Space Shuttle STS-114 Launch Mission Control

[derfd12000]

dream job F/D

[Laurel010203]

I ask me what's Ellen Ochoa thinking in this moments before the launch. I can imagine it's a little bit of:"Yeah, we'll fly again." and a lot of:"hope all is working well and the crew is save."

[prielazybones]

3:52 - heart attack moment

[bodacious2109]

@prielazybones The guy seated to the right of the director has a nervous (worried) frown upon his forehead. And that female is so nervous that she can't even set down. ("I got to go pee!)

[tlages]

The astronauts may have the most fun, but these guys make it possible. Thumbs up for the guys behind the computers working hard to keep our astronauts safe.

[strato172]

This was... incredibly boring.  Then again, most government jobs are.

[genius16180333]

Isn't it nice how NASA is no longer full of white people? Oh wait...

[njdevil281]

@genius16180333 yeah so, white people invented everything you fucking see there. And what's the matter there can't be a group of white people anymore without a bunch of minorities tagging along? Fuckin racist.

[MrEdi422]

2 people worked in the mission control

[2019M]

hey is that the same flight director as the one for the sts-107? the columbia disaster one? thought i recognized him from a documentary

[petarphyle]

LeRoy Cain

Bullshit, as soon as he buried his worries and told them to start return procedures

he became

LeRoy JENKINS

[SgtSiemens]

What position does the lady have, what does she do at Mission Control?

[youtubasoarus]

So they don't say Max Q? Darn it. But this is seriously awesome. The level of human coordination, cooperation and procedure necessary to get this thing off the ground is nothing short of astonishing.

[Superedit]

Flight director LeRoy Cain was on duty when Columbia disintegrated. This must have been such a cathartic day for him.

[joachim2464]

The space shuttle itself has performed pretty well during the years. The two disasters were caused by the srb's and the external tank.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Columbia didn't really "explode", it disintegrated...

[smartabhishek]

Most painful moment when Leroy Cain said "lock the doors", knowing the shuttle Columbia was missed

[strangelove262]

Looks like Cain stole a glance at the TV to make sure Discovery was in one piece during that comm hit at throttle up. I know they train them to watch the data and not the TV but I guess it can't be helped sometimes. I remember seeing CAPCOM Richard Covey do the same thing when he saw all those 'S's filling his screen when they lost Challenger at the same point in the flight.

[laserfloyd]

Yeah to have lost Columbia and then to be able to turn around for the return to flight, Cain has nerves of steel. Notice the look on his face when the throttle up call comes back down. I think his heart may have skipped a beat when the transmission broke up. I think I might have fainted!

[QuincyCHL]

Today they use the quindar tones only on UHF comms ?

[kwcarolma]

It's actually not slowing down but just throttling back to reduce the acceleration as the all stack maneuvers. The velocity's still going uphill.

[michchap]

Thank you for posting this video. Does anyone know what the flight director means when he says "in the bucket" after throttle down?

[Zachmister]

Is Good!

[shelle1even]

Excellent Thanks For That!!

[joachim2464]

columbia, not challenger. Challenger exploded after liftoff at t+73.

[joachim2464]

yes it was

[laserfloyd]

Yeah you know his heart skipped a beat at throttle up. Hats off, I couldn't do that job and stay sane.

[JoeCool504]

The Flight Director LeRoy Cain looked so nervous during this lift-off, especially at the moment of throttle up when Eileen Collin's transmission crackled... talk about a stressful job!

[Superedit]

Cain is only the second flight director to have "lost" a vehicle (though of course there was nothing he or the team could have done in the moment.) The other is Jay Greene, "Flight" on Challenger. Not a club you'd want to join. Those folks have guts I can only imagine.