| Some Polaroid Space Shuttle Pics. |
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Don M |
Saturday, December 11, 2010
9 comments:
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Helly said...
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Awesomely awesome. TY!
Viewers: Go full screen. -
12/11/10, 3:44 PM
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OlsBB said...
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An incredible 45 minutes. I can't imagine such a period as this taking place again in my lifetime. Thanks for this!
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12/11/10, 5:50 PM
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Anonymous said...
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The two narrators sound just like Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum, the recruiters in 'The Right Stuff'.
Tim -
12/11/10, 6:28 PM
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Anonymous said...
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My wife does work at the Cape. It is now a 1 in 8 chance of catastrophic failure each launch. The airframes are 50% past the point at which a replacement was to be on line. This is from people that have been there since the Apollo program. No one at the Cape enjoys launches any more. -Anymouse
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12/11/10, 6:51 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Wow. Way to harsh my mellow.
Tim
WV blaming -
12/11/10, 7:38 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I'll go, if they let me drive.
Casca -
12/11/10, 7:57 PM
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pdwalker said...
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Back in the late 80's, a well known usenet commentator called Henry Spencer had a signature that said
"The dream is alive, but not at Nasa".
The shuttle program, while in many areas amazing, has been a drag on actual useful space exploration. We have less capability today than we did at any time during the Apollo program. Nasa has become a hidebound organization solely dedicated to providing a place to sink tax dollars and in return provide little of any actual use.
I thought I would live to see the first permanent space habitats. I now suspect I will die before man is capable of returning to the moon. (And it'll be the Chinese who do)
A Pox on you Nasa, and all those who made it happen. -
12/12/10, 10:32 AM
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Anonymous said...
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The go-to plan for a replacement is a state of the art (no pun intended) Apollo capsule. The old school NASA boys are not impressed.
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12/12/10, 6:05 PM
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Kristophr said...
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The old school NASA boys got us into this mess.
The Shuttle was a horribly inefficient concept from the start.
The goal is to loft things into orbit. The Shuttle was a return vehicle that weighed far more than was needed to return a crew.
The only returns from orbit it handled were spy satellites. The Air Force is making an unmanned craft to handle that without putting people at risk by trying to re-enter with cargo. Using a modern Apollo capsule to move people into and out of orbit simply makes more sense.
The whole point to the Constellation project was to make a bullet proof vehicle for people, and a much larger and somewhat riskier vehicle for large payloads ( station components, parts of a Mars mission, etc. ).
If NASA or the AF want to experiment with spaceplanes, that's fine ... give them a budget, and they can get back to us when they don't blow up at launch or smear themselves over the sky while re-entering. -
12/12/10, 7:35 PM
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