Due to microgravity, the astronauts would lose muscle tone very quickly. They work out 2 hours a day to keep their muscles as they were on earth. Fat people, from what I've seen, don't work out 2 hours a day. Plus, you can't plow down food, due to rationing, and the fact that your stomach digests slower up there doesn't help.
Cool vid! But it doesn't look like that much G-force during launch. He can move his arm at 0:40, so why must you be elite trained/military to go to space? I've seen fat people on the most wicked looking carousels and they survive :)
@Gymmarn Max G's on the shuttle tops off a 3g prior to MECO (main engine cutoff). That gets more uncomfortable than you'd think - especially sustained for several minutes. Also, it is quite difficult to fly after 10 - 14 days in space - after being weightless, the stick feels very, very heavy - even at 1.5gs. There is also the issue of disorientation. If you flew sans training, you'd realize real quick why that training is necessary.
@Neptuneaus They also practice landings on orbit by connecting a joy stick to one of their laptops and running a software program. The name of the system has the acronym PILOT......
Thank goodness obama shut down the American manned space program. So we can spend the money on social engineering instead. That will lead to equal salaries for everyone, from the worker to the executive. With a total lack of prosperity, nothing for young people to aspire to (I wanna be an astronaut) and social equality for everyone. American exceptionalism is a thing of the past. Enjoy your change.
@cujet Yeah, Obama lost credibility when he shut down the Ares I rocket program. We need the heavy lift capacity and we need the space program that is in place, because we've been going into space for 50 years. Private Launches are great, but they don't have the experience, nor do they have the equipment for heavy launch beyond orbit, etc. Plus, we're going to lose a large amount of highly qualified people.
@Lakotahope Ares 1 never was a heavy lift rocket. Ares 1 was a vehicle that could hardly reach LEO (Orion would have to make final orbit insertion). Hopefully now the new SLS will be built as soon as possible (Shuttle ET and SRB's with a new upper stage rocket and payload/spacecraft stacked on top of the ET) and a crewed vehicle will be operational by 2017. May I also add that there was also a legnthly gap between Apollo and Shuttle.
@nickyp28 Yup, I hate to be wrong...dammit jim I remember very well the gap after Apollo was cut short....pissed alot of people off and put many more people off of the space program altogether. We had another fuel crisis in those days.
@nickyp28 Actually, NASA receives about 0.6% of the federal budget. The American government wastes a stunning amount of money. NASA, for the most part, is not one of those wastes. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the much of prosperity we now enjoy is largely due to the space program and the technology involved.
@NEOCUBEST they are flexing their hands in the heavy gloves and g-forces to relieve tension and keep their hands flexible if they need to reach for a switch.
Woah! How did I end up watching this?! I'm soOo stoOoned!!! That cockpit is one gizmo-intensive piece of hardware! Ooooo...I wanna press all those buttons! Well, see ya' dudes!!! Gone surfing!
That's the moment when the engines are shut down, 3g acceleration to zero in 1-2 seconds. Gravity does not "disappear", it's still around 90% up there, the shuttle is just fast enough to constantly "fall around" the earth.
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It is sad to see humans using such a crude ways of space exploration knowing that we have had access to anti-gravity propulsion technology for more than 50 years ! ! Soon guys ! ! very soon we will all be able to space walk and see the Earth from above. Guaranteed ! !
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Humans have been using this type of technology before You were born ( me too i may ad). Anti- gravity is the easiest and simplest way of propulsion.
You can rise up in a walking pace above the Earth or zoom into the space with a blink of an eye. Zero point energy , antigravity propulsion will be new energy source within this decade.
Woo hoo!!! You're a proper mental case aren't you. I mean...like a proper one. Not a pretend one.
Come on. I'd love to hear some more of your insight :D
I can imagine you now, sat in your shitty little appartment with cutout pictures of conspiracy theories and stuff all over the walls and a homemade tinfoil hat on your head designed to 'stop people from stealing your thought waves' :D
Nassim Haramein, Marko Rodin - Rodin's coil, Steven Greer- Orion project, David Yurth, Professor John Searl, Hutchinson effect, Nicola Tesla.... The list goes on.... I am not going to do homework for You SIR. Knowledge is power Did you know that ?! !
