mo? Year? Depended.
🖖😎👍
Still an amazing machine though.
Yeah! Two weeks and a little Windex and it's as good as new!
I grew up on north Merritt island in my families orange Grove. I have so many shuttle stories!
and look at where we are now. we had so much hope once.
.... this aged well ......
reduce cost :-) and turn around time 2wks WOW, that was a dream to far
I remember watching the maiden glide test on TV when l was a kid. l woke up early to watch it!! I still remember then saying that there were four spots on a memorial wall for test pilots if something happened, and there were four test pilots in this test.
groovy
John Young and Bob Crippen were the first orbital test pilots. During re-entry, Young was instructed to switch off the computer and to fly the shuttle manually. This was done to assess whether or not the shuttle could be safely flown by hand in the event of a computer failure at very high mach numbers. This had to be known because the computer automatically performed a series of S turns to slow the shuttle down and not overshoot the landing area, since the shuttle was far more aerodynamic than a space capsule. After several successful zigzagging S turns, Young famously performed a barrel roll with the shuttle at somewhere around mach 20, if I remember correctly. What a pilot. A real space cowboy.
I believe this barrel roll is an old wives tale.
Old wives tale
Obviously filmed in the early 80s when the problems with the shuttle were not well known.
Every 2 weeks!!
Two week turnaround, those salesman where damn good. Wasn't it closer to 12 months.
A great find. BTW google won't let me like.
Whatever the pros and cons of the Shuttle project versus Apollo, you can’t deny it was an engineering marvel. One can only imagine what it could have been had an egomaniacal South African loudmouth chancer been in charge...
There would likely have been far more than two fatal accidents during the program.
Hey genius, if it wasn’t for a card carrying Nazi, Apollo would never have gotten off the ground.
@@stargazer5784 20/20 hindsight, better to have overhauled the Shuttle program than do away with it. How many of those making that decision went to higher-paying jobs at SpaceX?
I know the 1980s, but when?
The first orbital flight was in 1981 I think.
@stargazer5784 April 12 1981
The perfect craft, the Space Shuttle, that could have taken us back to the moon, and built research facilities, in comfort was wasted on being an expensive Ecnoline Pick Up Truck for building the Space Station that serves no further purpose
I guess the footage of Columbia was from after a drop test from the 747 since it seems to be before the first space flight. I knew it lost some heat tiles at its first space flight but it seems it lost a hole lot already at the drop test which didn't put any significant stress on the tiles compared to a reentry.
It was such a cool spacecraft, too bad it was too expensive and dangerous.
The Columbia never did any drop tests from a 747. It's first mission was STS-1 on 12 April 1981, which took it into orbit. There were a few tiles lost on that mission which came off the Orbital Maneuvering System pods on either side of the tail of the orbiter, and their loss had no effect during reentry. The only orbiter that was ever tested by being released from the back of the 747 was Enterprise, which accomplished 5 Approach and Landing Tests in the summer and fall of 1977. The images in this video of Columbia with many tiles not installed were taken after the orbiter first arrived at Kennedy Space Center to prepare for launch. Those tiles were never "lost" because they were not installed on Columbia until after being at KSC.
SpaceX doesn't even come close to the Shuttle's capabilities
It doesn’t. But spaceX can do what it does for 1/1000 the cost.
So one shuttle is better the one Falcon. But you can launch 100 falcons for the price of one shuttle.
And then reality struck. No amount of propaganda makes the rocket equation any different.
Not A Space Agency
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Need Another Seven Astronauts.