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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Space Shuttle Rising
NASA ^
| May 25, 2011
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Posted on 05/25/2011 3:58:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/25/2011 3:58:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:01:48 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012)
To: SunkenCiv
Oddly enough I actually always thought the Saturn Rockets were the hot rods. I’ve read that a shuttle launch is a pretty gentle ride in comparison.
Cool pic anyway.
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:02:02 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
as a kid two friends and i cut school and drove from tampa to see a moon launch
great
but no comparison to a shuttle launch.
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:17:07 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO))
To: cripplecreek
as a kid two friends and i cut school and drove from tampa to see a moon launch
great
but no comparison to a shuttle launch.
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:18:40 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO))
To: SunkenCiv
NASA ran the videos from all of the recovered SRBs today...one of them only deployed 2 chutes and streamered the third one all the way down.
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:19:57 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Your what hurts??)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:33:49 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.)
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
nice one, ping to the list, plus a one-time ping to a couple people. :')
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:36:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s a missile!!!!
....Or is it a contrail.
(also can’t rule out swamp gas)
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:54:59 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: SunkenCiv
Amazing and beautiful picture, BTW.
Certainly a ‘keeper’, as most of them are.
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:56:55 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Joe Boucher
as a kid two friends and i cut school and drove from tampa to see a moon launch great but no comparison to a shuttle launch. You shouldn't have cut English class ...
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posted on
05/25/2011 4:59:50 PM PDT
by
SeeSac
To: SunkenCiv
I followed the link to the NASA site and got a gander at the full-sized photo. Phew! That’s amazing! Thanks, Civ.
To: SunkenCiv
My first thought on seeing that image was "I wonder who Bill Clinton's with tonight?"
"Lord please forgive me and may God bless the Pygmies in New Guinea"
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posted on
05/25/2011 5:10:23 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: COBOL2Java
Why? Because it leans to the left?
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posted on
05/25/2011 5:15:46 PM PDT
by
Gumption
To: SeeSac
Not trying to be perfect or an ass there SeeSac
To: cripplecreek
I believe you’re right; but the Mercury flights were the hardest, if memory serves, around 5 g’s, while the Shuttle flight is under 3 g’s. Apollo’s kick in the pants got bigger with each succeeding stage. The Saturn V’s job was to lift every bit of mass needed for the entire lunar mission (there and back, including a landing and launch on the lunar surface) off the ground and get it high enough where the subsequent stages could finish the direct ascent. That was a hell of a piece of machinery.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:37:53 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Bean Counter
Those are fun to watch. :’)
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:38:09 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: KoRn
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:41:35 PM PDT
by
JOPO
To: SunkenCiv
I was lucky to have gotten to know Jim McDivitt a little when I was a kid because he had business dealings with my grandfather.. I was awestruck.
He was an early rocket jock who commanded both the Gemini 4 first space walk mission and the Apollo 9 flight in which the Lunar Module was tested for the first time in earth orbit.
He pushed me down in a chair in his office to show me what a launch was like.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:46:10 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: bigheadfred
The STS was never used for anything much worth a damn, and we lost lives using it, but it’s a hell of an impressive piece of machinery.
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posted on
05/25/2011 6:47:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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