Disasterous Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis in ORBITER 2010

[Koldfuzion83]

Ha ha ha! This video and its comments crack me up! Thanks for posting this @Ferrariman601. You did well to get it to land on its wheels. :)

[toa719]

Houston, We have a Problem

[Clubpenguinrocker100]

@toa719 Houston: What's the problem?

[MephistoLeo]

I can't watch this! All that blood..

[yugozastava13]

Looked like MECO was a little too... early.

[jhggygh]

lol 1000... 500 400 300 200 100*CRASH*

[238FranktheTank]

this water must be REALLY SALTY !!!

[Cartoonyworld109]

In orbiter does it only simulate space or does it also simulate landing and walking on the mon?

[LightfeatherxX]

@Cartoonyworld109 you can do EVA with a few addons, but not in vanilla Orbiter

[Markus9705]

Haha! I have done that too! ;)

[TheNitroWarroir]

happen o me when a was a newbie

[eddsworldfan333]

BULLSHIT YOU JUST LET GO OF THE SSME BUTTON

[Ferrariman601]

@eddsworldfan333 Congratulations for figuring out the obvious.

[eddsworldfan333]

@Ferrariman601 then hows it disasterous? ITS DELIBERATE

[rabbitlover101ful]

do a barrel roll

[Rg2732]

Good thing about those ultra-sturdy wheels. We wouldn't want the shuttle to end up glued to the very absorbent sea like the poor External Tank at 0:59, do we?

[draxum]

Man, that was the hardest splashdown I have ever seen!

[merdaporrenta]

The FAIL steps:

1*Engine malfunction, do a BARREL ROLL!

2*Release SRB and Orage Tank, let the SRB go nuts.

3*Deploy landing gear to land on water.

4*Do a car crash sound when landed.

[killingamps]

Taxi to the ramp!

[eddsworldfan333]

PERFECT LANDING!

[matt92099]

it landed on water



[CubesForAKid]

What would be the procedure in real life? Give up and bail out?

[Ferrariman601]

@CubesForAKid As far as I am aware, any failure which would end the flight during ascent would need to be simply ignored until SRB sep, because the SRBs could not be stopped once ignited. After they separated, the shuttle would then begin an RTLS (Return To Launch Site) abort, in which the vehicle would turn around, use its main engines to begin flying back toward the cape, then drop the tank and land on the shuttle landing facility runway.

It was never done in reality thankfully.

[Ferrariman601]

@CubesForAKid If a situation like this happened in which total control of the vehicle was lost so early into ascent, I'm afraid the crew would have no escape. If they had more time, their launch and entry suits were equipped with parachutes and life rafts (post Challenger Disaster), so they would at least have a fighting chance at a bailout, likely over the ocean. The ships used to recover the SRBS after launch would probably be within range to rescue the crew.

[Shuttheheckup735]

@Ferrariman601

Looks like the failure took place at around 1 KM up, If the crew is fast enough, and smart enough, I think they MIGHT be able to get out.

[PRSOV]

Haha, at least you lived to tell the tale.

Can't believe a failure of one or more SSMEs can affect it's trajectory that much [or be allowed to]

[Ferrariman601]

@PRSOV I tend to believe that a situation like this one could not actually occur because the SRB nozzles could be gimballed just like the SSMEs. In the event that even all 3 SSMEs failed, I think the SRB thrust could be gimballed to compensate for the unbalanced thrust. The situation would definitely call for an abort however, either an RTLS or a ditch into the ocean.

[PRSOV]

@Ferrariman601 Interesting, so what you are saying is that this facet of the simulation wouldn't actually occur? I thought this was suppose to realistically replicate the physics of a shuttle launch. What is the point of gearing the shuttle to do that when the purpose is to teach people about it's characteristics.

In some NASA documentation even the failure of one SSME is a big deal, yet what I find amazing is the fact that one SSME only reflects 6% of the shuttles total thrust output.

[PRSOV]

@Ferrariman601 - And as a pilot by trade, by law in a multi-engine aircraft we must be able to suffer the loss of 50% of thrust and still be able to climb the aircraft in the take-off configuration...

[RainbowManification]

The crew would be dead from the massive G's you just pulled on that maneuver

[ijjpfsx17]

good water landing!

[bradgersch]

Um ok the person who made this video was a freaking idiot and doesn't understand basic physics and gravitational force

[Ferrariman601]

@bradgersch Ok, I made the video, and I wrote in my description that this is a "ridiculously unrealistic scenario."

