Congratulations. Not only for the great achievement but also for the lovely video. The part showing the forward bay cover flying is really nice. All these videos are very useful for NASA, of course, and for the public to realize all the hard work involved in making a spaceship and its rockets. Lovely. A request: Next time please include images from inside the aircraft too. It would be lovely to see that and also the people involved. Kind regards.
It's meant to land on water, but the testing are done over land, for practical reasons. That why it didn't go well on touchdown. But it was going slow enough to perfectly survive a water landing.
This looks like a dangerous ride. The violent swinging back and forth cannot be a normal part of any landing. It looks about equal to a car wreck. Hopefully I am just un-informed and there will be some kind of control over the capsule to prevent this.
A capsule's re-entry is controlled by thrusters, which not only keep it pointed in the right direction, but also correct pitch, yaw, and roll. Now, granted, once in the atmosphere, the thrusters might not get much use... what we see here is a test of an emergency situation, if the main chutes do not properly deploy; verifying that the capsule could indeed successfully jettison its primary chutes and deploy auxiliary chutes, while still making a safe splashdown. Looking at the video (to those who don't know much about the space program) it would appear that it was a failure because of the violent tumble the capsule takes upon landing. This is merely a land-landing as a matter of expedience and convenience for testing purposes. A re-entering manned capsule would splashdown in the ocean, in which this landing would have been near flawless. As i stated in another comment, we could easily equip capsules with the ability to safely touchdown on land, but it would require so much additional cost in development, design, and fabrication (most notably landing gear and specialized thrusters), but add unnecessary weight to the craft. This configuration is actually the most efficient design for a spacecraft, in our current technological age. I realize so many are used to the "space plane" Shuttle, but you have to realize how big and heavy that thing is, and that it can barely reach 500 miles altitude.
RebornAc3 Heh, thanks. I have often toyed with the idea of making some kind of animation, comic, or fanfiction, based on the days of Sputnik, Mercury/Vostok, Gemini/Voskhod, Apollo/Soyuz, Skylap/Salyut, and so on. I have zero talent for engineering and no flying skills to speak of... all I've got is design, animation, and passion,... and I just want to contribute in some small way.
Capsule-based spacecraft are not designed to touch down on land. That is why Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo all landed in the water. Now, sure, there are many ways to make a softer land-based touchdown... but all it would do is add unnecessary cost in materials, design, and fuel; also adding unnecessary weight to a spacecraft where weight is the primary concern in its design.
Congratulations. Not only for the great achievement but also for the lovely video. The part showing the forward bay cover flying is really nice. All these videos are very useful for NASA, of course, and for the public to realize all the hard work involved in making a spaceship and its rockets. Lovely. A request: Next time please include images from inside the aircraft too. It would be lovely to see that and also the people involved. Kind regards.
Great work... until the landing!
It's meant to land on water, but the testing are done over land, for practical reasons. That why it didn't go well on touchdown. But it was going slow enough to perfectly survive a water landing.
Will it land on water? It turned belly up after landing and it hit the ground hard.
What is that at 6:49? A spherical object passes by the camera ... UFO?
That would be a helicopter.
drone ?
***** Just a regular helicopter.
+James Cavalcanti chopper dude
Since this video didn't have sound I added some /watch?v=Sh-Fb6v9Ry8
The orion nebula in focus need more R/D.
You know- from the outside looking in.. it doesn't look like much has changed over the decades ::grin::
while you can't really tel from just looking at it the ship is much larger by two or three times as large as the apollo .
This looks like a dangerous ride. The violent swinging back and forth cannot be a normal part of any landing. It looks about equal to a car wreck. Hopefully I am just un-informed and there will be some kind of control over the capsule to prevent this.
A capsule's re-entry is controlled by thrusters, which not only keep it pointed in the right direction, but also correct pitch, yaw, and roll. Now, granted, once in the atmosphere, the thrusters might not get much use... what we see here is a test of an emergency situation, if the main chutes do not properly deploy; verifying that the capsule could indeed successfully jettison its primary chutes and deploy auxiliary chutes, while still making a safe splashdown.
Looking at the video (to those who don't know much about the space program) it would appear that it was a failure because of the violent tumble the capsule takes upon landing. This is merely a land-landing as a matter of expedience and convenience for testing purposes. A re-entering manned capsule would splashdown in the ocean, in which this landing would have been near flawless.
As i stated in another comment, we could easily equip capsules with the ability to safely touchdown on land, but it would require so much additional cost in development, design, and fabrication (most notably landing gear and specialized thrusters), but add unnecessary weight to the craft. This configuration is actually the most efficient design for a spacecraft, in our current technological age. I realize so many are used to the "space plane" Shuttle, but you have to realize how big and heavy that thing is, and that it can barely reach 500 miles altitude.
K1productions Well explained.
RebornAc3
Heh, if there is one thing that I have always been passionate about, its the Space Program. :P
K1productions It's good to have a passion for cool things:) May you succeed in all you do:P
RebornAc3
Heh, thanks. I have often toyed with the idea of making some kind of animation, comic, or fanfiction, based on the days of Sputnik, Mercury/Vostok, Gemini/Voskhod, Apollo/Soyuz, Skylap/Salyut, and so on.
I have zero talent for engineering and no flying skills to speak of... all I've got is design, animation, and passion,... and I just want to contribute in some small way.
I like this but ,we can develop more and can become advanced in future
while they would be glade to be on the ground the ship ended up upside down !
Well done for filming half the time on the wrong object lol. Missed 1 of the extra drogue chute deployments and the final parachute deployment too xD
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Rather hard landing and with NASA's experience in this field, I'd say horrible work!
Capsule-based spacecraft are not designed to touch down on land. That is why Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo all landed in the water. Now, sure, there are many ways to make a softer land-based touchdown... but all it would do is add unnecessary cost in materials, design, and fuel; also adding unnecessary weight to a spacecraft where weight is the primary concern in its design.