Columbia: Launch and Re-entry from Pilot's View

[starmanbridges]

I love the USA!

[Stanky2000]

K guys, remember where I parked.

[pauze3232]

why don't they ever show them going into space or coming back to earth without the camera cutting away. then coming back. Cause there full of shit, space cadets. lmao

[210482fmj]

that looks cool when there they all bounce together at 2:06

[Truth666]

*** Take your time to read the links. *** reason this is the only view fron the cockpit the NASA clowns can deliver from these NASA clowns:

nasa-hoaxes DOT blogspot.com

***

ISS / space shuttle is a hoax. There are no "astronauts" in the rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, as there were no "astronauts" in any Apollo, Soyuz & Co.

Russia's Putin has shown long ago that he would soon put an end to this hoax, staged by the US and the Soviet Union for decades.

[AggieGalveston]

@Truth666 not sure what to say lol. Working for nasa for twenty five years and personally knowing dozens of astronauts and witnessing several launches...I must have it all wrong!!!!!!!  I guess that "space station" you can see from earth must of been made by the aliens right???? ha!

[twinturbonissan300zx]

@AggieGalveston Hi, WHY wasn't the columbia launch aborted during launch if nasa saw the wing getting damaged by falling debris on live cameras? As for the re-entry, why did you take the risk? I mean surely their were other options to take, such as either docking with the ISS and having the astronauts picked up by the next scheduled shuttle mission? Or leaving the columbia in orbit whilst waiting for another shuttle to meet with them and transfer the astronauts to the healthy shuttle?

[aimhigh59]

@twinturbonissan300zx Video was reviewed after launch where damage was suspected. Re-entry was done because no damage was found. Shuttle could not get to station because it was in a different orbit. Next shuttle mission was not soon enough before Columbia ran out of fuel, O2, food, Co2 scrubbers etc. to stay in orbit. Also you dont launch the next mission without determining what happened to the previous one.

[twinturbonissan300zx]

@aimhigh59 Ok thanks for the reply aimhigh59. How do you know this, through general knowledge or do/have you worked for NASA or another space agency?

[aimhigh59]

@twinturbonissan300zx I've been in the business 25 yrs.

[twinturbonissan300zx]

@aimhigh59 what at nasa or are you a scientist?

[aimhigh59]

@twinturbonissan300zx You have a misconception about scientist and the shuttle program. Scientist dont make decisions about the shuttle or work on or solve shuttle problems. Its all mgt. and engineers and technicians. Scientist work on science. They may fly expierments on shuttle or station but thats it. They are few and far between meaning you dont see many around the shuttle. Also Nasa owns the shuttle but non govt. contractors do all the work on it. Nasa just oversees the work.

[messierhunter]

@Truth666 You're an idiot, I've seen ISS throughout its construction by the shuttle, as have many others. Are amateur astronomers in on the hoax too?

[aimhigh59]

@Truth666 Views from the cockpit are picked by the crews. There are only 2 places on the flightdeck where the cameras are allowed. The crew picks either window 9 (like this video) or the brow or dash board looking back at them. The window 4 view on launch is mandated by Nasa. The only mounted camera on landing is the pilots Hud. Any other views during landing is a camera held and moved around by the crew.

[BlaccBoii]

someone signed out of their yahoo messenger @ 0:49

[Anglynn74]

amazing how that vehicle can withstand all that heat & etc from re-entry. i can remember as a kid every time a shuttle went up it was live on tv & was a huge event.

[XpliSitt]

From hunters and gatherers, to scientists and pilots capable of leaving our atmosphere (even landing on the moon); the progression of mankind is an absolutely incredible thing. It makes me sad when people need to attribute our existence and success to non-existent, all powerful beings. It makes me sad that few people can just appreciate our beauty for what it is, be humbled by it, and find comfort knowing that we are what we are because of billions of years of evolutionary success. I love us.

[Ebsteins31653]

Absolutely amazing! Isn't science and its applied technology just simply wonderful! Appreciate the vid momo2007x. Best wishes.

[soryusernamebintaken]

so after flying a rocket up to the sky, into space, doing all there space jobs and having to live there risking there lives, they then come back and have to land a fucking plane as well!!!! Talented individuls.

[Roadstar1602]

@soryusernamebintaken It's worse than that even. What they have to land is an unpowered flying brick. Look at those tiny wings and that huge fuselage. And the complete lack of a horizontal stabilizer in the rear. The fact that they never crashed this thing on landing is absolutely amazing.

[blablubb12345]

@Roadstar1602

Actually, the wings are rather big because the Air Force demanded for a large crossrange capability on reentry / landing which would allow the shuttle to launch into polar orbit, deploy a satellite and land on american soil within one orbit. Also, delta winged airplanes without a horizontal stab are quite common.

[CloverCam]

We're in a fireball. . .

