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#2840
by
iskyfly
on 13 Feb, 2013 19:11
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Did President Reagan really have jelly beans placed in the crew compartment storage as a surprise for the astronauts?
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#2841
by
roma847
on 13 Feb, 2013 22:20
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Hi guys,
is there anyone who know for which medium were these ruby colored pipes there on
MLP-2 on
STS-6?
Source: http://www.retrospaceimages.com (STS-6)Here again slightly larger:
I suspect that the upper pipe might be a gas line, am but not sure?
This pipe was consistently ruby colored on the STS-6 and run from the right to left corner of Side 1 also under the Blast Shields.
Later, and until the last missions this pipe had only these ruby colored markings.
Source: www.capcomespace.net
Source: T. McClellan (ARC Forums)I want to mix this color for my MLP-2 build.
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#2842
by
OV135
on 15 Feb, 2013 13:32
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Are there any diagrams or photos of the AFRSI on Discovery during the time of STS-26R?
The diagram seen in Jenkin's book shows the AFRSI covering the entire orbiter from nose to aft fuselage. Is this accurate?
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#2843
by
Fequalsma
on 17 Feb, 2013 11:58
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#2844
by
psloss
on 17 Feb, 2013 12:17
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Are there any diagrams or photos of the AFRSI on Discovery during the time of STS-26R?
The diagram seen in Jenkin's book shows the AFRSI covering the entire orbiter from nose to aft fuselage. Is this accurate?
You mean the upper surface of the "entire" orbiter, right? Which diagram? The one I see in Chapter X of the 3rd Edition doesn't look like that to me. (From a texture standpoint, the FRSI on a lot of the payload bay door area and parts of the wing upper surface stand out in pictures/person.)
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#2845
by
OV135
on 17 Feb, 2013 19:54
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The side view diagrams.
I mean as in this photo you clearly see the AFRSI cover the entire side of the vehicle, even the aft fuselage. Could someone find a larger photo of this and more photos of Discovery at Rockwell Int from the 80s before her first flight?
http://www.wintertime.com/OH/disc-hangar.jpg
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#2846
by
padrat
on 18 Feb, 2013 23:20
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They're FIREX lines. Fire protection/sprinklers.
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#2847
by
roma847
on 19 Feb, 2013 06:00
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Thanks padrat for your reply, that means a water pipe. What was connected to this line?
I ask therefore, because this line was not connected with the emergency shower and the eye wash, which were fed via a separate pipe (green arrow), right?
Source: http://www.retrospaceimages.com (STS-6)To
STS-6 but this ruby colored pipe didn't run around the corner to Side 4, but only later, do you know?
When used the emergency shower/eye wash? Has there been ever accidents to your time?
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#2848
by
psloss
on 19 Feb, 2013 23:42
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Could someone find a larger photo of this and more photos of Discovery at Rockwell Int from the 80s before her first flight?
There are some on L2.
There are also a few from the overland transport, at Dryden (getting spotted in the MDD), and during the first ferry hop to Vandenberg in early November, 1983 -- in the set referred to here:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13952.msg1014581#msg1014581(Not necessarily highlighting the mid-fuselage side walls, but they might be worth looking at.)
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#2849
by
Specifically-Impulsive
on 20 Feb, 2013 00:54
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Anyone have any data on the clearance between the SRMS End Effector and PLB Camera "B"? This is with the SRMS cradled and stowed and the camera in 0 pan and 0 tilt.
Somewhere very close to 5 inches.
You can derive this distance from information in the Shuttle Crew Operations Manual (posted on the JSC FOIA page). For example, this document shows the CCTV B pivot point is at X+1294 and says that the camera is sixteen inches long, so it would extend to roughly X+1286. Elsewhere in the document you can figure out that the RMS EE pokes a little past X+1280.
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#2850
by
OV135
on 20 Feb, 2013 12:35
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Could someone find a larger photo of this and more photos of Discovery at Rockwell Int from the 80s before her first flight?
There are some on L2.
