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I think the more important part about that is it's a small area so there is less points of failure to begin with and doesn't have to be reusable which opens the doors to more other materials that are easier to design.
Agreed - but if you're going to have a reusable glider, FFS put it on top of the stack.
Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on Sunday when it collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display.
This is what you get when you have amatuers handling things they normally don't deal with. We all know where the Shuttle should be.
"Just as the barge entered the railroad bridge, the wind caught it and pushed the right wing into the bridge abutment.
A little divine intervention...
Seriously?
You claim to love the shuttle so much you are STILL ticked it's not going to TX and yet you are happy it was damaged?
Seriously?
Wow. That's the sign of someone who really loves it.
(I cannot wait until they bring the Endeavour home to So Cal. Dang, that's going to be one heck of a day!)
Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on Sunday when it collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display.
This is what you get when you have amatuers handling things they normally don't deal with. We all know where the Shuttle should be.
"Just as the barge entered the railroad bridge, the wind caught it and pushed the right wing into the bridge abutment.
A little divine intervention...
It is shame that this happened, but the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum (formerly a WWII air carrier) on the Hudson river in Manhattan is an excellent place to house the Enterprise space shuttle. (See http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/ .)
Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on Sunday when it collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display.
This is what you get when you have amatuers handling things they normally don't deal with. We all know where the Shuttle should be.
"Just as the barge entered the railroad bridge, the wind caught it and pushed the right wing into the bridge abutment.
A little divine intervention...
NYC... Union... there'll be NO divine participation.
There have been recent talks of getting them involved, but the Chinese don't want the Americans or Russians on the rockets for "military reasons." And well, the US doesn't want the Chinese seeing their technology on ISS.
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