NASA Aeronautics and Space Report: Shuttle Rollout

1. 0:35NASA's reusable shuttle orbiter.
2. 0:37Part of a new, less expensive, space transportation system.
3. 0:42A spaceship that will put our country in the earth orbit freight business.
4. 0:46This is Orbiter 101 as it rolled out of the hangar in Palmdale, California.
5. 0:51It has been named the Enterprise.
6. 1:22It has taken four years to go from the orbiter design stage to the nearly completed spacecraft.
7. 1:28These were some of the steps along the way.
8. 1:37The next stop is NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center near Lancaster, California.
9. 1:43It is here that the Enterprise will be mounted piggyback atop a 747 for approach and landing tests.
10. 1:50Everything is nearly ready for the upcoming tests, according to Director of Space Shuttle Operations, Isaac T.
11. 1:55Gillam.
12. 1:56Yes, the facilities are nearing completion.
13. 1:58The 747 is currently being modified at the Boeing plant in Seattle, Washington.
14. 2:04We expect them to begin flight testing of this aircraft, with these modifications, in December,
15. 2:11and to transport it here to Dryden in January of 1977.
16. 2:16These are the astronauts who will be involved in the first test flights of the space shuttle.
17. 2:21Joe Engle, Dick Truly, Fred Haise, and Gordon Fullerton.
18. 2:27We asked Gordon Fullerton to describe one of the typical shuttle missions into space that will begin in 1979.
19. 2:34The shuttle system that is launched vertically.
20. 2:37About halfway up, the solids burn out and drop off, and the orbiter continues on into orbit using the thrust
21. 2:44from the main liquid engines.
22. 2:46The payload bay doors are opened once the shuttle is on orbit, and the payload inside is deployed or operated
23. 2:57depending on the type of mission that's to be flown.
24. 3:01Once the mission is complete, then, the doors are closed the smaller rocket engines
25. 3:09that you see in the upper left and right corners of the aft part of the orbiter, are
26. 3:14fired to slow the orbiter enough to cause it to re-enter the atmosphere.
27. 3:22It makes a nose forward, nose high reentry, slowing at speed until finally it is flying conventionally as an aircraft.
28. 3:33However, un-powered, and makes a gliding approach and landing to the runway.
29. 3:42The reusable space shuttle, a new transportation system, with economy its major asset.
30. 3:48A transportation system capable of delivering 65,000 pounds of payload into orbit.
31. 3:55Drugs, metal alloys, electronic crystals, and glass lenses all can be produced in weightless space.
32. 4:01Far superior to anything made on Earth.
33. 4:04Satellites will be manufactured more inexpensively, because they can either be repaired in space or returned to earth.
34. 4:13These are but a few of the jobs the space shuttle can
35. 4:16do as it works for us in space, and flies back to land like an airplane, up to 100 times.

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