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i mean, it's very emotional. -columbia's three main engines draining a half a ton of fuel per second, heading towards space on the first shuttle mission of the year. -you know how on tv it looks like you're going up really smoothly? no, not at all. it's kind of a wild ride. and there's a lot of vibration. and on my first flight, it was so much, i thought to myself, "there's something wrong here. cannot possibly feel like this." ♪ -solid rocket booster separation confirmed. guidance now converging. columbia's onboard computers commanding the main engine nozzles to gently swivel, aiming the shuttle for a precise target in space for main engine cutoff. -i was, like, more nervous. you know, you see the plumes of smoke and the fire, and you kind of know what's going on, but you're just kind of like in the back of your head, "is i supposed to do that? is that correct? okay, like, there they go. wow, that's so high."
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this is the first time that we have performed a landing siting on a crew mission. coming up -- coming up next will be second engine cutoff or seco. it will coast for a couple minutes until dragon is commanded to separate. >> stage two is in terminal guidance. >> we're expecting seco to occur in about 20 seconds. >> copy shannon. >> commander peggy whitson continuing to call out the abort motes. >> seco. >> all right. on time.
leading that flight team. but as jason was talking about earlier, the landing on land is the big deal. >> so as we go to that split screen, when it goes back, the left is coming towards earth, the one on the right is going up into space. here it is the landing, it is amazing to he that they can take this rocket and land it so smoothly. look at that. [cheers and applause] that is absolutely phenomenal. [applause] >> landing confirmed. >> you can see the first stage has landed back at lz-1. this is the first time that we have performed a land landing on a crew mission. [applause] coming up next will be second engine cutoff -- >> all right. so that was, honestly, that looked amazing. it almost didn't even look real. yeah, it was so perfect. and it's astounding to see it, you can hear big claps
and you can see the contrail. we're coming up, three big sequence, and a view, live of the crew inside dragon. they're getting ready. we're going to get three events here. main engine cutoff and then we're going to light the second stage engine. in preparation for stage separation. >> stage separation confirmed. copy two alpha. [ cheers and applause ] >> stage one start-up. >> all right. stage separation, we've lit the second stage engine. working its way back towards cape canaveral.
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events in quick success. first up is main engine cutoff. at that point, the nine engines will shut off in preparation for the next event which is ses1 or second engine start 1 or, excuse me, the space separation from the -- >> [inaudible] >> the first stage will perform a flip to make its way back to our landing zone, and then we'll start with ses1 which is second engine start 1 where that single merlin engine will ignite and continue to carry our satellite into orbit. for today's landing the first stage will, after it performs its flip, will perform a boost-back burn. and after that begins, we'll have -- [inaudible] neil: while watching, this is an unmanned space launch. a lot of people saying are there astronauts in there? there are not. but there is a german military
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