The Greatest Test Flight - STS-1 (Full Mission 01)
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- The Greatest Test Flight - STS-1 (Full Mission 01)
STS-1 - Columbia - April 12-14 1981 - Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR) and Bob Crippen (PLT).
This is the first video of an intended series which will cover the first Space Shuttle flight from countdown to touchdown.
Part 01 - The Countdown for the launch begins, with the crews breakfast, suit up, journey to pad 39a and egress into Columbia.
Where video is not availabe I have added in some footage of the concept and development of the shuttle from the 1972-80 period. There is also footage of the crew in training. Captions are used to inform the viewer what he/she is watching. Photos have been added where appropriate.
The video is captured on a 16:9 screen to allow captioning and photos/video to be shown by the side of the main screen.
Audio is in two channels. One covers the PAO channel and the other is the launch director loops which carried the comm from the launch team at the Cape.
My personal thanks to JL Pickering and Ed Hengveld who produce excellent photo CDs of space missions that really enhanced the video.
All video/pictures and audio is courtesy NASA. - Věda a technologie
John Young was a LEGEND. He was a true astronaut's astronaut. He died early this year after a long life of advancing science and serving his country. God bless him.
The difference in demeanor between Commander Young (thousand-yard stare) and Pilot Crippen (blithely having some toast) at 16:37 is priceless, particularly if viewed as a still frame! ;^)
R.I.P. John Young 1930-2018 🙏🏻🇺🇸
I watched the STS-1 countdown live on Australian television on the night of the 10th of April and was very disappointed when the flight was cancelled. By the time they launched on the 12th I was away on a school camp and missed it. I was annoyed to put it mildly. I was only 13 years old at the time but I was excited about it because it was the first launch of any American spacecraft for so long. But until 1979 when Skylab was about to crash did I realize that NASA did not have a vehicle of any kind to push Skylab higher. It ended up coming down not far from where I lived...
And you have to realize, this was an all-up test. There was no way to send up a shuttle unmanned, so the very first flight had to have men on it.
Appropriate though, the Command Pilot for the very first shuttle was also the pilot on the first Gemini flight - and Gemini was the only spacecraft of the time (before the shuttle) with controls that resembled an aircraft. John Young had a very remarkable career indeed... yet you rarely hear his name mentioned in the annals of history.
Precisely K1, a largely unsung legend, but I appreciate Young's service to humanity myself nonetheless.
John Young was once asked by a TV documentary maker what he would like to see as his epitath, and he replied that he had absolutly no idea. The guy pushed him again for an answer saying, "what would you feel if it said "John Young, The Ultimate Explorer""? to which John Young replied that he would "feel sorry for the guy who wrote it" Classic John Young. The guy is so understated, but perhaps the tagline, in space related terms, is valid. Legend! While Johns achievements as a whole in the space programme should be racked up there as quite astounding people should never forget that on this flight there was a guy sat next to him who took the same risks, never wavered from his task and believed in the programme....Bob Crippen = Legend!
***** Absolutely LM5, absolutely. Thanks for the reply.
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Oh totally. I love each and every one of them. I simply meant, John Young's name should appear more prominently, aside the likes of Gus Grissom, Neil Armstrong, and Jim Lovell. Not only part of the "new nine" like Neil and Jim, but the first of the new nine to fly, alongside one of the biggest stars in all of NASA, Gus Grissom
Yeah K1 - the list for John goes on and on as in firsts but also just for sticking around in the programme after his moonwalk, doing all the engineering tests that eventually led to this flight and then staying around as the chief astro and beyond. I would have loved to have seen him fly STS-31 the HST mission as he was originally slated before Challenger was lost.
These videos are a great companion to the "Into the Black" book! It makes me feel like I am 17 again in 1981!
Im Going To Have This Running While I Play Games Over Christmas Break. It's Just So Interesting To Hear And See How Long It Takes To get To Just One Launch.
HamsterSquadFilms lol HSF - it takes longer to make one of these videos than it takes to launch! Enjoy your Christmas
Great stuff. I remember watching the launch on TV and being very nervous.
My dad told me the story of how he could see STS-1 launch from his Florida Middle School. I sure wish I could have ben alive to see it launch live.
In 1983 or 1984, I was in attendance at the Naval War College in Newport, RI, where John Young gave a speech. I was in junior high school and obsessed about space travel. I wish I could remember specifically what he discussed. It was either shortly before or after his last mission (STS-9) in November and December of 1983. I imagine he was on a public relations tour for the Space Shuttle program. I was there with my stepmother, who taught high school astronomy. I still have the outstanding book I got that night: "NASA, the First 25 Years, 1958-1983 (A Resource for Teachers) -- A Curriculum Project." About one year ago I searched for it online and found two used copies on Amazon: one for $4 and the other for $927!