I appreciate your criticism and agree with your observations, but at no point am I claiming this to be a realistic representation of any sort of situation.

[deserticus18]

@bradgersch do you know about Orbiter Simulator?, i don't think you do, just download it and try it, it's a lot of fun,

and a lot of Physics too.

[dachhh]

Lowering the landing gear was a bit optimistic

[rjpugh]

Well... any landing you can walk away from...

[Videos12010]

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[drey4lyfee]

Dude, at least you landed safely :)

[bigestwatcher]

hi . nice video ! what is name of game ?

[NOMOETOE]

lucky lol i cant even get off the ground :D

[radix9523]

For some reason this reminded me of that movie "Space Camp"

[leefuji]

@radix9523 haha good ole movie !

[osallent]

@radix9523 i can't believe you remember that movie Space Camp. That has to be one of the lamest movies with a space-theme ever conceived by man. Thank God most people have forgotten about it, and any recollection of it is slipping into oblivion.

[Shuttheheckup735]

pilot: "Now entering WTFOMGBBQ spin."

Co-pilot: "Roger.... wait what?"

Mr Obvious: "OH SHIT WE ARE GUNNA HIT THE WATER!!!!"

Pilot: "I KNOW WHAT TO DO" *hits landing gear button*

Co-pilot: "HOW THE FUCK WILL THAT HELP?"

!?!THUMP!?!

Co-pilot: "That will never happen again in 1,000,000 years -_-"

Pilot: "Doenst need to"

[Shuttheheckup735]

@talukk Lol that was funny.

[Enatbyte]

Oops!

[TrainGuy33]

The Real Question Is: WHY DID THIS HAPPEN!!!!

Thank God It Didn't Turn Into Another Challenger Investigation.

[MrInsects]

im sure the people who liked were russians and the people who disliked were americans and yet whenever we make it to iss or somthing americans like the video russians dislike lol im russian but GO AMERICA and go russka govan dra sen du fan de i mean umm GO AMERICA

[erayaner19]

the sound supperison water system was actived ?

[erayaner19]

the disaster was cooooooooooooooool !

[megabassX]

No boom? ehh.....

[merdaporrenta]

Solid as a Water.

[artemisfowl90]

I often did that 2 years ago

[turbotime97]

that is some solid wata

[5IrFaN5]

0:45 that touchdown sounded like a prank !

[Winner8501]

Houston, we have a problem :-D

[Felipe140396]

I'm new to Orbiter and I don't know how to control and maneuver a spacecraft: I tried using the arrow keys but it doesn't work, I have a laptop so I don't have a Number pad! Please help me! Also I don't know the keys to turn on the engines, airbrakes, the chute on the SS, detach the rocket boosters on take off, detach the orange fuel tank off the shuttle, all those things :)

I would appreciate your help xD THX

[jstowe96]

Lmao at the Stage 2 Rocket fuel sticking up right when it fell, also that was so fake you were using thrusters to do that :P, like when i was playing an Apollo mission for some reason I got warning of only 20% thruster fuel remaining and no main engine fuel cause apparently I forgot to detach stage 3 of Apollo :P

[mrjohny193]

you landed on water? thats so unrealistic

[Ferrariman601]

@mrjohny193 Yeah, Orbiter has yet to implement any real sort of collision interface with objects other than planet surfaces, which it assumes in 100% solid ground. It cannot differentiate between land or water.

[nesokretep]

@Ferrariman601 -- It's a good thing the thing bounces on water otherwise the crew might be in trouble.

[kittypie070]

Whoaa, there I was yelling RTLS!! RTLS!! and there she went whoopity ass

over cockpit COME ON (poot)LIGHT (poot)THOSE(poot) MAIN ENGINES(poot)

and then this kinda dead-assed THUD as she hit the deck.

Ow.

[Ferrariman601]

@kittypie070 HAHA! I'm cracking up at that!

As for an RTLS, I'm not sure it was high enough to attempt that anyway!

[dachhh]

@Ferrariman601 you are not supposed to jettison the main tank until there is only 5% fuel left.. so no, a conventional RTLS isn't possible here. The 5% fuel limit is to prevent the tank from rotating and colliding with the orbiter due to fuel sloshing around inside

[Airsebi]

haha kind of funny ;)