The Greatest Test Flight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2014
- The Greatest Test Flight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)
STS-1 - Columbia - April 12-14 1981 - Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR) and Bob Crippen (PLT).
This is the third video of an intended series which will cover the first Space Shuttle flight from countdown to touchdown.
Part 03 - The Countdown for the launch continuesand concludes with the sucessfull launch of Columbia and her crew. The video ends with orbit and the 1st of two planned OMS burns achieved .
Some video was substituted where it wasnt available - for instance I have used some static pad shots from the April 10th attempt. The final countdown from T-20 minutes is as broadcast and the launch includes the broadcast views along with a previous video (STS-1 multi screen) and some video from the post flight press conference. Countdown and Post Launch clock is for reference only and is not accurate to the timeline. Captions are used to inform the viewer what he/she is watching. Photos have been added where appropriate. To complete the sequence Orbiter Space Simulator has been used from SRB SEP through to the OMS burn.
The video is captured on a 16:9 screen to allow captioning and photos/video to be shown by the side of the main screen.
Audio is in two channels. One covers the PAO channel and the other is the launch director loops which carried the comm from the launch team at the Cape.
My personal thanks to JL Pickering and Ed Hengveld who produce excellent photo CDs of space missions that really enhanced the video.
All video/pictures and audio is courtesy NASA. - Наука та технологія
You have to have nuts of solid bronze to strap yourself to that thing for the first ever launch. Ultimate respect!
You are 💯💯💯💯💯🤣🤣🤣 salute to both these gentleman! RIP Mr. Young 🙏
Some people live for that moment!
It's said Young's pulse was like 90 or something stupid low like that.
And it happened on the exact same day as Vostok 1 (first person in space, Yuri Gagarin was launched onboard the Vostok 1), 20 years later. This wasn’t intentional, it was because there was a delay, pushing the launch date to April 12th, which coincidentally was the launch date of Vostok and Gagarin.
Helluva Ride
I still get chills every time I hear “roger...go at throttle up”
Challenger on STS-51L?
No one who was alive that day doesn’t cringe at that call.
Man look at how new Columbia is compared to STS-107.
Yes, because the next image in my head is of 7 people dying... one of whom I knew.
Eerily they were the last words on the radio before the Challenger Broke apart.
My HS teacher told us we could either go through his history class or spend the time writing a single paper. I went the paper route. It was about NASA in the Freedom, Gemini, Apollo and into the STS program. I was given a low grade from using terms foreign to my "know it all" teacher. My family then asked a an former Academy base Flight Instructor to visit the teacher. An Academy student would have been given a "C". As a civilian HS student, I got kicked up to an "A". In 1982, the world watched as the Columbia landed at White Sands NM when the weather went bad in California.
She was a beautiful lady, from start to her death. Was a pleasure working on her, and the other orbiters. Too old now for SLS, it'll be up to you all, the next generation of Flight engineers, technicians, welders, electricians, even the day labor guys/ladys that helped refurb the pads between launch's, keep the dream alive, and protect your astronauts, because every one of them would give you all a huge hug for you do behind/in front of the scene, to get them off this planet into the heavens.
tibsimm as is often the case on my channel - I am extremely envious - I would have given anything to have been involved with any part of the space program in the USA in any of the "golden age" period (Mercury to Shuttle). Must have been awesome to work on her - thanks so much for the comment. regards LM5
All 6 Orbiter sisters were beautiful, yes even Enterprise though she never left a launch pad. Like you my stepdad had a hand in the STS program, both at Michoud and Stennis. I've followed his footsteps and I can promise you, the SLS program will be an extremely successful. We won't disappoint those that came before us.
That simple salute made me tear up.
Columbia, my favorite space shuttle. The Queen of the heavens. I bet after her disaster, she began to flare up the nose, and drop the landing gear in preparation for touchdown in heaven along with all 7 crew members.
tibsimm straight epic! Thank you for your service!
RIP John Young,the Shuttle’s first ever commander. A great American hero!
Agree. By far the most underrated Astronaut!!!
@@pateva2003 Gemini to the Space Shuttle! Amazing career.
