How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space
NOT AN ASTRONAUT; NO AFFILIATION WITH NASA. I was dressed up for Halloween. Presented on October 31st, 2016 at Stack Overflow’s Remote Meetup in Philadelphia. #PhillyCheeseStack
If you want to try landing the shuttle for yourself for fun, try F-Sim www.f-sim.com/ (I have no affiliation... just a fan).
Sorry about the autofocus (we disabled it in later talks). Me running around on stage didn't help. As always, send complaints to Steve.
If you're interested in more details on reentry and landing, I also wrote an answer on Stack Exchange Aviation: aviation.stackexchange.com/que...
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This was one of nine "Tiny Talks" given over three days at the meetup. Every year, employees submit Tiny Talk ideas on a wide range of topics (some completely random and not company-related at all, like this one) and we vote on which ones we want to hear. So, thank you to my coworkers for voting me in.
Original proposal description I submitted for this talk:
Let's say you're traveling at about 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning up or skipping out of the atmosphere, navigate to your landing site, and arrive with just enough energy to make an unpowered landing on a runway which is halfway around the planet from where you started. And, of course, either you succeed on your first try, or everyone dies. So, no pressure…. In this talk, I'll show you how space shuttle designers, pilots, and autopilots managed to do just that.
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All real-life photos and videos (except the last slide) were produced by NASA. Everything that looks hand-drawn was done by me on a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet in ArtRage. Animations were done in After Effects. Between the concept, outline, script, artwork, animations, rehearsals, and editing, I spent somewhere around 200 hours over two months working on it. Very little time was spent researching. In case it wasn't obvious, I've been more than a little obsessed with the topic for years now.
It has become tradition to rewatch this every so often
same
Same
s a m e
It's actually helpful in KSP...
lol dude same
Why am i watching this? I don’t even have a space shuttle lol
Maybe you should buy one.
MarkuzzGaming okay, but I’ll pay with ur 💵💵
you never know when it might come in handy
You can have KSP
I may have one in space right now... And our current commander has... had some issues. Anyways looking for someone to land my space shuttle. I noticed that you watched this video, and that makes you qualified enough for my standards. Are you available?
Not only is this informative about the shuttle, it's a masterclass in how to give a talk with slides.
It's especially good for how to give a technical talk where the audience is not presumed to already be very familiar with your subject or even the terminology
Thanks, the shuttle was making some weird noises so I was wondering what I was doing wrong! Solved the issue pretty quickly when I realised I was supposed to reenter with the payload bay doors closed. 100% recommend, would watch again.
Customer states, "grinding noise upon landing". Diagnosis: landing gear not deployed; deployed landing gear and noise went away.
Same glitch happened to me(Commander) I accidentally entered earth’s atmosphere with payload doors open along with the airlock.. my pilot friend told me that he closed the payload doors when he diagnosed the issue. Also the cabin made weird sounds that sounded like a washing machine. I was apparently mistrained. Also the cabin hatch was open in space so all the pressure was sucked out. I literally had to use airlock pressure just to pressurize the cabin. And the tail was covered in deadly foam.
i was flying a space shuttle and i forgot to close the cabin hatch. the passengers complained that they didint get any air, why cant some of their engineers close it for us smh also i need help im stuck. im orbiting around the kuiper belt
@@nonovernol3523 how'd you even get to the kuiper belt?! i thought the shuttle could only orbit
@@danzstuff i got a shuttle from china, they seem pretty strong although the half of the shuttle just broke apart
I'm so glad I found this video, I've been stuck in orbit for 3 weeks.
@@DanyoScribbles r/wooosh
@@soupman3285 dont say that to him/her
@@soupman3285 Its true though. you cant watch videos in outer space.
Wow, you got me. You guys are really sharp.
You guys know that this is called sarcasm?
Thank you, I was just on my way into reentry
Oh hi Dan fancy seeing you here
Hahahahahahahahaha
ohhhhh billy :(
Yay
Lol
This is fantastic. You're awesome, Bret. I started my career on Shuttle, way before you were born. And I worked in a GN&C group and was friends with the fellow who basically wrote the Entry Guidance software. I don't know where you learned all this, but you got it right. Super fun video. I spent 19 years on that program, most fun time of my career. Take care!
That's awesome, Pete!