Not fake, notice the movement of the Astronauts during ignition, their bodies are moving together, which is EXTREMELY hard to do, and it isn't the camera moving because it is fixed on one spot and doesn't shudder. Also the "Negative Return", "Press to ATO" and "Press to MECO" calls where all given pretty much exactly at their correct positions, again extremely hard to replicate (as for a bunch of teenagers... would take too long) and as raggmanss said, the props are near perfect if it's fake.
Thats Endeavour. My fav shuttle. I a fighter pilot in afganastan and I have an application with nasa to be an astronaut. I think 4 years of training is worth being an astronaut. At 4:35 on the video they are at negative return. Pretty nerv-wrecking for the flight crew because if they have an engine failure they can't return for a "safe landing."
At 4:35 they are "negative return" - that is the Return To Launch Site abort option is not available. If they have a failure of main engines after that point the Abort To Orbit, Abort Once Around, and Abort Trans-Atlantic options are still available. The ATO abort mode was used on mission STS-51-F.
A minor point, but the boundaries change every flight depending on weight, trajectory, atmospheric conditions etc. Usually it's just under 4 minutes for a heavy orbiter on an ISS trajectory. Shallow trajectories extend to 4m30 ish
once in a life time man, imagine this only a small small handful get to go beyond that blue sky, out the 6+ billions of ppl on earth of who never get to see the earth as a whole for themselves, all of us are earth-bound, for our entire life. Every time i look at teh nite sky i wish so bad i was up there...but i know that im just an 18 year old kid, an electrical engineering degree is not going to get me up in space...and i dont think ill ever go up there, ever. im just STUCk on this planet :(...
i know how u feel but being an astronaut is something i am really shooting for i try getting good grades in school or do what ever they need to let me go up there and dude i know how to space program works im like on nasas site everyday
If you live in the US, good luck, but i live in australia where there is no sign of a space program, accualy no sign of anything here for that matter. Its going to take me...ages to ever get to go up. But who knows, after ISS is completed and the moon base is build maybe lots more ppl will be going up soon, by that time ill be pretty old..like 35..
ya i live in the US and im only 15 so hypotheticaly speaking i go into nasa after high school and i go to space i will be the younest astronaut in space so im also shooting for that
I used to think like that too kid, that it will never happen, that the odds are too great.. But I worked hard in High School and in college to get a pilot slot (which I thought would never happen in a million years) but it did. And if I continue on this path next is Test-Pilot, then Astronaut. So dont listen to this guy Kaos.. if you do the best you can and work hard in the AF you'll make it.
This is a brilliant video. Thanks! Rough rumbly ride until the SRB's kick away at 2:36, make bright flash in cockpit. "Traj looking good"= flight path is nominal. OK to raise visors after SRB's shoved away. (Ppl. down in middeck need reminder from Cmdr.) "Negative return"= no longer possible to abort by returning to Kennedy shd. engines fail
Press to "ATO"= go ahead, you can Abort to Orbit if Mains fail now MECO = main engine cutoff, you're there...
actually he is intentionally flexing his arm and "mock" reaching for switches to get used to the force required under that G level so that in the event he needs to start working the stuff in an emergency he is somewhat comfortable with the movement, something not reproducible in the simulator.
Its interesting to note that in some youtube vids of shuttle cockpit vids you can hear when SRBs seperate and the external tank but not in this vid. Very quiet.
overdubbed meaning that there are 2 separate mics in use and are mixed in? just neat how other one you can hear the engines fire and hear the whining and stress on vehicle when it goes up during max q and the explosive bolts firing
Well, yeah, I think there may be separate mics. The STS-65 video floating around has intercom, cockpit mic (recording ambient noise) and also engine/SRB sep dubbed over the top. It's definitely not as loud as it would appear from the recording. You certainly wouldn't hear the SRB bolts firing like that.
there is an intercom "hot mike" that allows them to speak freely to each other at all times during launch. this and all comm channels are taped and recorded. after the flight they took this hot mike channel and dubbed it into the cockpit launch video.
