space shuttle re-entry from inside cockpit NASASpaceflight.com

[slikkwon]

most of it was fake anyways...

[DVA5656]

@slikkwon Most of what?

[slikkwon]

@DVA5656

it.

[DVA5656]

@slikkwon Please clarify

[Devon187]

@DVA5656 most of it

[DVA5656]

@Devon187 That space shuttles?

[Enatbyte]

RIP Space shuttle program :(

[Chuckles123thefish]

this is such a privilege to watch.

[DroopyDog17]

that aint no re-entry, they move around like their at cruising speed, its so stable and quiet

[Armigo91]

To reach orbit and to maintain in orbit you need to travel almost exactly 8150 Meter per second (mach 24) at 300kilometres altitude. Which isnt called escape velocity but angular velocity. Escape velocity is when you leave earth to another planet for instance. Which is 10.5km per second btw.

To get back you dont really need to do alot. You just gotta give a small ignition on your engines for a few seconds in the opposite way your travveling to (retrograde) and you will dip into the atmosphere

[slikkwon]

I have no idea

[cjellwood]

they should have hung a potato outside the shuttle wrapped in tin foil, so they can have baked potato on landing

[slikkwon]

@cjellwood

should have hung a potato bug outside shuttle...

[TheDudeFrom0Z]

@cjellwood soz bro but at 100,000 degree's (something high like that) it would be totally destroyed. and at mach 19 ( average jet fighter can go to mach 2.5 , speed of sound is mach 1) the potato would also be on the earths service in a few seconds.

[slikkwon]

@TheDudeFrom0Z

probable.

[slikkwon]

@TheDudeFrom0Z

checkout this page:

en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/­Space_Shuttle

(re-entry portion)

[rocketdog2116]

@TheDudeFrom0Z its on 3,000 Degrees!!

[tabamoura]

@TheDudeFrom0Z Im pretty sure the was joking about the potato

[Betchacantflythis76]

@cjellwood

where in the hell is my bacon bits

[jellybean3264]

@cjellwood more like so they could have a burning crisp of dust

[Eagle1Division2]

@cjellwood I'd totally do that!

Well, if the high-speed wind wouldn't cause the potato payload to get ripped apart and peel off. Or the tin foil wouldn't melt.

And assuming the molten tin foil wouldn't hit the shuttle, then cause conduction to transfer heat instead of just radiation, which would cause the heat shield to fail, and the shuttle to break up... How about we not? xp

[cjellwood]

@Eagle1Division2 Absolutely, it needs two layers of tin foil. Silly me !

[DoomRaiden]

this looks alot like the simulator they use ... hence why their not wearing helmets lol

[mcgherkinstudios]

To think this would have been the last thing the crew of the Columbia saw. RIP.

[northsidemarine]

sooo yaaa. mach 19 and a half. and uhhhh ya. wow. so calm.

[hatchetman29]

The newer glass cockpits (LCD screens that replaced the old CRTs) look nice in the orbiter, which you would expect. Wonder what it sounds like... wind noise, for example.

[ksbell30]

i think the mars film talk was about james cameron insisting to nasa that they attach a 3d camera to thier next mars probe.

[fumfulapenguin]

is that windows hot from inside during re entry?

[mach25man]

@fumfulapenguin No. Its actually a double window with a purge between them to keep them from fogging up.

[trechan]

what a ride.

[skateboy159]

at mach 19 would there be more then 2 booms?

[slikkwon]

yes, the other one happens in your undies...

[papan1990]

@slikkwon hey....I'm a noob at all these....I know...its rocket powered when it leaves the earth to overcome the escape velocity....but how does it come back....that too at such a high speed? How strong are the engines...(I know its the gravity pullin' em...but the gravity cant pull at Mach 20.......

[blablubb12345]

No, it's always two booms. One from the nose and one from the tail.

[AmericasRollerCoast1]

@skateboy159 yes there would be 19

[darkfyreaol]

@skateboy159 There are always 2 booms. one in front of the craft and the other behind it.

[doolok]

@skateboy159 the other one happened in your mouth...

[bethanybabe]

yeah its just Orange...ha...funny.

[RYANNCONNER]

hey man i dare u to touch the glass!!!

[drummerboynano17]

haha lol! :)

[Boy75402]

I doubt it would be hot. The plasma is actually not touching the shuttle, but is formed by the compression of air right next to the shuttle.

