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To: RadioAstronomer
However, the Vette is filled with bits of this and that from the space program (ALL ACQUIRED LEGALLY) such as a meteorite, three axis Inertial Nav unit, carbon-carbon skin, MLI, shuttle tile material, sensors, PMTs, thermal OSRs, CCD focal plane assembly, honeycomb skin, solar panels, flight computer, spacecraft panels, mono-propellant fuel line, RF cable, solar sail material, Astro-Quartz, x-band dish antenna, microwave omni antennas, flat ceramic microwave antennas, an RF subsystem assembly, blue nomex flight suit, Carbon/Kevlar clean-room suit, Neutron detectors, Vela Satellite sensor assembly, Indium foil, Kapton, Mylar, Titanium struts, Cray 3 computer boards, ceramic parts, core memory arrays, waveguide, 76GHz microwave assembly with feed, ring laser 3 axis gyro assembly, beta cloth, gamma and xray detectors, etc.

I call foul - unless you have the new SUV Vette.

92 posted on 05/31/2006 4:06:02 PM PDT by Flyer (Xenalyte is having a Hoop Skirt Hullabaloo all week!)
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To: Flyer

Don't believe me. I have a new 2005 C6 Coupe. And indeed the back is stuffed with space junk. (most of that stuff is either flat, like the solar blankets, etc. or small, like the antennas and gyros).

You would be amazed how much stuff fits in a Vette.


104 posted on 05/31/2006 4:40:28 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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