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Awesome stuff - turn the volume up and imagine Mirrors are for aft viewing..check flight lists taped to the windows and ... (more)

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Orbiter shuttle launch with real c*ckpit video

orbiter shuttle launch with c*ckpit video ... space shuttle simulator orbiter flight c*ckpit sts ...

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Space Shuttle Main Engine Slow Motion

Closeup, slow motion of SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) startup (no audio). Several things to note (if you care): * The ... Closeup, slow motion of SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) startup (no audio). Several things to note (if you care): * The "sparks" are igniters meant to burn off excess hydrogen gas during engine start but before mainstage (full power) operation. Without these, a large cloud of explosive hydrogen and air could form under the Shuttle. If it exploded, it could damage the Shuttle structure or knock off tiles. These sparks DO NOT "ignite" the rocket engines. Engine ignition is accomplished by an internal "blowtorch" of fuel and oxidizer in each engine, which is ignited with sparkplugs! * Notice that the engines start in a sequence which is about 120 milliseconds (a touch more than 1/10 second) apart. They do not start at the exact same time. * At engine start, the engines are moved (gimballed) away from each other because they jump around during start. If they were too close, they might collide. * The engine steering hardware is hydraulically "disconnected" from the engines during start so that the engines can bounce around without breaking the "steering linkages". * During engine start, before full power is reached, the exhaust (flames) disconnect or separate from the nozzle interior, causing violent thrust vector movements and misalignments. This is what makes the engines jump and wobble during startup. * After the engines are fully started and running, the hydraulic steering is re enabled and the engines are steered toward proper liftoff angles. * Once the engines are started, the Space Shuttle tips forward several feet, then springs back. When it is sprung back to true vertical (and if the 3 engines are OK), the two large solid rockets are started, hold down nuts are blown off with explosives and it's LIFTOFF! * For comparison, all THREE Space Shuttle Main Engines (not counting the two large, tall tubular solid rockets) generate about as much thrust as only ONE first stage moon rocket engine (the F1) did. * The propellants for the Space Shuttle Main Engines are all contained in the big central "external tank". Oxygen on the top 1/4 and hydrogen on the bottom 3/4. The fuel (hydrogen) is so cold it would freeze AIR into a solid "ice" which means fuel lines must be free of all air (they are purged with helium). God Bless NASA and our Astronauts, for they are doing difficult and potentially dangerous work in order that their research and findings may make all of our lives better through new and improved technology. Think about that if you feel NASA gets "too much money". (more)

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Thunderbird #6 crash - c*ckpit cam

Thunderbird #6 crash from the c*ckpit camera. This happened in September 2003 at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho. The accident ... (more)

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"Ride Of Your Life"

STS-65 c*ckpit Footage (Ascent and Descent) enjoy. ... Space Shuttle STS NASA ...

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Orion c*ckpit Animation

Lockheed-Martin animation of the interior layout of the Orion spacecraft, scheduled to replace the Space Shuttle after ... (more)

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Booster Ignition...and LIFTOFF! Part 2

482 human beings and counting have experienced the ride of a lifetime...14 have also parished during their journey. Watch ... (more)

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Apollo 4

This is the famous NASA footage filmed during the Saturn V staging (filmed from the second stage). Apollo 4 was the first ... (more)

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swissair crash recording part 1

Air traffic control tapes of Swissair Flight 111 have finally been released after a legal battle that went all the way to ... Air traffic control tapes of Swissair Flight 111 have finally been released after a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The ATC tapes, released by the Canadian Press, have not been made public since the 1998 crash that killed 229 people. The tapes contain hours of recording including the final dramatic 12 minutes of the flight before the aircraft plunged at high speed into St. Margaret's Bay, N.S., near Halifax. "Swissair one eleven is declaring pan pan pan we have smoke in the c*ckpit," one pilot said. "Pan pan pan" means there is an emergency on board the aircraft, but that there is no immediate danger. Later, another said, "We are declaring emergency now" (this can be heard on part four of the audio link to the right). They were told they could commence the fuel dump, discussed altitude and the approach to Halifax airport with air traffic controllers. They were asked to advise when it was complete. There was one last garbled "hello," then presumably electrical failure cut off communications. About six minutes after the last transmission, everyone was dead. The MD-11 aircraft left New York for Geneva on Sept. 2, 1998. The aircraft smashed into the dark water off Peggy's Cove at 10:31 p.m. Atlantic Time at an estimated 550 kilometres an hour, killing everyone onboard and shattering the plane into literally millions of tiny fragments. The impact of the jet hitting the water made seismographic needles in Moncton and Halifax flutter as if an earthquake had struck. Vic Gerden, chief investigator into the crash, said families of the victims have not yet heard the audio although they were briefed extensively at the time of the disaster. "I don't recall them having the opportunity to listen to the tapes,'' Gerden, who retired last year, told the Canadian Press from Winnipeg. Some family member predicted the tapes would be hard to hear, even after so many years. "These things bring an event back to people, the family members, who've put a lot of time and distance between the crash ... and their losses,'' Miles Gerety, who lost his brother Pierce in the crash, told the Canadian Press from his home in Redding, Conn. "I think it would be hard to hear.'' After the crash, the Transportation Safety Board refused to release the ATC audio, saying it contained personal information. John Reid, then Canada's information commissioner, initially supported the refusal. "In my view, the voices, along with the tonal and emotive characteristics, constitute personal information of three air traffic controllers and the two pilots,'' he ruled in 1999. Reid eventually reversed on his decision after he received complaints about the board's refusal to release audio from four other air disasters. He fought the board and Nav Canada all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually ruled the transmissions should be released to the public. The ruling brings Canada in line with countries that have allowed ATC recordings to be available for years. *If anyone wants teh transcripts you should get in touch with me directly. (more)

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