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 3 months ago

under appreciated thread of the day.
that was pretty ace.

Posted 3 months ago

I enjoyed that.  Thank you

Posted 3 months ago

I enjoyed that, This is also a good watch if you haven’t seen it.

Posted 3 months ago

That was excellent, really enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing it!

Posted 3 months ago

That is cool, in a very very scary way.

Posted 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

Very interesting, thanks 🙂

Posted 3 months ago

Liked that😁

Posted 3 months ago

Thank you 👍🏼

Posted 3 months ago

Fascinating, thanks.

Posted 3 months ago

Yeah. Fascinating video & delivered really well.

Posted 3 months ago

Thanks for that!

Posted 3 months ago

That was great! I’m enjoyjng this one too

Posted 3 months ago

Awesome! Thanks for sharing – had no idea how badass shuttle landings were!

Posted 3 months ago

I had no idea that’s what it took to land the shuttle – controlled falling

Posted 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

Great video OP … thanks for sharing 👍

Posted 3 months ago

Fantastic video. I look forward to enjoying the others that have been subsequently posted. Thanks for sharing everyone

Posted 3 months ago

That is the most entertaining video I’ve seen on how to land the shuttle, thanks.

Posted 3 months ago

It’s a pretty good video but tbh I still think I’d struggle.

Posted 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

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 3 months ago