I really enjoy watching these shuttle launches and landings,me and Ronald McNair are from the same hometown I met him after his first flight into space he came home and visited our school

Thank you for all the hard work. It is amazing work you do.

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment and support

I was born and raised 90 miles away from Northrup Strip. I was 10 years old during STS-3, and I begged my parents to take the day off work and drive up to WSMR (White Sands Missile Range). I remember my dad saying "Don't worry, it will happen again" 😥

@lunarmodule5

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever get to see one land at Edwards or the Cape?

@brentboswell1294

Жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 that's a negative

@lunarmodule5

Жыл бұрын

@@brentboswell1294 sorry to hear that

From STS 3 on, techs were fishing gypsum dust in areas of Columbia.

2:00:22 - At this point Lousma should have slammed on the brakes, spun the shuttle in a wild 360, skidding for hundreds of feet finally stopping up in a cloud of dust somewhere off the runway. Then, when he walks off the Shuttle crosses his hands, flashing peace signs and walk off a legend.

Even those pad read-ups and readbacks at the end of the first hour of the video are an inspiration for good communication. You can't even order a pizza these days and have them read it back correctly!

Amazing work as always LM5. My favourite YT channel

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom

Another great video production from lunarmodule5!

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again Mike !

Great as always, I agree with everyone else who's commented. It seems you are getting better every video Simon, especially the graphics. They are great, getting better all the time. Can't wait to see what is next. Keep up the great work, stay safe and best wishes Jim

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim!

Steve Nagel was the entry Capcom who later trained astronaut pilots on re-entry and landings in the STA. He died a few years ago but was with NASA for years and years.

Another amazing video! Thank you so much for your hard work! I still watch every one from start to finish!

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks power, glad you enjoy it to the end, that's the only way to view these properly, you need the whole picture. Appreciate the dedication

Awesome work. Thanks for your great presentation. I grew up with the space shuttle and remember well the early missions. It inspired me to pursue an engineering career right after high school. Keep up the good work. I look forward to more videos. Cheers!

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

FANTASTIC!!!

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff, hope all is ok

Just amazing what we were you able to achieve‼️

@ 3:08:00 / 3:09:00 / 3:12:00 ff : Remarkable pictures of 'lifting' the 'brick' to/on the Boing! Thank you for sharing it!

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome Hans

Great work. I was always fascinated by the shuttle program when I was a kid. I am glad that you are putting this space content out

@lunarmodule5

8 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

This must be the only time a CDR flew his first landing with a PLT flying his fourth.

After STS 3 the landing gear down criteria was changed from airspeed to altitude. There was a tailwind and the Autoland test had fouled up the approach on top of that, so the speed at flare was much higher than normal.

It makes me so happy that Lousma got to fly the Shuttle. Best CAPCOM, one of the best astronauts ever.

@lunarmodule5

Жыл бұрын

Agree

@AureliusR

Жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 His calm demeanor during Apollo 13 always blew me away. He just calmly repeats back "MAIN B Undervolt" and then a few minutes later "MAIN A Undervolt". It's like the worst possible series of events yet it sounds like he's saying "Roger, you ate a tuna sandwich." To me he is the definition of a steely-eyed missile man.

Fantastic Video-Summery, as Launch. When nose gear lifted on landing, was that part of "Flightdata Tests" ? Excellent Stuff, Happy Days. Thank You 😀👍

@DaveS_shuttle

Жыл бұрын

No. That was a Pilot Induced Oscillation (PIO) on Lousma's part. They landed fast and hard causing the "wheelie" that this landing is famous for. They landed a bit early causing the landing gear to nearly not have enough time to lock into place for touchdown.

Talk about waiting until the second to drop the landing gear, Jesus

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

They had to wait...autoland system, not designed to land, Lousma still had to land it, fouled up meaning they were too fast and low for usual landing gear deploy...they waited till the speed dipped to acceptable level...

@Gort58

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 I watched the landing live on TV (as I had for the first two missions), and was convinced Lousma was going to hit the deck!

@tomandsamuel

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 sorry, did the autoland system foul up or Lousma? I think there are various accounts around what actually happened but Charlie Bolden designed the system and reckons Lousma’s actions saved the vehicle from crashing!

@tomandsamuel

2 жыл бұрын

Unbelievably, they were still finding bits of “white sand” in the vehicle for years and years after this landing. The vehicle took a beating landing at Northrop

42 years ago today...

Was the mobile mate-demate device used to load Shuttle Colombia onto the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for its piggyback flight from White Sands Space Harbor to Kennedy Space Center via Barksdale AFB?

@Trip-the-Sungazer

Жыл бұрын

By mobile mate-demate device, I meant the equipment used to unload the space shuttles from the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft when they reached their final destinations for preservation in Washington D.C., California, and New York back in 2012.

Amazing video and channel! How are these radio stations today? Are there currently more areas that are covered? They communicate via UHF?