I am so glad somebody put together this combination of audio and video footage. This is the kind of intimate history (of the space program) that might otherwise be obscured or unavailable. I've been watching (listening) to these all day. I was just 7 years old when my parents let me stay home from school, so that I could watch the launch of STS-1 live. I can't believe the entire STS has come and gone in my life time. I sure hope they don't let the SLS get sidetracked. America desperately needs to get back in the saddle again!
John Young broke the record for being the astrount in the most programs in the US. He flew on Geminel, Apollo, and the Shuttle
LM5, thank you for each and every mission and mission segment--from Project Mercury to the STS program to Project Constellation--you've put together and uploaded. They are both indescribably enlightening and highly entertaining; consequently, they make for some of the absolute best viewing on CZcams.
To say the very least, you deserve an honorary Silver Snoopy award, my friend!
Once again great mission coverage by LM5.... I remember getting to see Columbia here in Tucson at Davis-Monthan AFB on 1/22/86 as she was headed bk to KSC after STS-61C..... I was 13yrs old and I remember saying "She's a big beautiful machine that does alot" and boy did she :)
Great comment american - wish I had seen her! She sure was a good spaceship
The hold music at the beginning of this excellent series of videos had been playing ever since the end of ASTP :-)
incargeek lmao - space gag of the week award - ;-)
Cdr. John Young has flown spaceships to the Moon and walked on it, and now he takes the first Shuttle mission. Incredible skill set. He had a bit of trouble figuring out how a butter knife works though! 13:40
I never noticed that before - good spot!
Yay! New project from LM5! You have just made my day, sir. Thanks a lot!
You are, as always, welcome triple!
RIP John Young
It was the greatest test flight of the century, no doubt about it.
Thank so much for posting this series. It must have been a ton of work. I just finished listening to them all and they where great.
Thanks for the comment James - glad you got through the whole thing - it's nice to know that the effort is all worth it in the end!
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I've now started on the Apollo 13 Full Mission. That first TV transmission through the MCC burn is so neat. I'd never seen that before. Feel free to make as many of these as you'd like, we'll watch them all. ;)
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Am glad you are getting to see footage for the first time. "13" is probably my favourite of the entire Full Mission series so far - it became a labor of love over the 2 years it took to put it together, along with the added pressure of knowing that Jim Lovell was watching too! I still Hope you get to watch Gemini 3, Apollo 10 and the first three Mercury flights too at some point. I am aiming to do Apollo 8 in 2015 - regards
LM5
Starting at 13:15 ,on the right side of the screen is Ellison Onizuka killed aboard Challenger.
wow. you're right. what a find .
Wow. At 43:00 he talks about the ice check not happening. While I know it wasn't ice that damaged the tiles on Columbia and the likelihood of any ice remaining on the tank is extremely minimal, it's still hard to hear that they skipped the ice check knowing what would ultimately happen to the Columbia. And LM5, thank you so much for making these videos. Being an Avgeek from Houston, it means a lot to me to have access to these! I am hopeful that someday we will have our own version of this launch and watch the beginning of a new spacecraft program and a new chapter for NASA.
Mom woke us up at 3am. We had Cocoa Krispies, went totally nuts when she lit.
great memory Ace
@@lunarmodule5 I was 21 years old, did my Army hitch and was dreaming of this since the postcard campaign to name the first shuttle Enterprise. Lots and lots of babysitting got those cards out.
I wonder if we'll ever have a Shuttle video where the 2 unfortunate incidents are NOT mentioned in the comments!?? NASA has FAR more success than failure! It is an AMAZING group of intelligent and talented people who bore ahead in teaching us about Space! Bravo!
John sure knows how to use the butter knife and Crip shows his characteristic Hollywood-smile.
13:24 Quite a contrast in personalities. Serious, stressed Young, vs. happy-go-lucky Crippen (Got some jelly for that?)
15:39 John Young doesn’t touch his orange juice. Lol read his book to see why!
As always another great production by LM5. I was at middle school when Columbia launched for the first time. Was going to watch it in a physics class I was in, but it got delayed, finally launched when I was in English class, so I missed it. Never mind. Brings back memories of those days as a child. Thanks very much
Thanks for the comment Gavin - Are you sure you dont mean STS-2 - that launch was delayed till past 3pm GMT and I also missed that launch live because of school. STS-1 was launched on April 12th 1981 which was a Sunday (12pm - afternoon for those of us in the UK)
***** Oh dear, you're probably right, my bad. Come to think of it you're right, if I remember correctly, the shuttle Columbia had a brown external fuel tank on that launch. Thanks for the correction.
