Thanks for this. It’s been difficult finding these times. The info has to be out there somewhere but I’ve had trouble finding it. The info should be available and known through to the skip reentry at the end of the mission. If anyone can find it please post that.
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The earlier time I provided upthread was from another site that I didn’t track.
I’ve seen that document but I don’t find it helpful. Or maybe I don’t know how to read it. I’m looking for a listing like:
T = 0 ➙ LAUNCH
T + 00:00:09 ➙ Tower Clear, Initiate Roll/Pitch
T + 00:01:11 ➙ Max Q 1,061 MPH, Altitude 42,091’
T + 00:02:09 ➙ SRB separation, solid rocket boosters
T + 00:03:18 ➙ LAS jettison, launch abort system
T + 00:06:10 ➙ SRB Atlantic Splashdown
T + 00:08:03 ➙ Core Stage MECO, Main Engine Cut Off
Something more akin to this. I don’t see anything close to this there. That doc has hours, okay, but I’m looking for down to at least the minute.
“The live video feed showed a bit of motion by the capsule. It was caused by Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander, testing out a flywheel exercise device onboard. Mission control and the crew agreed that the movement is not of concern.”
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I love how the two little glitches so far are things all of us can relate to: toilet issues, and exercise equipment.
That’s a live tracker and down to the second. I don’t get what more one would want short of being in CAPCOM. Each flight day has it’s own row (FD01, FD02, etc). At the top along the row is the Mission Elapsed time which is your T+ times. There is a live tracker in orange that moves along the row to let you know to the second where they are on the mission timeline. reading downward you can see crew activities, then spacecraft attitude (configuration), and then phase of flight.
For example as of this snapshot:
They are at T+1:00:15:02, the crew is starting TLI tasks, The spacecraft is transitioning from Bias - XSI to SF/B/TLI config. TLI injection should happen somewhere around T +1:01, and upon completion they can eat.
IMO this is more useful than a text list, since innumerable things can and will affect the exact times things happen.
I was born well after Apollo; I do remember being aware of the shuttle program from an early age, since William Thornton was from my hometown. (I remember seeing him out jogging a few times.) The company where my dad worked got to send one of their products on a shuttle mission; they had a nice plaque in their lobby featuring a mission patch and some pictures.
Cool. That helped me understand that today’s orbit around Earth was a long ellipse that took them far from our planet (several thousand miles – anyone know how far, exactly?). Now they’re picking up speed as they fall back close to Earth. In 18 minutes, they’ll do the TLI burn just as they whip around the Earth like a slingshot.
ETA: It looks like it was about 25,000 miles – that’s ten percent of the way to the moon!
Interested to see how fast it appears to speed away from Earth over the next hour. It’s going FAST - 25,000 mph, but the Earth and the distances are big so it’s hard to get a sense of the speed.
Yes, you can see their distance from Earth rapidly increasing while their speed increases slightly – orbiting from perigee toward apogee their speed should be rapidly decreasing, but due to the boost of the TLI, it’s not.
It’s going at a little less than escape velocity, which is not necessary. As Orion approaches the moon and keeps getting slowed down by earth’s gravity, it will get sped up as the moon’s gravity becomes more dominant. The reverse will happen on the way back – the moon’s gravity will try to hold it back, but as it proceeds the earth’s gravity will become dominant and pull it in at the same speed at which it departed – not quite 25,000 mph escape velocity, but close, and re-entering the earth’s atmosphere faster than any spacecraft since Apollo.
ETA: Currently 2000 miles from earth, and slowing down, as expected on this ballistic trajectory.