Sir, that part of the story with the gear down-reversed Gulfstream is NOT a joke? Holy S!
@@szennyvizcsatorna2483 it’s not
This was for work or something? Can you explain this more pls?
@@Jaggerbush the gulfstream was a shuttle landing trainer. It had most of the same controls on the flight deck. To match the sink rate of the shuttle they’d literally engage the thrust reversers. There was a ton of other control wizardry to match the handling qualities. Astronauts would fly it around on launch days (in case of an abort) and also on landing days to get a feel for the winds, visibility, etc. hope that helps
My technique is very different in Kerbal Space Program. Usually involves vague guesswork and over/undershooting the runway and landing in either the sea or the desert.
and flying in backwards, despite looking stupid
RIP jeb: died after the A.I.R.B.R.A.K.E.S burnt in reentry after horribly overshooting the trajectory and hitting the far half of the runway at three times optimal velocity.
yeah same bro
and a healthy amount of Retry button press
Just stick 8 drogues and 8 regular chutes and land wherever.
Descending from 37k to the runway in 3 minutes sounds like Ryanair
Joshua Fryer 🤣🤣
That greaser tho... That's on Ryanair's blacklist.
Lmao but the preflare is done too late and they just call it flaring.
completely underrated comment
LOL
On the latest aircraft they have advanced the fly-by-wire system so much that the crew now consists of a pilot and a dog, the pilot is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches anything.
Anyoldion , as funny as that is..... no dog has been in space..... but add an Ebola infected monkey and that pilot would be the most attentive person ever😆
Wyatt - Actually, there has been a dog in space. The first animal to orbit the Earth, 1957. Russian cosmonaut - named Laika.
Poppy S Thank you. I named my dog Laika in her honor 🙂 🐕
@@poppys3728 More over. Laika was the first cosmonaut ever.
@@wyattjohnson5898 eh, neither funny nor well informed.
Pilot: You look good Commander: I agree. That's the level of confidence I aspire to.
Talking Hotdog: You're a little high Commander: I agree
This is probably one of the best videos on KZhead -- your presentation is golden. I come back to this every so often to learn your presentation, and always find something new. Brilliant!
Definitely one of KZhead's timeless videos. There are a few others
Same here. As a teacher and instructor, I have delivered many hundreds of hours and still try to catch up with Bret! What a show!
This man is somehow extremely nervous and extremely confident at the same time
ikr
@@GiantRock62 dad?
I didn't pick up on nerves at any point.
I don’t think he’s nervous. I think it’s just part of his presentation.
Joey Bulford you can hear it the way he breats and does the thing with his tongue
They're not flying, they're falling with style
To in Infinity and Beyond
*L E G E N D*
Thanks for that reference Buzz!
Buzz.. Aldrin..
Wait a minute... I just got something.. I already knew the Buzz joke thing, But.. Lightyear.. How tf did I not get this before
It's always nice to see someone talk about and explain something they're clearly very passionate about
This pops up for me a couple times a year, and for some reason I must watch it.
recently got a space shuttle for Christmas and wanted to learn how to fly it. Thanks for the tips on re-entry. Edit: It’s been a while. Thanks for 3k likes and being cool in general! Fly safe and fly high!
Are you a trillionaire??
bruh
@everyone its a shuttle control
you wha-
lucky
"It's one of the longest runways in the world"... Well, now we know where they filmed that last scene from Fast & Furious 6 on now.
I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice that. Stupidest sequence I've seen in a long time.
The whole movie's are all the stupidest sequences
Push Back ikr
@@supisgoated_yt9625 shut up bigot
sorry if I ruined the joke, but for those that want to know the movie trivia behind it, the actual location was Bovingdon Airfield.. and according to the interwebs and movie sequence breakdowns, the FnF6 runway is estimated somewhere between 18~28 miles long.. much longer than the longest airfields in the world..
It’s pretty insane to think about how before the first ever Space Shuttle flight, they had to figure all that out and do all the math to make sure it was possible. The astronauts in that very first flight had balls of steel
I admire these people because if I was in charge and they came up to me with this plan, like "we will flare into the atmosphere, then roll around to descent, then come down 37000 feet in 3 minutes, like a glider dropping at 120 mph, etc", I would simply say "I am not putting people inside such a thing!" and it would never have happened.