@@pateva2003 By far too unsung a hero.
My favourite astronaut nevertheless.
The most accomplished astronaut NASA has yet produced. Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9.
John Young's Mission were: Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, and STS-9.
A great American hero!
That feeling when you and your best friend go on a test drive in your new space shuttle.
Best friend?
@@anticwd2092 astronauts have to pretty much have to be best friends to deal with the stresses of the job. They Have to be a real easy going person. Few are psychologically fit enough to be astronauts.
@@oscodains there goes my dreams of being an astronaut
I vividly remember watching this live with my folks on a 19 inch Zenith B/W. I was 11 at the time, a moment that I will never forget, it was awesome. It broke my heart when we lost her. This series was a nostalgic travel back in time, thank you very much for all the effort you put into this, much obliged.
When I saw this launch the roll freaked me out. I also watched the first moon landing as a child and until recently didn't know that every spacecraft used the roll program to compensate for the 23.5 degree tilt of the earth, thanks to Amy Teitel.
That's not how it works. They want to acheive approximately 90 degrees.
No, they are still off the equator, and usually the tilt of the earth doesn't really matter as much as the orbital plane around the earth
It's more about getting the right angle to go into the right inclination
And as the SRBs started, a new era of space exploration began.
+Eddyisrich403 A new era of exploring the very near space around our own planet? If earth was a basketball, the shuttle never got more than 1 centimeter from the surface of the ball. Almost any other space program you can name explored more than the shuttle -- Apollo, Pioneer, Voyager, Viking, New Horizon...and those programs didn't kill anybody in flight.
+Greg Shane You need to learn what the STS did. Even if it never left that centimeter, it did feats like docking on space stations, building space stations, brought interplanetary probes to outer space, tested the courage of hundreds of individuals (Shuttle launches are both beautiful and scary, that much fire should not come out of an air(yes, I know, space)craft) and showed that if a country believes in it, it can be done.
@@filipinordabest Exactly. We don't have to go far from home to keep exploring space. Thanks to the Shuttle, we have the International Space Station, where we're learning many valuable lessons that will help us get to places like Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
@@AaronB99999 Like the Hubble space telecope launched by STS
Man, watching those boosters ignite never gets old.
I remember watching this as a 9 year old with my Dad and brother. Being 9, I thought it was cool but I didnt grasp how incredible of an accomplishment it was. Regardless, its still a vivid memory for me because of who I watched it with.
U said u were 9 twice
@@overthehorizon4959and?
Just delivered: a small commemorative piece of the heat shield from this amazing first flight - thank you, Mr Arnold I. Richman! So proud to own this!
I was on Daytona beach that day watching it go up with all the crackles n popping going on but the best bit stays with me still today. Most amazing day in my life.
loud because the water supression system was not in effect at that time
My mom let me stay home from school to watch this when I was 7. She got it.
yeah, she did !
I have watched the launch of Columbia live on 12 April 1981 - Just priceless this ;') John W. Young - Bob Crippen.
Another tidbit about this flight that I only recently heard about was an issue with the "main body flap". At SRB ignition there was such a "slapback" from the bare concrete of the pad of acoustical energy that it jolted the main body flap out of position. Data after the flight indicated that the amount of motion should have damaged or ruptured the hydraulic system. John Young was quoted as saying that if they had had an indication of this motion on their data readouts, he would have flown to a safe altitude and ejected, because he would have assumed that the hydro system was damaged.
Another issue was an improperly installed "tile gap filler" (the same thing that was removed from Discoverys nose on the mission after 107) which ducted heat into one of the main landing gear bays (cant recall if it was left or right) and caused damage to the rear on the bay. It was blind luck that the landing gear tires were not damaged.
supposedly the main stack of the orbiter..........TWANGED upon ME startup and lurched to the tower assembly nearly hitting it .close call!
God almighty protected Columbia & the body flap from snapping off which would have prevented reentry once orbit was achieved.
@@brianfoltz9736 Good engineering protected the shuttle in that instance, not an imaginary sky fairy.
