#9. "another shuttle picture" In response to waldo (Reply # 0) Tue Oct-08-02 05:43 AM
Here is one of my favorite shots. I have a friend at Nasa who sometimes will send me some fantastic pictures. I have a slide show of the Space Station that is out of site.(oops - sorry about the pun) Anyone want it? Send me a PM. I also have a slideshow of a shuttle mission from beginning to end. They are a little more than a meg each. If anyone wants them, send me a PM.
edit - I couldn't upload the larger one even though it's less than 50 kb - I don't have a clue why not!
"I couldn't upload the larger one even though it's less than 50 kb - I don't have a clue why not!".......... Is it a .gif? Make sure you check the correct box in the upload window.
Yeah, I saw it. Excellent!! It's cost is over $700,000 though and they said it can only be used one time. Maybe they could hook it up to the shuttle itself. And I gotta question. With the shuttle, couldn't they be able to fly to the moon or elsewhere? It seems like they could even land on the moon if they had a smooth surface.
Gravity....not just a good idea, it's the law! My Magic
Hi, could be a little difficult to go to the moon with the shuttle let alone land on it.
After the shuttle jettisons the SRB's about 2 minutes into the flight and the big external tank after reaching orbit the only propulsion available is from small maneuvering jets.
Also with no atmosphere on the moon it would be impossible to even glide in for a landing and even if by some miracle you did land safely you'd never be able to take off again.
Interesting article -- actually, I do have all sorts of old parts around -- including several 8086 chips -- from old units that I parted out.
I got in the habit long ago of removing most anyhing I could from scrapped systems and boards. It's funny how it goes. I recently sold 30 assorted 5.25" floppy disk drives to one company that was looking for them. Got considerably more for them than they cost when they were new, too!
I normally use these old parts to keep older systems running for several industrial clients who have machinery that is driven by prior type computers. Most of these are using proprietary software that will not run properly on newer faster PC's, and have no current replacement. Many of these SW packages are no longer produced of course, and have no mfgr support available any more.
Hell -- I've even got folks out there running equipment driven or controlled by TRS-80's!
