Ten mins to go. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
I'm watching in Windows media player.
Cool. Wanted to watch one launch for years.....
Great stuff.
Now entering orbit around the 7000m.p.h. mark!
half a tonne of fuel a second, that's what i call fuel consumption!!!!!
4 miles per second!?
Do you reckon they sell tickets?
Fantastic! The astronauts must be incredibly fit - after about 10 minutes or so they "throttled down" to an acceleration of only 3g!
Pete
Do you reckon swmbo would let me build one?!
Maybe that could be Ron's next book - Build Your Own Space Shuttle For As Little As $2.5billion
Pete
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Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
Maybe that could be Ron's next book - Build Your Own Space Shuttle For As Little As $2.5billion
Pete
Imagine how big the safety bit would be at the front of that! Main problem would be I'd need a much bigger garage....
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Originally posted by Russ-Turner
quote:
Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
Maybe that could be Ron's next book - Build Your Own Space Shuttle For As Little As $2.5billion
Pete
Best add another zero onto that one mate.
But would you need a blue peter badge, or would one come with the book?
Tricky emissions test me thinks. Wonder if you can borrow a cat from MK
Oh yes and is that flaky foam tile permanant enough for the SVA man?
SVA man would be more worried about the fuel tanks not being radiused correcty for the safety of the birds
imagine him using that hateful sphere in a space shuttle!
two years later:
"hmm, this door panel does not seem to 'ave been filed... i guess its a fail then... no visiting your space buddies at the ISS for you old
chap!"
A couple of years ago I saw the two booster rockets re enter the atmosphere (it had been mentioned in the paper they'd be visible) - was about to
give up watching for them, saw a bright light moving across sky, and two very very very short shooting stars
As for making your own - we should have had a team effort a couple of years ago to beat Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One for the X Prize
Watched the news and saw it - comment to wife:- "Look at all that pollution!"
ATB
Simon
[Edited on 4/7/06 by Simon]
The main motors use Hydrogen and Oxygen as fuel, so the 'smoke' you see from them is only steam - no pollution there!
(The Solid Rocket Boosters use something else though...)
edited fro splellnig!
[Edited on 5/7/06 by timbob]
Bert Rutan's ship leave's "interesting" pollution - solid rubber burning in nitrous oxide...
...mmm - I bet that smells nice!
David