Discovery's Flight deck in panoramic view (let it load)360VR

thelastshuttle.com | Jook Leung

[Doogle]

Neat look around the Discovery's flight deck, use your mouse after it loads

[Moonman62]

Remember that the seats are designed to hold astronauts wearing full pressure suits.

If they are, then those suits didn't help much during the Columbia and Challenger disasters.

[Doogle]

"operation of orange switches must be performed before red switches in order to enable blue switches maximum allowance...caution is in order before operating black switches after green switches.....awww chit I'm gonna die"

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Which way is up?

[Doogle]

push forward

[tanknetter]

If they are, then those suits didn't help much during the Columbia and Challenger disasters.

The full pressure suits were discontinued after the initial test flights. Instead the astronauts launched in flight suits with lightweight helmets.

They were re-instituted after Challenger, not because they would have saved the Challenger astronauts (they wouldn't have), but because they permitted a higher degree of survivability under a wider range of accident scenarios.

Breakup of vehicle at 200,000 feet and somewhere around Mach 15, as happened with Columbia, wasn't one of those scenarios. However, had Columbia made it further along and NASA determined that the damage would prevent a safe landing (say if the wing structure survived, but the port-side landing gear sensors showed it was destroyed) the astronauts would have been able to successfully bail out above 60,000 feet.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I was making a lame zero-gravity joke.

[Doogle]

so was I..:)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

DOH!

[dhs12345]

Exactly. And what is that thingy next to the thingamabob.

[Cementjungle]

Hmmm... what happens if I flip this little switch???

[mowowie]

I can fly that thing.
I had this game called “Space Shuttle” for my Atari 800 computer back back 1n 1983.
I know what every one of those buttons does.
‘nuff said.

[Doogle]

see #22

[dhs12345]

Lol.

[KosmicKitty]

Whoa, Dude, they have a Dell!!

[pigsmith]

to play with later