Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections S03E05 Space Shuttle

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  • @derekspace
    @derekspace Před 5 lety +2

    The Hamster nailed it. I learned a lot while being entertained. Dang, reminds me of a TV series named Top Gear. Great job Richard! Love this series.

  • @calliarcale
    @calliarcale Před 10 lety +9

    Just to add -- it was Von Braun who came up with the idea of using regenerative loop cooling to help engines survive the tremendous heat. Only at that point, it was for the V-2. There are museums where you can see a V-2 engine and a J-2 engine (Saturn V upper stage engine) next to each other; the V-2 engine looks primitive and puny, but you can clearly see the same basic concepts at work, including the regenerative loop cooling.

    • @VisitingBoss
      @VisitingBoss Před 10 lety +2

      along with most weapons we use today thought of by the nazis

    • @MartinWillett
      @MartinWillett Před 10 lety +1

      VisitingBoss You mean Germans. In January 1969 NASA scientists didn't change from being Democratic scientists into Republican scientists or evil collaborators, neither did every German scientist and engineer become a Nazi when the Nazi party gained power or every Russian become a communist or every American become a believer in race and sex equality and rights for homosexuals. Most people just go with the flow and do their jobs.

    • @VisitingBoss
      @VisitingBoss Před 10 lety

      Martin Willett ok nice story bro but when did i disagree with what you said

    • @ZenPunk
      @ZenPunk Před 6 lety +1

      Martin Willett that's a nice thought but von Braun joined the Nazi party to further his career that's a matter of historical record.

  • @paynedwp
    @paynedwp Před 9 lety +1

    The 9310 Scope !!! A staple of NASA measurement in the 80's and still relevant today -Glad to see your branching out to Engineering Richard !!

  • @bradmiller2329
    @bradmiller2329 Před 5 lety +1

    I love shows like this! How everything touches and is touched by everything else.

  • @freedomlover1361
    @freedomlover1361 Před 5 lety +1

    And over 100,000+ other people who worked on all the different projects and missions. From welders to aeronautical engineers, each one played a hand in getting man into space.

  • @MrHeuvaladao
    @MrHeuvaladao Před 6 lety +1

    One of my favorite episodes.

  • @litestuf
    @litestuf Před 8 lety +6

    Richard... this whole series is just wonderful... Tnx

  • @op3l
    @op3l Před 9 lety +38

    The engine bit blew my mind... all that fire and power, at a temperature lower than my CPU temp...

  • @metallijames
    @metallijames Před 7 lety +1

    1:55 Pratt and Whitney engines? Wow, they are still at it since making pivotal aircraft engines in WW2. A legendary name!

  • @reubenmood3890
    @reubenmood3890 Před 3 lety +1

    completely f-ing fascinating. I learned a lot. :)

  • @christopherscott3120
    @christopherscott3120 Před 10 lety +2

    Even though I grew up during the height of Space Shuttle Fever in the '80s, I had never heard that the hydrogen fuel was used to cool the nozzles before it was burned. What an ingenious solution. I guess it doesn't absorb enough heat to flash to gas? Amazing!

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 Před 5 lety

      Probably doesn't have enough time. When you're measuring ignition point in seconds, and transit time in microseconds?

  • @topstep
    @topstep Před 11 lety +1

    Amazing show. Excellent work.

  • @MeLexdy
    @MeLexdy Před 8 lety +19

    3:44 Lets hand it over to our tame racing driver, he is called the stig

  • @CAP198462
    @CAP198462 Před 7 lety +68

    Pretty sure the orbiter also required one reliant robin and 10d/6s

  • @88clintw
    @88clintw Před 10 lety +1

    Amazing! Thank you, Hamster!

  • @blackraven14250
    @blackraven14250 Před 11 lety

    Then again, Richard Hammond is basically a 12 year old himself...
    This is the kind of series that History should jump on. Extraordinarily well done, I think it hits a great balance between science and goofiness with his "experiments" keeping it moving at a good pace. It's not the kind of dry documentaries they used to do, but definitely better than the direction Pawn Stars is taking them. Linking the present to the past is the best way to get people interested in history, IMO, and this does it.

  • @metallijames
    @metallijames Před 7 lety +4

    4:45 "Great engine, runs fine. Very high mileage. Serviced recently."

  • @tenou213
    @tenou213 Před 11 lety +1

    I agree. The Top Gear method of hypothesis proving translates over really well.

  • @John-do4ns
    @John-do4ns Před rokem

    He pronounces "Ice-Cream" like "I scream" lmfao

  • @protpally223
    @protpally223 Před 7 lety

    I like at the ending... "there's an adventure with the doctor."