Just a minor point, any crew member can configure his intercom for PTT instead of VOX if required, but apart from that, thanks for explaining better than I did :)
I am going to be an astronaut when i grow up and no doubt and this video is awsome and when i am 25,26,27,28,29,or 30 i am going to space and traveling on the space shuttle with the crew and also doing really cool spacewalks and cool training before going to space
I hear ya bro...but go for it. I graduated from high school at 21 years 10 months old! (Suffered from migranes) I took the "first" college math 4 times before I passed with a B. I dropped the "first" chem class.....I stuck it out and got a degree in biology....
I am the walking proof that anybody can do it if they want it bad enough.
Alright, I am a Space Camp nerd, but whats exciting, is the simulation mission we did sounded very similar to this at launch. A lot of the same terminology, and those are very similar check lists they are following in their hands. SO FRIGGIN COOL!
I am going to be an astronaut when i grow up and no doubt and this video is awsome and when i am 30 i am going to space and traveling on the space shuttle
Actually the crew intercom and radio loops are spliced directly into the recorded video feed as it's recorded. The cameras are set up and plugged in on the flight deck prior to launch as the crew is being strapped in by the Astronaut Support Personnel.
I wish they revive and redevelop the realistic pc sim game SHUTTLE by VG, once the REAL shuttles are phasing out, as a tribute and a walk down memory lane.
Just FYI since i don't see it noted elsewhere on this page, this is from STS-113 Endeavour in late-November 2002. This was an evening launch after 7 p.m. in the fall, hence the illumination inside the flight deck at lift-off.
They get 5000 dollars a month as a basic engineer sallary. Then of course they get all kinds of adds and raises and so. I would say roughly 6000 dollars/month.
A. Salaries for civilian Astronaut Candidates are based on the Federal Government's General Schedule pay scale for grades GS-12 through GS-13. Each person's grade is determined according to his/her academic achievements and experience. Currently, a GS-12 starts at $65,140 per year and a GS-13 can earn up to $100,701 per year.
woah...
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CommendatoreAndolini 8 months ago
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ar15expert 8 months ago
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L0new0lf91 8 months ago
I dislike that Opie dislikes people who dislike this video!!
mitts61 8 months ago
What kind of idiot dislikes a space shuttle launch?!
AgentNick42 8 months ago
Great video! Might I sample the sounds from this for a side music project with some friends?
Armyoflight9 1 year ago
@Armyoflight9 u dont hv to ask or tell
papan1990 1 year ago
@Gymmarn
Due to microgravity, the astronauts would lose muscle tone very quickly. They work out 2 hours a day to keep their muscles as they were on earth. Fat people, from what I've seen, don't work out 2 hours a day. Plus, you can't plow down food, due to rationing, and the fact that your stomach digests slower up there doesn't help.
hh1n 1 year ago
5.25 - ''hey, check that mirror there''
''yep, yep, I can see the Moon!''
nickyp28 1 year ago
Anyone know which flight this was?
Ferrariman601 1 year ago
2:33 Large Light???
womcat63 1 year ago
@womcat63 Pretty sure it was the separation of the Solid Rocket Boosters
Lakotahope 1 year ago
@womcat63 SRB separation motors firing.
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2:32 Large Flash????????
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womcat63 1 year ago
@cujet
AAAAAAAMEN!!!!!!
womcat63 1 year ago
Cool vid! But it doesn't look like that much G-force during launch. He can move his arm at 0:40, so why must you be elite trained/military to go to space? I've seen fat people on the most wicked looking carousels and they survive :)
Gymmarn 1 year ago
@Gymmarn Max G's on the shuttle tops off a 3g prior to MECO (main engine cutoff). That gets more uncomfortable than you'd think - especially sustained for several minutes. Also, it is quite difficult to fly after 10 - 14 days in space - after being weightless, the stick feels very, very heavy - even at 1.5gs. There is also the issue of disorientation. If you flew sans training, you'd realize real quick why that training is necessary.
