With Mark Kelly in Command Crew Train for STS-134 Shuttle Mission

[@jsmith1746]

Obviously this is so much more complex, but I am struck by how similar this is to an airline training session in a full motion simulator.

[@HazeGreyAndUnderway]

From my understanding the Shuttle was purposely designed this way with the thought being it's basically a giant boxcar with wings so the surroundings and configuration of seats would be a familiar leap for the crews since most personnel come from a flying background anyway. If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it'll probably fly like a duck too.

[@tomking1890]

19 degree decent.

[@pilotboy217]

That's because they are in a simulator 😂

[@Bluenoser613]

NASA is really stepping up with the videos for the last few flights. Thanks to the crew for putting up with the cameras!

[@skyprop]

Mike Finke My hometown boy....Very proud of him. Go mike

[@SnottyAust]

Incredible flame out approach ! loved it

[@francescopaolociminale5258]

My God ....you have to be very careful how you move ....you don’t want inadvertently touch any buttons.....I am on the bed and I feel anxious for them... God bless you guys....I wish Mother Nature could have been more generous with my Q.I. . ,

[@pablogomez1343]

That is just amazing.

[@Dra741]

Kelly is no doubt a hero

[@macieksoft]

Now, after death of Shuttle program they could make their sims available to public. Why not? Or even better, make the flight software open source and publish GPC emulator code if they managed to emulate it (not sure if in this sim they used actual GPCs or emulated ones).

[@macieksoft]

@and321now They have released assembler source code for multiple variants of AGC software. We now have both AGC and AGS fully emulated running real software in simulator. So why not go for it with Space Shuttle?

[@CarlBrainerd]

The Shuttle Mission Simulators, one of which is in this video, used actual GPCs with the real flight software. Late in the program a software emulation of the GPCs was developed for use during engineering development and checkout, but the crew training always used the real ones.

[@skyprop]

A great flight engineer

[@oakmonster2164]

Y'all have this in a museum now?

[@KFieLdGaming]

What abort condition did they face here? Was this a single engine out after they passed through max-q, giving them an RTLS scenario once the SRBs separated? Hard to follow exactly what happened. I know that NASA is quite happy they never had to go through an RTLS because the forces exerted on the shuttle were borderline, and it was highly possible the shuttle would have broken up, even in the upper atmosphere. Performing an RTLS was certainly no guarantee. I saw the master alarm light come on a few times, where Mark punched it off. I always thought for some reason that the alarm would be audible in the cabin, but I guess it's only audible in their flight headsets.

[@lorenzopappatico]

As far as I know, the Master Alarm is audible in the cabin. Maybe it isn't in the sim, but there's a video of STS-65 re-entry from on board, and there you could hear the alarm going off a couple of times

[@necox5]

Nice! More videos like this! :D

[@macieksoft]

Silly question. Did they ever got RANGE SAFE ARM light lit up in a sim? Are there any procedures for such situation. I know it wouldn't normally happen anyway. But if theres a light there must be some procedures.

[@VIR092]

Perfect landing, he was right on those speeds like flies on sugar.

[@piecrust8]

Wow! Another great video. :D

[@cbsk341]

On February the 10, about 2:50 PM, a group of jets passed overhead, a bit north of Lake Olympia Parkway in Missouri City. I got a couple of pictures, and I'm pretty sure the planes are NASA T-38s. Was this an Astronaut training flight?

[@tomking1890]

No, they did that in G 2's.

[@UD503J]

@@tomking1890 That was the Shuttle Training Aircraft which simulated landings. The astronauts/astronaut candidates routinely flew in T-38s both to stay current in flight hours (for active duty military officers) and adaptation training for the civilian scientist and mission specialists. There's a block of reserved airspace in the Gulf of Mexico (mainly MOAs out of Eglin AFB in Florida) that were typically used for the T-38 flights. They usually operated out of Ellington Field just outside of Houston.

[@1Nekit1]

@mikafan1003 HUD is used for fuel tanks, engine fuel receiving, lights, electricity and some other stuff like that.

[@subhojithalder6017]

man .. now thats rocket science people talk about

[@LuckyPikinini]

ID RATHER BE IN HERE THAN BE IN THE COLUMBIA OR CHALLENGER

[@fred36956]

Without getting in to details BOTH disasters were 100% preventable. Chris Kraft stated in an interview that it wasn't the fallacy of the machine but the fallacy of the human brain. In other words what caused both disasters were decisions made by NASA Management (and Contractor for Challenger) in not stopping flights until BOTH very well known issues were FIXED.

[@SquealerDealer]

Mr. Vice President

[@technowarriorstv]

Guess I'm playing ksp all night again

[@PeterBacon]

On a channel full of fluff this is definitely solid.

[@jacklanard7465]

All i see is math😰😰😰

[@pilotboy217]

135 shuttle missions and more rockets launches but I cant run open headers on my car. These fools forget who gives them money to go to space.

[@101southsideboy]

mark was taken off the mission for a while after his wife a US senator or congresswoman from az was shot

[@1Nekit1]

STS-134...

[@adamrosales3617]

i mkss it

[@auc7023]

i like

[@karenhilker8074]

One question: how much are these people paid?

[@fred36956]

Not nearly as much as they should for their many many hours of training, skills and their high intelligence as well as facing the dangers of riding a winged spacecraft in to Earth orbit and then experiencing the very, very extreme temperatures of re-entry in to the Earth’s atmosphere and gliding (without a second chance to land) on a very precise target: a 15,000, 300 foot runway in the middle of a swamp like environment with alligators having to be scared off the runway by helicopters prior to the scheduled landing.

[@MrRolotube]

Some 80,000 to 105,000 US$, I suppose.

[@Real_pic]

😂😂😂 they it's about experience not money