The Greatest Test Flight - STS-1 (Full Mission 15)

STS-1 - Columbia - April 12-14 1981 - Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR) and Bob Crippen (PLT).

This is the fifteenth video of an intended series which will cover the first Space Shuttle flight from countdown to touchdown.

Part 15 - This video covers crew preperation for the de-orbit burn, specifically putting on their spacesuits. There is a TV pass over the USA which again sees MCC controlling the views.

VIDEO NOTE - My thanks to Mark Gray at Spacecraft Films for permission to use the TV broadcast footage. Without this footage this series would not be complete. Marks website is at spacecraftfilms.com and I highly recommend his products.
The footage used here is included on the STS-1 to 41B DVD box set.

Captions are used to inform the viewer what he/she is watching. Photos have been added where appropriate. Orbiter Space Simulator has been used to dipict flight events.

The video is captured on a 16:9 screen to allow captioning and photos/video to be shown by the side of the main screen.

Audio is in two channels. One covers the PAO and air-to-ground and the other is just the air-to-ground.

The audio, downloaded from the NASA audio collection, had already been edited and it has taken some time to put it back into real time for the TV transmissions. However, I don't claim to have gotten it perfect.

All audio and video courtesy NASA

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