Gavin Mackie
er...that would be STS-3......STS-1 and 2 both had the white tank...STS-3 was delayed but launched at 1600 GMT, which, again, meant I missed it because of school...wasnt shown live in the UK though, was shown 15 minutes later (I have no idea why!) on ITV
***** For crying out loud, I really should remember my childhood years better shouldn't I. So it had a white fuel tank, I thought the first brown tank was on STS-2, my mistake. Thanks again LM5 for reminding me of my error. By the way I live in the UK as well. I do appreciate you for your good work.
Gavin Mackie lol - no problem - and I kind of guessed you were in the UK. With reference to the brown tank, especially around the foam strikes seen with it, it is interesting to listen to the post flight crew presentation on STS-1 where Bob Crippen talks about debris coming from the tank and "impacting the vehicle". So foam shedding was happening right at the start of the programme.
One of the guys at breakfast is Ellison Onizuka, died on Challenger.
Good eye
... same pressure suits and same space helmets (Model D.C. S-1030) as worn by SR-71 Blackbird aircrews. And, their same ejection seats (Model SR-1).
19:30 Sometimes it's the little things in life. The cord wrangler just throws the cord to the ground and walks out of frame like he just noticed he was on camera.
Love Hugh Harris so much, he always sounded like HAL-9000 to me and the low "telephone quality" audio of his audio channel added to the magic of these launches - I remember listening to every word he would say when I was listening to him over the NASA Causeway bullhorn PA system. I got to speak with him one time on the phone while I was in High School and he was absolutely the greatest. I tried to get him down to be a special guest speaker for our Public Speaking class but he was all full schedule wise. Still what a sweet guy. He gave me an STS-5 Press Site pass as well. I hope SpaceX upgrades their launch commentary a bit once they are flying humans.
Love STS-1 mission. Hail STS-1, hail Space Shuttle Program 🇺🇸
When Time magazine reported Columbia's long-delayed rollout to the launch pad at a maximum speed of 4 miles per hour, the headline was, "Hail, Columbia! (Slowly)."
I LOVE your videos!
You're doing such a good job, thank you!
navelpicker You are most welcome navelpicker! glad you are liking the videos and channel - thanks for the comment and feedback - appreciated - LM5
Watched this launch and landing while staying in an el-cheapo Hotel in London, hard to believe that it was over 38 years ago.
I was at home... spellbound
Surprised to see Young wearing glasses as he is getting into his helmet @38:50.
After a storied career Gemini, Apollo when John Young travelled to the moon twice and then walked on the moon Apollo 16 John Young few the very first Space Shuttle Flight was a great way to top it off
I didn't know Robert Crippen was the STS-1 Piolt? That surely should have been Pilot.
er...where did I put Piolt? did I?
***** No, NASA did when they were putting on their pressure suits mid way through the video. Apologies, should have provided more detail.
John always looked irritated at the camera. Bob was chipper and a cam ham while John really just looked annoyed when noticing the camera was on him lol. I don't blame him one bit!
yes it was! But right now our team is sitting the game out.
Where did they get the music that they play between launch control announcements?
Hahaha!!!
47:05 - The year was 1981, but some folks still wore their 70s suits.
Bob Crippen STS-1 Piolt 35:54 :D
He was the only Piolt in the entire Space Shuttle program.
@@Sootaroot indeed lol
Is there somewhere on the internet where I can get the bluray of the STS-1 mission?
There is only one HD version of STS-1 that comes to mind - that is HAIL COLUMBIA which was shot, to some extent, in IMAX. You can probably still get a copy from Amazon or ebay. Its about 1/2 an hour and worth seeing. There is no other HD availability as far as I know. What you see here is probably the best quality you can get. Guess that doesnt help much!
That breakfast scene has to be the most uncomfortable looking thing ever :-)
John really didn't like that camera on him did he!? Lol
Awesome video LM5. I do have a question for anyone that might know. At around 12 or 12 and half minutes, when they are having breakfast, am I correct in seeing Deke Slayton, Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt and Ellison Onizuka on the right side of the screen at the other table? Or am I wrong and seeing what I want to see...LOL
No I think you are right. As far as I know the guys round the table are George Abbey, Deke Slayton, Karol Bobko, Jack Schmitt, El Onizuka. I do not know the guys name on the bottom left but he reminds me of one of the launch team at the Cape....maybe someone else knows. Hope that helps!
there is another gentleman on the right next to Ellison who I do not know either....and I just watched the walk to the suit up room and the walk out to the astro van and both the unidentified gentleman are there and get in the astro van. I believe that some personel got out at the VAB/LCC so perhaps this is where they got out into LCC. Maybe they went to the PAD ?
