THE VIDEO SHELF · space shuttle landing
How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space
Bret Copeland, in an astronaut costume, gives an energetic talk on how the Space Shuttle landed from orbit, including reentry and the unpowered glide. It includes real-time landing footage with HUD and audio.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an entertaining, technical illustration of how hard the Shuttle's one-shot dead-stick landing was.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Bret
- Topic
- space shuttle landing
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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On a related note, I highly, highly recommend this entertaining and technical presentation by Bret Copeland, How to Land the Space Shuttle... From Space: [VIDEO]
mholt on Hacker News · 2017-03
In The Space-Glider (2000)Here's a cool video of landing the shuttle in real time. The whole landing proceeds unnervingly fast! The actual landing HUD and audio starts at 13:40 [VIDEO]
grecy on Hacker News · 2023-02
In A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
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