[andyseaview]

it takes balls of steel to climb on a bomb and go into space

[doggieman1961]

@andyseaview i got nervous just looking at the video

[Kurtplox]

Wow it's awesome how there's so much vibration and suddenly it all stops and you know they've cleared the atmosphere :O

[GNagle66]

im going to miss Columbia and the other space shuttle and NASA..

[coolpeople469]

i'm just really impressed with the precision these astronauts have with landing these massive crafts! congratulations!

[h3aveNsHaZe]

The earth looks so pretty up in space, too bad its not the same view down there :(

I really hope one day we'll live in space, I'm going to become an aerospace engineer to help help foster this progress :)

[beluch1000]

@h3aveNsHaZe Why would you ever want to live in space. What can you do in space?

[h3aveNsHaZe]

@beluch1000 What can't you do? We can build cities up there as we can down here. Whats so exciting about earth that people will continue to live here? Eventually our planets ecosystem will fail, and we'll have to go somewhere else. And what other place is there? The oceans? It was always mankind's job to expand and explore other opportunities in life, new opportunities that we've never had before. What can you do on earth? Build a life, a family, job, die, then what? What have you accomplished?

[AmusedChild]

@h3aveNsHaZe I'm with you. We all live in space anyway, because the earth exists in space. Without adventurers, where would we all be? Why shouldn't we dare and try?

[doggieman1961]

@AmusedChild youre right, we are mving in space at astonomical speeds

[PremiumSoul]

whoa was that a sonic boom @ 1:55 ?

[maksphoto78]

@PremiumSoul Yes, and you can hear two booms, which is typical.

[Madara0153]

...yeah that was awesome...^^

[Kingfordian22]

They seem very surprised to see the glow...

Was this mission the first with a certain view or something?

[mach25man]

The simulators even have the glow. They know when its coming. Nothing special about this mission. It was STS-65 in 1994 I believe.

[bopkick5]

scary amount of power when you think about it !!

[quantumteknics]

cool noise at 2:09!

[cliklab]

Good call.

[CPS123456]

use the 1969 Apollo shuttle!!!

[comanchehotspot]

foam was made in china

[joelibermann]

so was fried rice

[MkNeelz360]

learned about this is school today. Damn, still can't believe that a piece of foam fucked up everything.

[Kingfordian22]

@MkNeelz360

not a piece of foam... it was NASA's reckless thinking. They should've checked it out more. And now 7 people are gone because of it

[MkNeelz360]

uh... of course it was a piece of foam. It's all over the net, man. You can't deny that. The foam's momentum was great enough to damage the wing considerably.

[wxh1937]

what a smooth landing, such a beautiful big bird. nasa sure has the best pilots in the world.

[Powerhhhgame2008]

I thought the Columbia failed on re-entry, may the rest in peice

[Transform30]

This was in 1995. Columbia space shuttle was built in the 90s and used a couple times before. But in 2003 it failed re-entry.

[munhasen]

Columbia was the very first shuttle launched in 1981.

[Apollo580]

It was the first shuttle to fly and it was built in the 80s. Not the 90s.

[Neptuneaus]

Technically, construction on Columbia did begin in the late 70s -- first flight was in '81.

[Apollo580]

oh right. Thanks for the correction. Forgot it flew in '81.

[mach25man]

Columbia was built in the 70's and 1st flew in 1981. This video is STS-65 which flew i think before 1995. She flew 20 something times before 2003.

[Kingfordian22]

@Transform30

It was built in 1980's and first flew in 1981

[SufferInJuly]

Let us trust the U.S. government in space, below the magnetosphere (as that's their limit for manned flights), as they've done a bang-up job on land & sea.

[Vitaminnn07]

its insane how can they control the shuttle exactly at the same position pretty much approximate to a position of a falling leaf, belly down. does anyone how they do that ?

[ejr04]

its all done by computer.

[Seanamon78]

It's done by PILOTS.

[ejr04]

No its not...not until a few mins before touchdown. You really think NASA would leave the ENTIRE de-orbit, reentry, and touchdown up to human pilots? Really?

[Neptuneaus]

Nope. Onboard computers handle the ascent. Even the best pilot wouldn't trust himself to steer 7 million pounds of thrust. Commander and pilot handle initial switch configurations prior to launch, and really only monitor the gauges during ascent. Only real flying is done just minutes prior to touchdown. Vehicle could land itself, truthfully.

[mach25man]

Initial switch configurations are not done by CDR & PLT but by astronaut support person (ASP) prior to crew getting in the ship.

[Neptuneaus]

Before CDR and PLT are strapped in, yes. I was responding to an earlier comment in which the poster was under the impression that the crew actually flies the vehicle during ascent. Steering/trajectory are handled via computers.

[mach25man]

Sorry, I was just commenting to your one sentence which said "Commander and pilot handle initial switch configurations prior to launch".

[Kingfordian22]

@Neptuneaus

Unless, you have an uncontrollable hydraulic & onboard computer system that is failing like that on STS-107

[planeman009]

computers!

[sdimm]

They use navigationsystems to guide them. They fly by instruments you could say.

