Rarely Seen Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities
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Excellent series of pictures!
geniales todos los post.
Very cool.
But one question does the Shuttle actually lift off from the back of
the crawler?
Or does it launch from a separate pad that the crawler simply transports it to?
Awesome photos.
I notice 438457650_81934df1c5.jpg and 438457714_76716def77.jpg both appear to have been censored. Each has a black rectangle, marked "Cargo package for ISS" and "New module for ISS" respectively. The black is solid and the rectangles are not in perspective with the rest of the photos, so apparently were added after the photo.
I wonder what NASA needs to keep hidden, and why?
these are just label left-overs from original slide presentation :)
fantastic work
fantastic post
If one nation made it this far-imagine the possibilities of the world nations united?
Excellent exposition. I've always wandered how the craft was attached to the boosters and the pictures reveal all and show it to be rudimentary mechanics-hoist and attach. That must be one awesome crane to be able to heave that amount of dead weight all the way up there. The counter-weight must be huge. Engineering at its best.
Impressive series of pictures, thank you for this "insight" not so commonly seen around ;)
The shuttle lifts off from the MLP (Mobile Launch Platform), which is the rectangular part the crawler is carrying. The crawler moves the platform into place, puts it down on fixed support legs and then moves to a parking position. The tower is a fixed installation for the Shuttle launches, but in the Apollo days, it was carried to the launch pad as well.
My dad works on the external fuel tank, and he's gone down river on the barge before. In a weird side note, on the barge, it's one big party and there's an entire walk-in freezer devoted to ice cream and a chef onboard on duty 24/7 to cook whatever your heart desires. LOL
I hadn't realised the tank was so big
This is outstanding. I'venever imagined such gigantic efforts made to make it happen.
Hats off to theses people!!
These are some of the greatest space-related pictures I've ever seen in my life. Thank you for posting.
Ben, yes, the tank is huge. That's the price for using liquid hydrogen as rocket fuel.
Pound for pound, hydrogen is the most energetic fuel around. But it's bulky. One kilogram of water occupies one liter of volume. Liquid oxygen is a little heavier; each kilogram takes 0.89 liters. But H2O and LOX are like lead compared to liquid hydrogen; one kg needs 14.1 liters of tank space!
As big as the hydrogen tank is, the oxygen still weighs six times more.
Thank you for this insight.
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Disgusting waste of money. Saturn V was cheaper per pound to put stuff in LEO by a factor of 10. The space shuttle is pathetic, while the Soyuz keeps going up and down all the time, day in and out, the Shittle I mean shuttle, is basically rebuilt from top to bottom every launch, reusable my ass. What a piece of crap. Embarrassing. Too bad we cant resurrect Wernher von Braun to fix this pathetic mess.
impressive
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