Enterprise euston go ahead fellow we
have a couple of updates to your
pre-flight cue cards the altitude hey
fellas okay we're ready the copy
separation is that to 3.0 next one 18.0
rolled out on final at 8.3 and then one
point Niner i suggest you go ahead and
start your engines and begin your
tactics
it's called Enterprise first of the
space shuttle orbiters the beginning of
a new space transportation system a
craft that can carry up to 65,000 pounds
into space and land back on earth like
an airplane five times two astronauts
were carried piggyback atop this 747
chat and released five times they
brought the youth spaceship in for
powerless landings hey the gear is
coming down at 270 you're coming stores
open there there are down some of that
look down here puppy beach party big 30
sorry
summing up the years work for all four
of the astronaut crewman astronaut
gordon fullerton we're at the end of the
person hiring test phase of this program
but it it's really not an end at the
beginning with the smash-up really
accomplished so good in the orbiter into
space and and that affects I I'm looking
forward to more of the sirna seven times
as we continue on toward our first
orbital flight enterprise will not be
the first shuttle into space but this
one will be shown here being assembled
by Rockwell International it is simply
designated orbiter 102 102 is undergoing
construction right now in Palmdale and
it's scheduled to be shipped in the
middle of next year over the DFR see
where we will perform a hot fire test on
it we will made it through 747 and slide
to florida in preparation for launch
into orbit in march of 1979 after about
24 hours in orbit on 102 it also will
land here d FRC on the lake bed in the
manner similar to the test flight that
we just completed on the approach and
landing deck also completed this year
the 154 foot long 27 and one half foot
wide external fuel tank for the shuttle
designed and assembled by Martin
Marietta at NASA's Michoud assembly
facility near New Orleans the external
tank will fuel shuttles three main
engines on the way to orbit
another major milestone for the new
space transportation system was the
successful test firing of one of the two
fire calls solid rocket motors that will
also help boost the Shuttle Orbiter into
space this animation shows how they work
during launch the two solid rocket
boosters strapped to each side carry
their own propellants and burn for about
two minutes before separating their
onboard parachutes will then bring them
back to earth for recovery and reuse the
large external fuel tank continues
feeding the shuttle engines for an
additional six minutes separating just
before the shuttle reaches orbit this is
the only part of the shuttle system that
will not be used again when NASA
announced it was recruiting between 30
and 40 new astronauts more than 8,000
hopeful candidates responded including
over 1,500 women the Johnson Space
Center in Houston is in the final
screening process to select from this
group both mission specialists and
pilots for future space shuttle flights
to get a feel for handling large
structures in space engineers at the
Marshall Space Flight Center have been
practicing underwater the closest you
can come for long periods of time to
simulating the weightlessness of space
it's anticipated that the shuttle will
make the building of large space
structures possible as well as the
Assembly of heavier satellites and
instruments to better observe Earth and
provide improved communications even
solar satellites could be constructed to
beam the sun's energy to earth if it
becomes an economic and reasonable
alternative to some of our ground-based
energy resources
many of the early shuttle flights are
already booked with confirmed payloads
according to NASA's director of pricing
launch agreements and customer
engineering services Mike Smith this
payload section of the shuttle under
construction gives some idea of the
space available I were sold out on
flight to nineteen eighties have firm
tight assignment through 1981 physical
of these flights of a launch of a
long-duration exposure facility for NASA
on flight 7 and its retrieval from
flight 17 we have a full Man Faced lash
line on size 11 and Jupiter orbiter
probe crying on site 26 to have numerous
communication satellites being launched
for terrified senator contact satellite
businesses and corporations and India in
the early 8081 time period manufacturer
the first flight unit has begun on
Spacelab shown here in makkah space lab
is unique because it represents a
cooperative venture by NASA and the
European Space Agency to be built in
self-contained modules the space lab
will be placed inside the shuttle
payload section there from one to four
payload specialists will attend to a
variety of experiments while working in
a shirtsleeve environment space lab is
expected to make significant
contributions to science medicine
industrial processing and other fields
in space science two unmanned voyager
spacecraft like this are now on their
way toward the planets jupiter and
saturn their journey could last over a
decade with investigations of more than
a dozen major planetary bodies including
uranus the program is designed to yield
valuable new information about the
origins of the solar system and
formation of the earth one of the ways
that will do this is with pictures dr.