@@Hiram1000 Yep. find it almost insulting to the amazing engineers that came up with all this and people disrespect by saying that
Interesting info, thanks
Right up there with Apollo 8 in terms of a ballsy mission.
Willysmb44 totally agree!
I’d say way ballsier
@@lunarmodule5 EJECTION SEATS at MACH 3?????? Naw ......................
Id say this was more ballsy. They launched the Saturn V a couple of times unmanned. So they had some experience with it. This was the first launch of any shuttle, period.
Apollo 8 is a bit more ballsy tho
John Young was a badass dude
Crippen too. But John Young first to ride gemini with Grissom on top of what essentially was a weapons missle theTitan. Raced his moon buggy on the moon like it was a day at the beach. John Young legend. Test pilots.
😂 Why he gotta C crippin? LOL! He waz the OG tho.
I love it how you can hear the pilot's voice shaking from the vibration during the initial ascent.
To a great American hero:
RIP John Young. Godspeed🚀
Steely-eyed missile man. 🚀👨🏼🚀
Did he die on the last mission of Columbia?
@@benjaminbrown3939 no. There was about two decades between this flight and Columbia's destruction. He had another go in 83 on Columbia again. He stayed on as head astronaut until he retired not long before his death in 2018.
His autobiography is well worth reading. A remarkable guy.
35 years ago today!
+lunarmodule5 Hard to imagine the shuttle's fate 22 years later :'(
+Dewey Le Let's celebrate the happy times.
The STS was in operation beyond its original planned service life. It was often forced into duties which would've been better performed by unmanned craft. It was from the very start, not what was initially envisioned, scaled back by budget cuts and becoming the first manned spacecraft to use SRBs.
The shuttle was cool, really cool, in the early 1980s. But, it wasn't intended to be our sole means of achieving orbit, and nobody should've expected the program to last forever. It was overdue for retirement. Now if only NASA would be properly funded we could move along faster than we are now.
smart451cab was
4-12-2019 will be 40 years ago
It's so weird seeing the ET painted white when the orange color is what made the whole craft so iconic and memorable in my mind
I think it looks way better with the ET in white..
They decided to do away with the paint because it added 200 pounds of extra weight to the vehicle
@@jasonrfoss248 600 pounds of extra weight.
Rush's "Countdown" brought me here: Rush - Countdown
(Well, no--not really; I remember watching this live when I was 13. I just like the fact that Rush wrote a song about it. ;^) )
Ohh! Remember this as if it was yesterday. This was a big thing for an then seven year old boy. Thanx!
jocke rönn You are more than welcome - thanks for the comment
You were 7, and I was 11. Just as cool for an 11 year old!
Did anyone like the launch sequence?
Once again LM5 a great series begins. Yes the way you did the launch sequence was spot on. Looking forward to seeing the rest of this mission.
Richard Wade Thanks Richard - I appreciate the comment. It took a while to get this one right but I am quite pleased with the end result. I hope the rest of the series is as well received. Next part is being done but will take a few weeks before its ready - the first three took me several weeks to put together.
Very, very nice LM5, good job.
Gavin Mackie
Thanks Gavin - I think my eyes popped out just trying to get all the sequences to synch!!
Launch sequence was great! I commend you for having the patients to synch up all those video feeds and audio loops. Lol. I tried many times to put together an STS-1 video and gave up after becoming frustrated.
Thank you for putting this together.
HAIL COLUMBIA!
That white fuel tank looks so clean
The first shuttles actually had a painted tank. Most of them didn't, and that's why they're orange.
It's cool to see that. Thanks for the video.
Shed 200 kilograms without the paint.
