It's almost 50 years since Apollo 13 lifted off onto what would become the definition of the 'successful failure', a mission where lives were very much at stake and the teams at mission control had to solve problems they'd not expected to bring the crew home safely. I wanted to re-create the 'adapter' that the crew had to make which would allow the Lithium Hydroxide canisters from the command module to work with the Lunar module's environmental control system. Using only the things they had on hand the crew had to 'fit a square peg in a round hole' so that they atmosphere would have remained breathable for the return Some good references for this procedure are on NASA's history site. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a13/a13_LIOH_Adapter.html https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap13fj/15day4-mailbox.html I 3D printed my canister prop using a design from Havazik, he was able to put this together in a couple of hours, I'd have taken days. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4245738 The 3D printer I use is a Prusa MK3 and it was a gift from Prusa Research, It was able to handle the filament running out and resumed after a power cut during the main print. http://prusa3d.com/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPBKBOuyYPI

Trying to see how far an unmanned rocket can travel, the pilot is only there to release the vehicle from the launch pad, everything else happens according to the laws of physics, no steering can happen after we unleash the rocket. Check out Kerbal Space Program at http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com - and thanks to the developers for encouraging these videos. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWsgm9D-sk

No Kerbal Space Program, No gaming, just a video of Space Shuttle Endeavour flying over San Francisco Bay on its carrier plane, the video distortion is because I asked youtube to stabilize my wobbly iPhone video. Yes it's a tiny part of a shaky video, feel free to not watch it :) Subtitles were compiled by mycasperu2 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV0tkiTIJ9o

Astronaut Scott Altman ('Scooter') commanded STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope, no doubt his experience flying fighter jets helped make this landing. Before he was an astronaut he was a naval aviator, flying F-14's and he specifically flew many aerial stunts for the movie Top Gun. This is a montage of multiple cameras, the shuttle view through the HUD and internal communications between the crew on the flight deck during this critical phase of flight. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzFE8nKDHHQ