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How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space

Bret · 12.6M views · 2016-11-06 · 17:49

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Overview

Bret Copeland, in an astronaut costume, gives an energetic talk on how the Space Shuttle landed from orbit, including reentry and the unpowered glide. It includes real-time landing footage with HUD and audio.

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HN recommends it as an entertaining, technical illustration of how hard the Shuttle's one-shot dead-stick landing was.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2023

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Space exploration & spaceflightAviation & aerospace engineering
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space shuttlereentryaviationorbital mechanicsnasa

What people said

mholt · 2017-03 · Strong recommendation

On a related note, I highly, highly recommend this entertaining and technical presentation by Bret Copeland, How to Land the Space Shuttle... From Space: [VIDEO]

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grecy · 2023-02 · Recommendation

Here's a cool video of landing the shuttle in real time. The whole landing proceeds unnervingly fast! The actual landing HUD and audio starts at 13:40 [VIDEO]

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heffay · 2022-01 · Reference

Reminds me of a video I came across last year about about landing the space shuttle and the complexities of it all. [VIDEO]

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