He seems like he was Mark Rober’s younger brother.
ATAwarrior SS ok really glad im not the only one who thought this
Listening to this, I thought it WAS Mark too. Talks exactly like him.
Literally I thought Rober's presentation got jacked. He sounds like him, looks like him, and has similar mannerisms.
Looked through the comments to see if I was the only one that thought that . I guess not .This kids next stop, TED !
Yup
Astronaut: My life literally depends on a computer with 1mb of memory.
Lmao
Apollo program astronauts: _My_ life literally depends on a computer with 4KiB of memory and ~67.5KiB ROM.
Isn't that high at the time? That's like saying 1petabyte of memory now.
@@ran_436 plus inflation...
Google: DEC PDP8 and you'll be amazed!
This man is a true maverick, for him landing a spaceship without any engines is just a minor detail that deserves a one line mention right at the end
I love how whenever he says "there's a problem" or something along those lines he sounds like he's about to cry. Really adds to the comedic effect.
How to land a brick on a pencil from another room without looking
while onfire
At night.
elneutrino90 in a stuffy space suit
30,000ft high
elneutrino90 literally
Dad: what are you watching? Me: learning how to land a space shuttle. Dad: yeah?
KSP be like:
@@sailingseal1622 yes
@@sailingseal1622 if u crash but your crew survived. Its a win
@@afaz4070 You know what they say in flight school right? Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.
Wanted to be an astronaut from a young age. Remember saying to my dad as a teen about working for NASA (turns out as a Brit I wouldn’t be able to I don’t think so) and he said ‘that’s great but you aren’t good enough at Maths let alone Physics’ Damn him he was right.
this video is so good that youtube keeps recommending it every year. to be honest i wish our own commercial flights would be able to fly faster and land sooner like this.
Not really.. the approach of this guy would be outright SCARY its dropping like a rock! yeah something like a mile/minute compared to a quarter of that compared to conventional jet aircraft. The Concorde flew twice as high and twice as fast. But its landing was pretty much conventional. yeah it had BIG wings compared to this guy.
What about the G-Force???
10,000 fpm descent would break apart your average aircraft
@@EvanAviator you missed the word 'wish' implying fantasy or a desire for future tech in the modern day
@@SKRUBL0RD the insane G force created by that super fast descent might kill someone, or at least bring about some negative effects to the passengers' well-beings
Now that I fly turbo-props, it puts into perspective even more how fast they have to fly this. The approaches we do in the metro are at 140 knots, the same as the airliner example he gives, and I thought that was fast. Yet the shuttle does it at 300 knots.
They have (had) a special Gulfstream II to train the pilots that were to land the shuttle. To match the descent rate and drag profile of the real Shuttle at 37,000 feet, they had to REVERSE THRUST during approach. Yes, they modified the aircraft to allow THRUST REVERSAL in flight. I have also witnessed a shuttle landing on the strip at KSC from less than 100 yards away. They come in HOT! (Both literally & and figuratively)
To be fair, it's doing about 190 knots when the rear wheels actually touch the ground. It is going 300 knots not much before that though so probably pretty harrowing.
Yeah you're flying WITHOUT POWER! AT 300 KNOTS to a runway THAT TAKES 6 SECONDS TO PASS! Oh and did i mention you're unpowered? Yeah GOOD LUCK!
@@seantaggart7382no engines, 300 knots, down a 20° glideslope, and with landing gear that can’t go up. That, after an initial descent with a 40° AA In any normal aircraft, any one of these would be considered a terrible emergency
@@AllonKirtchik yeah in normal aircraft it'd be a go around a crash or A VIOLATION OF PHYSICS!
You have a talent for explaining things in a manner that is clear and entertaining, you need to make more.
No he doesn't. He's ANNOYING!
maybe for a kindergarten class
henry walter you are subscribed to multiple known conspiracy theory channels and are insulting someone for enjoying a presentations style. I think you need to take a closer look at who's the child here. Take a break from pol bud its starting to affect your lifestyle.
henry walter what makes me fake?
henry walter the fact a community I used to be a part of is having a negative effect on you in the same way it did on me and i pointed it out and am trying to help you? You probably scrolled through a couple dozen of comments looking for someone to prove wrong or correct, Its pol affecting you buddy. You have to be able to pull yourself out from that attitude and headspace or else it will hurt you. Trust me.