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Pedro - they now use the TDRSS satellite network which gives continuous coverage (even through reentry on the shuttle when it flew). The ground stations in several places were UHF only so could not handle telemetry (sites such as Dakar).

@paloureiro

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 , thanks for the information!

2:00:17 Columbia did a wheelie

Louisville KY TV!!

what mods did you use to get such a great looking earth? im using blue marble next gen earth map on a high end pc and it dont look as good as yours does! im thinking i might have something wrong with settings or need a different mod. great video man. i enjoyed it. you got a new subr' here.

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

I have the HR Earth in and am using the ng version of 2016 - does that help? Welcome aboard the channel

@kevinhampton6250

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 "NG" ? what is that sir?

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

its the higher def version of Orbiter - scroll down the list in the 2016 file folder - there is a red icon for orbiter and a blue one - that's the NG one - Higher res but you need Direct9 client for that one set in Orbiter - that will give you HR textures - the difference is very noticeable - plenty of tutorials on what you need online - hope that helps

@kevinhampton6250

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 Oh ok, yeah that is what i use also. I've been wanting to try the DX11 build but i cant seem to find a link to it that actually works. I currently run the latest beta of 2016. I might need to stop using the Blue Marble earth and go back to the normal HD download on the main orbiter site and compare them. i figured what i was using was the best as it has level 11 textures but i may be wrong as yours looks better. again, i may not have my settings set correctly. anyways, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I appreciate your time sir. Have a good day and take care.

which way do you want me to roll? Pilot cant see his roll angle? I don't get it...

What was the reason for the "wheelie" at nose gear touchdown? Was it intentional? My local newspaper blamed "A sudden gust of wind" while other sources said that the pilot decided that the nose was coming down too fast.

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Rob - the answer, given to me by Jack Lousma, is quite detailed but I will try and break down his answer. So, normally he would have made a manual approach but NASA wanted to evaluate the automatic approach system. Note: There was no landing software on the shuttle. He set up the correct 19 degree glideslope at 285 knots lined up with runway 17 and went to the auto system at 9000ft. The auto system then took over and was causing wide disparities in keeping the speed at 275/85 knots on the speedbrakes and closed them completely at 2500ft causing a major overspeed on the final approach. He took over manually but they had to wait till they got back to below 275 knots before lowering the landing gear. He didnt sense any danger because they had the 15,000 ft runway so he aimed at a point halfway down the runway. They were trying to get it down to around the 200 knot mark for touchdown. At touchdown of the main gear the off nominal speed and approach meant that the nose dropped almost immediately, usually the nose was held up to use aerodynamic braking and then the CDR pressed the brake pedals to lower the nose. On this occasion the nose lowered early so he pulled back on the stick hoping to create more aerodynamic drag to decrease the nose wheel touchdown speed...hence the "wheelie". He says that the experience of STS-3 scuttled the AutoLand development but he was unsure if they ever tried it again. One fascinating note is that approaches like this were carried out pre-mission in the Fixed Base Simulator (FBS) but not on the Motion Based Simulator nor in the STA. In the FBS it always flew a perfect approach. He learned later that the software for the FBS Autoland system did not use actual flight Auto approach software, which was, of course, a violation of simulator rules and regs. I have abbreviated much of how he described it but am in the process of putting this all together in a "This Is Why We Pulled A Wheelie" video. Hope that helps put the gust of wind theory behind us! ;-) LM5

@robadams5799

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 thank you for taking the time to answer my question so thoroughly. I look forward to that "wheelie" video.

❤❤

What is the Patreon link?

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Where? It's on the channel homepage

Love the way the crew responded to the wake up call :-) edit: 1:58:23 - that's always been my fav moment of every single shuttle returning because it meant "almost home". Said it earlier but I'll say it again: I miss that sound and I deeply regret I never got the opportunity to hear the double sonic boom "live" (nor to attend any shuttle launch or landing). Why didn't Elon Musk build a new orbiter like the shuttle fleet instead of a "simple" old school boring rocket, with a proper sized pay load bay? ;-(

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

It was a classy move...of u listen carefully the crew tried to send their music down before MCC...

@faktisletztenendes

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 No idea what MCC stands for :D Do you mean the crew got up early to wake up Mission C... oh wait - I think it just hit me what MCC stands for :-)))

Was gonna be Fred Haise's command, but he left NASA by 1980. Why he didn't hold out for the mission?

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps he will say why in his new book

@RideAcrossTheRiver

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 I know Haise was injured in a jet crash, so maybe his health had slipped after ALT.

So when do we get Days 2-7? :)

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

At a more leisurely pace!!! Over the coming months

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

1 hour of video takes a week to complete...

@RaAyAp

2 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 Good to know that those days will be coming. Thanks as always! Looking forward to day 8 and STS-4 ;)

😮

For those interested in the thumbnail. 2:00:00.

Watch that nose gear!

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

I now know why he brought it back up

Nearly to tragedy,bad pilot..=crash to landing..!

@lunarmodule5

6 ай бұрын

No, that's not what happened...was not pilot error