There are also a few from the overland transport, at Dryden (getting spotted in the MDD), and during the first ferry hop to Vandenberg in early November, 1983 -- in the set referred to here:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13952.msg1014581#msg1014581
(Not necessarily highlighting the mid-fuselage side walls, but they might be worth looking at.)
I looked and the replies there show the link doesn't work for looking at the photos.
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#2851
by
DaveS
on 22 Feb, 2013 23:20
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Anyone have any data on the clearance between the SRMS End Effector and PLB Camera "B"? This is with the SRMS cradled and stowed and the camera in 0 pan and 0 tilt.
Somewhere very close to 5 inches.
You can derive this distance from information in the Shuttle Crew Operations Manual (posted on the JSC FOIA page). For example, this document shows the CCTV B pivot point is at X+1294 and says that the camera is sixteen inches long, so it would extend to roughly X+1286. Elsewhere in the document you can figure out that the RMS EE pokes a little past X+1280.
Thanks. For some reason I had missed that in the SCOM. Now on to something else.
Looking through some T&R photos of the orbiters I noticed this, has the PLB "liner" always been flown in Bays 1 and 2? Or did it start when the external airlock started flying on STS-71?
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#2852
by
Ford Mustang
on 26 Feb, 2013 00:31
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I was down at KSC today, and we took the launch pad tour. I was curious as we got over to LC-39B to see the lightning protection system up close.
I noticed there's a "spider's web" of wires up top, with a diamond-shaped hole big enough for what looked like the Ares rocket. For STS-125, LON-400 was on the pad out there... Were those wires up top there for that mission as well? They just didn't seem to make a hole big enough for the stack, so I was curious how that would work. Can provide pics if necessary, but I don't have editing tools with me so it'd be a pretty big file..
Thanks!
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#2853
by
spacecane
on 26 Feb, 2013 11:14
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What was the "orientation" of the Shuttle in orbit relative to the earth's surface? Was it always top facing earth or was it top facing sun or did it vary by mission?
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#2854
by
Jim
on 26 Feb, 2013 11:25
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What was the "orientation" of the Shuttle in orbit relative to the earth's surface? Was it always top facing earth or was it top facing sun or did it vary by mission?
It varied by mission, but payload bay to earth was the most prevalent.
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#2855
by
baldusi
on 26 Feb, 2013 17:03
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What was the "orientation" of the Shuttle in orbit relative to the earth's surface? Was it always top facing earth or was it top facing sun or did it vary by mission?
It varied by mission, but payload bay to earth was the most prevalent.
Wouldn't the Earth's heat affect the radiators efficiency?
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#2856
by
padrat
on 26 Feb, 2013 21:32
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I was down at KSC today, and we took the launch pad tour. I was curious as we got over to LC-39B to see the lightning protection system up close.
I noticed there's a "spider's web" of wires up top, with a diamond-shaped hole big enough for what looked like the Ares rocket. For STS-125, LON-400 was on the pad out there... Were those wires up top there for that mission as well? They just didn't seem to make a hole big enough for the stack, so I was curious how that would work. Can provide pics if necessary, but I don't have editing tools with me so it'd be a pretty big file..
Thanks!
If memory serves, I believe the towers were still under construction during STS 125. Ares 1-X only had a wire between two towers. The web wasnt finished until later.... Ill try to remember to check my pics at home...
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#2857
by
padrat
on 27 Feb, 2013 01:45
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I stand corrected. the FIRST time the shuttles rolled out for STS 125/400 the towers were still being built. The SECOND time the towers were built but only had the one wire between them. And of course Ares 1-X still only had the one...
(P.S. forgive my choice in pics. Thought it would raise a few eyebrows...
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#2858
by
Ford Mustang
on 27 Feb, 2013 22:38
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Thank you! Was just curious as the tour guide did say that it was there for the future generation rockets, but also said it was put up while the towers were being constructed as well - so just had my curiosity for LON-400. Thanks again!
PS - Nice picture. Bittersweet seeing 39B like it is now.
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#2859
by
Fequalsma
on 27 Feb, 2013 23:15
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Pot-stirrer!
(P.S. forgive my choice in pics. Thought it would raise a few eyebrows...
