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Far Cough 5:49 Tue Sep 30
Saturn V, anyone seen it?
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Seen pictures and it looks fucking massive, how did that cunt ever get off the ground?
I think you can see it in FL? would love to make a trip up to Cocoa Beach and take it all in.
No NASA icon, so I chose F1 because the engines were called F-1
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Whitstable_hammer
9:39 Wed Oct 1
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How times change......
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." ....Alan Shepherd
Now, with the latest CCP contracts, NASA decided to fund two companies, including Boeing whose proposal is double Space-X, to provide the same thing.....good to see my tax dollars being put to good use, but at least better than being wasted to pay for the benefit system if I lived in the UK!
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Far Cough
9:01 Wed Oct 1
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I know NASA fucked up with Apollo 1 and the two Space Shuttle disasters but bringing Apollo 13 home after that explosion was NASA's finest hour, absolutely top notch team work and skill
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sanfrancis-co-uk
7:25 Wed Oct 1
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I can't believe they named a President after a space centre.
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Northern Sold
11:55 Wed Oct 1
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"Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
John F Kennedy - September 1962 - Rice University
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boleyn8420
11:53 Wed Oct 1
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Next thing you'll be telling me is that they actually landed a man on the moon in 1969
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neilalex
10:54 Wed Oct 1
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Fantastic looking things, good on you.
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Whitstable_hammer
5:14 Wed Oct 1
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They are, so I'm having mine built in the US whilst I'm over here, then will take it back with me.
I actually have two...one is being rebuilt by Airstream and the second is being cannibalized for parts - even Airstream don't have all the parts available anymore.
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sanfrancis-co-uk
5:04 Wed Oct 1
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Airstreams' must be few and far in England?
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sanfrancis-co-uk
5:03 Wed Oct 1
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Yep.We have lift off!
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Whitstable_hammer
4:59 Wed Oct 1
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How about these?
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd260/warmanm/SNC10544.jpg
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd260/warmanm/SNC10546.jpg
They are weblinks to an on-line image host so should launch.
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sanfrancis-co-uk
4:34 Wed Oct 1
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That last link doesn't launch Whitstable.
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Whitstable_hammer
3:15 Wed Oct 1
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I have an annual pass (the call it a Commodore Club) and go 3 or 4 times a year.
The only shuttle that is still onsite is Atlantis and that got moved to a new visitor center.
A mock up of the new Orion is inside the VAB at the moment (and agree with Bungo....pay the extra and do the VAB and Launch Center tours), but the Saturn V is something special.
Took this in the VAB just before Enterprise was moved to California
[IMG]http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd260/warmanm/SNC10544.jpg[/IMG]
Been lucky and have seen 4 shuttle launches but missed the Saturn V go up......
As you would guess I am a bit of a Space nut and I have just bought a Airstream bus that is being rebuilt as a Astrovan.
[IMG]http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd260/warmanm/SNC10546.jpg[/IMG]
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riosleftsock
10:18 Tue Sep 30
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Read an obituary last week about the russian technician who worked on their sputnik missions.
Gagarin's trip was almost a last minute decision, they rated his survival/success chance at 50% or less.
That's brave.
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jools268
10:16 Tue Sep 30
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If you haven't read it, read Neil Armstrongs biography First Man, goes into detail about his career as a Test pilot (what a fucking job that was) and obviously his space career.
He held the speed record for almost a year in the X-15, as near as dammit 4000mph. All in a plane that had to glide back down to earth from 60 miles up. Brave fuckers that lot.
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Northern Sold
10:10 Tue Sep 30
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The Rocket garden at Kennedy SC is great as well... seeing some of the crafts that got the Mercury Astronauts up... brave brave men
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Attwood
10:09 Tue Sep 30
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kennedy space centre is a great day out
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The Dursley Massive
10:09 Tue Sep 30
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If that wasn't impressive enough, the manoeuvres they had to do with the capsule etc in space were just ridiculous. Just incredible considering the technology they were working with (which now looks ancient).
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jools268
10:03 Tue Sep 30
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it must have been amazing to a launch.
They are looking to use an updated version on the new Launch vehicle they are working on to take the mars mission.
The new ones will produce 1,800,000 lbf.
If I am still about when that takes off I will be booking a ticket to Florida.
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Far Cough
9:48 Tue Sep 30
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jools and there were 5 of them
Fucking impressive
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jools268
9:47 Tue Sep 30
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The Saturn V's f1 Engines are still the most powerful liquid fueled motors ever made.
Quite incredible 1,522,000 lbf of thrust each.
In comparison the most powerful Jet engine is the GE90 which is used on 777 er's and that is 120,000lbf. (I'm a bit of a plane nerd, and actually stood inside a GE90 cowling at Farnbrough a few years ago and still had a few foot above me).
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