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General Discussion => Live Event Section - Latest Space Flight News => Topic started by: Kim Keller on 08/15/2013 05:24 pm
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Looks like Hangar S and AF are under the ax.
http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=44503
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OUCH!
How about:
Option 2- Close/Demolish Facilities and Structures at Various Locations to include the Orbiter Mate/Demate, Ammonia Boiler Refurbishment, and Storage Facilities
Losing the orbiter mate/demate facility (if correct) will be a hard one to swallow
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OUCH!
How about:
Option 2- Close/Demolish Facilities and Structures at Various Locations to include the Orbiter Mate/Demate, Ammonia Boiler Refurbishment, and Storage Facilities
Losing the orbiter mate/demate facility (if correct) will be a hard one to swallow
Why? It's just rusting steel.
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OUCH!
How about:
Option 2- Close/Demolish Facilities and Structures at Various Locations to include the Orbiter Mate/Demate, Ammonia Boiler Refurbishment, and Storage Facilities
Losing the orbiter mate/demate facility (if correct) will be a hard one to swallow
Why? It's just rusting steel.
call me sentimental
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Hmm, curious about AF. I thought it was still being used. By ATK or someone else I believe....
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Hmm, curious about AF. I thought it was still being used. By ATK or someone else I believe....
I drive by it quite a bit. The lights ain't on and nobody's home...
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Losing the orbiter mate/demate facility (if correct) will be a hard one to swallow
There's no money for it and the apron "real estate" might be better used in some other way. They were already planning to remove the one at Dryden. (That was back in September when Endeavour was there one last time. The MDD there might already be gone.)
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For those of us unfamiliar with the location of these structures, can someone tell us where they are located?
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Hmm, curious about AF. I thought it was still being used. By ATK or someone else I believe....
I drive by it quite a bit. The lights ain't on and nobody's home...
Wish someone would run a "replacement cost" program before all these buildings are gone.
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Hmm, curious about AF. I thought it was still being used. By ATK or someone else I believe....
I drive by it quite a bit. The lights ain't on and nobody's home...
Wish someone would run a "replacement cost" program before all these buildings are gone.
No need to do that since there is no need for these specific buildings. There is an excess of buildings on the Cape and no users.
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For those of us unfamiliar with the location of these structures, can someone tell us where they are located?
Here is Hangar AF.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cape+canaveral&ll=28.487925,-80.586423&spn=0.00124,0.002411&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Cape+Canaveral,+Brevard,+Florida&gl=us&t=h&z=19
Here is Hangar S.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cape+canaveral&ll=28.488795,-80.585784&spn=0.00124,0.002411&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Cape+Canaveral,+Brevard,+Florida&gl=us&t=h&z=19
The Mate/Demate is, of course, here.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cape+canaveral&ll=28.600636,-80.679231&spn=0.000619,0.001206&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Cape+Canaveral,+Brevard,+Florida&gl=us&t=h&z=20
- Ed Kyle
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Hmm, curious about AF. I thought it was still being used. By ATK or someone else I believe....
I drive by it quite a bit. The lights ain't on and nobody's home...
We've tossed the idea around once or twice about storing a first stage there when there is already one at the pad since AO won't work anymore. One of the cons we were told was that we'd have to share the hanger, with ATK I thought. But it's completely possible we had heard wrong...
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Hmm, curious about AF. I thought it was still being used. By ATK or someone else I believe....
I drive by it quite a bit. The lights ain't on and nobody's home...
We've tossed the idea around once or twice about storing a first stage there when there is already one at the pad since AO won't work anymore. One of the cons we were told was that we'd have to share the hanger, with ATK I thought. But it's completely possible we had heard wrong...
Use it or lose it!
- Ed Kyle
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Use it or lose it!
- Ed Kyle
Seems a whole lot cheaper to just new construct a steel hanger. It's not like the hangers SpaceX uses for their falcon rockets are anything special.
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We've tossed the idea around once or twice about storing a first stage there when there is already one at the pad since AO won't work anymore. One of the cons we were told was that we'd have to share the hanger, with ATK I thought. But it's completely possible we had heard wrong...
What's wrong with AO?
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We've tossed the idea around once or twice about storing a first stage there when there is already one at the pad since AO won't work anymore. One of the cons we were told was that we'd have to share the hanger, with ATK I thought. But it's completely possible we had heard wrong...
What's wrong with AO?
Too short