Furthermore, the shuttle windows have two panes, the outer is a thermal pane.

[mach25man]

3 panes

[Boy75402]

Ah, alright, thanks.

[davegtar]

dont you feel positive g's because your slowing down ?!??!?!?!?

[balkus1]

ahaha ive been flying, like in a small aircraft, i was in control for some part of the flight, we did 45 degree banks (turns) you can feel yourself weighed down in your seat, then we pulled the plane up a little bit and let it drop, you then feel negative g's

[ct92404]

What I'm curious about is what re-entry feels like. I'm sure they hear a lot of wind noise as they start getting into denser atmosphere. And you probably feel negative G's, from the shuttle slowing down, kind of like when you hit the brakes on your car.

The other thing is that the shuttle is also falling, and there is some vertical drag too. So you get some vertical negative G's too...like it's kind of pushing you down in the seat. It must feel pretty weird.

[rogster101]

why would u be pushed down in your seat with negative G's?

[ct92404]

Because there are two forces you would feel. One would be lateral G's because the shuttle is slowing down from orbital velocity. Like I was saying, imagine what you feel when you press on the brakes in your car. You feel the inertia. But the shuttle is also falling, and it will encouter drag as it falls through the atmosphere. But your body has inertia and wants to keep falling...so, you would feel as if you're being pushed into the seat.

This is just an educated guess, anyway.

[ct92404]

Basically, what I mean is that you will feel a force pushing you forward, like when you slam on the brakes in a car...and you will also feel a force pushing you down, like when you're in an elevator going down and it stops at the last floor.

[blablubb12345]

Reentry in the shuttle is a rather gentle ride. Maximum is 1.5g, positive not negative because the shuttle flies "belly forward" with a pitch angle of about 40° during this phase.

Apollo astronauts experienced up to 8-9g during a lunar reentry, same for a Soyuz ballistic landing as happened twice recently. Not that funny if you are returning from a 6 month ISS trip.

[Bomberboy365]

its like floating in air nothing...just orange a red flames and friciton burning around you

then all of a sudden the atmosphere hits the spacecraft and its supposed to feel like the biggest wake up call ever...like a sonic boom

then the ride is pretty much the same...orange but this time really really bumby...and g's

[maxrdhw]

@Bomberboy365 you never even see a space shuttle so stop talking like you know what it is

[Bomberboy365]

obviously, youve never watched a re-entry on tv....

[draoi99]

The scariest most horrible part of space flight. Why can't the shuttle come down at a slower speed? If there's enough friction to heat up like that there must be some way to glide down on it????

[ct92404]

No, there is no other way. In order for the space shuttle to even achieve Earth orbit in the first place, they HAVE to accelerate up to Mach 25 (17,000 MPH). That's just the laws of physics. If they just climbed up to space, but don't reach orbital speed, the shuttle would just start falling back down after a few minutes. In order to stay in orbit around Earth, they have to reach orbital velocity.

Then, when they de-orbit and come back to Earth, they have to slow down from that speed.

[Neptuneaus]

Consider that they have to decelerate from 17,500 mph to 0 in 30 minutes. It's not a matter of trying to do it slower.

[fiddleup]

REAL!......

[00partyman]

Fake? That would mean that every astronaut is still floating out in space! Man, I hope that's not what happens to those guys!! 5..4..3..2..1 See ya! You're never coming back, and if you do we'll find you and blast your damn ass back into space by God! No, you need to go into orbit so you can see that this is very real... Go USA!! Let's bring the pride back in this country. That's what this nation needs most. :)

[fritzski22]

The "sheeople" have been fooled again. Of course the shuttle flights are faked - NASA faked the destruction of Skylab and set up a large studio in Skylab to film supposed zero-g shuttle interior footage. The so-called space shuttles that land are just props built in an extension to skylab and de-orbited when required. My sources tell me that NASA have sent a film crew to Mars to scout for locations for faking a manned mission even as we speak.

[humlakullen]

fritzski22, If I were you, I would probly change my sources;-).

[cheitman1991]

lol or kill myself

[slikkwon]

wouldn't sending a film crew to mars be a manned mission by itself? lol

[glargfleeb]

uhh, you're shittin' me right?