Eric I had thought the white paint on the ET was just for a nice matching color scheme, but there was a technical reason for it: The concern was that the "dark brown/orange" of the unpainted foam would absorb to much heat from the strong Florida sun and cause issues with the propellants (Liquid H2 and Liquid O2) which need to be kept very very cold. It's also one reason for the different paint scheme from the 500F Saturn V vs every other one made (500F was a test Saturn V which was not launched, it was akin to the Enterprise/SRB/ET stack. It had a complete black ring around the top of the 3 black bars on the first stage, this caused heating issues from absorbed heat, but the Sat V had no foam insulation which may have been the cause of the difference between that to the Shuttle)
@@Zoomer30 I recall reading, years ago, that the heating problem with Saturn 500F affected the working environment in that section; the technicians complained that it was abominably hot in there. But your point still stands. Also, the paint scheme on the Saturn IB first stages--on their clustered and "stretched" Redstone tanks--was changed from alternating black and white (as on the original Saturn I vehicles, too--the LOX tanks were white, and the RP-1 kerosene tanks were black) to all-white for the solar heating reason, and:
The black kerosene tanks got warm enough that--via heat conduction and radiation--they warmed up the adjacent LOX tanks, making the LOX boil off at a higher rate. While this wasn't a show-stopper, it ^did^ make it necessary to top-off the LOX tanks more often during countdowns than was necessary. Switching to all-white Saturn IB first stages lowered the LOX boil-off rate, and they were also easier to paint, as only one color of paint was needed (besides the "UNITED STATES" lettering, which was red if memory serves).
Got chills when Cap. Said.. "What a view, What a view"
On Apollo, you couldn't see out of the capsule windows until the launch escape tower was jettisoned. John Young was a veteran Astronaut who flew twice on Apollo missions.
I remember watching this on TV. I was -10 years old.
Nothing like the smell of a new shuttle
Only astronaut to command four different space vehicles Gemini 10, Apollo 10 Command Module, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Commander and STS-1 Shuttle Commander.
John Young became the first man to go into space on five different occasions, and I recall that network anchors mentioned this the morning of the launch.
I remember getting up at 6 A.M. Eastern time (ABC, CBS, and NBC went on the air with their live coverage at that hour), a full hour before the launch.
Much better coverage than you would get now altfactor. News media after deregulation in the 1990s has been largely dumbed down unfortunately.
can't wait for this to be reborn as the Space Launch System! We're behind you SLS!
Lol... Junk. Starship
There is a great description below in the comments by zoomer on the launch sequence for STS-1 which explains the unique delay in the lift off on this launch. First time I have ever heard this explanation, but it certainly seems to fit the launch sequence evidence and what I was seeing when putting the video together at the T-zero moment. Worth a read for all of you out there who like your space facts and figures! LM5
***** Thnx for uploading. I love the "uncut" film. It gives more the feeling of being there I think. -And big things should be like this. Love it!
Watched this live on NBC in April, 1981. My second year in college.
Can't thank you enough for doing this. Always wanted to hear the clear comms chat of that day that appears in the Rush song Countdown. I was there for this launch as a kid.
RIP Columbia
Scrolled down FAR too low before I saw the Rush reference! If you were there for that launch, so were Geddy, Alex and Neil. They were seated in Red Sector A.
These videos are just incredible. Thanks for the effort in producing and posting them. Cheers.
Remains a favorite moment in my personal history - thank you for posting! We are still building upon the works of these pioneers. And yes, i was watching that time.
I remember that using a very flimsy excuse, I sneaked away from work to watch this launch live.
I miss Shuttle Launches :(
Great work once again. We only ever seen snippets of this launch in documentaries so it's nice to see the timeline expanded upon with this historic mission. :)
Thanks for the comments laser - I am glad you enjoyed it - more to come!
40 years on......I still miss the Space Shuttle!
I remember this launch because it happened when I was on a high school class trip to gemany . I wanted to watch it live but it happed just after we landed in germany and were on a bus on the way to our host homes. I had to listen to the launch live on german radio piped over the loud speakers of the bus and because I did not understand german that well all I heard was the noise of the engines and a german person yelling. I couldnt tell if it made it or blew up so was a very nerve racking moment. Having lived through Apollo and finally after many delays knowing the space shuttele made it was an incredible time in American Aviation. Thanks for sharing this I never got to see the whole first launch live :-)
phoenix purifier You are welcome! I remember watching it here in the UK....was a great day!
