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This came up in my YouTube feed and I initially ignored it as I thought it would be one of those 'documentaries' by someone who didn't really know what they were on about.

But, the presenter is from NASA and its well done and quite funny. For a space geek like me it's fantastic...


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:48 am
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under appreciated thread of the day.
that was pretty ace.


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:16 pm
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I enjoyed that.  Thank you


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:37 pm
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I enjoyed that, This is also a good watch if you haven't seen it.


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:45 pm
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That was excellent, really enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing it!


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:48 pm
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That is cool, in a very very scary way.


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:50 pm
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That Light years ahead video is amazing for anyone that hasnt already seen it.  It show just how hard core and how calm the astronauts were on that first lunar landing


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:56 pm
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Very interesting, thanks 🙂


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 8:56 pm
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Liked that😁


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 9:18 pm
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Thank you 👍🏼


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 9:32 pm
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Fascinating, thanks.


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 10:45 pm
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Yeah. Fascinating video & delivered really well.


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 10:48 pm
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Thanks for that!


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 11:05 pm
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That was great! I'm enjoyjng this one too


 
Posted : 20/01/2022 11:34 pm
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing - had no idea how badass shuttle landings were!


 
Posted : 21/01/2022 12:48 am
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I had no idea that's what it took to land the shuttle - controlled falling


 
Posted : 21/01/2022 8:16 am
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Enjoyed that. Shuttle landed on autopilot, but it’s notable what you can do with a well coded computer. If you haven’t been to the Kennedy Space Centre, you owe it to yourselves to go at least once. The shuttle hall is very moving.

NASA engineers estimated the rate of catastrophic mission failure at 1/200 (the chiefs stated it was 1/100000). For the 135 missions flown, that’s a 50% probability of at least one failure. One shuttle did not make that landing, the other never made it into orbit 😥


 
Posted : 21/01/2022 11:18 pm
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The shuttle hall is very moving.

And then some…

For anyone who has an appreciation of aerospace, seeing Atlantis in the way it and all the Shuttle artefacts are presented at KSC will blow your mind. A very, very memorable day topped off by a SpaceX night launch.

Oh and thanks OP, brilliant presentation.


 
Posted : 22/01/2022 12:49 am
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Great video OP ... thanks for sharing 👍


 
Posted : 22/01/2022 8:47 am
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Fantastic video. I look forward to enjoying the others that have been subsequently posted. Thanks for sharing everyone


 
Posted : 22/01/2022 10:52 am
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That is the most entertaining video I've seen on how to land the shuttle, thanks.


 
Posted : 22/01/2022 11:15 am
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It's a pretty good video but tbh I still think I'd struggle.


 
Posted : 22/01/2022 11:18 am
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Get practising!!!

https://www.skytale-studios.com/

It only currently does 50000ft or 10000 ft finals but they’re working on full atmospheric re-entry as an update.


 
Posted : 22/01/2022 1:05 pm
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Thanks for that, I didn't realise that A) the shuttle wasn't shiny or B) they controlled speed and descent by skiing down the glide slope 🙂

Back to work now 🙁


 
Posted : 24/01/2022 10:39 am