# Dude where’s my space station?

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Real Engineering
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIWKhUnqa5s
- **Дата:** 31.01.2026
- **Длительность:** 2:42
- **Просмотры:** 188,338

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIWKhUnqa5s) Segment 1 (00:00 - 02:00)

Imagine being an astronaut launching to a space station only to arrive and realize it wasn't where it was supposed to be. This actually happened to Scott Parisinski. — We didn't have the warmest uh physical welcome to the mere space station when we arrived during STS86. There had been this collision to the outside of the spectrum module. So you could actually see even from you know quite a ways away the solar panels on the outside of the space station had these through holes in them and the uh they were mangled. You could see sort of a divot in one of the radiator panels. This was a pretty beat up space station that we were approaching. On top of that the orientation of the space station really was a jar. And as you know, our commander Jim Weatherbe was approaching and I was supporting him using the camera systems and our computer systems to help uh make angular corrections to uh prepare us for docking. It was 6 1/2° offaxis. It was substantially off really a skew. Space station mirror had done a star alignment procedure. That's how you kind of coordinate or calibrate your systems. They had essentially chosen the wrong star. — To solve this problem, the shuttle crew had to fly their spacecraft in by hand. The androgynous docking system depended entirely on both vehicles being perfectly aligned and flown together with precision using laser rangefinders and an onboard calculator. The delicate course corrections began to be made. — The final approach that we had to the Mir space station was very dynamic. You know, once you're on your approach, you're moving relatively slowly, but you know, in relative space, but you're traveling at 17,500 miles around the planet, and you've got two enormous spacecraft with jet thrusters that you don't want to inadvertently fire and potentially damage a solar panel on the outside of their space station. We were able to identify the misalignment between the two spacecraft. and uh Mike Bloomfield, the pilot on board, input the offsets that I was able to calculate using some grids on our camera systems and we aligned the two docking systems exactly as they needed to be and we came in for a for successful docking. But it was uh you know certainly something that we had never experienced before in the Shelomir program and we were uh our hearts were racing. Let me just put it that way. You can learn more from Dr. Parisinski on our two-part series on how we built the ISS on the Real Engineering YouTube channel.

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*Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/16081*