LM5 Great video as always! Grew up in the Antelope Valley and saw Columbia make the slow trip from plant 42 in Palmdale to Edwards AFB for mate and transport to the cape. Was also at Edwards with thousands of others in the middle of the desert for first landing. Thanks for bringing back the memories!!
banditF22 am very jealous - must have been very good to be there and see her come home
Loved all the technical over commentary on the countdown. Not heard this level of detail before
Think about it: unlike every other manned spacecraft ever flown, there were no unmanned test flights of the shuttle. The first powered launch was STS-1, with two astronauts belted in the cockpit. Pretty gutsy maneuver by NASA. In contrast, the USSR's Buran shuttle (which by all reports was a better engineered craft) was flown twice unmanned, and never flown with a crew.
***** I believe Buran was flown once in orbit....
***** You're right. Thanks for the correction.
***** Buran was never manned. It was designed for both manned and unnmanned missions.
Buran flew once but 3 were ever made.
The Russians were smart enough to get rid of their shuttle early.
This test flight gets me sooo pumped for seeing my generation seeing astronauts go back to the moon in 2024
Thanks for posting these lunarmodule5. I was just a kid when this happened and was so inspired at the time. Now it makes me nostalgic!
You are most welcome Richard!
A different time, a different USA.
We’re too divided as a country to do things like that anymore.
Lord have mercy it's a shame that thing's change so drastically for the negative...um. um um.
@@cctaximan Even the components. "We need a manipulator arm--let's ask the Canadians if they'll build that." Shuttle system was a very coo-operative effort.
This is really interesting. Most of the documentaries I've seen are good but you can't beat live broadcasts. Thank you so much for uploading. I'm off work with a broken wrist and your uploads have made the time a lot more entertaining as it's really boring being home after a week so a big thank you.
Thanks smith - Glad you are liking this series and the others too - hope you get better soon! regards LM5
I've just gotta say, I'm loving all of your posts. Fantastic stuff!
smart451cab glad you are liking them!
Nerves of steel and balls the size of bowling balls.
I always think of Dabney Colman's character in Dragnet ( I think) where he says "Reverend, you got balls like church bells."
Excellent work. The multi-views of the launch was great!
Thanks David. Well, I cheated a bit, in that the multi view video I had already posted on YTube a few months ago - I thought it would look good on this one - and it saved me a lot of time too!! The one above it was from bits of footage from the post flight crew presentation which was material I didn't use when putting together the multiscreen video. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
American ingenuity and HARD work always prevails
brings back many fond memories...
wesley mccurtain Glad your memory has been jogged!
Thanks for uploading this, it was great to see it and remember the original launch.
Skylab707 you are welcome Skylab...great name by the way!
Thanks! I decided to combine my favorite spacecraft and my favorite jet.
@lunarmodule5 Fantastic video thank you for digging this up and taking the time to edit the different views and simulations together, stuff like this is amazing
Brendan Hanlon welcome!
I'm in awe. Thanks so much for this, LM5. Flawless.
Glad you like it!
Space shuttle is a marvel of engineering that predates CAD it rocked for 30 years marked with tragedy and achievements.
Dude I'm at 20 min and can't wait to hear that roar. Chills. I'm 21 again and moms alive and Debbie.
Glad its bringing back good memories Ace
Rest in Peace John thank you for be the one with Bob Crippen on that flight
John Watts Young 1930-2018
Great Upload Thank You!
I remember was nearly 4 years old in 1981 when this launched. Here in UK was broadcasted on both BBC and ITV channels. Was watched and spoken about by everybody as well
I was lucky at work, when Columbia lifted off in April 1981. I worked at the Buffalo Uplink for The Movie Channel and Nickelodeon Channel, and my company, Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, loaned NASA a spare transponder on RCA Satcom-1 to let all of the cable systems in the USA to broadcast the flight. My job was to record all of the video of the Columbia countdown for some future purpose. It turned out my videotape recordings on 2 inch VTR were later used late on the evening of late July 31, 1981 as the countdown for the beginnings of MTV Music Television, that launched straight up at 12 midnight, August 1, 1981. So, in essence, I witnessed 2 historical starts that year.
i think we are all used to the multi-channel videos of the STS missions - what happens when, everything in definite order etc etc. but i'm glad i found this video of Numero Uno! this is when it started and after years of research, this is when NASA actually found out if it actually worked like it actually should. Amazing!