Bradford a Smith is associate professor
of planetary sciences at the University
of Arizona and team leader of the
imaging experiment on Voyager we begin
our observations of both Jupiter and
Saturn approximately a hundred days
before we arrive at the planet control
during that period of time we're
constantly looking at the planet each
planet both Jupiter and Saturn rotates
in approximately ten hours so every ten
hours as we're approaching these planets
over a hundred day period we will see
the whole surface of the planet rotating
benitez as we get closer and closer the
resolution its power we see smaller and
smaller features and as we get very
close we we finally get so close that we
can't see we don't have enough pictures
to cover the entire surface of the
planet but we will select out particular
features of great interest observed
during that so-called Observatory phase
and these features will be targeted for
post examination as we fly by the
voyagers will eventually leave the solar
system each carrying a cosmic greeting
card in the form of a copper record
called the sounds of earth' they were
assembled by a group of prominent
scientists and educators the record
begins with 115 photographs and diagrams
in analog form that described
mathematics chemistry geology and
biology of earth and our location the
pictures are followed by spoken
greetings in 60 languages Shalom hola
saludos a todos se llama llama Darren
scallion hello children of planet Earth
the sounds of weather
birds and other animals and almost 90
minutes of music from around the world
finally here in part is the text of a
printed message from the President of
the United States on the chance that
someone is out there this is a present
from a small distant world a token of
our sounds our science our images our
music our thoughts and our feelings we
are attempting to survive our time so we
may live into yours we hope someday
having solved the problems we face to
join a community of galactic
civilizations this record represents our
hope and our determination and our
goodwill in a vast and awesome universe
how stars produce the energy that makes
them burn so bright and then how they
transmit this energy through millions of
miles of space losing very little
intensity along the way is of great
interest to scientists to study the
stars eyo one high-energy Astronomy
Observatory was launched in august
already heels instruments have found a
gigantic star whose x-ray radiation
increases violently over a period of
time then returns to normal po1 will be
joined in its task of mapping the sky
for x-ray sources by two other
observatories in the future NASA
continued applying the technology and
science learned in space to improve
systems for managing the earth and
managing our business here on the ground
this includes further use of our remote
sensing capabilities which enable us to
look at the whole earth or large regions
of the earth in ways not previously
possible Landsat satellites one and two
for instance are helping us understand
the condition of agricultural crops
forests and groundwater observations
that make it possible to predict and
manage more efficiently most of NASA's
launches this year were paid for by
other users and other
these included launches for the European
Space Agency Japan Indonesia and Italy
not all the launches were successful
however both the Delta and an atlas
rocket failed shortly after liftoff the
first unsuccessful launch in three years
for the Delta and since 1975 for the
Atlas more and more NASA is working with
other government agencies such as the
Department of Energy NASA's
understanding of rotating machinery
solar cells and heat transfer is being
applied to the development of windmills
and better turbines the Lewis Research
Center in Cleveland for example is
gathering information on as many
electric vehicles as possible and is
also working to improve nickel zinc
batteries NASA is also applying solar
energy technology to new developments
that may bring it into effective use as
part of the National Energy Program
efforts to apply technology to make
aviation safer more economical cleaner
and quieter continued this year at
several NASA field centers energy
efficiency to curb airplane fuel
consumption has high priority areas of
study include engine research improved
shapes computerized flight control
systems and lighter stronger aircraft
structures
these crash tests at the Langley
Research Center are an attempt to find
out what happens when a general aviation
airplane does just that the highly
instrumented plane and dummies should
help aircraft manufacturers build even
safer airplanes in the future piece
Pincess look at a different safety
problem the problem of spins and stalls
and general aviation airplanes in part
of the project researchers are trying to
determine the effects of tail design on
spin characteristics a new research
aircraft which combines features of both
helicopters and conventional airplanes
the XV 15 tiltrotor completed its first
phase of flight testing these short and
vertical takeoff and landing aircraft
may one day improve intra-city
transportation
1977 an important year for both
Aeronautics and Space Research with much
of the technology finding down to earth
uses