And just a little info: 1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour. Wikipedia has a very good article on how the term "knots" became used for "speed" (has to do with sailing ships and how they took speed measurements)
I'm 99% sure I was there that morning, we went to almost all of them till 1983. HEY, if you went to any Shuttle launches back then, do you remember the "Rip Van Winkle" motel??? If you do let me know!! My cheap ass dad always put us up there, but now fond memories...
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Couple of "firsts and lasts" here - first touchdown on a concrete runway - last test flight - first STS flight for old vet Mattingly (Apollo 16) - last use of ejection seats.
Unfortunately this was not the last time we had to listen to that lying c__ks___r Reagan's homilies about NASA, which he and his criminal buddies systematically gutted in favor of defense spending.
Excuse me but year after year Reagan actually gave NASA more money specifically for the shuttle program, started the space station design program, and even kept the program going and increased funding between Challenger's tragedy in 1986 and the resuming of fights in 1988! And that defense spending won us the Cold War, defeated communism, freed eastern Europe and saved us from the Soviets taking advantage of our 1970's weaknesses.
@RJY4356 Sure he did. If you want to understand why space exploration by men is effectively dead, look no further than the bathroom mirror, then take your daily dose of Koolaid. And if you think defense spending won the Cold War, well, there is no reasoning with crazy right wingers, so why bother trying? You might as well try to explain a stopwatch to a chimpanzee.
The most remarkable thing to me abut this video is that CNN took their LOGO off during launch, there's no cluttered screen with a crawl/.banner across the bottom and all the other info junk- and they actually SHUT UP the yapping babbling know-nothing commentators and let the NASA audio take care of itself!! Unthinkable today.
most of the early OFT crews believed that if the ejection seats were used the astronauts would eject into the SRB plume....I am glad we never found out!
They only used them on the first 4 flights because they only had a commander and pilot and it was testing to see if they could eject from the shuttle during launch until they were over about 100,000 feet high. When they carried more astronauts it was impossible to equip it with ejection seats for all crew members so they scrapped them. They do have a way to bail out and parachute out of the orbiter on its own before a crash landing or fall into the ocean, but not DURINg launch now.
This looks like its from June 2, 2012.
PeoplesWar 1 month ago
Hey! Gary Sinise was piloting this one! Lol! (I mean Ken Mattingley of course).
gullivera 7 months ago
And just a little info: 1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour. Wikipedia has a very good article on how the term "knots" became used for "speed" (has to do with sailing ships and how they took speed measurements)
Zoomer30 1 year ago
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! I wonder if Obama even knows the words to that song!!! GREAT Video!!!
jeff122670 1 year ago
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! I wonder if Obama even knows the words to that song!!! GREAT Video!!!
jeff122670 1 year ago
RONNIE!!!
FantasticBob7000 1 year ago
I'm 99% sure I was there that morning, we went to almost all of them till 1983. HEY, if you went to any Shuttle launches back then, do you remember the "Rip Van Winkle" motel??? If you do let me know!! My cheap ass dad always put us up there, but now fond memories...
SvalbardJanMayen1976 1 year ago
Now there's a real president!
Ferrariman601 2 years ago 9
@Ferrariman601 Reagan was a good man!!
mrcrazydudeful 1 year ago
@mrcrazydudeful AMEN! I don't think Obama would be caught dead singing God Bless America.
Ferrariman601 1 year ago
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Couple of "firsts and lasts" here - first touchdown on a concrete runway - last test flight - first STS flight for old vet Mattingly (Apollo 16) - last use of ejection seats.
Unfortunately this was not the last time we had to listen to that lying c__ks___r Reagan's homilies about NASA, which he and his criminal buddies systematically gutted in favor of defense spending.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
Excuse me but year after year Reagan actually gave NASA more money specifically for the shuttle program, started the space station design program, and even kept the program going and increased funding between Challenger's tragedy in 1986 and the resuming of fights in 1988! And that defense spending won us the Cold War, defeated communism, freed eastern Europe and saved us from the Soviets taking advantage of our 1970's weaknesses.
RJY4356 2 years ago
@RJY4356 Sure he did. If you want to understand why space exploration by men is effectively dead, look no further than the bathroom mirror, then take your daily dose of Koolaid. And if you think defense spending won the Cold War, well, there is no reasoning with crazy right wingers, so why bother trying? You might as well try to explain a stopwatch to a chimpanzee.
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
Space exploration is dead because of your precious nigger fool. Fuck you up the ass, you complete and total moron. What a sick fuck you are.
LeroyJacksonJones 2 years ago
@antimatterXXXIII This is what happens to the brain on high dosses of left-wing stupidity.
mrcrazydudeful 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII wow. you should see what obama just did if you follow whats been happening in space travel
SpartanW98 2 years ago
The most remarkable thing to me abut this video is that CNN took their LOGO off during launch, there's no cluttered screen with a crawl/.banner across the bottom and all the other info junk- and they actually SHUT UP the yapping babbling know-nothing commentators and let the NASA audio take care of itself!! Unthinkable today.
RJY4356 2 years ago
@RJY4356 Yes! And no "Fonebos" (Fox News Bimbos) in sight! Ah the good old days!
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
The Challenger looked so beautiful on top of that 747 and the Columbia was such a beauty, what a landing!
Both will be missed, and the brave crews who died aboard both, they will never be forgotten.
osallent 2 years ago 2
I agree with you 100% buddy!
May these two orbiters RIP...
151L107 2 years ago 5
most of the early OFT crews believed that if the ejection seats were used the astronauts would eject into the SRB plume....I am glad we never found out!
lunarmodule5 2 years ago
Ejection seats were in place STS-1 to 4. For bailout at low altitude since there were only two crewmembers on the four test flights.
3210andLiftoff 2 years ago
When did they recall ejection seats and what were they to be used for?
elkinsinbox 2 years ago
They only used them on the first 4 flights because they only had a commander and pilot and it was testing to see if they could eject from the shuttle during launch until they were over about 100,000 feet high. When they carried more astronauts it was impossible to equip it with ejection seats for all crew members so they scrapped them. They do have a way to bail out and parachute out of the orbiter on its own before a crash landing or fall into the ocean, but not DURINg launch now.
RJY4356 2 years ago