The Day a NASA Rocket Almost Exploded - Mercury Redstone 1
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2020
- Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the tenth Mercury Program test flight and the first Mercury-Redstone uncrewed flight test. It was the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle. Intended to be an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight, it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The launch failed in a very peculiar fashion which has been referred to as the "four-inch flight".
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What should I cover in the next episode of Two Minute Tuesday?
MaxQ! Or lightning strikes and SCE to Aux!
Great ideas!!! 😃
The making of the *_ScrubLobster_*_ that strives to keep us Earthbound, so we won't prove that life in Space is real?_
Common roles in launch control centers and their roles and how SpaceX and Rocket Lab (maybe Virgin Orbit) may not have an RSO b/c they have AFTS?
SCE to AUX!
Some of those Kerbal launches were based on history, then? 😁
Hahaha let's just say yes. 😉😉
almost became the first reflown rocket booster lol
lol I never really thought of it that way, but you're right!! 😂
Some observers and technicians were watching outside from what they thought was a safe distance. Feeling bewildered for a minute, they suddenly realised that the escape rocket was somewhere in the sky and would be falling back. They panicked and scrambled, diving underneath trucks and other hiding places. The rocket crashed soon after, not too far away.
Learning a lot about space from you, thanks for making it enjoyable! 😁🇺🇸
I well recall listening to this on the radio, *as it happened.* Oh, for those early days of thrilling space opera!
Love your work mate. Thanks for all you do to entertain and inform us.
In an essay titled "Glitches in Time Saves Trouble," John Glenn talks about this comical test and what they learned from it, addressing criticisms which Project Mercury was facing at the time about dealing with "problems and delays." It's a fascinating essay that demonstrates the importance of long-range thinking and how much meticulous consideration is conducted before they can even hope to have a successful launch.
Create a two minute about the British probe we sent to mars that got stuck
These are most nice. Keep em' coming
I'll admit that I was skeptical that your timer was just for show. So, I started mine at the same time and I'm surprised to say, yours ended exactly when mine did.
lol... I'm glad I passed the test! 😁😁
amazing video. keep the awesome work rollin , could you talk about galaxies?
Love this guy!
Thank you!!!!
Thanks!, What is better than going out of class and finding out that Tory posted a vid!
That's the funniest rocket failure I've ever seen! It's because of the fact that the rocket went like...3.8 inches above-ground! 😂
Interesting! Nice job!
The actual spacecraft in that episode is on display at the NASA Ames Research Center visitor's gallery in Mt View, CA, near Google's campus. And I have the report of the "flight" and one of the cables from it, but sadly, not one of the ones cited for the failure.
Cause of the failure - somene switched control cables*.Two cables that were supposed to disconnect in a specific order, control and then power, disconnected in reverse order because a longer cable than what was specified was used. The pins aligned, so it must be right, right? They were actually aware and tried to kludge together a fix to get it to behave like the proper cable. Literally a case of "missed it by that much" as the disconnect was under 50ms too late.
The escape tower is supposed to take the capsule with it under "normal" (normal being a disaster) conditions but not while the rocket is on the pad.
*Redstone cable was used when special Mercury cable should have been used.
The Viking 10 sounding rocket--which was launched twice; it too stayed on the pad the first time, like MR-1--actually *did* have a hole shot in its ethyl alcohol fuel tank with a rifle, to prevent it from imploding due to decreasing internal pressure as the alcohol gravity-drained from its broken line. After the rocket engine exploded during Viking 10's first (June 30, 1953) launch attempt, the LOX quickly drained into the firing table pit, and the rocket was doused with water to extinguish the fire, but it still left the upper (alcohol) tank beginning to "crinkle" inward like a beer can as it drained. Amazingly, Viking 10 was able to be rebuilt ("We had the technology," as in "The Six Million Dollar Man" :-) ), and it was launched again on May 7, 1954, reaching an altitude of 136 miles (219 km) above the White Sands Missile Range. The Vanguard satellite launch vehicle's first stage was developed from the Viking sounding rocket.
This a the real life check your staging moment
at least we got some cool footage of the launch escape tower jett and the parachute deployment😂
Check yo staging!
This also happens to me ocassionally
The right stuff TV show anyone?
I was just thinking that. Didn’t the film “The Right Stuff” use part of this footage in a montage of failed launches? I LOVE that movie, by the way. Ed Harris was great in that film. And I remember when I first saw him, I thought, “That is the closest thing they are ever gonna get to a dead ringer for John Glenn!”
BE SAFE. Peace…
I'm curious, if this was Mercury Redstone 1, but was the tenth test flight, what were the other flights? Were they tests of the Redstone missile with dummy payloads, or tests of the Mercury capsule on other rockets?
Mostly "Little Joe" and "Big Joe" test flights, but the "Mercury Atlas 1" flight (different booster) was in there too.
Always check your staging
Rookie mistake 😉
There is an excellent account of this incident in the book ‘Apollo: The Race to the Moon” by Murray & Cox (1989). See Chapter 4.1
Like the time i got the staging wrong on Kerbal Space Program.
please take it easy...calm calm
Nic video
Man my jaw hurt lol
So that really happened! It was indicated in the movie “The Right Stuff” but I thought it was just a joke.
Wow. Nothing like a humiliating public failure to motivate a solution!
When this was reported in the Soviet Union iy must've caused a great deal of sniggering.
It’s not 2 minutes it’s 3 minutes 😂
Maybe he should make it a three minute Thursday instead.
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2 minutes ago (edited)
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They did took the correct action. They did nothing. If in doubt as to what to do? Do nothing.
Except maybe if you’re in an out-of-control slide down a pitched roof that’s three stories off the ground. Maybe then you should at least TRY to do SOMETHING. Just a thought.
BE SAFE. Peace…
So if anyone asks you if Mercury Redstone one was a success you can say No No 👆
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One could make the argument that Mercury Redstone was a successful failure, borrowing the evaluation of the Apollo 13 mission.
“See? This is exactly what happens when specific variables go outside of their respective engineering parameters. Proceed to the next test.”
Cant u make it 10 minutes?
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Lol
flight control..abort..abort..
Dude. Slow down. I am trying to watch a video here.
Disappointing that it was over 2 minutes. Unsubscribed.
Lol