Started watching it, thinking I would close it after the first few minutes, stayed for the whole thing. Well done! First comment I have left in years.
Whenever we break atmosphere, we call out to two more,And beg their benediction on that vast dark ocean's shore.Whose crews did burn like novae where the Earth's blue fades to black,To [Challenger] when setting out, [Columbia] when back.
lolololol
also same
I'll join this crew, same I thought he was an excellent and charismatic presenter who showed real passion for the subject
Yep same here was recommended to me. But I really enjoyed his presentation.
(Came here from Scott Manley's page.) Wow! Not only great information presented in easy to understand (layman) terms, but also in an entertaining manner that isn't distracting and doesn't take away from the root of the presentation. Well done, Bret! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I watch this video every few months. The bit about training to land with the gulfstream jet engines in reverse is my favorite fact about the shuttle program. I hope you've gotten into the space industry in some way by now Bret! :)
KZhead: How to land a space shuttle Me at 3 am: I must find out immediately
7:25 AM for me
Lol watching this video at 3:11am
4:42 am for me
3:59
4:09 !
"We can't go in the atmosphere backwards! First off, we would look ridiculous" :) One of the best presentation I've ever seen. Thank you.
Been a Shuttle watcher since STS-1 (I was 6 at the time that the program went live), loved your presentation. Fun and informative...great job!
A classic... love this lightning talk. (it's been my habit to rewatch this, apparently every 2 years... it's that good,... kudos for your hard work presenting this).
2 o clock in the morning. KZhead: "I think you should know about how a Space Shuttle lands." Me: "Okay!"
3AM :(
its 2:18 am rn lmaoooo
Lol its 1:18
my man
I googled this at a similar time. I needed to know.
now i know how to land the space shuttle ill keep it in mind if i ever have to land one lol
cole royer yeah. I have no idea why I watched this.
xD
It's soo cool to see this in real. I am a very large fan of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator (2010/2016) in which you can fly spacecraft all by yourself.
Eduard take a look at Kerbel Space Programm !
luca199615 Yeah, I have seen several videos of people playing KSP, maybe I'll start with it some time. I know the fun things about KSP are the ability to build your own vessels and the great humor of it with the little green creatures. But the special thing of Orbiter is it's amazing realism, which is nice when you love science. And it's for free. Both programs have their unique qualities.
Absolutely amazing. Job well done!!! Your nervous energy made it that much more entertaining. I knew the shuttles "glided" in, but I had no idea after that.
Stunning presentation. Whenever I watch it, I feel like I'm seeing it again, for the first time.
Anybody else watch this video 4 times a year, every year? I keep coming back to it for 2 reasons, 1. I find the presentation method fantastic and funny at the same time. 2. Space ROCKS.
Same, same. so amazing.
@@TuristHar Your comment made me watch it again, thank you so much. I could watch Bret do this all day.
Yes I watch this video at least once a year. Bret does this absolutely amazing. Lots of understandable information told in a very very clear, enthusiastic and funny way. I only recently noticed he is not the spokesman of NASA. He should be.
I think you mean space bricks
Yep, and every time it's over and I go to hit Like - l find that I already have!
I wonder if space shuttle astronauts hop in regular airplanes and think “too easy!” When they fly haha!
Lots of astronauts actually fly commercial airlines , but I think you got to become sort of humble when you go to space , so I believe they have less arrogance than pilots usually have and consider they actually have 200+ lives on board that counts on him to deliver brilliantly.
"You airline pilots with your '3 degree glide slopes' and 'working engines' have it so easy."
@@magrets I haven't heard of any active astronauts flying for the airlines. Astronauts that serve as the Pilot/Commander, are all military test pilots. Most of the time, they fly Nasa's T-38s to maintain proficiency.
A A'H woah i have been on a airplane before what if my pilot was an astronaut
Lots of astronauts were Air Force pilots prior to being astronauts.
I've followed the space program since Apollo 8 and I must say this is an excellent explanation of the Shuttle landing profile. Bloody well done.
My man posted this video and dipped
“This isn’t rocket science, Steve.” LOL😂
Micheal
you piece of shit
screw you micheal
@@crazydinosaurguy8868 Apperantly you are the piece of shit here. :D
Russia hop out damn Russian.
