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Largest Rocket Ever Launched From Vandenberg AFB Makes Lift-Off
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| August 28, 2013 11:05 AM
Posted on 08/28/2013 12:49:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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08/28/2013 12:49:43 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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08/28/2013 12:53:48 PM PDT
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Fido969
To: BenLurkin
“It’s the largest rocket ever to be launched from Vandenberg,” Hennigan said. “They launched the same rocket in January of 2011, and it was so big, it caused such a stir, people were pulling off the road to see this and some people reported hearing it about 50 miles away.” How can it be the largest when they launched the same rocket in 2011. That would make it the second time the largest rocket was launched from Vandeberg.
I wish they had launched the shuttle from there. They spent all the money to set it up and mothballed it all after Challenger.
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08/28/2013 12:54:37 PM PDT
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Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: Fido969
credit Anthony Galván III
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08/28/2013 12:56:20 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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08/28/2013 12:57:06 PM PDT
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Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Lx
IIRC there was a shuittle launching facility built at VAFB. The reason I heard it was never used, never made sense. Something about the wiring being backwards. I never believed that.
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08/28/2013 12:57:47 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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IIRC there was a shuittle launching facility built at VAFB. The reason I heard it was never used, never made sense. Something about the wiring being backwards. I never believed that.
Some people claim that Saturn V’s were launched from there with massive spy satelites, back when you had to send the film back to earth...
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08/28/2013 1:00:26 PM PDT
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GraceG
To: BenLurkin
That’s the biggest drone around, no doubt.
To: Doogle
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08/28/2013 1:01:16 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
I’d like to hear about these with enough time to spare to step out side and see it rise into the skies.
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posted on
08/28/2013 1:02:38 PM PDT
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null and void
(Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
To: BenLurkin
..the telescope on this one can see down to 19 inches across
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08/28/2013 1:04:12 PM PDT
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Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: BenLurkin
Once it reaches orbit in about two daysDo they proof these things before printing them? If it wasn't in orbit already it would be a pile of rubble in the middle of the Mojave by now.
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08/28/2013 1:04:22 PM PDT
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eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
To: BenLurkin
Inadequate ventilation in the fire pit. the concern was that in the event of a fuel tank failure rather than being diluted by wind and surrounding air the fuel would accumulate in the pit and make what would effectively be a HUGE fuel-air bomb.
(Never mind that hydrogen is lighter than air and wouldn’t settle to the low point)
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08/28/2013 1:06:45 PM PDT
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null and void
(Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
To: eclecticEel
Once it reaches
final orbit in about two days
Better?
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08/28/2013 1:07:41 PM PDT
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null and void
(Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
To: Doogle; BenLurkin
Bump for a great looking launch.
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08/28/2013 1:08:23 PM PDT
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jazusamo
("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
To: eclecticEel
I caught that as well. It must be a very slow rocket. It usually takes from 8-10 minutes.
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08/28/2013 1:10:20 PM PDT
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AceMineral
(Some people are slaves of their own stupidity.)
To: BenLurkin
I can believe that it was heard 50 miles away. In early 1977 I was going through ORT at VAFB and one early Sunday morning the whole apartment shook and everything rattled, felt like an earthquake and was loud. I jumped up and to the window in time to see a Titan missile booster lifting off from a site about 5 miles away. Much louder and more impressive than a test launch of a MMIII from a quarter mile away.
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08/28/2013 1:11:58 PM PDT
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RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: BenLurkin
It is my understanding that for heavy loads (Apollo, Shuttles etc..) you launch from west to east and as close to the equator as possible to utilize the earth’s rotation effect. In Florida that takes it over water, from California that takes it over populated areas. Can you imaging a failure at T+ 2 minutes and parts reigning down in southern California.
To: BenLurkin
An Ariane 5 is launching tomorrow.
Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA
Payload: Eutelsat 25B & GSAT 7
Launch date: Thursday, August 29, 2013
Launch window: 2030 GMT (1:30 p.m. PDT/4:30 p.m. EDT)
Site: ELA-3, Guiana Space Center, Kourou French Guiana
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/va215/status.html
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08/28/2013 1:22:49 PM PDT
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Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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