"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
07/25/2015 at 21:26 • Filed to: Spacelopnik
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
07/25/2015 at 21:26 • Filed to: Spacelopnik | 3
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DoYouEvenShift
> f86sabre
07/25/2015 at 23:28 |
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Awesome!!
TheOnelectronic
> f86sabre
07/26/2015 at 00:42 |
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It’s like an airplane bathroom with buttons.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> f86sabre
07/27/2015 at 13:42 |
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Needs more reentry calculations on the window . Unfortunately I can’t find a picture of the window.
Toward the end of the Faith 7 flight there were mission-threatening technical problems . During the 19th orbit, the capsule had a power failure. Carbon dioxide levels began rising, and the cabin temperature jumped to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38° C ). Cooper turned to his understanding of star patterns, took manual control of the tiny capsule and successfully estimated the correct pitch for re-entry into the atmosphere. Some precision was needed in the calculation, since if the capsule came in too steep, g-forces would be too large, and if its trajectory were too shallow, it would shoot out of the atmosphere again, back into space. Cooper drew lines on the capsule window to help him check his orientation before firing the re-entry rockets. “So I used my wrist watch for time,” he later recalled, “my eyeballs out the window for attitude . Then I fired my retrorockets at the right time and landed right by the carrier.” [5] [6] Cooper’s cool-headed performance and piloting skills led to a basic rethinking of design philosophy for later space missions.