In all seriousness, this presentation was dang good.
,.,.,
S t f u.
In all seriousness.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings seriously serious
@@yocheckitman very seriously serious seriously
It's like the ground controller is counselling him and having him agree that all's good -as if sudden panic attacks are common or at least a high level of risk at any random moment.
"Brick friendly glideslope" is the best term ever.
im just watching this just in case. If i ever end up in a situation like this.
Yeah me too, heard it’s pretty common these days
Bruh
Hahaa
Me too, you never know... ;-) If I hadn't seen this, I would have relied on fuel-free engines. KZhead just saved my life.
Based off what spacex is doing I think you might
I'll likely never be an astronaut, but after watching this video, I'm writing "Capable of Landing Orbital Vehicle" down on every resume I fill out.
You should play Kerbal Space Program to try your skills with a shuttle ;)
@@arkitect5692 I tried, but I don't even get _into_ space without killing everyone. I should definitely do the tutorials.
Just wait until commercial space flights will kick off
I doubt you have to clarify that you LIKELY won't be an astronaut. Unless you are still in high school, you would have had to have made it your life pursuit already to have any shot.
@@arkitect5692 Truly amazing game
I return this video occasionally. This is the best video on youtube
Ikr
It’s 7:15 am before school why am I watching this lol
Same to me. It's interesting and very funny
Pilot: You look good Commander: I agree then they embrace...
Shall I tell the 'G' word?
Gay
Brylcream...a little dab 'll do ya!
@@seanm5670 I know what you mean! Elon Musk stole my ideas
almost as gay as the navy haha
I feel like a genius all a sudden in 18 minutes. What an incredible presentation.
Thanks, I finally know how to launch the space shuttle in SR2
After this, i decided to watch a reentry live recording and understood most everything, when earlier it was pure jargon. This is what KZhead was for. This is amazing
It's 5:40AM I've not been to bed yet I don't even remember clicking on this video But I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it
Trust the algorithm!
Now land the space shuttle in your dream.
Read this at 5 40 am
5 am here lol
reading this comment at 5:44 am
Thank you for this video, was having some problems landing mine.
Cheb made my day
lmao
Lol same, been in orbit for 15 years. I can finally see my kids
Faxxx
I like planes But what if Karen toke them already?
Thank you, Bret, for an interesting and wonderfully conducted presentation on the shuttle landing!
What a great video! The speed at which things are happening on approach is insane.
instructions unclear, shuttle stuck in cuba
MS Paint
Doctor Jones how did you get a space shuttle?
@@imqr Just rent a shuttle at your nearest NASA space center duh
you've gotta push the switch forward!!
Shaune Wales lol
Pilot: Says literally anything Commander: I agree.
Roger
I agree
Hshaahahahah
@@alwaysopen7970 roger, Roger
As a retired Space Shuttle Commander, I agree.
This was awesome! Thank you for the education and entertainment. I enjoyed every 17 minutes of it and I learned a lot. I didn't even know they don't have engines to land, it's all free fall.
I was flying my space shuttle and I was preparing for reentry but I forgot how to do it. This video saved my life as well as my friends' lives
Me: *watches guitar videos* KZhead: I gotchu. You wanna ride the damn space shuttle. Here's some tutorials.
lol
That’s exactly what happened 😂😂
Its probally cuz you watched chris hadfield playing guitar in space lol
@@gbro-cy7jo I recalled, and you got me. LOL
@@raddydydy lol
Commander: My wife is hot Pilot: I agree.
loooool
Where is it? I can't find it.
I agree.
Mike Lowrey hol up
You have it backwards
I rewatch this video once every few months it seems. Love it.
watching this at 4am with school in a couple hours definitely seems important.
Thanks KZhead for recommending this to me I really wanted to know how to land a shuttle
It was really interesting actually
mini dwarfdude I guess except it's fake cuz the earth is flat so...
+Jessie Of course it isn't. Now go back to sleep.
Jessie I don't believe that the Earth is flat. However, I have no proof that it isn't flat other than photos from space. However, maybe the photos are photoshopped? Maybe we do live on a disc, or a turtle, or on a stripper's fake tit. I've never been to Africa so I have no proof of its existence
Just go stand on a tall tower and you can see the curvature of the planet.