Neptuneaus 1 year ago
@Neptuneaus They also practice landings on orbit by connecting a joy stick to one of their laptops and running a software program. The name of the system has the acronym PILOT......
aimhigh59 1 year ago
Thank goodness obama shut down the American manned space program. So we can spend the money on social engineering instead. That will lead to equal salaries for everyone, from the worker to the executive. With a total lack of prosperity, nothing for young people to aspire to (I wanna be an astronaut) and social equality for everyone. American exceptionalism is a thing of the past. Enjoy your change.
cujet 1 year ago
@cujet Yeah, Obama lost credibility when he shut down the Ares I rocket program. We need the heavy lift capacity and we need the space program that is in place, because we've been going into space for 50 years. Private Launches are great, but they don't have the experience, nor do they have the equipment for heavy launch beyond orbit, etc. Plus, we're going to lose a large amount of highly qualified people.
Lakotahope 1 year ago
@Lakotahope Ares 1 never was a heavy lift rocket. Ares 1 was a vehicle that could hardly reach LEO (Orion would have to make final orbit insertion). Hopefully now the new SLS will be built as soon as possible (Shuttle ET and SRB's with a new upper stage rocket and payload/spacecraft stacked on top of the ET) and a crewed vehicle will be operational by 2017. May I also add that there was also a legnthly gap between Apollo and Shuttle.
nickyp28 1 year ago
@nickyp28 Yup, I hate to be wrong...dammit jim I remember very well the gap after Apollo was cut short....pissed alot of people off and put many more people off of the space program altogether. We had another fuel crisis in those days.
Lakotahope 1 year ago
@cujet you do realise that NASA recieves 1% of the federal budget don't you.
nickyp28 1 year ago
@nickyp28 Actually, NASA receives about 0.6% of the federal budget. The American government wastes a stunning amount of money. NASA, for the most part, is not one of those wastes. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the much of prosperity we now enjoy is largely due to the space program and the technology involved.
cujet 1 year ago 4
That centre seat looks like a precarious place to sit!
george7378 1 year ago
Check out they push forward once the main engines cutoff!
Bofarrow2 1 year ago
these guys look like they do it everyday
noob3243 1 year ago
@noob3243 They do. It's called training. :)
Neptuneaus 1 year ago
that would be scary. I'd do it.
jgarett 1 year ago
what are they sqeezing?
NEOCUBEST 1 year ago
@NEOCUBEST they are flexing their hands in the heavy gloves and g-forces to relieve tension and keep their hands flexible if they need to reach for a switch.
canyonblue737 6 months ago
Come on oceanofstorms123 Who wouldn't. I'd do that in a second.
BadRonald1 2 years ago
That was awsome!! I would love to go one one of them.....
oceanofstorms123 2 years ago
Woah! How did I end up watching this?! I'm soOo stoOoned!!! That cockpit is one gizmo-intensive piece of hardware! Ooooo...I wanna press all those buttons! Well, see ya' dudes!!! Gone surfing!
01keeper01 2 years ago 2
Love the moment where you see gravity disappear! :D
ukinsomniac 2 years ago 2
yeah that was cool. you'd think it would be gradual but i just happened as though a string broke. i'd love to give it a shot.
mjcordova 2 years ago 2
That's the moment when the engines are shut down, 3g acceleration to zero in 1-2 seconds. Gravity does not "disappear", it's still around 90% up there, the shuttle is just fast enough to constantly "fall around" the earth.
blablubb12345 2 years ago 4
@blablubb12345 thank you
marshalcraft 1 year ago
@mjcordova 3G's to weightless in an instant when the main engines cutoff. Like a 700 pound gorilla jumped off your chest.
canyonblue737 6 months ago
damn... who would give this anything less than 5 stars.
arias1772 2 years ago
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It is sad to see humans using such a crude ways of space exploration knowing that we have had access to anti-gravity propulsion technology for more than 50 years ! ! Soon guys ! ! very soon we will all be able to space walk and see the Earth from above. Guaranteed ! !
TheWayshower1982 2 years ago
I do find it crude as well but anti gravity propulsion technology is still very crude and untested to send humans into space with.
sedativechunk 2 years ago
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Humans have been using this type of technology before You were born ( me too i may ad). Anti- gravity is the easiest and simplest way of propulsion.
You can rise up in a walking pace above the Earth or zoom into the space with a blink of an eye. Zero point energy , antigravity propulsion will be new energy source within this decade.
TheWayshower1982 2 years ago
Show me proof of this, and I might believe this rediculous statement.
alshoei 2 years ago
IF you are too lazy to learn for yourself then c'est la vie.