RIP John Young.
RIP Columbia and Challenger 😥
I just read his biography on Wikipedia. What an extraordinary life and career he had!
33 years of raw emotions!
39 years later I witness a new generation rocket SpaceX. PadA has had a tremendous makeover! So has the launch control room.
Hearing “we’ve gone for main engine start we have main engine start” is so satisfying.
Roger roll Columbia.... love it!
Fantástica cobertura sobre la primera misión del Transbordador , es como si se pudiera vivir en vivo y en directo. John Young y Robert Crippen, los primeros valientes en volar en el Space Shuttle......se extrañan sus misiones
Revisiting this amazing moment here on the night before the scheduled Space X Demo 2 launch.
I was 10 yrs old at the time, and the whole primary school watched this on one Tv.
Thank you a lot for you show us the video of John Young and Sheppard legend office space. That I I'll call it the big USA
I saw this live (was 10 at the time) on CBS. A few "unique" things happened on STS 1:
1. The Liquid Oxygen Vent Arm ("Bennie Cap") was retracted at the 9 min hold instead of the "normal" retract around 2 mins. I think they tried to put it back on due to ice concerns but could not get it re-sealed (the cap blows heated dry nitrogen gas over the ET LOX vents while they are open to prevent ice build up) This procedure was changed for every other flight
2. The "go for auto sequence start" was initiated at T-27 seconds instead of the "normal" T-31 seconds. In fact, everything was about "3 seconds off". SSME start was at T-4 secs instead of T-6.5 secs and liftoff was at T+3 secs.
Not sure what the issue was there.
Zoomer30 thanks for your comments Zoomer - I knew about the Beanie Cap but didnt realise the RSS start was later than 31 seconds - I always assumed that was just Hugh Harris calling it later than he did on subsequent missions - they must have changed it because STS-2 aborted at T-31 seconds on its first launch attempt.
***** I think for some reason "T-0" was at a different time. Every other flight "auto sequence start" was at - 31 (a hold after - 31 would require a recycle to T-20 min). And the hydrogen burnoff flares fired "late", the SSMEs started late. If you listen to the flight controller loop you hear someone saying "+1, +2, +3" then the SRBS fire. Every other flight in the program had SRB ignition set for T-0.
The "benine cap" O2 vent arm was a late addition to the pad after some tanking tests with the Enterprise "boilerplate" stack indicated a possible ice issue. The hydrogen tank aslo vents, through a "T-0" umbilical at the rear of the stack and sends the hydrogen to a "burn stack" (sometimes you could see the "oil well - esque flare" in the background.)
Zoomer30
now that all makes sense and makes me realise that when doing the launch sequence my counter stops at zero and liftoff doesnt occur until a second or so after the up counting clock starts...at the time I thought I was seeing things - Thanks Zoomer - great knowledge on the subject - lm5
I knew it was "off", but thanks for the more detailed analysis! The little things like that are quite interesting!
the ultimate source of nasa spaceflight which includes detailed and official internal nasa documentation and video is nasaspaceflight.com there is a forum for just about everything space related and a very detailed q&a section with those who were involved in the shuttle program, including a former shuttle MCC flight director.
I was there, I watched it from 528 through a 60mm telescope. When it did that roll and turned upside down I thought it was out of control and crashing; I'd never seen anything like that before and wasn't expecting it. I remember wondering 'why don't they eject?'
Yeah I guess if you werent ready for that event it must have seemed a little disconcerting
Great video (remember this from my childhood watching STS1)was almost 10 at the time.
Zoomer30 Thanks for the comment Zoomer - glad you liked the video - lm5
All of your videos are so good. Thank you for your efforts in making them, highly appreciated!
+remyworldpeace Hi remy - thanks for your kind comments - glad you like the videos - regards LM5
LM5...this is awesome! very well done!