10:25 breaks my heart that nobody laughed at the CSS joke
lol same
I got it!
Meh. You tailor your act to your audience. They do that show to a room full of developers and web designers and those guys would never fully recover.
@@nmarks i dint got it, can u explain ?
Cascading Style Sheets, kurz CSS genannt, ist eine Stylesheet-Sprachen für elektronische Dokumente und zusammen mit HTML und DOM eine der Kernsprachen des World Wide Webs. Sie ist ein sogenannter „living standard“ und wird vom World Wide Web Consortium beständig weiterentwickelt. Wikipedia
This video will never get old. I watch it like every year
Thank you I’ve been getting space shuttles for my b-day since I was 16, and I kept on crashing the shuttle and just exploding in space, once it exploded in space and I was orbiting the sun in the shuttle seat for 6 years so this really helped me finally land my 122nd space shuttle THANK YOU for this amazing tutorial..
Instructions unclear: I'm near Saturn
so your a ksp player basically
@@stellarx20 KSP with RSS/RO mods
@@racingmhf9157 lmaoo
@@meeast1169 ;-;
Speak for yourself I’m in a different universe in an entire different ecosystem and the only reason I’m still alive is because the locals think I’m a god.
"Space X interview" So what qualification do you have to fly for us? Sir I watched this video twice. !!!!
its like 4th time i watch it
@@patata9502 you're hired!
@@Invictus173 hehe
Gold!
I was never interested honestly…..but this presentation was everything 💯! It was his humor and metaphors for me……now I know more about the space shuttle and honestly now I want to know more! Thank you 🙏🏾
I'm from Canada and just watched this video for the first time!WOW Great narrative. Cheers
I saw this and thought "pft 18 minutes? I'll just watch a minute and then skip through it." Well I watched the whole thing lol. Very good job at presenting and keeping entertained.
hahahah that's exactly what happened to me
I only wanted to build a shed lol
@@fruscai same :D
This is one of those videos to which you come back to every half a year but have no clue why.
wtf i thought i was the only one lmao
@@mclz_ me too 😂
This is my 6th time. I'm stuck in a loop
I went to comment and then saw my comment from a year ago :)
Unasked analysis: 1. Space Shuttle is always an interesting topic 2. The video is dealing with a question that maybe no one really asked himself but gets interested when he sees it, 3. Its just the right mixture of facts/serious explanations and some jokes and funny storytelling. I for myself just watched it, read your comment, and now will watch it right again. Maybe so are you when you're reading this reply ;)
Thx for comin in clutch g I really needed this
"Umm, Atlantis, we're a little congested down here. We're going to have to put you in a holding pattern."
looool very funny :))
more like death pattern (:
Crash, bang, whallop! What a picture! Joking apart, a holding pattern is not possible with a glider of any sort. That's why airports close if a plane has an engine failure. That's bad enough as the plane descends 5 feet for every 20 feet it flies forwards when dealing with a flame-out in all engines. The Shuttle, however, descends faster than that, so they get clearance to land well in advance.
Copy, this is Atlantis declaring emergency... first class cabin toilet is clogged
No problem, May day May day May day....Atlantis declaring in flight emergency...no engines dead stick from 39,000 requesting runway priority...
16:30 - "700, 600, 500..." In a Cessna prop plane, reading altitudes decreasing that quickly would be called "in a power dive." In the Space Shuttle, that is "preflare descent."
The space shuttle has the glide ratio of a cinder block but the heart of a champion.
@@SteelyEyedMissileDan But it is a quite aerodynamic looking cinder block...
Marvelous and exciting times. Stunning when presented this way. Thanks!!
Coming here from Scott Manley's video about how the Space Shuttle landed before GPS. Great talk!
Nice tutorial 100% would fly again 5/5 Stars
TheRagingCanadian101 lmao
-"You look good." -"I agree. "
bill kerman 15:55
Patryk Misilo lol looking for this comment xD
"You"re a little bit high." "I agree."
W I N
"They said you was hung." "They were right!"
Excellent talk, as good as anything I've experienced throughout my own flying career.
