LostCosmonaut Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Seriously, look at this shit. Doing a backflip at Mach 5 with the external tank still attached, NBD. Rumor has it that the scenario was possible in the sim with an intact shuttle, but in just about any case where you're doing an RTLS the shuttle most likely isn't intact (if it was you could just a transatlantic abort or something). There's also rumors that STS-1 was planned to be a test of the RTLS scenario, before John Young helpfully pointed out that was a retarded idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 I'm vaguely worried that NASA needed to be told that practicing Russian Roulette is a bad idea but thankful they were told it in as many words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 It's like a reverse cobra!I wonder what control authority would be like at that great a negative alpha, or for that matter what the max negative G loading would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted January 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 At the altitude the pitcharound would have taken place at, air density would have been virtually nil (the maneuver was to have been done propulsively). So control authority would have been virtually nil, until you got down much lower (at which point you'd be back to positive alpha). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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