[fritzski22]

Good answer - please look up as many conspiracy theorists, UFO crackpots, flat-earthers and holocaust deniers as you can and ask them the same thing!

[DonkeyBonrProduction]

dont forget 9/11 idiots

[slikkwon]

@fritzski22

i think the shuttle missions are real but they are all in NEO

[Eagle1Division2]

@slikkwon Uhmm... NEO? Near Earth Orbit? Yes, that's a fact. They are. Nobody ever said they weren't. The correct term, though, is LEO, it means "Low Earth Orbit"

@fritzski22 I really hope you're joking. Please post to let everyone know you are, or delete the comment. Because I can't honestly believe any human being could truly believe that. It would be 10x easier to do the real deal than to do all of that, and then it'd only really be a half cover-up. What'd b the point? NASA doesn't have the $

[deathcomesarippin]

@fritzski22 HAHAHAHA oh man yeah who is going to make the film of mars.... and who are your sources lol the internet?

[deathcomesarippin]

@fritzski22 p.s. I seen (in person) the luanch of the shuttle, it wasnt fake, niehter was the shaking of the ground

[DiegoScagliarini]

@fritzski22 Oh yeah, and Earth is not a globe, planes not flyes, they are simply kept in the air by a mysterious sorcery, it's just a fake.

I think that people like you are only hypocrite and self-righteous, try to grow up yourself.

[charlieechovictor]

@fritzski22 you're totally fake haha

[willemwallaby]

Nice footage. The bright intermittent flashes are from the maneuvering thrusters. Pathetic how many retards post comments up here on the 'Tube. A sad commentary on the quality of education kids are receiving today. Jr cannot even type a simple declarative, yet he expects us to believe his "evaluation" of your footage! Go ahead, child: Tell us of your vast knowledge of aerospike propulsion, and ablative heat shield materials. This Materials Application Engineer calls you a retard. Ta Da!

[wuzzlevideos]

A lot of them are RCS firings, but some are from the plasma flying over the airframe too. But I agree with everything else you say. God this place makes me annoyed sometimes.

[jizzmonger]

LOL

[slikkwon]

you stated materials wouldn't withstand speeds during reentry I ASKED WHY?...show some kind of proof, as to WHY YOU BELIEVE WHAT THAT TO BE TRUE...(links to pages, videos, etc..)

without evidence of this kind, I tend to believe that this is genuine. thanks.

[joachim2464]

dont listen to him:) Youtube is full of paranoid braindeads:) This is great footage:)

[jrjr18181]

that is not mach 19.5 and this is fake as scramjets can go up to mach 24 but in reality on mach 12 as there are no materials that can withsatnd the emmense force of going at that speed and the heat. So how is this mach 24?, FAKE, i really want to see what is inside a real reentry, probabaly really bright and quite hot with everybody strapped not able to talk.

[slikkwon]

i wasn't aware they "faked" shuttle re entries.

could you let everyone know what you base your info on? (links, etc.)

all shuttle missions are in near earth orbit, that isn't hard to believe, so why would they fake it?

[slikkwon]

was this faked also?

v=GfZH_FR89MQ&NR=1

[KDALove]

You sir are an idiot :)

[dinmagic]

It amazes me how many people believe that everything in life is fake, it sometimes makes me want to scream.

[redslownight]

show proof dipshit, look at the fucking plasma. Yes apparently there is, those heat resistant tiles. NASA has tested them over and over, and yes, they withstand those temperatures. Its not mach 24, its mach 19.5 dumbass.

[THRILLHOUSE85]

"probabaly really bright and quite hot with everybody strapped not able to talk. "

You're right. NASA has them ball-gag their mouthes shut so no one interrupts the Enya music.

[ephidapoon]

lol

[Frosty1362]

mt cousin was on that shuttle so shut the hell up!!!!

[maxrdhw]

@Frosty1362 yeah sure i belive you

[hotgas101]

well, its not true that there are no materials which can protect the aluminumframe of the heat. the hrsi tiles are very stable up to 1500°K. ive built one myself in school. after a semester of research, we were able to hold the fiberglass side for more than 40 minutes with bare hands ( and without blisters ;) ). if you want to rebuild it, i can send you my notes. just mail me and give me a week to translate it in english (im austiran). costs are between 250 and 350 €

[hotgas101]

....... this should be an answer to

jrjr18181's comment, im sorry

[slikkwon]

thanks. statement backed up with fact. interesting concept

[Vitaminnn07]

as i thought they should rotate the shuttle in a way the belly to be almost in upfront, so its protective coat could take the heat. is that how they do?

it would be fantastic if the video was more clear and longer, from the beginning of the process...

