Screenshots of the Space Age.
Posted: 2003-04-07 07:30am
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html
This is from a free addon for a free spaceflight simulator.
On the Launchpad, Saturn V rocket ready for launch... bound for the Skylab as mission 2.
After launch, saturn V speeding to the heaveans
First stage seperation. After the lower rocket booster runs out of fuel, it is discarded, it will now drop into the Atlantic somewhere.
A few hours later, and the CSM module of the Saturn rocket reaches the Skylab for a few weeks of testing.
Weeks later, the CSM has made it's de-orbit burn... the Reentry capsule ejects the Service module in preperation for reentry to the earths atmoshpere.
In a few minutes the capsule is now entering the outer fringes of the atmosphere at over 20 times the speed of sound.
Passing over florida now on it's way to the atlantic ocean, the site where the splashdown will occur, off the coast of the launching area.
Having slowed down dramatically, and now minutes away from splashdown, the capsules parachutes open to slow the craft down.
After splashdown, the chutes are jettisoned, and the floats inflate to bring the craft back to the surface, where recovery is to be made by hellicopter and raft. The 3 men aboard will then be taken aboard an aircraft carrier and eventually flown back to the Cape.
This is from a free addon for a free spaceflight simulator.
On the Launchpad, Saturn V rocket ready for launch... bound for the Skylab as mission 2.
After launch, saturn V speeding to the heaveans
First stage seperation. After the lower rocket booster runs out of fuel, it is discarded, it will now drop into the Atlantic somewhere.
A few hours later, and the CSM module of the Saturn rocket reaches the Skylab for a few weeks of testing.
Weeks later, the CSM has made it's de-orbit burn... the Reentry capsule ejects the Service module in preperation for reentry to the earths atmoshpere.
In a few minutes the capsule is now entering the outer fringes of the atmosphere at over 20 times the speed of sound.
Passing over florida now on it's way to the atlantic ocean, the site where the splashdown will occur, off the coast of the launching area.
Having slowed down dramatically, and now minutes away from splashdown, the capsules parachutes open to slow the craft down.
After splashdown, the chutes are jettisoned, and the floats inflate to bring the craft back to the surface, where recovery is to be made by hellicopter and raft. The 3 men aboard will then be taken aboard an aircraft carrier and eventually flown back to the Cape.
