STS-1 Flight Readiness Firing (Columbia)

The FRF for Columbia - 20th February 1981. There is limited audio of this event. I have added what there is available. The footage starts with the Crew Access Arm being retracted. The FRF is shown twice, from 2 angles. The 2nd angles footage is not as clear as the first. There is a great shot from above (a view that was used in the early OFT flights for liftoff) There are also some views inside the LCC. Hugh Harris is the NASA commentator.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• STS-1
• FRF
• flight
• readiness
• firing
• cape
• canaveral
• space
• shuttle
• 1981
• columbia

[darthfurious80]

was the crew onboard for this test?

[lunarmodule5]

there was no crew onboard for the FRF

[antimatterXXXIII]

Are these FRF tests still performed?

[lunarmodule5]

The FRF was only performed before the first flight of each shuttle orbiter - so were performed on STS-1 Columbia, STS-6 Challenger, STS-41D Discovery, STS-51J Atlantis and STS-49 Endeavour....the exceptions being the FRF for STS-26 Discovery - the flight after Challenger in 1986 and Challenger also performed a second FRF before STS-6 because of SSME problems...hope that all helps!

[mike3141x]

@antimatterXXXIII

No, it's only to test the total systems of new shuttles.