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Thailand Space Program gets off the ground

Posted on 04/03/2015 9:10:05 PM PDT by doorgunner69

Thai Spaceship


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: thailand
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1 posted on 04/03/2015 9:10:05 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

Thailand?


2 posted on 04/03/2015 9:11:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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Beat me to it...


3 posted on 04/03/2015 9:12:42 PM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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To: null and void

I typed as fast as I could.


4 posted on 04/03/2015 9:13:22 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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To: doorgunner69

Got their technical know how from NK.


5 posted on 04/03/2015 9:14:35 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: doorgunner69

That was way kewl!


6 posted on 04/03/2015 9:14:49 PM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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To: doorgunner69

Tons of smoke... and kinda cool... but my old Estes rockets got higher than that.


7 posted on 04/03/2015 9:14:53 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: doorgunner69

But the most it can go to is 5 stars.


8 posted on 04/03/2015 9:17:04 PM PDT by matt1234 (2015-2016 America's enemies sense obama's weakness and str)
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Astronaut Auditions?
9 posted on 04/03/2015 9:18:44 PM PDT by BigEdLB (We're experienceing the rule of a Roman Emperor, Barack I)
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To: doorgunner69

Pretty neat, and I loved the enthusiasm of the announcer, that would be a trip on the fourth with colored smoke and maybe a better ignition system.


10 posted on 04/03/2015 9:20:31 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: doorgunner69

that was pretty cool actually. Its just fireworks dude, not space program, but I’m sure you knew that


11 posted on 04/03/2015 9:20:42 PM PDT by 4rcane
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Hehe... Not bad. Lots of things wrong with it but, hey, they got, what?, one thousandth of the way to orbit probably for about one millionth of the cost NASA puts out.


12 posted on 04/03/2015 9:23:51 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
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To: ClearCase_guy
They just landed a little guy on the Mun!


13 posted on 04/03/2015 9:25:45 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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That is cool. The pollution just adds to the awesomeness. I dearly hope that some small part of that smoke drifted over here and landed on EPA headquarters.


14 posted on 04/03/2015 9:28:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: doorgunner69
Gotta admit, though: structural integrity aside, those bamboo boosters make for one helluva great thrust-to-weight ratio. LOL!


15 posted on 04/03/2015 9:36:04 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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Yeah, but I give them huge points for style.


16 posted on 04/03/2015 9:45:37 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: doorgunner69

Now that is really cool! How in the world did that thing have enough stability to fly straight up? And it even deployed the parachute while the structure was catching fire!


17 posted on 04/03/2015 9:52:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: doorgunner69

pretty cool!


18 posted on 04/03/2015 9:55:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I really have to give them a lot of credit for imagination. That's a design concept I never saw anywhere else, and I say that with a lot of respect.

The parachute recovery was icing on the cake. Very nice.

I'm thinking that design might not be scalable to reach escape velocity, but it's a start.

19 posted on 04/03/2015 10:07:59 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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It was really cool, but I’ll betcha the pilot needs a few minutes to get his legs under him after touchdown ...
Was it an impatient Allen Shepherd who said “Light this bottle rocket!” (Mercury Redstone? I believe he had to pee.)


20 posted on 04/03/2015 10:30:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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