[wuzzlevideos]

40 degrees pitch up, ramping down as a function of Mach.

[diontenekes]

All the NASA pilots are first normal/fighter pilots.

[wuzzlevideos]

Interestingly, you don't HAVE to be ex-military to be a Shuttle CDR or PLT - it's just that you need 1000 hours in a variety of different aircraft, and the only way to really attain that is in the military.

[IJariJuniorI]

yes, they can fly other planes... maybe they dont know about specific-systems like fms/fmgc .. but vfr/ifr, dynamics, procedures they know :)

[QwAdr0x256]

nice, they should get a HD camera next time. Question: Can a space ship pilot fly a boeing airplane? I mean, does he need a licence to fly the boeing or is the space ship licence enough?

[johngibbons86]

No,well, no legally.The space shuttle pilots are generally ex US military pilots. All qualified pilots across the globe need to be trained onto a particular aircraft whether it be a boeing 777,747, airbus A320 etc...its called a Type Rating.Basically a boeing 747 pilot would not legally be allowed to fly a boeing 777! Though Im sure with experience and training the space shuttle pilots have had over the course of their life they would not have much of a problem flying any aircraft!

[jeanmarc87]

quite a smooth ride, considering they're hurtling towards the ground at mach 19.5

[Vicks007kid]

I like how there all just calm,

Id be freaking out

[miked83times]

That is unbelievable. Awesome footage!

[DeejayDREAM]

That would be terrifying and exciting, the heat is incredible the shuttle is a magnificent machine credit to the USA for having a machine like this, respect to the space program from the UK I love watching it happen thanks.

[artisticshit]

the shuttle could use some windshield wipers to see

[ShooterInfinity]

Plasma resistant windshield wipers! lol

[sixmagpies]

YEAH. Sold in Tesco's innit.

[HeadSHOT604]

look at all the friction on the windows

[NEVERBACKZ]

Amazing footage mankind has come so far u can actually see footage of man re entering the earth fuckin startrek shit

[toasternac]

it is safe to do so. The only things that are unsafe to do so are mobile phones and radios etc. because they can interfere with the radio transmissions between ATC and aicraft and some transmissions made may not be heard. Take this for example when you receive a text message, your computer bleeps.

As long as its just recording it and not sending it, then its fine.

[1944GPW]

Why is it that you can't use electronic equipment such as a camcorder during takeoff and landing on an ordinary domestic airliner, but it's ok for astronauts to use one at such a critical time on a much more sophisticated vehicle? Seriously.

[mclelanda]

There are so many different models of camcorders that ordinary passengers use, it would be impossible to track which ones put out harmful interference or not. They know exactly what they have on board the space shuttle and know that it will not interfere.

[wuzzlevideos]

This is pretty much it. Everything is certified and rechecked to make sure its risks are understood.

[ephidapoon]

they arent going to bring a device on board a billion dollar shuttle that would cause any interference with avionics or communication.

[RoxxieT]

One of the astronauts seemed pretty relaxed about it... "Yeah it's just orange"!

[zzzilxlizzz]

HA I know right? "Yeah, I do this allll the time..."

[joachim2464]

he had problably flown before:)

[wuzzlevideos]

Yeah, it's Brent Jett, he's done it before.

[Andrei5656]

shit, that scares the shit out of me! Damn fast....

[TopGunAnthem]

Sooo beautiful......

The space in so amazing.

[miko95]

its all like captain ill give you 20 bucks to touch that window.

[slikkwon]

lol

[yamaharossi]

:-D

[jupitorman]

just stick your head out the window just a peek you no just one second mmmmmmm

[sanshuz]

If you did that your head would just be SPLAT! lol...

[cainam979]

you first have to try another thing: opening a window :D

[slikkwon]

mach 19.5

[rogeliozim456]

holy balls that fucking fast

[Lhikanpickshisnose]

19.fuckin 5! u gotta be kidding. are u serious!

[pilot7893]

Must be 30 minutes of terror

[phileva1968]

SUPER