  • @nicomariussmit6335
    @nicomariussmit6335 Před 2 lety +1

    tranion and cone cooling water is used the same way in a blast furnist of melting metal at a B.O.F. plant on the upper hood and lower hood of the oven at a iron melting plant.

  • @ar14ification
    @ar14ification Před 10 lety +69

    I wanted to eat that chocolate kettle.

  • @justforever96
    @justforever96 Před 2 lety

    Interesting that on _foggy_ days sound actually travels farther. But not on rainy days.

  • @Dzyan
    @Dzyan Před 10 lety +9

    Only issue I have is that the heating from re-entry is not caused by friction with the air. Friction is a sheering force, it would tear the orbiter apart as Hammond points out. The problem is compressive shock heating.

    • @furman761
      @furman761 Před 6 lety

      The issue is that heating on re-entry is a desired effect rather than a problem. The point is that orbiter must slow down from orbital speed to landing speed, and kinetic energy needs to dissipate somehow. If orbiter will be "sleek and pointy", it will crash to the ground at enormous speed rather than land safely.

    • @beithairltd2381
      @beithairltd2381 Před 5 lety

      Yep. This myth about it being friction is still so often repeated, sadly.
      If it were friction, heating would occur where air is moving fastest over the hull, not where it is moving slowest and re-entry vehicles would have pointy noses and sharp leading edges. As you've stated, the heating comes from compressive shock heating in the hypersonic bow-wave.

    • @justforever96
      @justforever96 Před 2 lety

      @@furman761 They are talking about two different things. The Orbiter decelerates by entering belly first, or at a high angle of attack, so it is very blunt as far as that goes. The question is why the blunt nose in particular, which comes a little later, after it has slowed down some but is still traveling at hypersonic speeds. With a pointy nose, the shock wave off the nose would impinge on the wings and heat them up (among other problems), the blunt nose keeps the shock waves away from the wings. But it has nothing to do with slowing it down, there is plenty of aerodynamic resistance to do that already. Your explanation has more to do with why a capsule enters wide base first.

  • @mard420
    @mard420 Před 10 lety +45

    I like how we put tech information on you tube that would put you in Jail during the cold war

    • @killman369547
      @killman369547 Před 10 lety +2

      what like closed cycle rocket engines? russia had those since the 60's the main different in the SSME the preburner is fuel rich and on the russian equivalent (RD-0120) the preburner is oxygen rich

    • @mard420
      @mard420 Před 10 lety +3

      yeah, but the rest of our enemies don't

  • @Ryansanders80
    @Ryansanders80 Před 8 lety +22

    chocolate i-scream

  • @EngineVids
    @EngineVids Před 10 lety +1

    Wow a Petter handyman engine, quite rare!

  • @justforever96
    @justforever96 Před 2 lety

    Cannonballs were round because that was the only shape that would easily fit into a cannon and also fly in a generally straight line. It is perfectly symmetrical so it doesn't matter if it is tumbling. Any other shape will be thrown off course when it tumbles.

  • @evelasq1
    @evelasq1 Před 10 lety

    I have just learned something new. Cheers, Flood!

  • @practicalofanything218

    that reentry is too emotional

  • @masterskrain
    @masterskrain Před 8 lety +5

    He's just like a big kid!

  • @servicarrider
    @servicarrider Před 7 lety +1

    Now that was interesting.

  • @DaviesArts
    @DaviesArts Před 7 lety +6

    That kettle looks a lot like a teapot..

  • @TheAviationEnthusiast
    @TheAviationEnthusiast Před 8 lety +1

    This would be even better if it was James May that was hosting this. because like me he is a engineering/aviation fanatics

  • @WhiteCamry
    @WhiteCamry Před 8 lety +4

    The chocolate! That poor chocolate!

  • @simonwilczynski5863
    @simonwilczynski5863 Před 8 lety +5

    GO CANADA!!

  • @jaghatarhortubenlolfyhj6722

    spacetape and more boosters!

  • @falahahmad1581
    @falahahmad1581 Před 7 lety

    Can somebody tell me what song it is? or if it is a theme song of this program. I loved the beat. @20:53

  • @libertyrwhite
    @libertyrwhite Před 8 lety +1

    26:00 did they get that music from Great British Bake Off?? lmao

  • @davidcordes9283
    @davidcordes9283 Před 5 lety

    The Hamster looks so young!