I know what I know.
I do not need to convince anyone to anything. It is YOU that lack the knowledge, not me.
TheWayshower1982 2 years ago
Be sure to turn it off in time, or you will be traveling forever.... :D
electrique527 2 years ago
TheWayshower1982 Hey, you obviously forgot to take your medicines today! You know how upset your shrinks get then!: (
winterstellar 2 years ago 2
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Do some research first and then You can address me, MATE !
TheWayshower1982 2 years ago
Woo hoo!!! You're a proper mental case aren't you. I mean...like a proper one. Not a pretend one.
Come on. I'd love to hear some more of your insight :D
I can imagine you now, sat in your shitty little appartment with cutout pictures of conspiracy theories and stuff all over the walls and a homemade tinfoil hat on your head designed to 'stop people from stealing your thought waves' :D
Nosteratees 2 years ago 5
Google that You ignorant human being:
Nassim Haramein, Marko Rodin - Rodin's coil, Steven Greer- Orion project, David Yurth, Professor John Searl, Hutchinson effect, Nicola Tesla.... The list goes on.... I am not going to do homework for You SIR. Knowledge is power Did you know that ?! !
~Namaste~
TheWayshower1982 2 years ago
Mental mental mental :D
Nosteratees 2 years ago
I have signed you up as a tester :D
electrique527 2 years ago
I wish to be an astronaut. Having adventure and a lot of money yeah!
But unfortunately I'm not.
Groningen1954 2 years ago
They don't get paid as much as you think.
wuzzlevideos 2 years ago
the guy in the centre has a handful of cue cards just to jog his memory...lol. DAMN. I'm scared of flying planes and these superhumans fly rockets.
rogermoore27 2 years ago
That's the flight engineer, able to assist the pilot and commander when needed, he has copies of all of their documents and cue cards.
wuzzlevideos 2 years ago
pilot: houstan we have......LINE
engineer : liftoff, a problem?
cadian14758 2 years ago
astronaut is still the most amazing job on earth.
rogermoore27 2 years ago 3
Nope, porn star
ratliff2006 2 years ago
bella cagata...
giorvani 2 years ago
wow why is this rated low u guys really like that
raptorrapboy 2 years ago
ur so inmature
HuskerFan1097 2 years ago
these people have huge balls, even the women
gamkipper 3 years ago 59
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Seems kinda boring...!
gillsoriano 3 years ago
That sucks...No cupholders????
2382224 3 years ago 8
they dont need cupholders.
they just set their drink in air, and it floats :)
lololzak 3 years ago 19
no inflight movie either???
saltoft 3 years ago 8
plus they have to buy drinks
rogermoore27 2 years ago
Not fake, notice the movement of the Astronauts during ignition, their bodies are moving together, which is EXTREMELY hard to do, and it isn't the camera moving because it is fixed on one spot and doesn't shudder. Also the "Negative Return", "Press to ATO" and "Press to MECO" calls where all given pretty much exactly at their correct positions, again extremely hard to replicate (as for a bunch of teenagers... would take too long) and as raggmanss said, the props are near perfect if it's fake.
laingy07 3 years ago 3
they have a lot of costume props if its fake lol
raggmanss 3 years ago
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Fake. Bunch of teenagers made this in their garage. Too much time on their hands obviously. Jerks. God bless America.
antistar1000 3 years ago
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Expensive film to make for some teenagers.
god0fgod 3 years ago
What?
Ieatbabyseals 3 years ago 2
NASA is amazing. i cant believe ppl think its fake. screw those obama supporters
yaslovr 3 years ago
Kennedy was a democrat u food..remember him?
mikew909 3 years ago 2
hahaha you FOOD.
illbuildahouse 3 years ago
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fake!!1
shaky145 3 years ago
lol my car runs less smooth than that bloody spaceship!!
C0R5AIR 3 years ago
hahaha good call!
QuarkMesons 3 years ago
wow!
FlyBikes089 3 years ago
that looks very uncomfortable
dshiznit1123 3 years ago
Not to me! I'll do it.
Tommyr 3 years ago
how come all the videos only show 4 astronauts?
where do the rest sit?
senatorxbox360dude 3 years ago
The remainder sit in three seats on the lower deck.
