How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space
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Video: Video: How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space
Presented on Halloween (October 31st) at Stack Overflow’s 2016 Remote Meetup in Philadelphia. #PhillyCheeseStack Sorry about the autofocus (we disabled it in later talks). Me running around on stage didn't help. As always, send complaints to Steve. This was one of nine "Tiny Talks" given over three days at the meetup. Every year, employees submit Tiny Talk ideas on a wide range of topics (some completely random and not company-related at all, like this one) and we vote on which ones we want to hear. So, thank you to my coworkers for voting me in. Original proposal description I submitted for this talk: Let's say you're traveling at about 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning up or skipping out of the atmosphere, navigate to your landing site, and arrive with just enough energy to make an unpowered landing on a runway which is halfway around the planet from where you started. And, of course, either you succeed on your first try, or everyone dies. So, no pressure…. In this talk, I'll show you how space shuttle designers, pilots, and autopilots managed to do just that. --- All real-life photos and videos (except the last slide) were produced by NASA. Everything that looks hand-drawn was done by me on a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet in ArtRage. Animations were done in After Effects. Between the concept, outline, script, artwork, animations, rehearsals, and editing, I spent somewhere around 200 hours over two months working on it. Very little time was spent researching. In case it wasn't obvious, I've been more than a little obsessed with the topic for years now.Bret CopelandaerospaceaviationdeEliteDangerousgeekhoggitmealtimevideosspacespaceflightScience & Technologyspace shuttlelandingreentryPhillyCheeseStack
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It has become tradition to rewatch this every so often<br>recently got a space shuttle for Christmas and wanted to learn how to fly it. Thanks for the tips on re-entry.
Edit: It’s been a while. Thanks for 3k likes and being cool in general! Fly safe and fly high!<br>Thanks, the shuttle was making some weird noises so I was wondering what I was doing wrong! Solved the issue pretty quickly when I realised I was supposed to reenter with the payload bay doors closed. 100% recommend, would watch again.<br>This is probably one of the best videos on Youtube -- your presentation is golden. I come back to this every so often to learn your presentation, and always find something new. Brilliant!<br>I have watched this video probably a dozen times now and every time I re watch, it never gets old. Amazing Video alongside being presented in an amazing way<br>It's always nice to see someone talk about and explain something they're clearly very passionate about<br>Now that I fly turbo-props, it puts into perspective even more how fast they have to fly this. The approaches we do in the metro are at 140 knots, the same as the airliner example he gives, and I thought that was fast.
Yet the shuttle does it at 300 knots.<br>Just saw this video for the first time. I was impressed with your communication skills and animation skills. I had seen the shuttle land many times (on the television) and kinda knew how it worked on landing, but I learned so much more on this video. God rest the souls of the astronauts who perished throughout all the programs.<br>Thank you so much for this tutorial, I'm taking the old shuttle out this Sunday for some practice flying, thank you!<br>I'm so glad I found this video, I've been stuck in orbit for 3 weeks.<br>I've been a space geek since my dad kept 6 year old me up to watch Neil step on the moon. Presentations like this keep that fire burning. Well done.<br>this video is so good that youtube keeps recommending it every year. to be honest i wish our own commercial flights would be able to fly faster and land sooner like this.<br>This was just... brilliant. I've studied the Shuttle reentry trajectory recently and this was such a fun and clever way to focus on some details without using any maths.<br>This man is a true maverick, for him landing a spaceship without any engines is just a minor detail that deserves a one line mention right at the end<br>Descending from 37k to the runway in 3 minutes sounds like Ryanair<br>As an aspiring astronaut, I have some knowledge on the topic presented but you truly do a great job breaking it down and making it easy to understand.
