How To Fly Orion
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- NASA’s Orion spacecraft is built to fly autonomously - and on the Artemis I mission, flew 25.5 days uncrewed around the Moon. On Orion’s next flight to the Moon, Artemis II, astronauts will be aboard, and the crew will pilot the spacecraft for the first time.
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover will take control of Orion during a key test called the proximity operations demonstration. Wiseman and Glover will use Orion’s different displays and controls to evaluate the handling qualities of the spacecraft.
This is how to fly Orion.
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Writer: Erika Peters
Editor: Phil Sexton
Producers: Rad Sinyak, Erika Peters
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Thanks, I got one yesterday but didn't know how to use it
Which year model did you get?How much money did it cost?I want to become an Orion owner too😊
Any others for sale!?!?!?!?
I wish I could get one, but I spent my budget on a Dragon 2 and I need space to restore my old Apollo CSM. Maybe next year…
@AtaQadrir u joking bz he's joking
All built by Honeywell in Clearwater, Florida!! Couldn’t be more proud to be a part of the team that delivered these products to you. Proud Space Nerd 🧑🏼🚀
That’s so cool, I go to school in Bradenton and didn’t know there was an aerospace factory so close to me. 😮
Is that the building you see from US-19?
Tampa Bay represent!
But isn’t MoneyWell now owned by Generals Electric?
LM is the prime contractor for Orion, but Honeywell delivers critical pieces as a subcontractor!
Love the physical controls. Feels better than that pure touch screen thing.
Amazing video! Please make more like this!
For what?
I'm gealous! You are literally the real life Interstellar pilots! Goodspeed!
Jealous, and no they are not. They have yet to be to space and most likely won't.
@@penguin44ca Ried Wiseman has flown to the ISS on Soyuz and performed two EVA's while Victor Glover has also flown to the ISS on Crew Dragon and performed 4 EVA's
@@odinharou7112 sorry let me rephrase. They haven't flown on orion yet
Not terribly jealous as the heat shield suffered way more erosion on last return and NASA basically said "Yeah it'll be fine" and we hope it will hold on this flight also
I was wondering how I was going to move my Orion from my backyard. Thanks a lot
Hope the next one has a better heatshield 😅 awesome video
😂
it won't
The 3rd one will 😊
So excited to see this! Worked on the boot partition of *some piece of the software nearly 15 years ago, so getting to see it turn on, yet even fly with a crew is very exciting!
Is there anywhere more technical detailed information in public? About the power buses, computers, software, operating system, .......? I would really really love to find a reliable source for such information
This was awesome!!! I'd love to see more explainers from the astronauts on how they do their jobs.
thats awesome, please make videos like this more
Thank you so much for this video! Always wanted to see how it works
So cool! Thank you for the video! Would love to see more like this when there is time.
This is very exciting! Go Artemis!
Bro will experience Apollo 8 experience soon but in much much modern version and trickier. Good luck
Try english
Thanks for making this!!! Go Artemis!!!
I need that Orion model SO BADLY
this will be useful when i fly my orion thats been in my garage
More videos like these please!
should have put Kerbal VAB music over this
it would be really cool if a (I am guessing simplified to be ITAR compliant) version of this was made into a simulator
Best of luck - stay safe 💯💯
Hi astronut Víctor is a blessing for you and All
Thanks, i didnt read the manual, a friend suggest me this video first.
Fabulous video!
I can't wait to watch the launch. It is going to be awesome! ;)
Good luck and godspeed!!!🔵🔵🔵🍁🌍
What a great time to be interested in aerospace
This is genuinely so incredibly cool
When is this happening?
Im so exciting for the Artemis mission 😍🚀
How to fly Orion, well, it is better to not fly her hehe. 😅 but, even that, you guys are doing a very good job ❤
I wonder how many partial panel approaches they have practiced
The background music was so loud and distracting
Wasn't a problem for me
Which buttons controls TARS?
Whats TARS?
I subconsciously inserted a 'to' in that phrase and was very curious about how we're going to get to the constellation Orion 😅
This is fantastic
Exciting 😍
Complimenti! Bell'approfondimento.
Excellent!
2:27 how long until that artificial horizon gets modded into Kerbal Space Program 1?
1:34 I mean come on ya'll
When will artemis 2 go.
Sidebar: The SAAB Gripen is a jet for the Swedish Air Force, developed in 1987. That was aerodynamically "unstable", and could not be flown manually.
I think the Eurofighter is unstable as well?