As always - Thanks NJ - appreciate your comments
Cool historic footage - Thanks.
Welcome Oscar
First sts, and it was amazing..
Yes it was!
What an incredible history
Wow- 40 years ago- seems like yesterday!
Time flies and now we watch Falcon 9 and Starship do miraculous things!
Starship has not even made a single successful flight yet.
RIP Columbia. You began a new era of American space exploration and you didn't deserve the ending you got. 😢
The Columbia astronauts deserved a better vehicle.
As it turned out, the launch occurred on my father's birthday. My liftoff time was 4 months later :)
very nice work a must watch!
skyprop Thanks skyprop - hope you enjoy the series - regards LM5
This was in that Mtv commercial back in the 80's. Ladies and gentlemen... rock and roll.
John Young 1930-2018 RIP
I love the sound of the engines!
This was back when kids gave more a shit about science than their smart phone Candy Crush app.
ain't that the truth
This was at the end of interest in spaceflight which had lasted since the 60's. We're only just gaining interest again
I don't think people today understand what this meant at the time. Growing up in the 1970s Apollo was done and America hadnt done anything significant in space in our lifetime. It felt like we had given up and the best times were behind us and we had missed them. So this was such a proud moment and morale booster for the whole country.
Don't forget president Reagan's gracious and courageous attitude after the assassination attempt
Nice, rare video of the two right at the beginning 👍
This was the 89th crewed space flight, the 32nd by the United States. This was the first Shuttle Mission, the first flight of Columbia, the first crewed spaceflight in a reusable spacecraft, 1st crewed flight on a previously untested spacecraft, the first to be boosted by solid propellant, the first flight by a crew member on his fifth mission, John Young, and the first flight to end with a runway landing, as well as the first to land in California at Edwards.
The launch took place on the 20th anniversary of the first manned flight by Yuri Gagarin.
The first attempt was scrubbed on 10 April by a computer synchronization glitch, was dubbed by the media at the Kennedy Space Center as a “fiasco” and was an indication of the Shuttle’s reputation. Many cynics were expecting another disaster, following several major technical disasters like Three Mile Island.
The payload bay doors were opened, with Columbia flying “upside down” with its back facing the Earth. The Mach 25 re-entry, during which some tiles were exposed to 1,260 degrees temperatures, was accompanied by the usual radio blackout.
Routine spaceflight seemed to have begun, , with 50 or more flights a year predicted. As it turned out, the maximum number of flights achieved in one year was 9, and that happened only once, in 1985. Even that number stretched the capabilities of the Shuttle to the limit.
Nice job!
I was born in 88, 50 mins NW of the Cape and still live here. I would of loved being able to see STS-1. The first shuttle launch I saw in oerson at the Cape fishing with my dad was I think Atlantis or Columbia in 1993. My dad and his employees were driving south on 95 to Miami on the morning of the Challenger explosion. They all watched the launch it was all but 1 of his guys first time seeing a launch. They all saw the explosion except my dad, he was driving they said wow is it supposed to do that that's pretty cool my dad said no, pulled over and just watched it in silence for 30 mins hoping to see the shuttle land at the Cape
The shuttle launch you saw in 1993 would not have been that of Atlantis, Atlantis did not fly that year, it was in the middle of a period of refurbishment. If you saw Columbia, it flew twice that year, STS 55 in March or April, or STS 58 in October.
I had no idea until recently that at MECO, the shuttle was only 65 miles high and not in orbit. It took the ohms (sp!) burn to place them into their eventual position. Those auxiliary engines I believe we're derived from the Apollo service module engine.
The order access arm retract was definitely off that usually happens at the seven minute 32nd point I think
Nasa, after the completion of the shuttle program, retroactively estimated the risk of vehicle and crew loss for this launch was about 1 in 12.
Wow. Do you remember the source for that?
ua-cam.com/video/Ja4ZlswGvpE/v-deo.html
Fond memories of these times,space flight and becoming a Rush head,Moving Pictures!!!
The computational complexities of space vehicles always amaze me!
Actual launch is around the 53:00 mark. This video has almost an HOUR of pre-launch viewing!