Ravenflight104 3 years ago
They hang on to the wings yelling "woooooooooooohoooooooooooooooooo!
jrobertusa 3 years ago
@senatorxbox360dude on the lower deck of the shuttle
canyonblue737 6 months ago
Note the Chemlites on their arms incase they have to abort...
ClancD 3 years ago
Worth noting that the ground crew have them as well, although theirs are yellow.
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
I am actually in Cali for my break. My second tour.
drummerguy195 3 years ago
Thats Endeavour. My fav shuttle. I a fighter pilot in afganastan and I have an application with nasa to be an astronaut. I think 4 years of training is worth being an astronaut. At 4:35 on the video they are at negative return. Pretty nerv-wrecking for the flight crew because if they have an engine failure they can't return for a "safe landing."
drummerguy195 3 years ago
I'd say TAL landings are understood enough nowadays to consider them "Safe".
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
At 4:35 they are "negative return" - that is the Return To Launch Site abort option is not available. If they have a failure of main engines after that point the Abort To Orbit, Abort Once Around, and Abort Trans-Atlantic options are still available. The ATO abort mode was used on mission STS-51-F.
bitrex 3 years ago
A minor point, but the boundaries change every flight depending on weight, trajectory, atmospheric conditions etc. Usually it's just under 4 minutes for a heavy orbiter on an ISS trajectory. Shallow trajectories extend to 4m30 ish
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
safe landing, is a definite relative term
look at the RTLS abort profile someday. I wouldn't want to do that run.
tidbit: NASA wanted the STS-1 Crew to perform an RTLS abort, both crewmen said NO.
Dragonx0562 3 years ago
RTLS is considered an survivable intact abort these days. It's been refined quite a bit.
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
bakit ba laging nakataas ang kamay ng driver
jero300 3 years ago
These guys have got some courage to be going up in the space shuttle. I'd be shitting myself now
sanshuz 3 years ago 5
id do it...i want to be an astronaut so bad u have no idea
KaosFromCoD4 3 years ago
Anything you want bad enough in life man you'll get it. Go for it. Say its a kick ass ride on the shuttle though.
sanshuz 3 years ago 3
ooo belive me im goin for it
KaosFromCoD4 3 years ago
once in a life time man, imagine this only a small small handful get to go beyond that blue sky, out the 6+ billions of ppl on earth of who never get to see the earth as a whole for themselves, all of us are earth-bound, for our entire life. Every time i look at teh nite sky i wish so bad i was up there...but i know that im just an 18 year old kid, an electrical engineering degree is not going to get me up in space...and i dont think ill ever go up there, ever. im just STUCk on this planet :(...
rustygates 3 years ago
i know how u feel but being an astronaut is something i am really shooting for i try getting good grades in school or do what ever they need to let me go up there and dude i know how to space program works im like on nasas site everyday
KaosFromCoD4 3 years ago
If you live in the US, good luck, but i live in australia where there is no sign of a space program, accualy no sign of anything here for that matter. Its going to take me...ages to ever get to go up. But who knows, after ISS is completed and the moon base is build maybe lots more ppl will be going up soon, by that time ill be pretty old..like 35..
rustygates 3 years ago
ya i live in the US and im only 15 so hypotheticaly speaking i go into nasa after high school and i go to space i will be the younest astronaut in space so im also shooting for that
KaosFromCoD4 3 years ago
i noticed that a lot of the astronauts have some pilot exp(navy, air force....just my observation.
eodfan 3 years ago
That's not a requirement, it should be noted. Just that it's very hard to log 1000 hours in a variety of aircraft if you're a civilian pilot.
