ENDEAVOUR - and the spaced-out NASA efforts

[nonhocapito]

NASA TV youtube channel just published a series of videos of the shuttle being carried by the service plane flying over Washington DC. In some of the videos, great care is given in showing people taking pictures of it, because apparently everyone has been warned before (on a tuesday) to skip work and park themselves on the flight path, so they could document this so important event:


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M7pePzV_cE


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZIkkfWpvzA

I guess this is because the economy is doing so well we don't have anything better to do.

The landing at Dulles airport includes the whole dull conversation between tower control and the plane. Why? Who knows.


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKrNA1l1MI

Here are a couple of funny screenshots:


0:56, From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pE2y5dt ... tube_gdata


4:26, From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKrNA1l ... tube_gdata

[hollycrap]

ROFL, this may be one of the fakest photos I've recently seen

[simonshack]

ROFL, this may be one of the fakest photos I've recently seen

Nice!
But I wonder how this flyover of the Capitol cupola (as depicted above) could possibly have been videotaped like THIS:

[fbenario]

4:26, From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKrNA1l ... tube_gdata

How do those thin struts attaching the shuttle to the plane withstand the forces of wind during flight?

[hollycrap]

WTF?

[simonshack]

How do those thin struts attaching the shuttle to the plane withstand the forces of wind during flight?

Dear Fbenario,

The Shuttle is attached by a very strong bolt. Didn't you know?





viewtopic.php?f=23&t=935&hilit=the+wonderbolt&start=60

This one bolt is so strong that it even secures the Space Shuttle as it rockets up through the atmosphere at 11.000 miles an hour. We should all ask NASA to reveal the secret of this bolt - so that we can reduce the costs of plumbers fixing our bathrooms.

[nonhocapito]

4:26, From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKrNA1l ... tube_gdata

How do those thin struts attaching the shuttle to the plane withstand the forces of wind during flight?

This screenshot and the other one I posted were not really specific of the shuttle absurdity, rather more about the words, or, in the above case, the letters appearing in the video. Just something funny, I guess.



"Best kept secret" etc.

[lux]

I don't see how the 747's vertical stabilizer & rudder can function with the mass of the shuttle completely blocking the airflow to it.

[Heiwa]

This one bolt is so strong that it even secures the Space Shuttle as it rockets up through the atmosphere at 11.000 miles an hour.
We should all ask NASA to reveal the secret of this bolt - so that we can reduce the costs of plumbers fixing our bathrooms.

The weight of the fully loaded Space Shuttle was 110 000 kgs and if the bolt was of special steel with yield stress say 5 000 kgs/cm², the critical area of the bolt in tension is 22 cm². As the bolt is subject to shear and we need a safety margin, let's say we need 100 cm² area of the bolt or diameter 11.3 cm. However, if the Space Shuttle was just an empty (Hollywood style) mock-up of thin aluminium that looks like the real thing and weighs much less - 5 000 kgs - and is blown to pieces up in the sky, the bolt diameter may be much smaller ... say 3 cm!

[fbenario]

How do those thin struts attaching the shuttle to the plane withstand the forces of wind during flight?

Dear Fbenario,

The Shuttle is attached by a very strong bolt. Didn't you know?

Yes, I know. I was being facetious.

[hollycrap]

Wonderbolt revisited

[hollycrap]

six graders from Macon, GA, photographed the arrival of the shuttle to Washington



Excuse me the guys to the right ... the shuttle is on the other side

[hollycrap]

.. and at the beginning of the same film from 2011... this photograph



Didn't we see something quite the same a few days ago?

[fbenario]

Hollycrap, that's a real cute picture of the shuttle, riding its mother's back. Kinda reminds me of something!



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[simonshack]

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