  • @danielclift1
    @danielclift1 Před 10 lety +1

    forget the tea just eat the tea pot

  • @thfreakinacage
    @thfreakinacage Před 2 lety

    I'm sure a machine that "pumps the organ" wasn't to sound dirty, but yeah, yeah it did :P

  • @eddieotero2726
    @eddieotero2726 Před 5 lety

    Surprised Hammond didn't do this with May

  • @barrywever9984
    @barrywever9984 Před 4 lety

    All of this:
    Spacex: hold my flamethrower

  • @JackMaddock1
    @JackMaddock1 Před 10 lety

    Everyone knew what NASA would do next after the moon landings.
    They would take a sigh of relief!

  • @anilcelik16
    @anilcelik16 Před 3 lety

    Well what do you think that the largest acceleration the red rocket experiences is during its takeoff ?

  • @djmini2numpty141
    @djmini2numpty141 Před rokem

    how do the tyres survive ?

  • @alexburchett2779
    @alexburchett2779 Před 8 lety

    i love cc 6

  • @black-op345gaming5
    @black-op345gaming5 Před 6 lety

    Hammond isn’t driving a car....
    THE WORLD IS DYING

  • @schonsospaet22
    @schonsospaet22 Před 6 lety

    genious germans absorbing sound with bubbles ;-D

  • @KINTONGVIN
    @KINTONGVIN Před 10 lety +5

    just ignore the 13 dislike there are still innocent amazing documentary of Shuttle

  • @diobrando6245
    @diobrando6245 Před 5 lety

    Supa hot fire

  • @RastaSaiyaman
    @RastaSaiyaman Před 11 lety

    6:33 "The original Hammond organ"

  • @samsonmaqwaza2419
    @samsonmaqwaza2419 Před 7 lety +1

    what principle is mainly applied on the space shuttle

  • @justforever96
    @justforever96 Před 2 lety

    I hate how they flat out lie sometimes just for dramatic effect. The first machine to pump organs was not an "internal combustion engine", it was a steam engine. They had those for a hundred years before the internal combustion engine.

  • @davifernandeslima01
    @davifernandeslima01 Před 10 lety +2

    05:30 (imitates homer simpson) mmmm....chocolate cattle....Ghhahhlnghhahhl

  • @c.i.a.4618
    @c.i.a.4618 Před 6 lety

    24:03 *_"IM GONNA BUILD A WALL HERE."_*

  • @servicarrider
    @servicarrider Před 5 lety

    Nuclear ballistic submarines are more complicated than the shuttle ever dreamt of being.

  • @xxDrain
    @xxDrain Před 7 lety +9

    Didn't the shuttle end up being absurdly inefficient for reuse?

    • @Durnstaros
      @Durnstaros Před 7 lety +2

      It did, sometimes described as a giant liability.

    • @simonrano8072
      @simonrano8072 Před 7 lety +6

      To quote Pete Conrad (Apollo 12 commander) "Maybe each STS flight cost 2 billions, but what the shuttle is capable of is 3 billions worth"

    • @MrEiriku
      @MrEiriku Před 7 lety

      your mom is absudrly gay LOL

    • @SilverMe2004
      @SilverMe2004 Před 6 lety

      Wasn't that because it had to be designed for military use (hauling stuff for the military) but for most civilian / science uses its overkill

    • @beithairltd2381
      @beithairltd2381 Před 5 lety

      From what I remember cost of payload to LEO would be $20,000 per kilo with a Saturn V and $200,000 per kilo with the Shuttle.

  • @danyork1489
    @danyork1489 Před 11 lety

    Brill sonic boom thing!

  • @TheCypressbill
    @TheCypressbill Před 5 lety

    36:30 listen for underwater sounds then dolphin noises over the top of the mini robot arm,
    nasa shuttle spacewalks filmed in a huge swimming pool

    • @iron60bitch62
      @iron60bitch62 Před 5 lety

      cypressbill1980 If you listen very carefully you can hear your stupidity causing a ripple in that same pool

  • @ihaveaboyfriendmeh1026
    @ihaveaboyfriendmeh1026 Před 8 lety +4

    The origin of rocket fuel comes from Chinese fireworks rocket technology. which is powdered aluminium with IronOxide and a binder

    • @whiterabbitciggy
      @whiterabbitciggy Před 6 lety +1

      3000yr old thermite then !

    • @fouzaialaa7962
      @fouzaialaa7962 Před 6 lety

      and the engines are soviet made ..... they still buy them from russia to this day

    • @telclivo7945
      @telclivo7945 Před 5 lety

      The RS-25's are not Soviet or Russian made, they were developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne and are built by them. The SRB's were developed and built by Orbital ATK who are now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. The Atlas V rocket has Soviet and Russian made engines which is the RD-180 which still are built by Russia. The new Vulcan Rocket being built by ULA uses American made (by Blue Origin) BE-4 engines.