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
i know im goin into the airforce
KaosFromCoD4 3 years ago
I used to think like that too kid, that it will never happen, that the odds are too great.. But I worked hard in High School and in college to get a pilot slot (which I thought would never happen in a million years) but it did. And if I continue on this path next is Test-Pilot, then Astronaut. So dont listen to this guy Kaos.. if you do the best you can and work hard in the AF you'll make it.
callsignDEVIL11 3 years ago
Yes what was really,..seen..on mark..come on
trianglepoint 3 years ago
by all mean's are you being honest...
trianglepoint 3 years ago
This is a brilliant video. Thanks! Rough rumbly ride until the SRB's kick away at 2:36, make bright flash in cockpit. "Traj looking good"= flight path is nominal. OK to raise visors after SRB's shoved away. (Ppl. down in middeck need reminder from Cmdr.) "Negative return"= no longer possible to abort by returning to Kennedy shd. engines fail
Press to "ATO"= go ahead, you can Abort to Orbit if Mains fail now MECO = main engine cutoff, you're there...
Crashman2 3 years ago 5
thats pretty funny to watch the pilots right arm, when he's not using it, it keeps floating up, untill he gets use to it, then starts tucking it in.
yabutkappa 3 years ago
actually he is intentionally flexing his arm and "mock" reaching for switches to get used to the force required under that G level so that in the event he needs to start working the stuff in an emergency he is somewhat comfortable with the movement, something not reproducible in the simulator.
canyonblue737 3 years ago
noes!!!! someone left solitaire @ the mission control office!!!!
arroy624 3 years ago
Its interesting to note that in some youtube vids of shuttle cockpit vids you can hear when SRBs seperate and the external tank but not in this vid. Very quiet.
oreoweb6 3 years ago
You can't hear them on the intercom. Those videos are overdubbed.
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
overdubbed meaning that there are 2 separate mics in use and are mixed in? just neat how other one you can hear the engines fire and hear the whining and stress on vehicle when it goes up during max q and the explosive bolts firing
oreoweb6 3 years ago
Well, yeah, I think there may be separate mics. The STS-65 video floating around has intercom, cockpit mic (recording ambient noise) and also engine/SRB sep dubbed over the top. It's definitely not as loud as it would appear from the recording. You certainly wouldn't hear the SRB bolts firing like that.
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
there is an intercom "hot mike" that allows them to speak freely to each other at all times during launch. this and all comm channels are taped and recorded. after the flight they took this hot mike channel and dubbed it into the cockpit launch video.
canyonblue737 3 years ago
Just a minor point, any crew member can configure his intercom for PTT instead of VOX if required, but apart from that, thanks for explaining better than I did :)
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
I am going to be an astronaut when i grow up and no doubt and this video is awsome and when i am 25,26,27,28,29,or 30 i am going to space and traveling on the space shuttle with the crew and also doing really cool spacewalks and cool training before going to space
Thecoolastronaut1 3 years ago
I wanted to be an Astronaut....I watched the first moon landing...
...my advice....SCHOOL IS EVERYTHING...get good grades...Physics, Math, Biology...that is your start !
skid987 3 years ago 4
physics: yes
math: no
biology: yes
nmantor 3 years ago
Math no ??? Physics = Math....just to get to Physics class you need math.
To say you don't need math is kidding yourself....I'd say you need more math than bio....unless you are the mission specialist for a bio experiment.
...also...I forgot to mention chemistry...thay may get you a ticket as a mission specialist also
skid987 3 years ago
chemistry..ugh. that subject brings pain to my brain.
nmantor 3 years ago
I hear ya bro...but go for it. I graduated from high school at 21 years 10 months old! (Suffered from migranes) I took the "first" college math 4 times before I passed with a B. I dropped the "first" chem class.....I stuck it out and got a degree in biology....
I am the walking proof that anybody can do it if they want it bad enough.
skid987 3 years ago
thanks for the advice
nmantor 3 years ago
excellent work!
arroy624 3 years ago
I love this video
Thecoolastronaut1 3 years ago
how old do you have to be to become an astronaut?
Thecoolastronaut1 3 years ago
i think i would just kinda nervously laugh all the way up
klieserber 3 years ago
Space Camp rules!
Patrick462 3 years ago
Alright, I am a Space Camp nerd, but whats exciting, is the simulation mission we did sounded very similar to this at launch. A lot of the same terminology, and those are very similar check lists they are following in their hands. SO FRIGGIN COOL!
ProjectAzar 3 years ago 3
I love this stuff!