Why am I look at this like I have space camp .. it’s 6 am !! 😂 🍃
"The Gulfstream 2 jet, which in order to simulate how un-aerodynamic the shuttle is, flies with its landing gear down and its engines in reverse." That quote KILLED me! That is sooooooooooooo un-aerodynamic!
2:24 "In our defense, launch is really expensive" *Elon musk kicks in the door* "DID I HEAR EXPENSIVE LAUNCHES?"
MemesDLL haha
And says " Give me that money!"
Your profile picture goes with this comment really well
Launching of the shuttle was expensive, but that was the tech that NASA wanted to help build the ISS. That's bureaucracy for you. Oh NASA. Still, pretty impressive feat considering the first space shuttle "Enterprise" rolled out in 1976, and the last lunar landing occurred in 1972. The ability for SpaceX to land their reusables within a targeted area was helped in part by an aerospace engineer named *Lars Blackmore* . In 2009 he and two colleagues discussed the need for increasing in the accuracy for landers landing on the Martian surface and developed _“Minimum-Landing-Error Powered-Descent Guidance for Mars Landing Using Convex Optimization.”_ That's a mouthful. qz.com/915702/the-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-you-see-landing-on-earth-is-really-a-sophisticated-flying-robot/ So, part of the credit should go to that somewhat obscure name *Lars Blackmore* . Otherwise, we would probably have been witnessing more spectacular SpaceX landing failures. @Sir Eugene Courtney Fake launches? What a F_ing moron. How many millions watched the Saturn V launches and tracked the missions to the moon and back by several nations and a number of private citizens in the US alone. This goes for SkyLab and the shuttle missions as well. As far as the lunar landings, the landings were later confirmed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Japanese lunar mission SELENE, and India's first lunar mission with its Chandrayaan-I lunar orbiter.
Maybe you should write a column, instead of do this for free. mostly just to put it behind a paywall so i never have to see it. fuck yourselves.
absolutely great talk! informative, funny, and entertaining hope you do more some day
this is just one of these videos that ill rewatch every year or so enjoying each time!
Flat Earthers be like "these guys sure put a lot of work into a hoax"
Sérgio Alves true the other way around...
Lmao. I dont know why flat earthers think they would fake all of that. tf is the point?
@@mypie2473 conspiracy theories by definition are not based on rationality
@@Jonathan-ex3sl people like to blame others
@@pintobean4919, even people at that time, knew the earth is a sphere. It seems that "flat earthers" started as an insult, as there's no written history that shows, that people believed the earth is flat during the middle ages or any other time. People are weird.
For a "NOT AN ASTRONAUT" this was an awesome walkthrough of reentry to touch down. Having grown up watching these missions, it's just cool to see the process. The injected humor was fun too. Yeah, watching the landing through the HUD was really cool too. Thanks for sharing!
I totaly love this video... it is a science toy... plain and simple, but so full of information. You learn without working towards learning.
lots of fun hearing your narration-wish I had seen this earlier when I was still teaching-but -I am going to share it on FB!
I love how chilled the pilot is while he's talking to the commander. They're performing one of the most complex, most dangerous landings that can be done, and he's completely unfazed.
Probably he has already done it before
Agreed. Just the knowledge that there are no 'do overs' would be incredibly stressful. Cmdr and Pilot probably got gray hairs just from that landing.
They were looking good for the whole manouver so it went according to their traning for the whole landing. As they have no "do overs" the only way they can prepare is to train in the simulator again and again for every imaginable situation.
Only 1 shot at landing? Um.. have they never heard of holding F9 to reload their quicksave?
Jebidiah would be proud.
XD
I think their F9 key is always broken.
@@GamingLover-xp8hc you play KSP aswell? nice boie
60 percent keyboard
Educational with a sense of humor. If my physics classes were like this, I'd probably be an aerospace engineer by now.
It's 2106 and space shuttles are starting to become affordable. Got one for my 16th bday and thanks for the refresher in how to land from space!
Instructions unclear, landed in japan and now everyone's looking at me funny.
I know it is a joke but, The shuttle had many alternate landing zones all around the world. It could also land on any paved surface at least 3KM long. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#Emergency_landing_sites)
Really?? They worked out great for me! Remember 40° bank angle!
@@racegroundbreaking82 nawh i plugged in a controlled into the usb port so i was controlling it by hand
I landed in the sun ;-;
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