External Fuel Tank

External Fuel Tank



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    compasseagle89

    i just finished a class that went through practically everything about the space shuttle program, including the external tank. a pretty bitchin’ system overall.

    im curious as to where/how this was taken – after ET separation, the tank burns up in the atmosphere. this clearly isnt burning up.

    CGI perhaps?

    Nimbo

    Shuttle tank im assuming.
    Wonder what grade of metal is used for making one of those.

    compasseagle89

    Nimbo:
    it is an aluminum-lithium alloy

    Jaypeezy

    compasseagle89:
    I was thinking that its a test to make sure it detaches smoothly and stuff like that.

    MrPsychic

    It could be a camera installed on the shuttle, or a chase jet flying really high. Either that or a ground based camera with really REALLY good lenses and scopes.

    Oh, and “HEADS UP!”

    compasseagle89

    wait, wait…i think im looking at this from the wrong perspective – thats not the sky – thats the ocean.

    wow. i just got some serious vertigo…awesome…

    Jaypeezy

    shiiiiiiiiiittttt

    NoOneInParticular

    You’re all crazy! That’s a vibrator!! 😉

    bravo1romeo

    S124-E-005043 (31 May 2008) — Backdropped by a blue and white part of Earth, the STS-124 external fuel tank (ET) begins its relative separation from the Space Shuttle Discovery. An STS-124 crewmember recorded the scene with a digital still camera.
    spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-124/html/s124e005043.html

    compasseagle89

    bravo1romeo:
    score! good searching…

    bravo1romeo

    compasseagle89: Google is my second brain

    MonkeyHitman

    lol looks like a zoomed in bullet

    tiki god

    compasseagle89:
    I’m wondering what fucked up class told you that told you that those burn up in the atmosphere.

    they do not.

    compasseagle89

    tiki god:
    alright, so it doesnt completely burn up, but the ET is the only part of the shuttle that isnt reusable, it isnt designed to exactly survive re-entry.

    “burn up” is a little extreme, but re-entry does destroy them.

    Phyreblade

    Inverted Invisible Shuttle…

    nyoki

    Phyreblade: Damnit! You beat me to it.

    Phyreblade

    nyokki: 😀

    BowToMe

    “Too answer your question, something like that!” Oh how I miss you old funny Family Guy.

    General X

    *A scene at NORAD*
    Radar Operator:Sir we are seeing something on the radar screen.
    Overseer: Well what is it?
    Radar Operator: I don’t know sir, but it looks like a giant…
    *A baseball pitch*
    Comentator: Schwang! That is right, that is the sound the bat made. He look at that, it looks like…
    *A classroom*
    Teacher: A huge giant dildo, that is your topic. Begin!
    Some kid: Hey is that a…
    *A chicken farm*
    Farmer: Cock, this is my prized cock, guaranteed to give great offspirng. Hey what is that…

    Phyreblade

    General X: ROFL… SPACEBALLS FTW!!!!

    Stolid

    The shuttle takes pictures of the ET every launch to assess any damage it (the ET) has sustained.. dammit whats wrong with people.. one of the coolest systems ever designed.. Non-geeks. Yes, that is an insult.

    TGGeko

    : Thats from Austin Powers

    Namelis1

    compasseagle89: I though the external fuel tank just crashes into the ocean and gets reused?

    Phyreblade

    TGGeko: DOH!!

    Dagnabbit I got my comedies mixed up… LOL

    OK. AUSTIN POWERS FTW!!!!

    FlyingMantisShrimp

    Idiots.

    You’d think people would recognize airborne, wheat silos when they see them.

    SumoSnipe

    Phyreblade: “Inverted Invisible Shuttle” ok which page is that in the NASA Sutra? I kinda got distracted by the “Obital Insertion”

    Phyreblade

    SumoSnipe: Pg. 69… can’t miss it…

    compasseagle89

    Namelis1:
    nope. the SRBs and the Orbiter get reused, but the external tank is not reused.

    this, i am certain of.

    traptin85

    penis

    and : not burning, just burnt

    compasseagle89

    traptin85:
    i already clarified that, thanks.

    im not making this stuff up guys.

    “When the SSMEs are shut down, the ET is jettisoned, enters the Earth’s atmosphere, breaks up, and impacts in a remote ocean area. It is not recovered.”
    science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/et.html
    straight from NASA, and i think they would know what their shuttle is doing.

    Stolid

    Does anyone else remember when they were white?

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