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    How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    I just went out and saw the 747 today. I have a picture to prove it, but until I get home and free it from the confines of my camera you will just have to take my word for it.
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    09/23/09


    @engineerd: Oh, and I saw the shuttle ferry plane (no, it's not gay) fly over the other day when they came back here. That is an amazing sight. I didn't have my camera, but here's a picture a buddy took the last time.
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    Image of vdiddy210 vdiddy210
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    i want to be an astronaut, still. lol

    anyways, did anyone else have the lego set with the blue plane and the white shuttle that attached to each other circa 1995?

    i still do, amazingg....
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    09/23/09

    @vdiddy210: Yes. I had every single Space Shuttle set that they came out with. I think that they made at least three of them.
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    Image of BerniceArgos BerniceArgos
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    The shuttle is actually "flying" under aerodynamic load the entire time it is strapped up there. It's not like you're trying to launch it upward. All you have to do is gently dip down from beneath it, and the Shuttle keeps flying along like it has been the entire trip.

    It's not really that violent a maneuver.
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    09/23/09

    @BerniceArgos: Good comment. In the future, please use the reply button.
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    Image of Alexander Card Alexander Card
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    no this is a brilliant cover story to launch our president in times of nuclear war to his base on the dark side of the moon, duh!
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    pres promoted this comment Alexander Card was starred Alexander Card was unstarred
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    09/23/09

    @Alexander Card: As long as he stays there, I'm happy with that.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747

    Hmmm.
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    Image of Fat Tire Fat Tire
    09/23/09

    @pres: I LOLed.
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    Image of Bailout Bailout
    09/23/09

    @pres: You win.
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    Image of RedAlert RedAlert
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    Space Shuttle: 30 years old, but still bad ass.

    Boeing 747: Even older, but amazingly still pretty cool.

    Space Shuttle + Boeing 747 taking off, flying, and landing while mated together: Almost defies comprehension.

    Who the heck thought this up? You know, sitting around the table trying to figure out how to get a landed orbiter back to Florida: "I got it - just strap it to the back of a 747 and call it good."
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    Paul Y. don't drive too fast. promoted this comment RedAlert was starred RedAlert was unstarred
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    09/23/09

    @RedAlert: Keep in mind, the shuttle dates back to the Good Ol' Days at NASA. They came up with all sorts of crazy shit over the years. Any group of people that can get people to the moon and back safely, more than once, with less computing power than a modern phone can do anythink they want to within the laws of physics and their budget.
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    Image of RedAlert RedAlert
    09/23/09

    @Paul Y. don't drive too fast.: Very true...I have to keep reminding myself that the shuttle is somewhat a decendant of the still-born Air Force X-20 from the mid-1960's.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    BTW is that Enginerd looking up the opening in the 5th pic?

    Where is he anyway? I thought he would be all over this post like a 16yr old teenage boy in a strip club.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    09/23/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: Sorry, I've got one day left here at KSC, so I went and did a little sightseeing (went to the Vehicle Assembly Bldg. and saw the Ares 1-X and out to the Shuttle Landing Facility and saw the 747 described above) as well as finishing up some paperwork so I can prove that I did do something this summer.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    Take that capitalists!
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747

    My uncle worked for MOOG and back in the '70s, he was responsible for building hydraulic steering actuators for the shuttle program (His mounted the nozzles on the SRBs, IIRC). Back in 1977, when they were first starting atmospheric flight tests of Enterprise by jettisoning it from the 747, I visited him at work and he sent me home with glossy photos of the combo in flight. I still have the photos.
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    Image of hittatree_p hittatree_p
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747

    I sent in my idea...guess they just had a little more room in their budget.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    The larger female lowers her ailerons to indicate receptiveness. The male mounts carefully, as not to spook her away. If she spurns him now, all of his efforts will have been for naught.

    /a long way to go for a shuttlecock joke.
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    Image of Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
    09/23/09

    @smalleyxb122:
    Original dragon?
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    09/23/09

    @Tiberiuswise: I'd Space Shuttle a _______.
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    Image of GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    Makes we want to drive around in a Suburban with a Nash Metropolitan on the roof. The process of getting it up there would no less fascinating, although infinitely more rednecky.

    Might make a fun LeMons penalty.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    American ingenuity at its best. This whole procedure is radiating with awesomeness; though I doubt watching it in real time is all that exciting.

    Unfortunately, the Shuttle is almost as old as the Ford Panther platform, and really shouldn't be going into space anymore.
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    Image of BigEngineSmallCar BigEngineSmallCar
    09/23/09

    @bmoreDLJ: You're thinking in the wrong terms here. You probably have recently flown on a plane originally built in the 60's or 70's. The Space Shuttles were designed to fly 100 missions each which is more important than age in this case. With a planned 134 missions by the time the program comes to an end in 2010. Each Space Shuttle is far from their designed 100 flight lifespan.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    09/23/09

    @bmoreDLJ: Actually, Enterprise the prototype/test shuttle came out in 1976, three years before the Panther platform!
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747
    Imagine the balls you'd require in order to pilot this unholy mess?
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/23/09

    @Number_Six:

    Good point. For making me think about how many drinks it'd take for me to get on this plane with the Shuttle on it, heart-click.

    Even though the Shuttle's wings are in the lift shadow of the 747's, you'd think it'd still screw with things something fierce.
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    Image of GeeHalen GeeHalen
    09/23/09

    In reply to How To Attach The Space Shuttle To A Boeing 747

    Corellian hooning.
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