This image attributed to NASA/Steven Seipel via. CollectSpace.First the Cape Canaveral Navaho, now ET-GVTA. A bad few months for space artifacts. - Ed Kyle
Quote from: edkyle99 on 02/08/2017 06:32 pmThis image attributed to NASA/Steven Seipel via. CollectSpace.First the Cape Canaveral Navaho, now ET-GVTA. A bad few months for space artifacts. - Ed KyleBased on the last two pictures above, it seems the tank got loose from the moorings and rolled over the truck, bounced over the elevated fuel lines and landed on the other side of that. I will post an overhead picture of what I think occurred.The Red star is where the remains of the tank has moved to and the blue star is the crushed truck.
Well, looks like this tank got to fly after all...Too bad for this piece of historical hardware but museum stuff should not be displayed outdoors IMO.
The Red star is where the remains of the tank has moved to and the blue star is the crushed truck.
Quote from: catdlr on 02/09/2017 01:58 amThe Red star is where the remains of the tank has moved to and the blue star is the crushed truck.Imagine the insurance form for that truck:"Cause of damage? Crushed by space shuttle tank."
Quote from: woods170 on 02/09/2017 07:03 amWell, looks like this tank got to fly after all...Too bad for this piece of historical hardware but museum stuff should not be displayed outdoors IMO.You're making the mistake of calling it "displayed." It was just stored there, rotting. It's only museum stuff if a museum asks for it and NASA gives it to them or if NASA forms an exhibit in place. Something the size of an ET, though historic, is impractical for nearly every museum out there. There's a lot of hardware that meets a similar fate: "someone" should preserve, archive, and display it, but it never happens.
...instead of "abandon in place".
February 9, 2017: NASA Status Update on Tornado Recovery at Michoud Assembly FacilityThe facility will remain closed to all work activities through Sunday, allowing recovery efforts to continue at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans following the tornado strike on Feb. 7 at 11:25 a.m. CST. The site is accessible only to emergency and essential personnel. The facilities teams are working swiftly to transition from emergency state to restore continuity of operations, with a desire to bring tenants and NASA activities back up safely and methodically. The teams on-site have made good progress in their continued damage assessments and restoration work. Visual damage assessment are ongoing. Power has been restored to key substations, the main NASA administration building, and the U.S. Coast Guard facilities with further progress is expected today. All events, conferences, and other non-essential functions have been postponed indefinitely until safe and normal operations resume.Last Updated: Feb. 9, 2017
Our Michoud facility reopened today, but recovery efforts from last week's tornado are ongoing. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/2l7s1Z4
Multiple vortices. Yikes! Quote from: psloss on 02/07/2017 10:34 pmSaw this video on the Weather Channel...there's some NSFW language in the audio...under the circumstances, I probably would have dropped a few expletives, too.https://www.instagram.com/p/BQOU9KJAzor/?taken-by=east_side_tv
Saw this video on the Weather Channel...there's some NSFW language in the audio...under the circumstances, I probably would have dropped a few expletives, too.https://www.instagram.com/p/BQOU9KJAzor/?taken-by=east_side_tv