- Title: TELE-722
- Summary: SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA: FIRST FLIGHT OF "COLUMBIA" SPACE ORBITER. (4/10/81). FINALLY LAUNCHED ON 4/12/81. AUDIO FROM SHUTTLE LAUNCH CONTROL AND SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS HEARD.
- Description:00:00:05 - SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA AT LAUNCH PAD JUST PRIOR TO LAUNCH APRIL 10, 1981 00:02:48 - CONTROL ROOM WITH TECHNICIANS AT THEIR POSTS, COMPUTERS. VO: "THIS IS SHUTTLE CONTROL AT "T" MINUS 20 MINUTES AND HOLDING". "IT APPEARS THAT THE CLOCK IS GOING TO BE RE-SET AT THIS POINT SO THAT THE EARLIEST TAKE-OFF WILL BE AT 10:30 AM EST, A LITTLE LESS THAN 2 HOURS FROM NOW". TELLS OF COMPUTER PROBLEMS AS CAUSE FOR DELAY. 00:05:34 - VIEW OF SHUTTLE LAUNCH CONTROL ROOM. TECHNICIANS COMMUNICATING WITH SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS 00:06:00 - SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER "COLUMBIA" (STS-1) SITS ON LAUNCH PAD READY TO TAKE OFF. VOICE OVER OF CENTRAL CONTROL PERSON SPEAKING TO ASTRONAUT ON SHUTTLE CHECKING OUT EQUIPMENT 00:08:00 - SIDE VIEW ORBITER COLUMBIA ATTACHED TO HUGE ROCKET ON LAUNCH PAD. VOICE OVER BACK AND FORTH BY ASTRONAUTS AND CONTROL ROOM. SPEAK OF WHEN TO START COUNT-DOWN CLOCK. 00:11:29 - SHUTTLE LAUNCH CONTROL TO SHUTTLE, "THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK HAS NOW BEEN RE-CYCLED TO 18 MINUS ONE HOUR IN THE COUNTDOWN. WE ARE PLANNING ON PICKING UP THE COUNT AT 10 MINUTES TO THE HOUR AT 10 MINUTES TO NINE O'CLOCK EST. THIS WOULD BRING US OUT TO LAUNCH TARGET AT 10:20 AM EST". "WE WILL CONTINUE TO TROUBLESHOOT THE PROBLEM IN THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE BACK UP COMPUTER AND THE OTHER COMPUTER". (CONTINUED VIEW OF ORBITER ON LAUNCH PAD. 00:17:20 - MORE VOICE OVER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN GROUND CONTROL AND SHUTTLE CONCERNING TIME CHANGES. EXPLAINS REASONS, INCLUDING COMPUTER PROBLEM FIX. 00:20:19 - VOICE OVER SHUTTLE CONTROL ON COUNT DOWN. SAYS LAUNCH TIME WILL BE 10:20 THIS MORNING. 00:21:08 - ORBITER ON LAUNCH PAD AS SEEN FROM DISTANCE. 00:29:59 - CONTINUED LONG DISTANCE VIEW SHUTTLE ON LAUNCH PAD. 00:31:30 - ABOVE PAN MAIN CONTROL ROOM. 00:32:31 - ORBITER ON LAUNCH PAD. 00:37:05 - NASA BUILDING WITH LOGO. PARKING LOT IN FRONT WITH CROWD MILLING ABOUT. 00:39:04 - ABOVE VIEW MAIN CONTROL ROOM. TALKS OF ALL GOING WELL, WITH A LIFT OFF AT 10:20 AM. 00:46:31 - PAN ATLANTIC OCEAN TO LAUNCH PAD IN DISTANCE. 00:47:00 - SHUTTLE ON LAUNCH PAD. VOICE OVER CONTROL," MINUS 30 MINUTES TEN SECONDS AND COUNTING". VARIOUS SHOTS CONTROL ROOM 00:49:16 - CU SHUTTLE ON PAD ZOOM AWAY. 00:50:20 - AOA LANDING SITE WITH VARIOUS VEHICLES. PATROL CAR SPEEDING TOWARDS 00:50:41 - ABOVE VIEW SHUTTLE LAUNCH CONTROL ROOM. VO TELLS COUNTDOWN TIME LEFT. SPEAKS OF ASTRONAUT BOB TRIPPEN AND JOHN YOUNG. "STILL GOING WELL" 00:54:17 - ABOVE VIEW SHUTTLE LANDING FACILITY. 00:54:41 - SHUTTLE "COLUMBIA" ON LAUNCH PAD, ZOOM AWAY AS POV TELESCOPIC LENS. 00:55:45 - SPEED BOAT TOWARDS CAMERA, TILT UP WATERWAYS AND ISLANDS IN AREA. 00:56:53 - AERIAL VIEW SIGHT-SEERER CARS, TRAILER HOMES, PICK-UP TRUCKS, PARKED ALONG ROAD 00:57:49 - AERIAL VIEW THREE HELICOPTERS ON RUNWAY. 00:58:06 - LAUNCH PAD
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1981
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: TELE-722