I never realized what a handsome man Crippen was. Not that that matters😂
37:35 Am I seeing this right? John Young's helmet has built in spectacles? He's not wearing any when he dons his helmet. As soon as he does, the spectacles are there.
LM5 - Beautiful job! I remember the launch audio quite well, because - I was there that morning. Myself, and my friends of the Illinois Valley Aerospace Cub had worked some five years to generate the funds to do this trip, and NASA Public Affairs was nice enough to allow us onto the NASA Causeway viewing site, along with KSC employees and their families.
I have tried to do the "same thing" with the PAO com I recorded from the AM radio distribution that morning and the photos I took. But, this is excellent!
What would the possibility of getting this entire series for STS-1 on Blu-Ray or DVD be?
Steven Jochums am about as jealous as a space enthusiast could be! You should definitely post the photos from April 12th and if the audio has commentary other than PAO it would be great to listen to that too. There are no plans at present to offer the series as a DVD set. I dont have the equipment to produce these in much more than 480p resolution. People have asked for these sets and the best way I have found is to put them on an SD card for them then they can decide if they want to put them on 10x DVDs etc or just hold them on other media etc
LM5 - I did post many of the the photos from 4/12/1981 om my own website - www.lakecountyspaceport.com." Devoted to my "passion" (my wife has other phases) for spacemodeling, which I think has always been driven by an "arm-chair astronaut's" lust for being were he is not able to be. But, the STS-1 models became a way to preserve that incredible moment in three-dimension space. I haven't posted the audio yet, but believe me, I didn't hear anything you didn't provide on your Part 1 and Part 2, and I was there. What about the DVD versions??
Steven Jochums LM5 - If you provide an address, I'll provide the SD Card.
Maybe this weekend, I can upload the STS-1 launch audio/photograph collage I put together from the recorded PAO and the pictures shot. Since it was before I got into video recording, it was a way to re-live the moment. I took the liberty of taking out some of the long empty spaces of time during the countdown, so the program doesn't run a full 3+ hours and is a little more "well paced." Based on this conversation, others might want to see it as well.
Steven Jochums Hi Steven - msg sent to you via CZcams
***** You e-mail address got returned - didn't work. Please advise.
LM5 delivers as always !
Thanks raven - appreciated.
As beautiful as the Shuttle looked, I'm glad we're returning to capsules for manned spaceflight. Pad abort for the Shuttle meant exiting the vehicle on foot. In-flight abort meant either turning the vehicle around (aerodynamically or under power, depending on how much fuel and power is available) or pressing on into orbit (if you're too high for either return option). If going into orbit with a critical hardware failure is the safest course of action, you have a fundamental flaw in your design.
Capsules forego these fatal flaws in favor of an abort stage that works on the pad, during orbital circulation, and every second in between.
The pad abort option had several doubtful aspects. How quickly could the orbiter hatch be opened? And the slidewire system was considered so hazardous that it was never tested with astronauts aboard. This makes me think that it was intended mainly to allay the public's concerns about crew safety. John Young himself said that about the ejection seats, pointing out that they would have propelled escaping astronauts straight into the SRB plumes.
However, the abort to orbit option did have some merit. On STS 51-F, the only flight when ATO actually happened, an SSME failed but Challenger was able to reach orbit on its remaining two engines, at which point the failed hardware was no longer needed. As Cleon Lacefield, the flight director who made the ATO call, said afterwards, in that situation, orbit is the safest place to be.
Nevertheless, the Shuttle was indeed a beautiful vehicle, never better described than by a reader of Time magazine in 1981. Time had run a huge feature in a January issue as a preview of the first flight, including a spectacular cover photo of Columbia on the pad The following week, readers' letters carried this comment: "In your praise of the Space Shuttle, you overlooked its most poetic resemblance. It looks like the Taj Mahal." After that, I could never see an image of the full stack without remembering that comparison.
If I was about to go on a space flight, I would not have steak and eggs for breakfast. Seems to be some kind of tradition, because this is mentioned prior to almost any mission. Mercury? Steak and eggs! Gemini? Steak and eggs. Apollo? Steak and eggs. Skylab? Steak and eggs. Space Shuttle? Steak and eggs. lol
tremorist low residue diet so they wouldn’t have to poop.
