Shuttle Reentry at 3:43 AM
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Fingers crossed as I go to sleep.
I hate NASA, they're wasting my money as a tax payer. If they fly up to the space station, dock, un-dock and leave..wasting my money.
True True. Bring back the glory days of Apollo, and send us to Mars.
Although NASA's budget for 2005: 16.04 billion dollars
Small potatoes compared to the war in Iraq.
Although NASA's budget for 2005: 16.04 billion dollars
Small potatoes compared to the war in Iraq.
Not to send this to the political forum, but in terms of wasted money, NASA is a small drop in a huge bucket. I guess it would be cool to go back to the days when there were no cell phones, no GPS, and nobody trying to find a possible way off this rock since we're destroying it a lot faster than you think.chicodude01 said:Sure, they have given us such wonderful things as tang, velcro, and satilites, But it seems that they waste tons of money.
Guns dont kill people, NASA kills people.
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Apparently fighting is more important.
Isn't the important thing here that they actually get back safely?
HA, if we sunk as much money into NASA as we do inventing new ways of blowing each other up, we'd have landed men on Pluto by now.Echo said:
I wish the best of luck to the astronauts.
I am extremely disappointed that they are not going to repair the Hubble telescope. That telescope has taught us so much about space and has helped us see so much as to the structure of the universe, and spending a few million dollars to repair it is not considered a worthy investment. Such a shame.
I am extremely disappointed that they are not going to repair the Hubble telescope. That telescope has taught us so much about space and has helped us see so much as to the structure of the universe, and spending a few million dollars to repair it is not considered a worthy investment. Such a shame.
Listen, <expletive deleted>, I designed fuel measurement systems on that bird. These are real people we're talking about. Shuttle failures are not a video game or a comedy show. Reserve your wise cracks to situations where people don't have their lives on the line. :mumble:chicodude01 said:Sure, they have given us such wonderful things as tang, velcro, and satilites, But it seems that they waste tons of money.
Guns dont kill people, NASA kills people.
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Did you actually delete the expletive or were you just lazy and type <expletive deleted> ?johnbryanpeters said:
I have a customer who machines the impellers for the engines. They handle something like 70,000 Hp at 30,000 rpm. Takes 30 days to machine the things. Freakin' impressive.
The latter. I was ready to wring someone's neck. When the first shuttle exploded, I think everyone who ever worked on it was thinking "Was that caused by something I did?"Westy said:
How did all the NASA techs handle that? Was it really a time that everyone kind of wondered what the future of NASA would be, or was it certain that you'd be back up and running soon?johnbryanpeters said:
The turbo pumps for the main engines are impressive, they can empty an olympic sized swimming pool in like seconds...........Westy said:
The turbo impeller I got to look at was surprizingly small. About the diameter of a large dinner plate. Machined from solid titanium. The impeller blades were encased on both sides unlike turbos most people are used to seeing.Andyman_1970 said:
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I can't answer that.robdamanii said:
I didn't work for NASA, I worked for a subcontractor to Macdonald Douglas. At the time of the Challenger explosion, I had moved on to another field of work.
Ok Tomorrow at 5:07 AM EDT they're gonna try again, and it's gonna land tomorrow somewhere no matter what.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050809/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle
More cloudy weather was expected at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday with a chance of rain, but it remained NASA's first choice for an early morning touchdown. Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert was the next choice, followed by the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the absolute last resort.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050809/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle
More cloudy weather was expected at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday with a chance of rain, but it remained NASA's first choice for an early morning touchdown. Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert was the next choice, followed by the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the absolute last resort.
damn you must be O L D....johnbryanpeters said:
i was a junior in high school down in florida on my lunch break and actually saw it go boom. i think you could've heard a pin drop on the campus for a few seconds.
and you're right it isnt a game, that tools comments were in exceptionally poor taste. at least wait until they are feet dry you jacka$$
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Click on nasa TV. About the smoothest video feed I have ever seen - you can actually see scan line son their monitors at mission control.
edit: 11:40pm edt - they are spinning up the shuttle's gyros and getting ready to go.
Click on nasa TV. About the smoothest video feed I have ever seen - you can actually see scan line son their monitors at mission control.
edit: 11:40pm edt - they are spinning up the shuttle's gyros and getting ready to go.
shuttle is home.
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60 as of 21 August.ridetoofast said:damn you must be O L D....
Sweet!!! MY birthday is the 22nd of August. :dancing:johnbryanpeters said:
You little fokers think you would have yur text messaging without NASA? Ya think we would have any Sats up there at all if the technology had to have been worked out by the private sector in the 50's and 60's? Read more for gods sakes.....
The sonic BOOM almost shook me out of bed this morning. Once I heard it, I turned on the TV and watched it land...Transcend said:
I had considered driving the two hours to Edward's Airforce Base, but they weren't too sure where it was going to land. Once I heard the sonic boom, I was kind of bummed that I didn't head out there to watch it land...