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re: Picture of a space shuttle leaving Earth, taken by NASA
Posted on 4/6/16 at 11:56 pm to Large Farva
Posted on 4/6/16 at 11:56 pm to Large Farva
you don't know shite
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Posted on 4/7/16 at 12:37 am to Large Farva
Tilt shift/abnormally shallow depth of field makes everything look tiny.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 5:57 am to Large Farva
Not taken by NASA. Taken by a guy in an airliner through the window.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 6:13 am to foshizzle
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Not taken by NASA. Taken by a guy in an airliner through the window.
No clue if you're serious, but you wouldn't think an airplane could even get close enough to a launch to snap this picture. I mean I understand they're not exactly close, but still closer than you'd imagine they're allowed.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 6:23 am to Large Farva
Look at all that pollution contributing to global warming. Thanks Obama
Posted on 4/7/16 at 6:47 am to JimMorrison
I bet heather is stroking out over that gigantic chemtrail.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:29 am to Large Farva
We're they taxed on the CO2 emissions?
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:30 am to JimMorrison
The type of fuel they use doesn't emit co2
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:31 am to Large Farva
Wow, there's a lot of guessing going on in this thread.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:36 am to Large Farva
Very nice. Here is another of my favorites.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:51 am to slackster
quote:It is very possible. The airspace varies I have been told but it is usually in the 20-30 mile range around KSC and usually below 20k feet. I'm sure someone else on here will know much more detail, but this is just some stuff one of my neighbors had told me.
Not taken by NASA. Taken by a guy in an airliner through the window.
No clue if you're serious, but you wouldn't think an airplane could even get close enough to a launch to snap this picture. I mean I understand they're not exactly close, but still closer than you'd imagine they're allowed.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:52 am to Gradual_Stroke
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The type of fuel they use doesn't emit co2
Yes it does. Liquid fuel combustion of the shuttle's main engine emitted carbon dioxide and water vapor - harmless of course and only considered "pollution" because of the incessant drive to add additional, unjustified taxation on energy - but emitted nonetheless.
And, keep in mind a shuttle launch burns the equivalent of about 2 minutes of gasoline consumption of the United States. That's pretty staggering.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:53 am to tigerstripedjacket
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I could watch videos of those launches all day long. Bad arse...
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Was really hoping this was actual cool videos......nope just youtube. You got me sir
Posted on 4/7/16 at 8:04 am to htownjeep
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airspace varies I have been told but it is usually in the 20-30 mile range around KSC
That's about right... the upper range of that typically for general VFR operations, sometimes up to 40 miles if I remember correctly.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 8:16 am to Ace Midnight
In the first youtube video posted the guy states that the boosters are burning 11,000 pounds of fuel per second. The original weight of shuttle and boosters before take off was around 4 million pounds. In 2 minutes after it took off, the shuttle and boosters had already burnt off half of that weight in propellant. That is mind blowing.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 8:28 am to slackster
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No clue if you're serious, but you wouldn't think an airplane could even get close enough to a launch to snap this picture. I mean I understand they're not exactly close, but still closer than you'd imagine they're allowed.
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It's worth adding that the OP's pic is heavily zoomed, they were pretty far away.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 10:25 am to foshizzle
Id love to go to space if I was guaranteed to a safe journey up.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 11:54 am to Large Farva
A couple of comments:
The picture is not from a commercial airplane - the airspace is closed within that range during launch window except to military aircraft.
At launch, by the time the Shuttle clears the pad, it is traveling more than 100 mph - real acceleration.
A few seconds after launch, the Shuttle executed the "roll program" when it would flip on its back. That was done in order to allow gravity to feed the liquid fuel from the External Tank to the Space Shuttle Main Engines - this eliminated the requirement for fuel pumps.
The picture is not from a commercial airplane - the airspace is closed within that range during launch window except to military aircraft.
At launch, by the time the Shuttle clears the pad, it is traveling more than 100 mph - real acceleration.
A few seconds after launch, the Shuttle executed the "roll program" when it would flip on its back. That was done in order to allow gravity to feed the liquid fuel from the External Tank to the Space Shuttle Main Engines - this eliminated the requirement for fuel pumps.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 12:12 pm to roadkill
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The picture is not from a commercial airplane - the airspace is closed within that range during launch window except to military aircraft.
The airspace is restricted to approx 30 miles. There are plenty of videos of shuttle launches taken from commercial aircraft at that distance or more. This is easily that far away.
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A few seconds after launch, the Shuttle executed the "roll program" when it would flip on its back. That was done in order to allow gravity to feed the liquid fuel from the External Tank to the Space Shuttle Main Engines - this eliminated the requirement for fuel pumps.
Actually each of the Space Shuttle Main Engines have fuel and oxidizer turbopumps. The roll maneuver is performed, among other things, in order to position the shuttle into the proper orbit for its mission. But the turbopumps were key elements to each of the three engines.
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