Saturday, December 11, 2010

Space Shuttle Pics

Some Polaroid Space Shuttle Pics.



Don M

9 comments:

Helly said...

Awesomely awesome. TY!

Viewers: Go full screen.

OlsBB said...

An incredible 45 minutes. I can't imagine such a period as this taking place again in my lifetime. Thanks for this!

Anonymous said...

The two narrators sound just like Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum, the recruiters in 'The Right Stuff'.
Tim

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Wow. Way to harsh my mellow.
Tim

WV blaming

Anonymous said...

I'll go, if they let me drive.

Casca

pdwalker said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Kristophr said...

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.

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