Life as a solid rocket booster
11 Jul 2006 3:30:51 UTC
Topic 191557
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Starts out hot and with a bang and then you get dumped. :-)
Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station. - Grand Moff Tarkin
Life as a solid rocket booster
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Great find Vader, one of the better NASA videos I've seen.
At three minutes in is when things start to get interesting.
Things to look for: the shuttle way off in the distance, the plume of smoke left by the rockets, parachutes opening.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
I keep waiting for the the
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I keep waiting for the the Music from "2001: A Space Odyssey" Wonderful footage. Thank you.
"We must be the change we wish to see."
Mahatma Gandhi
From the top looking
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From the top looking down:
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Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station. - Grand Moff Tarkin
Excellent! I had heard before
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Excellent! I had heard before that when the engines start, water at a rate of thousands of gallons per minute is pumped into the launch platform base as a 'quietening' measure for the engines. This is the first time I've ever seen a launch from an angle which clearly showed the water jets.....
To be more precise, the water
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To be more precise, the water serves as dampening for the shockwaves from the engines. Otherwise, they would reflect on the ground destroying the shuttle...
Nice vids, Vader, I've never seen that angle before!
Somnio ergo sum
dude! thats what the ocean
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dude! thats what the ocean looks like? cool!
shame no one syncd it to mission controll audio, woulda been neat :)
got two questions tho.
1. hows it stand up like that in the water? kinda like a fishing bobber.
2. who goes out and picks that puppy up?
:)
seeing without seeing is something the blind learn to do, and seeing beyond vision can be a gift.
RE: dude! thats what the
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Excruciating detail here
Doesn't really cover your first q, tho.
Dead men don't get the baby washed. HTH
wow, thanks.. could you
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wow, thanks.. could you imagen puttin the engines from those boats in a truck? ok, maybe not possible, but come on, its a tholt right? (contemplates gas milage)
seeing without seeing is something the blind learn to do, and seeing beyond vision can be a gift.
My Lord, how do you find such
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My Lord, how do you find such great videos? Well done.
To space and back in 9 minutes, what a trip that would be!
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
Glad you liked them. The
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Glad you liked them. The source page is http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts-121_front/index.html, but that's the only two rocket videos I found.
Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station. - Grand Moff Tarkin