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I know there is a good chance that I'm alone here; but I heard today where the shuttles are going after decommissioning and I'm a little disappointed.
None are going to Huntsville!? ... This is a town that loves the space program so much it named practically every elementary school after a shuttle. It is the birth place of the space program and it's where large portions of the space station were built.

What really peevs me is that one is going to NewYork and one to LA. What did those towns ever have to do with the space program. Futhermore do they really need the influx of cash that a space shuttle would bring. Huntsville would greatly benefit from having a shuttle on display.
I could go on but I won't.

Maybe I should write a strongly worded letter to NASA.
I could sign it president of the DLC.. That might get some attention.
And the damn auto correct I bet NASA had somthing to do with that too!
 
Huntsville has a shuttle, along with 2 Saturn V's, an sr71 blackbird, a prototype lunar rover, a couple of mercury era rockets, various others. Come up to the space and rocket center sometime its a great place for learning with a bit of fun.

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Seriously do go, and try the shrimp - they were surprisingly good - I didn't order them my nephew did and I had to try one and they were very good!
 
Does it have a shuttle thats been in service?
I know about the saturn V's and the black bird..
Been there numerous times.
But I don't recall the shuttle.
 
I think the SR71 or the A12 still hold some impressive flight records for speed and maybe some other things.....incredible design and performance, especially when you consider the time in which the plane was operational in regard to recon flights.
 
Absolutely... From what I understand it's real top speed is still classified.
 
Its real top speed is still unknown. All the Airforce did when the Russians broke an airspeed record was pull out the Black Bird and push the throttle a little further. That was from a Professor I had that worked on the Black Bird.
 
ClankBang said:
Also thats not an sr-71
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"If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outrun the missile"...

SOB shoulda been nicknamed the Honey Badger, cause it don't give a f.
 
Land Speeder said:
"If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outrun the missile"...
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This is also the reason it never carried any rockets or missiles.... It was too fast for them...
Once it was up to speed it would take too long to slow down before it could fire..
Also another interesting tide bit... If it was at speed flying west over Vegas it and wanted to. Turn around it would be over the pacific before it could complete the 180 and head east.
 
Oh and another... Arguably The biggest accomplishment of the program was that they had to invent the tooling to make them. No one had ever done so much with Ti before that. Truly ground breaking.

I could literally go on for hours about the blackbird.
 
At the skunk works in burbank thier were framed paper placemats with original drawings and figures from where Kelly and his team were brain storming in diners. Engineering with nothing more than a calculator and a placemat.
 
Oh yeah... And roumer has it that most of Ti was bought covertly from the Russians.
 
This is what happens when the CIA/NSA wants somthing done.
The freaking shuttle going to NY is what happens when NASA does somthing.
 
Land Speeder said:
"If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outrun the missile"...

SOB shoulda been nicknamed the Honey Badger, cause it don't give a f.
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:lol: well played.

Is it true that the thing leaked like a sieve until it got up to temperature and the metal expanded? I heard that somewhere. Seemed far fetched.
 
Yes that is true the skin was built in two sections and the whole plane was one big fuel tank.
The seam where the top met the bottom had about a 1 inch gap until it warmed up.
It would take off with just enough fuel to get up to temp then it would refuel for the mission.
 
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