@@raxneff Possibly. As computer technology has grown and tested the limits of design. Having someone actually able to fly something "manual" is becoming less and less frequent. The Space Shuttle (or Space Transportation System) even when you flew it "manually" was still under partial computer control.
Never forget you THC in space
Can I get a student discount on my Orion spacecraft?
Depends on your attitude
watching this before multivariable calc exam
Yes. THC, that’s exactly what you need.
Rather them, than me... 😮👋💥🙏
Can someone make this into a vr game?
❤❤❤
And these two are gonna land on the Moon
going to, and no they will not land on the moon. Did you watch the video? It literally says this Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover will take control of Orion during a key test called the proximity operations demonstration. Wiseman and Glover will use Orion’s different displays and controls to evaluate the handling qualities of the spacecraft.
Is that a fkin KSP Artemis mod?? Did nasa used KSP footage????
That's what I was thinking!
Man they got warbird iva lmao
From now on, I will be referring to my mouse as a Cursor Control Device.
How long until this is in DCS?
Just don’t crash & burn!
just like Kerbal space program.
Both the Orion and Dragon MK2 main consoles look sleek and simple. Unlike the Starliner which looks outdated.
LOL
😊😊😊
Why not heat csencsors retinal camera for control of switches, like the Orion glasses first, then the FCT ? Or naaaahhh, Simpsons already did it?
its alTitude
Ha THC
Would be surprised if this mission is approved.
Right? Making TH-cam videos instead of fixing the damn heat shield
@jackturner8472 those are different teams...
It already has been
@jackturner8472 Yeah I think these astronauts shouldn't be lazy making YT vids, but help fixing the heat shield. 😆
@@raxneff dont twist what I said buddy, NASA barely has enough funding and this video was for no one, meanwhile decades of their work is about to be shut down because of the same incompetence that led to this video.
time traveler
🙏🌹🙏Good day 🌹🙏
Should be on DCS.
Is Orion still relevant when you have commercial alternatives now?
yeah ofcourse
There is no commercial alternative for lunar missions.
Dragon and starliner were purposebuilt for low earth orbit and are not suitable for deep space missions
Currently yes, in the
Future no. Commercial moon vehicles are still a few years away. Closest is starship
there arent any deep space commercial alternatives.
Damn man.... I didn't know what to do because the user's manual was missing from the package.....
Thanks NASA
Reject Modernity Return to slide rule
Talking about the speed of sound as a frame of reference for a spacecraft is simply wrong
it's just another way to measure speed, for example their lunar reentry velocity will reach as high as mach 31 (yes the actual mach number) the speed of sound is relatively constant so you can still use it as a measurement in a vacuum
@@ixxxxxxxspeed of sound is variable.
@@Schwillis902they obviously mean speed of sound at sea level ATP through air. It's not meant to be a precise measurement, it's used as an order of magnitude reference, which in this case is perfectly fine.
@@ixxxxxxx no, the speed of sound is not constant
@@ayzax it's relatively constant, read the reply just above ours, if you haven't. there is nothing wrong with using mach as a measurement here, NASA frequently used mach to describe the shuttle's velocity as well, even when outside the atmosphere. shuttle reaches a mach as high as 21. it's a perfectly valid usage case you should get used to seeing more often if you're interested in spaceflight
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im getting flashbacks from the titan submersible because of that controller
Hahahahahahaha hahahahaha yeah ok🥱
This video is way too detailed to be available to the public.
???
The last 60 years the Russians and Chinese weren't able to fly to the moon, because they didn't know how to call this hand-held thing. Now they know its a "Rotational Hand Controller". Now they have an advantage. Sh.t!
Will they end up cancelling it? Boeing Space Division not looking great currently
Boeing isn't building Orion.
@okankyoto Not Orion but the SLS it goes on top of
@@wildchameleon7 SLS has the largest lunar injection capacity in the world right now, it cannot be canned yet
@@ixxxxxxx Exactly! I sure hope that Congress doesn't can SLS in favor for Starship. That would mean big setbacks and even more delays.
@@wildchameleon7 it will be cancelled. No manned flight, a heatshield that needs to be tested again. Sls 3 needs mlp2 to fly manned and it isn't even built yet.
They didn't show how to fly the Orion!!! They didn't even show how to turn it on! 🙄
you want the full 6 hour cold and dark startup??
@jaydencox190 Of course! That's why I clicked on the video!
@@jaydencox190 if possible longer. for sure!