    • @dougmc666
      @dougmc666 Před 5 lety +1

      And all this time I thought Chinese fireworks were based on gunpowder starting in the ninth century.

  • @zvast
    @zvast Před 3 lety +1

    Sadly, the Shuttle did not fly as many times as planned, was to expensive and had to be cancelled. New technology came and we are back to reusable vehicles.

  • @Z_LTries
    @Z_LTries Před 5 lety

    A-LOOM-I-NUM

  • @grobbs666
    @grobbs666 Před 6 lety

    what is up with all these videos in 240p?!? I must have fell into the low resolution section of youtube!

  • @Keduce22
    @Keduce22 Před 10 lety

    Im going to watch Doctor Who right now. Lol

  • @aurorazarya7482
    @aurorazarya7482 Před 6 lety

    Reply if you know what that aluminum powder/ iron oxide Mizos called.

  • @janburlucki5524
    @janburlucki5524 Před 6 lety

    Andrew I get the feeling that you would eat a bicycle , if it was made of chocolate !!!!!!

  • @Dorkus89Malorkus
    @Dorkus89Malorkus Před 10 lety

    That's like saying you have choice of either siding with us or North Korea. He's obviously gonna pick the US but he probably would have wanted the Germans to get there first. He was, after all, first and foremost a German. Regardless, my point was that we could never have done it without the research that the Nazis did and the German rocket scientists who we employed after WWII.

  • @qibble455
    @qibble455 Před 6 lety

    @ 30:35 But why can i hear car horns and everything else just fine when it rains?

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 Před 5 lety

      Just fine, but not with perfect resolution. Have you tried listening for sounds in a heavy fog, or thick falling snow? Same idea.

  • @across_the_plane6800
    @across_the_plane6800 Před rokem

    Y’all are nutcases

  • @TubbygenDollilipoop
    @TubbygenDollilipoop Před 10 lety

    They didn't really kidnap Von Braun, he had a choice of siding with the USSR or US and he chose the US. It was his dream to see man in space

  • @MacTechG4
    @MacTechG4 Před rokem

    Is he going to use another Reliant Robin? I mean it is pointy at one end…
    How hard can it be?

  • @HeimirGudm
    @HeimirGudm Před 6 lety

    Is it only me that hears him saying chocolate I scream kettle?

  • @Dorkus89Malorkus
    @Dorkus89Malorkus Před 10 lety

    He forgot the most important ingredient that we had: kidnapped Nazi scientists. So basically WWII put us in space.

  • @willett786
    @willett786 Před 7 lety

    haha. he said "red-rocket"

  • @S.Nordang
    @S.Nordang Před 7 lety +23

    24:03 trump 2015

  • @xtianosickboy
    @xtianosickboy Před 5 lety

    "Toobs"

  • @Dark0Rising
    @Dark0Rising Před 5 lety

    OF COURSE HIS NAME IS JOHN LAUNCH

  • @CMDR_John_Crichton
    @CMDR_John_Crichton Před 7 lety

    5:24 "And we start with the very definition of uselessness!"

  • @darkwatersband
    @darkwatersband Před 6 lety

    RIP space shit thingy

  • @capncooksuperhotsaucedipnd4568

    1 guy 1 canon... xD

  • @jaysworld4827
    @jaysworld4827 Před 6 lety

    no body left the earth

    • @lewisnorth1188
      @lewisnorth1188 Před 6 lety +1

      People have left the earth and there is plenty of evidence to show that they have.

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 Před 5 lety

      @@lewisnorth1188 But if does that, he'll have to admit that his narrative is wrong!

  • @lankey6969
    @lankey6969 Před 6 lety +1

    Water is more dense than air.
    Thanks NASA.

  • @nobody-ft2js
    @nobody-ft2js Před 3 lety

    why wouldnt they fly out

  • @mastergx1
    @mastergx1 Před 6 lety

    Surely its hydrazine, not hydrogen, that powers the shuttles engines??

    • @telclivo7945
      @telclivo7945 Před 5 lety

      Nope, Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen powers the RS-25. This is why the exhaust is so clear, because there is no soot and the only bi-product is water. Hydrazine engines are hypergolic and an example of what that would look like is the Proton-M rocket which the exhaust is yellow/orange and there is a yellow exhaust from the dumped pre-burner exhaust. The Hover test of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Capsule also uses hypergolic engines.

  • @nzshareman
    @nzshareman Před 5 lety

    LOL

  • @SavageInsight
    @SavageInsight Před 10 lety

    Waste of chocolate, water, and a grill :P

  • @angryfishmonger
    @angryfishmonger Před 11 lety

    When is it ever cold enough to wear a leather jacket in south Florida?