For aeroplanes there is things like ILS that guide you for the final approach and I guess they use something similar to that besides the GPS data, velocity and altitude.

On one of the screens there are lines that go from the top right hand corner to the left bottom. I think that´s their flight altitude profile so they can see were they will end up with their current decent and all those things :)

[mach25man]

This is the old cockpit. Not what they have now. But they use TACAN, GPS. MSPLS and a ball bar all together.

[gor069]

Afuckingmazing!

[TheGhostfacekilla86]

welcome to space!

[kingofthedammed]

the two booms were sonic booms when the shuttle reached the speed of sound when re entering

[luticia]

Awesome and scary at the same time! If i sat in this cockpit i would be happy and scared. It's so dark and calm outside, only the red light of the plasma and the sound of the vehicle *scaaaaaary*

[lowcomden]

What an electric-style voice by the pilot... Is him from Intel? lollll

[typhonfighter]

nice! It's not often that you see landings from the inside of the cockipit!

[drakonlordbr]

Why are the lights off during re-entry?

[drakonlordbr]

Duh your face, whats the problem if I don't know? You must have been born knowing everything right?

[drakonlordbr]

Don't reply if you don't know what you are talking about..

and please, stop calling people retarded, that's really retarded :/

[Apollo580]

No need for the lights. The heated plasma from the outside is enough.

[diegitoseis]

want to read something stupid? Ok, I once had a dream that I went to see a launch and somehow I ended up inside the space shuttle. I tried telling them that I just a visitor came to see the launch but they strap me down to a seat. Man, they didn't even give a helmet I remember looking around for one, hehe. Two other guys were sitting in front of me but they couldn't look back and I kept screaming for help but nothing. I woke up before the launch sequence started. Astronauts are brave people.

[snofagun1814]

so those 2 rocket thingys come off and go into the ocean? and then that large orange one when does that one come off and where does it go

[joachim2464]

the external tank comes of after MECO (main engine cut off) the speed is then 17,500 miles an hour or 27,500 kilometers an hour. The ET burns up in the atmosphere and falls into the ocean.

[StupidMonkeys16]

yes, the two white pieces of rocket is the solid fuel and it goes into the ocean and the people re-uses it. The orange one is the liquid fuel and they detach it in space and let it burn and it is not re-use able.

[Nuuk93]

Oh god! For a second there, i thought that the rocket blew up at 38 seconds! But then i realized that it wasn't.

[nascarfan154]

i wanted to be an astronaut but my most fear of it is being blown up like chanlenger or columbia its to much risk

[ompaloompa31]

Well it'll be over before you know it. I still want to be an astronaut. I don't care if that's the way I die at least I'll die doing something I love

[nascarfan154]

thx so much those words easreased my fears thx

[thezant]

As long as you are under 5'9" and physically and mentally superior than most people on the planet the job is yours.

[1979the5]

Those are not the real requirements. These are:

*A bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics is required, and a graduate degree is preferred.

*At least 1,000 hours flying time as Pilot-in-Command in jet aircraft. Experience as a test pilot is desirable.

* Height must be 5'4"-6'4"

* Distant Visual Acuity must be Correctable to 20/20 Each Eye Considering that John Glenn was 77 when he went up last it becomes obvious that even these rules can be bent.

[01817750245]

@1979the5 fffffffffffffffffff

[Risti28]

THAT IS JUST BADASS...

[deneb1795]

i want to be an astronaut i think i would study for that, i am almost 14 and i think i know what job i would have, imagine the first mexican women in space!!

[jpourkav]

... already happened

[surfmediterraneo]

KEEP IT UP!!

[puertorico155]

dont forget to bring tacos

[XOROHN]

i want to do that...that look'es so beautifull

[KYPCKDIVER]

next best thing is commercial diving.

anything scuba!!!

[redace916]

Hearing the actual sonic booms on re-entry is crazy. It actually shakes windows in the house. Great video!!

[fixer74]

Bravo, I am with you on that!! What a rush and adventure it would be. even with the risk involved, if I was asked to go I would say yes in a millisecond. I wanna go!!

[NWM11Bravo]

good god i want to do that!

That would be the highlight of my life.

imagine it...your going to space!!!

[thenekom]

I'd have to pass on it personally. I'm nowhere near in the physical shape to handle that, and I'm pretty sure claustrophobia would be a major negative there.

[NWM11Bravo]

Really you would pass on going into space?

You can get your body ready by getting into shape.....but if your claustrophobic then I could see how it could be a problem for you.

Even if there was a mission to fly a rocket full of trash into sun id still ask to go!

atleast id finally feel some kind of real connection.

and as my body burns up all my atoms would then become apart of the suns churning hot atomic reaction that gave me life and allowed me to see the beautiful world around me.

[eddie8472]

deeeep or wat relax

[NWM11Bravo]

huh?

I dont understand what you said...sorry.

[copto2]

great vid

[Ordellani]

Nice..