The FIRST Shuttle Flight

[michaelmaltby]

Outstanding ....


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJaTn5XTTcw

 

[GrauGeist]

Awesome!

 

[Park]

Hard to believe how long ago that was, I remember it and I was a teen at the time, now I'm 50 !

 

[Gnomey]

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Hard to believe it happened so long ago...


Wheels

 

[michaelmaltby]

First and the last ....

 

[ivanotter]

I remember the first launch. !! The company I worked for had done a piece of software for the count-down. As you people may remember, 20 minutes prior to launch there was a software glitch (oopss!). somebody had got the + and the - mixed up, so there was somewhere division by "0" which is not good (damn!).

As we all watched the launch, and the count-down got halted, the entire space division was seen to get on the knees, praying the programmer's prayer (Please, let it not be in my sub-routines).

Well, it wasn;t in the software we had developed, but it was a bit too close.

Yes, brings back memories!

Ivan

 

[PJay]

I remember the 1st Shuttle landing. I hadn't realized that the u/c was lowered so late before touchdown,(for good reasons no doubt) so for a few seconds I'm thinking "Haven't they forgotten something?".