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 Před 5 lety

      Fairly often, actually. Cold air slants down the East Coast from the North Atlantic.

  • @foxdavid25
    @foxdavid25 Před 2 lety

    15/7/21

  • @lord_scrubington
    @lord_scrubington Před 6 lety

    Hammond Trump, and his wall

  • @mohammadrezafarhani5269

    I think launching satelite in orbit for gps or weather forecasting is reasonable but having space station and feeding the crew with this expensive space shuttle is not so reasonable.

    • @lewisnorth1188
      @lewisnorth1188 Před 6 lety

      mohammad reza Farhani The space station is one of the most valuable laboratories we have. The ability to perform tests without gravity interfering is essential to a lot of investigations, it has even led to certain cancer treatments.

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 Před 5 lety

      @@lewisnorth1188 We are finding out all sorts of things that are completely contrary to what appears "reasonable" at the bottom of a gravity well.

  • @AdamKyleAnderson
    @AdamKyleAnderson Před 11 lety

    And if he came across like a professor and explained everything scientifically, the average CZcams user wouldn't understand what he was saying, thus your comment is invalid.

  • @Roestikrokette
    @Roestikrokette Před 5 lety

    "Nasa designed the Shuttle to reduce the cost of space operations" Well, i would say: FAAAAIL and back to the drawing board

    • @scottvernitajohnston9352
      @scottvernitajohnston9352 Před 5 lety +1

      Actually at the time it was cheaper to reuse the shuttle rather then to build a whole new craft then u half to go through new testing to dead the craft space worthy and that it can handle the g's and violent shaking and rattling from the launch while still maintaining it's space worthyness. It was actually very much cheaper compared to building a new craft.

  • @dancam777ify
    @dancam777ify Před 9 lety

    i scream ice cream

  • @svenskiable
    @svenskiable Před 11 lety

    it is a good and informative show...just a little condescending in the presentation as Hammond appears to be talking to 10year old children when he turns to the camera.....

  • @outdoorwhistler537
    @outdoorwhistler537 Před 6 lety

    Every Hammond documentary can be watched easily on 1.5 speed...it actually makes them much more watchable.

  • @nunchuckerz
    @nunchuckerz Před 10 lety

    couldnt they just use the same method for cooling the engines in re-entry

    • @Qardo
      @Qardo Před 10 lety +1

      Well no as it would cause the shuttle to be too heavy. The amount of weight needed to lift the shuttle into space is barely light enough to make it fordable to be effective. Even then the shuttle problem ended as it was still rather costly even in the end of being cost effective compared to the Apollo Program. So now even with huge budget cuts do to idiot government. NASA is trying hard to create a new shuttle that is effective and hoping to return to the moon. Yet those plans all been dashed slightly do to a certain president that is so narrow minded commie.

    • @nunchuckerz
      @nunchuckerz Před 10 lety

      Qardo dam money ruins everything, if they could take up the coolant to the space station with heavy lift rockets and just pump it into the new shuttles just before re-entry, also wondered why the shuttles/capsules cant come through the atmosphere slowly

    • @Dilongparadoxus
      @Dilongparadoxus Před 10 lety

      nunchuckerz Orbital velocity is around 7 km/s. carting around enough fuel to slow down the space shuttle to where it doesn't need thermal protection is ridiculous, so we get around it by making heat shields and blunt designs to redirect and absorb the heat. Also, it's way more expensive to launch a rocket (especially a heavy lift one that could be carrying a paying customer's payload) full of coolant than it is to slap some thermal protection on the bottom of a shuttle.

    • @nunchuckerz
      @nunchuckerz Před 10 lety

      but thermal protection isnt always reliable and has cost lives, they could just load the shuttle with the coolant before re-entry

    • @Dilongparadoxus
      @Dilongparadoxus Před 10 lety +1

      nunchuckerz the issue is that to carry more weight into space you need more fuel. And a bigger rocket is more expensive than a smaller one, as is sending many rockets. This is a physical limitation, defined by the rocket equation, not just something we haven't thought of. The shuttle would also be heavier on reentry, which might make the heat even worse, but I'm not entirely sure if those two things correlate. And the shuttle is the only craft that has lost lives on reentry because of its thermal protection, and that was partly because of nasa policy.

  • @SamParrottNZ
    @SamParrottNZ Před 9 lety +3

    why waste the chocolate

  • @AlbertCamus332
    @AlbertCamus332 Před 6 lety +1

    24:03
    Sound like Trump