43+ Space Shuttle Cockpit Layout Background. Final dimensions (width x height): Received this video file from a friend who is a private pilot and instructor.

Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Flight Deck/Cockpit from gessato.com

Evaluation of the space shuttle cockpit avionics upgrade (cau) displays. And beyond that the shuttle was a death trap, there was no possibility to abort for 2 minutes after launch, some truely scary abort scenarios after that (rtls requires doing a backflip with the orbiter in the high earth. The space shuttle was the most complex space vehicle design of its time.

Want to sit in the cockpit of the space shuttle and watch astronauts work in outer space?

Things to consider when laying out a cockpit: The control stick looks like an advance video game controls. I really think this layout makes sense. In the original design of the space shuttle, the displays contained simple monochrome graphics with dense arrays of numbers.