There HAS to be a video somewhere out there of the first attempt of STS-51F, when the engines shutdown at T-3.I've seen the ATO video and that's all; youtube has all the other pad-aborts, but no one seems to have video of this one.... any ideas?
Don't know if you have seen this:Remember I had seen this as I was browsing video of the 41D abort. Been reading Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane is hilarious.
Bumping this.. since maybe SOMEbody out there has the video of the STS-51F Challenger T-3 RSLS pad abort... >>>>>>>>>>>>> ??
Quote from: STS-85 on 04/01/2011 01:39 amBumping this.. since maybe SOMEbody out there has the video of the STS-51F Challenger T-3 RSLS pad abort... >>>>>>>>>>>>> ?? There are a bunch of videos on You Tube on this event:http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=STS-51+abort&aq=f
Quote from: STS-85 on 11/29/2010 12:03 amThere HAS to be a video somewhere out there of the first attempt of STS-51F, when the engines shutdown at T-3.I've seen the ATO video and that's all; youtube has all the other pad-aborts, but no one seems to have video of this one.... any ideas?I have one or two minutes on VHS, but it is PAL-system. And I can't covert it to post it here. Sorry.
Quote from: jaysvw on 12/11/2010 05:50 amDon't know if you have seen this:Remember I had seen this as I was browsing video of the 41D abort. Been reading Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane is hilarious. That's STS-51 (Discovery) pad abort on Aug. 12 1993. The one requested is STS-51F (Challenger) pad abort on Jul. 12 1985.
Wow... I remember *THIS* one clearly!I was Lead FDO on STS-51, and was in the MPSR for this launch, as I was deploying the ACTS-TOS on the post-Ascent Orbit 2 shift. I was already wired for the deploy, but when the pad abort happened, I didn't know what to do with all that nervous energy!I think I was on an adrenaline high for a couple of hours... but, for some strange reason, when we got the *actual* launch one month later, I was as cool as a cucumber.
Heh, that was a long launch campaign for STS-51. How wired were you for the attempt three weeks earlier that cutoff inside T-31?
Watching it on youtube you can see how much the shuttle is oscillating when the swing arm moves into position.
It looks like you can kind of tell something is up with the engines at startup because you can hear a loud 'pop'.
Quote from: rjholling on 06/04/2011 01:45 amWatching it on youtube you can see how much the shuttle is oscillating when the swing arm moves into position. Isn't that the arm bouncing around?
Quote from: rdale on 06/04/2011 03:09 amQuote from: rjholling on 06/04/2011 01:45 amWatching it on youtube you can see how much the shuttle is oscillating when the swing arm moves into position. Isn't that the arm bouncing around?No.. Shuttle stack. If you watch the close up videos at main engine start, the whole stack rocks a bit.