STS-3 - Full Mission Day 8 - The Landing
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2022
- STS-3 - Full Mission Day 8 - The Landing
STS-3 was launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 22nd 1982. Onboard were astronauts Jack Lousma (CDR) and Gordon Fullerton (PLT). This was the 3rd, and longest flight in the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) program. Scheduled for 7 days the flight was extended 1 day due to weather conditions at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico. WSMR was being used as an alternative to Edwards Air Force Base because of adverse weather at that site.
The audio is two-track, with Mission Control/Spacecraft communications in one channel and PAO in the other. Headphones are recommended.
The video starts during the final astronaut sleep period and a wake up about 9 hours before touchdown. The crew preps for re-entry and landing. The payload bay doors are closed for the final time and the shuttle oriented to re-entry attitude. OMS burn occurs over Australia with touchdown at White Sands some 45 minutes later. The video ends with post landing activities, including a ceremony with the astronauts. Photographs are added as appropriate.
I would like to extend my personal thanks to Col Jack Lousma, who has been instrumental in providing detailed descriptions of the mission and has answered any questions I have had. This has allowed me to produce something that is as near to accurate as to what was seen during the mission and has enhanced the look and realism of the work.
My thanks also go to the following people:
Dwight Steven- Boniecki - Who put me in contact with Jack!
Paolo Mangilli - Paolo's graphic work is second to none and his accurate portrayal of the MOCR is invaluable to this project
Steven Taylor - Steven continues to be an amazing supporter me and this channel. His advice and technical ability with simulators is outstanding.
Ed Hengleved - Ed has provided the majority of the photos from the mission. He is a fountain of knowledge and this project would not be so complete without him
Johannes Kemppenan - Johannes is the go to guy for anything technical, concerning checklists and other important mission details. The checklists are all from his collection
Mark Kirkman - Mark is an expert on everything "Shuttle" and has again leant me his knowledge for this series
Tom Usciak - Tom has given permission to use several batches of photos of the launch and pre-flight activities for STS-3 from his personal collection and the Usciak archive. Those have enhanced the look of the video.
Mike Fried - Mike (shuttlesource) has been more than generous with providing as much video as he has from STS-3 - His channel is the place to go for historic space shuttle video
David Morken - One of the Patreon Patrons! David helped with the launch and countdown proof watching checking for errors
Neicc - From the Discord channel - Neicc has provided help with the presentation of checklists and some re-colorizing of pictures
Thanks too to the Channel and Discord posse who continue to support my channels content. Big shout out to my Patrons on the Patreon - you are so awesome, supporting the content in the ways you do. You have helped me develop the channel content and I am always grateful for your continuing support.
This video is dedicated to the 1000's of people who worked on STS-3, to all the NASA and contractor staff and especially to the STS-3 crew, Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton. May Columbia find fair winds. Godspeed the crew of STS-3.
All media is courtesy of NASA except Tom Usciak and the Usciak Archive
Orbiter Space Simulator used for all simulator sequences - Наука та технологія
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.
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" 😥
Did you ever get to see one land at Edwards or the Cape?
@@lunarmodule5 that's a negative
@@brentboswell1294 sorry to hear that
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!
From STS 3 on, techs were fishing gypsum dust in areas of Columbia.
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.
Amazing work as always LM5. My favourite YT channel
Thanks Tom
Another great video production from lunarmodule5!
Thanks again Mike !
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.
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
Thanks Jim!
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!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another amazing video! Thank you so much for your hard work! I still watch every one from start to finish!
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
FANTASTIC!!!
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!
Welcome Hans
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.
Agree
@@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.
This must be the only time a CDR flew his first landing with a PLT flying his fourth.
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
Thanks 👍
42 years ago today...
Talk about waiting until the second to drop the landing gear, Jesus
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...
@@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!
@@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!
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
Fantastic Video-Summery, as Launch. When nose gear lifted on landing, was that part of "Flightdata Tests" ? Excellent Stuff, Happy Days. Thank You 😀👍
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.
What happened to day 2 to 7
Louisville KY TV!!
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.
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
@@lunarmodule5 thank you for taking the time to answer my question so thoroughly. I look forward to that "wheelie" video.
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?
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?
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).
@@lunarmodule5 , thanks for the information!
2:00:17 Columbia did a wheelie
which way do you want me to roll? Pilot cant see his roll angle? I don't get it...
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? ;-(
It was a classy move...of u listen carefully the crew tried to send their music down before MCC...
@@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?
Perhaps he will say why in his new book
@@lunarmodule5 I know Haise was injured in a jet crash, so maybe his health had slipped after ALT.
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.
I have the HR Earth in and am using the ng version of 2016 - does that help? Welcome aboard the channel
@@lunarmodule5 "NG" ? what is that sir?
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
@@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.
So when do we get Days 2-7? :)
At a more leisurely pace!!! Over the coming months
1 hour of video takes a week to complete...
@@lunarmodule5 Good to know that those days will be coming. Thanks as always! Looking forward to day 8 and STS-4 ;)
What is the Patreon link?
Where? It's on the channel homepage
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For those interested in the thumbnail. 2:00:00.
Watch that nose gear!
I now know why he brought it back up
Nearly to tragedy,bad pilot..=crash to landing..!
No, that's not what happened...was not pilot error