You can't fly in space.. Nasa you need to do better.
Instructions unclear. Burned up in the atmosphere.
How to fly Orion: Step 1 - be born in 2035
"be born in" so some additional 20 years later 😂
@ I’m an optimist.
i get why you guys keep what works works but why not make it more automated and more 2025 looking like spacex. Like come on we are 50 years further and still your stuff looks the same like back then.....
SpaceX made it like that because it's a lot cheaper, but physical switches are much more reliable than touchscreens and give better tactile feedback in stressful situations. Would you rather play a shooter with an ipad, or with a controller/keyboard+mouse?
Because it’s worse.
what they have in orion actually looks nothing like the old cockpits, the "glass cockpit" may not look as cool as spacex but in space flight do you really think we give af if it looks cool or not. We care about the practical and tactile file of the cockpit.
Its way different than 50 years ago- it matches modern glass cockpits. And there is automation as well in the system- it just isn't the whole way the crew interacts with it. Dragon doesn't even have manual control options.
My brother in christ you have not seen apollo control panel, have you?
This is good tech, the only reason spacex looks "nicer" is because they often care more about form than function
Here, everything is functional
You don't because it won't get off the ground
it already has six times
@peregrinedevelopments3730 um orion has never been flown manned. It has had exactly one flight almost 2 years ago. The heat shield was in poor condition. Now I can guarantee that sls under trump will be cancelled.
@@penguin44ca need some help moving those goalposts?
@@peregrinedevelopments3730? You mentioned that it flew six times. Name them since sls has flown only one time.
@@penguin44ca I miscounted by one, it has actually flown five times. Three times suborbitally for the Ares I-X flight test (although technically only an aerodynamic and structural pathfinder, so four if you discount it), Pad Abort-1, and Ascent Abort-2, and twice orbitally, once on a Delta IV Heavy for Exploration Flight Test-1 and once on SLS for Artemis 1
this is gonna get cancelled. why do we still try?
It can't land on the moon. Apollo, with the Lem, did 6 landings.1969-1972 There Is No Excuse Why Apollo and the Lunar Lander could not have been updated.
Apollo has been out of production since the 1970s. Orion is basically an updated version of the Apollo CM. But it uses modern manufacturing methods and computer technology. It's better than the Apollo CM in nearly every way.
Also the way we are going to the moon will be better in the long term. Apollo was a single use vehicle at every stage. Artemis is reusing hardware wherever viable. With a refuelable lander docked to gateway, to reusing Orion capsules in the future, it'll be cheaper and more sustainable than Apollo. Allowing for us to continue to go to the moon or further for the foreseeable future.
@@AstroHopefulBenjaminGottschnearly every except lift capacity life support weight power generation crew capacity and as of now it’s the most expensive astronaut killer ever designed. It’s a joke. The CSM MOGS Orion
@jackturner8472 when did SLS or orion kill astronauts? also can the CSM carry 4 crew for 2 weeks?
@ yes it could have. It could have carried 5 for 3. The Orion would have slaughtered its astronauts, they would have melted had it been crewed on its first flight around the moon. The heat shield almost shattered and destroyed the entire capsule. Why the hell do you think they are 4 years behind schedule?
@ then it that case the csm is also an astronaut killer since it literally killed 3 astronauts on a ground test
you mean this is how you fly a sack of crap and money down the drain?
yet SpaceX has simple touch screen displays. NASA your stuck in the 60's give it up
touchscreens are useless when you're reentering from such high speeds with such high g-loads. plus, switches are more reliable and better practically and emotionally for the operators than touchscreens.
Touch screens are just worse than proper switches.
Its easier to use and monitor them directly then it is to have a bunch of touch screens with menus.
The downside is that they are very expensive which is why companies like SpaceX are leaving them out. This does sacrifice safety tho.
@pitonce6562 tbh, i feel like spacex puts a lot of trust into the autonomy of dragon rather than the pilot, especially given that they fly "private astronats" so often
@@HamzahKhan314 yea its a large difference in design philosophy.
But then again one is a LEO vehicle that can easily abort and the other is a trans lunar vehicle.
How to fly Orion?
Step 1: Switch to Crew Dragon
Step 2: You're amazing!
Dragon cannot fly to the moon, it's a low orbit vehicle.
REMOVE THE DEI and replace him with someone who has actually earned it
Dude's probably done more in his life than you'll ever amount to
@ and also stop partnership with JAXA 🤣 no more space flights for JAXA mr administrator