To: yonif
I don't know what that's a picture of, but it sure doesn't look like a shuttle wing to me.
That, and I don't even think you can get a clear shot out any of the windows of the *top* of a wing. The angle is all wrong. The crew windows are all way forward.
32 posted on
02/02/2003 9:13:01 PM PST by
Ramius
(When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.)
To: Ramius
It is not the wing. I will find some pics of the wings on the Columbia.
34 posted on
02/02/2003 9:15:22 PM PST by
abner
(www.usflagballoon.com <--shameless plug)
To: Ramius
Two other things about trying to get to the ISS. One, the Columbia was too heavy to dock with the ISS, it's never used for those missions because of that. It was the heaviest of the Orbiters. Second, by day 16 it wouldn't have had anywhere near the fuel to reach the orbit ISS is in.
35 posted on
02/02/2003 9:16:46 PM PST by
Jerry505
To: Ramius
If this is a picture of anything related to the shuttle, I'd say it looks like part of the external fuel tank to me.
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