@14m47 the dude front right, middle. Is that Jack Schmitt?
+mjptrapster yup
40 years ago today.
Stand by, thirty seconds!
its odd how much info there is online about apollos computers but almost nothing about shuttles early computers and how the astronauts interacted with them. : /
***** There was certainly plenty of talk at the time of the first missions about the 5 shuttle computers, about how they needed to talk to each other within nanoseconds for the launch/flight ops to go right and also how "fast" they were and how small. I also remember talk about how the shuttles limited memory meant that each flight was extremely limited to a certain flight plan and that programmers had to be very careful when choosing programs to enter into it for fear of overstretching the memory available. There was also talk about the differences in the way astronauts interacted with the computers...thru 3 CRT displays and using somewhat of a simple keyboard, rather than the digital number display and number keyboard of the Apollo DSKY. I guess one of the reasons there isnt so much info about the shuttle computers compared to the ones used in the Apollo Command and Lunar Modules comes down to the fact that in the 60s computerised systems were mainly huge in size and Apollos system was so small in comparison, whilst carrying out what seemed to be a gargantuan task. By the time shuttle came around we were already using computers at home so there wasnt quite the fascination. Just my thoughts. regards - LM5
***** True. Still, those early shuttle computers would have been a huge departure from the old verb/noun and dsky interface. Still those old things were surprisingly reliable,,,ive seen more "program alarms" on my windows vista!
And behind him is that Deke? I know Deke had moved to take management charge of Approach and Landing Tests, along with his famous spat with Dave Scott, who was still a Colonel at Edwards (blamed Deke for the Postage Stamp scandal which cost him his stars)
+mjptrapster yes it is Deke
Lunarmodule5 Please in the subtitles option, could you add Spanish to it? I would appreciate it very much 👍👨🚀
Hi Walter - you can change the subtitles to Spanish from the settings icon on the video
Is that Deke @27:09?
you mean deke slayton right?
Is the narrator of this video Jack King? Sounds like him.
Jack King left NASA in 1975 but is now a volunteer at the PAO office at the Cape (according to Wikipedia.....!!!). The voice you hear on the STS-1 through to STS-7 countdowns is that of Hugh Harris, who retired in 1998. He also did the counts for other shuttle missions, notably STS-51L and the return to flight STS-26 mission. Hope that helps
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10:33 Foreshadowing...
This was no test flight. It was the first official mission. The first actual test flight and landing of the shuttle was The Enterprise on 8-12-77
well, ALT in 77 was a test of orbiter handling at low levels and a test of the computer and flight control systems along with landing profiles from 5 minutes and 2 minutes before touchdown - STS-1 was the first all-up test of the shuttle system, so, IMHO, it was a test flight, one of four before NASA announced it was operational - although an astronaut once said that in reality you would need to get 100+ flights to say that it was even approaching operational. So ALT started the testing, STS-1 was a test flight like no other because until they got down to 30,000 feet after re-entry they had never flown any of the flight profiles up to that point except in a simulator and as you point out, in the ALT test from there on down.
@@lunarmodule5 In "Riding the Stack", there was a clip of Reagan at the STS-4 landing when he declared, "The test flights are over!", and one of the astronauts said they all looked at each other and smiled, knowing they had hardly started. In practice, the main reason for calling STS-1 to 4 test flights was that after that, the ejection seats were removed.
16:45 John Young is PISSED :) at people taking pics.
VAN DER VALK!
46:18
Young appears to be a nervous wreck at the breakfast table! Crippen is having a good time
But as soon as Columbia blast off, it was Young who was having a great time, while Crip was nervous as hell
This is all kind of depressing to watch now...
....but back in the day it was the world series!
Glaube Mut Liebe .
Shuttle killed 16 people, quite amazing.
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NASA can launch the most sophiscated machinery in the world successfully, but they cannot spell (@35:50) correctly on their own TV.
good spot...never noticed that!
How incompetent people - astronauts eating eggs, meat, white bread plus drinking coffee and orange juice instead of vegan, whole grain and liquids separate from solid food.....
Kind of like a condemned mans last meal ... it's space food until the land lol I don't think vegan was a word back then ?
@@xmanhoe It actually was! I first heard it in the 197os at an animal rights conference (and I thought it was simply short for vegetarian), but I believe its origins go much further back. But in terms of being a widely known word in common usage, you are right. That only started in this century, I'd say, and now it's growing fast.
Well said! It is appalling that a species clever enough to go into space still has the capacity to abuse other species.
RIP John Young
RIP John Young