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Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: Damien on January 16, 2009, 11:16:59 pm

Title: Space shuttle Discovery
Post by: Damien on January 16, 2009, 11:16:59 pm

Please shift this link to appropriate section.

Slide show of Discovery from assembly through to launch.

First 3 pictures have Tugs and a BIG Barge.

(http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg264/GardnerDG/Discovery/Slide2.jpg)
(http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg264/GardnerDG/Discovery/Slide3.jpg)
(http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg264/GardnerDG/Discovery/Slide4.jpg)

Here's the link to the 48 pic slide show
http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg264/GardnerDG/Discovery/?action=view&current=5c59402b.pbw (http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg264/GardnerDG/Discovery/?action=view&current=5c59402b.pbw)

Title: Re: Space shuttle Discovery
Post by: catengineman on January 16, 2009, 11:23:10 pm

Thanks for posting Damien very interesting :-))

Title: Re: Space shuttle Discovery
Post by: toesupwa on January 17, 2009, 03:54:04 pm

I dont know how true it is.. or if its an urban myth...

The solid rocket boosters have to be transported by train from where they are manufactured.. but have to travel through a rail tunnel that is something like 100 years old.
When the tunnel was built, it size was determined by the width between the rails.... The US follows the British gauge for their railways...
As we all know  O0 the British rail system gauge is the same as the width of a 'cart'.. introduced by the Romans. That width was determined by the width of the rear end of a horse...

So.. the shuttle 'size' is directly related to the width of a horse's a$$  O0

Title: Re: Space shuttle Discovery
Post by: furball on January 17, 2009, 07:32:23 pm

Urban myth I'm afraid (well...mostly).

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp (http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp)

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Title: Re: Space shuttle Discovery
Post by: tobyker on January 17, 2009, 09:05:05 pm

Anybody got a 4-storey superstructure on their springer yet? see first pic.