Shuttle Enterprise bouncing during its last landing, Oct 26 1977

After initial touchdown on the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base on its final flight in the space shuttle Approach and Landing Test series, the prototype shuttle Enterprise bounced back into the air and rolled to the right due to an unintended pilot-induced oscillation (PIO).

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/solving_the_pio_problem.html

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/movie/STS/HTML/EM-0084-02.html

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[trent1963]

Who piloted. Truly?

[dpcnull]

@trent1963 This was mission designation ATL-16. Fred Haise was the commander and Gordon Fullerton was the pilot. I do not know who was at the controls at the time.

[wollin20]

@trent1963 Not me. I would have crashed it.

[highskyeagle]

@ 0:08

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1st pilot: dude pull it up, we forgot Stan at the freaking satellite!

2nd pilot: leave the fu**ing stick, I said Discovery will get him

Stan: where the hell are these guys, I need to pee

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Next day forecast: We detected a miniature amount of acid rain in the top of our atmosphere, experts say its an early result of the increasingly produced green house gases.

[MrSouthphillyitalian]

atleast they landed safely

[cdudetheassassin]

HOLY SHIT IT HAS THRUST VECTORING I DIDNT KNo

[Stoory]

I never realised Flightsim X could look so real.

Same crazy pilots though :)

[MarsFKA]

@bryanttillman Enterprise was the only test orbiter, and was the same weight as the later operational orbiters. In fact, Enterprise was originally intended to be upgraded to full space flight standard after its atmospheric test flight programme was completed, but subsequent design changes made the cost prohibitive and the orbiter was retired and transferred to the Smithsonian in November 1985. It is now being transferred to the Intrepid Museum in New York, to make way for Discovery.

[Death1458100]

Enterprise was a test shuttle it never went into space. There were five shuttles that went into space; Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeveur, and Atlantis. Out of these five Challenger (1986) and Columbia (2003) had fatal accidents. The shuttle program also flew for 30 years (1981-2011). Its greatest accomplishments being the Hubble space telescope and the International Space Station.

[Apjooz]

It has so small tires and landing gear. It must be hard to control because it's more of a glider than an aeroplane.

[bryanttillman]

also, I imagine the test orbiters to be somewhat "lighter" than the actual space shuttle.

[MHR218]

fastest camera man!

[afgrocks123]

@Randomnick123 oh, okay.. but i just gave my advice.. to come down with a higher than decent speed,, you WILL bounce,, unless you do it perfectly..

[Randomnick123]

@afgrocks123 I bet they know that they come down with no engines... Theres energy,  altitude and speed, and those are dear friends for this fellow twisting and turning that joy.

Secondly, it's not ''...COULD BE'' since I know that IT IS, the reason. If theres no mistakes or troubles affecting on shuttle, it would land smoothly.