Tommyr 3 years ago 6
I am going to be an astronaut when i grow up and no doubt and this video is awsome and when i am 30 i am going to space and traveling on the space shuttle
Thecoolastronaut1 3 years ago 3
if you want to ride a shuttle you had better hurry up!
clobsi 3 years ago 7
hey check out the MECO at 8:54, the pressure release is cool as heck!!
therealjohnnysart 3 years ago
lol the comms probably arent from that view. he just pieced the video with the sound
ilikeporsche959s 3 years ago
Actually the crew intercom and radio loops are spliced directly into the recorded video feed as it's recorded. The cameras are set up and plugged in on the flight deck prior to launch as the crew is being strapped in by the Astronaut Support Personnel.
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
THAT WAS SO INTRESTING TO WATCH!
locatt 4 years ago 3
it is!!!
laplaptop 3 years ago
what mission is this?
smartyjones2004 4 years ago
Sts-112 i think.
wuzzlevideos 4 years ago
Scratch that, it's 113.
wuzzlevideos 4 years ago
All i can say is, lucky ba****ds
BezzSoz 4 years ago 13
I wish they revive and redevelop the realistic pc sim game SHUTTLE by VG, once the REAL shuttles are phasing out, as a tribute and a walk down memory lane.
flying8speedistra 4 years ago
look on google for the Orbiter Space Flight Simulator
TheTurbinator 4 years ago 3
Cool! Thanks for the heads-up.
flying8speedistra 4 years ago
I guess that's booster separation at 2:35.
Awesome
octoslash 4 years ago
it is.
canyonblue737 4 years ago
how many g`s do these guys experience?
runescapecat454 4 years ago
max of 3 G's which is several less than apollo astronauts experienced in the saturn rocket.
canyonblue737 4 years ago
wow thats not to bad
runescapecat454 4 years ago 2
If you want to try something simular, you should go to Misson Space in Disneyland Orlando. That awesome.
mantech2 4 years ago
i went to that ride. it was awesome! do you now how many g's youre exposed to? (in the ride)
manumenzella04 4 years ago
3 to 4
oPYROo 3 years ago
Doesnt sound like much really but i suppose theyre under that force for about 5 mins constantly i would assume?
Mankey52 3 years ago
SRB Ignition to MECO is around 8 and a half minutes, maximum G loading is 3Gs, but for sustained periods of time.
wuzzlevideos 3 years ago
Wow...I'm trying to imagine how does it feel like to fly this thing..
Andybucker 4 years ago
more like strapping yourself in and a computer flying.
fusionstar916 4 years ago
You do realise the crew is completely trained in manual procedures should the GPCs fail, right? Also the manual controls for landing?
wuzzlevideos 4 years ago 7
great video
MightySaturn5 4 years ago
Just FYI since i don't see it noted elsewhere on this page, this is from STS-113 Endeavour in late-November 2002. This was an evening launch after 7 p.m. in the fall, hence the illumination inside the flight deck at lift-off.
RJY4356 4 years ago
The call from the pilot is "NAV Init" at T-10 sec there meaning Naviagation system goes to inertial immediately prior to launch.
RJY4356 4 years ago
Should be noted that they change to LVLH pretty much after clearing the tower and pitching past 89 degrees on the pitch ladder.
wuzzlevideos 4 years ago
thats allot of money.
cutterschoicenotmine 4 years ago
how loud is it in the shuttle during launch
kief0120 4 years ago
VERY f*cking loud
ancestron 4 years ago
During SRB ignition it's pretty loud, but under SSMEs only it's actually pretty quiet.
wuzzlevideos 4 years ago
They get 5000 dollars a month as a basic engineer sallary. Then of course they get all kinds of adds and raises and so. I would say roughly 6000 dollars/month.
aviaal 4 years ago
really not enough.this people are giving all for all of us
Alzazyel 4 years ago
Would anyone know how much these men are paid?
ludwigvonsteampole1 4 years ago
Q. What is an astronaut's salary?
A. Salaries for civilian Astronaut Candidates are based on the Federal Government's General Schedule pay scale for grades GS-12 through GS-13. Each person's grade is determined according to his/her academic achievements and experience. Currently, a GS-12 starts at $65,140 per year and a GS-13 can earn up to $100,701 per year.
canyonblue737 4 years ago
Yeah, but what about all those speaking engagements? I wonder if they all carry Amex a