Thanks for the content!<br>Absolutely amazing. Job well done!!! Your nervous energy made it that much more entertaining. I knew the shuttles "glided" in, but I had no idea after that.<br>I watch this video probably once a month. It took some very smart people to figure this out. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. And what a great walkthrough!<br>This was a really informative and entertaining presentation. Thank you for sharing!<br>This man is somehow extremely nervous and extremely confident at the same time<br>Was talking to an actual engineer who was volunteering at Cape Canaveral near Atlantis (the shuttle) and he was talking about how the role reversals also have the added benefit of discharging an excess heat that builds up on the bottom of the Shuttle because as it rolls from side to side the air flow can more easily pull the heat away from belly of the shuttle.<br>It's like the ground controller is counselling him and having him agree that all's good -as if sudden panic attacks are common or at least a high level of risk at any random moment.<br>Great presentation! I was just gonna check it for a couple of seconds and scroll through, but I ended up watching it all! Funny and very informative. Thank you!<br>Excellent talk, as good as anything I've experienced throughout my own flying career.<br>Dude, this is amazing. I wish I was a pilot or an astronaut on NASA.<br>thanks for that detailed explanation, recently was asked over radio from by my astronauts to mission control how they were supposed to land, they were trying to land a capsule but I figured a space shuttle was close enough<br>Beautifully explained it in the simplest way. I'm not a science student but this was way more interesting for me by the way you explained.! Thanks.<br>I loved the way you explained it so well . I always wanted to know how they find there way and land<br>So different than I thought. I thought it came in from space with the nose down for more speed and energy..but that goes to show you how much I know. Fantastic presentation! I learned a lot!<br>They're not flying, they're falling with style<br>Thank you for taking the time to explain this wonder of the world to us!<br>I've been watching this video for a few years already and I enjoy it every time. Your sense of humor is brilliant. My favorite part is when you just tell the space shuttle to "stop!... it always does this" hilarious! But really informative, 17min just passed in a second. So much enjoyed it, thanks!<br>This is fantastic. You're awesome, Bret. I started my career on Shuttle, way before you were born. And I worked in a GN&C group and was friends with the fellow who basically wrote the Entry Guidance software. I don't know where you learned all this, but you got it right. Super fun video. I spent 19 years on that program, most fun time of my career. Take care!<br>On the latest aircraft they have advanced the fly-by-wire system so much that the crew now consists of a pilot and a dog, the pilot is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches anything.<br>A classic... love this lightning talk. (it's been my habit to rewatch this, apparently every 2 years... it's that good,... kudos for your hard work presenting this).<br>It’s pretty insane to think about how before the first ever Space Shuttle flight, they had to figure all that out and do all the math to make sure it was possible. The astronauts in that very first flight had balls of steel<br>Congratulations, excellent way of explaining, I understood
at first, I can now pilot the shuttle, thanks<br>13:17 It's crazy to think that they saw daytime on one side of the world and then nighttime on the opposite side just over an hour later. Although, I'm sure it looks much different from that altitude.<br>You have a talent for explaining things in a manner that is clear and entertaining, you need to make more.<br>Amazing! Like many others, I will be revisiting this every now and then :)<br>Excellent information! Learned something new! Keep up with great work!<br>Great talk! Entertaining and educational. Thanks for sharing! Well done<br>I'm just a hobby private pilot and I really enjoyed this humorous explanation of a shuttle landing. Thank you.<br>Great tutorial. I will follow your guidance with absolute glee<br>Thanks for this cool video, that I also watch every now and then. Subject and style all very well done. For the roll reversals, the main thing is angle of attack, as in every airplane. They are back in the atmosphere, and the AoA is still high, just like a brick or the lifting body development aircraft. So if they are high or fast, they would bank and then pull back a bit more than planned to cause more induced/parasite drag, and slow down to get the aim-point closer to KSC. This is why fighters try not to pull back much to keep the energy they have right now. Those interested can see this in any simulator...way cool really. Wonder if the Shuttle simulator is still running... Did you get to fly it....?<br>Very informative AND very entertaining.
WELL DONE!!<br>After this, i decided to watch a reentry live recording and understood most everything, when earlier it was pure jargon. This is what YouTube was for. This is amazing<br>Only 1 shot at landing? Um.. have they never heard of holding F9 to reload their quicksave?<br>Just imagine how happy amd relieved the people in the shuttle felt when the laned safely<br>Thanks, now I know I can land a space shuttle if I eventually decide I wanna buy one ??<br>
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