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John is friends with Dr. Resnik. John probably was smoking a joint on the moon when you were watching Star Trek. The space shuttle is automatic. Its guidance system does everything. After all the book smart astronauts get it all memorized, I can probablly memorize the sequence of pushing buttons myself. The shuttle flies itself.
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by jra
Just how much fuel and cargo do you think the Shuttle can carry? Why the need for shuffling all this cargo around?
As a side note... the Russian Shuttle carried four times what ours could... 100 tons..
And it doesn't need any pilots...
Originally posted by johnlear
DHR got banned. She wants you to put in a good word for her so she can come back. I'd put in the good word but I am always just on the edge of getting banned myself. Thanks.
Originally posted by jra
You mean 100 tons of cargo? I think not. The Buran could only carry 30,000kg compaired to the Shuttles 25,000kg. You are confusing the Energia booster with the Buran.
Originally posted by zorgon
Hey!! You promised to look at the dust clouds remember?
They even require that the flight engineer sits in the area between and behind the pilots and is also involved in the process. Not that they do anything, they simply regurgitate and triple check what is being done in the two front seats.
Since you cannot answer my above question, I guess ill give you a slightly simplified answer (simply because I don’t want to type the entire thing out):
Panel R2 is located under the pilots right arm, and the pilot does this procedure. Panel F8 is the one directly in front of the pilot.
Originally posted by zorgon
So while you so busy trying to brush everything off maybe you could answer the dust dispersion on the Smart-1 image I posted a few pages back? Seems no one else has taken a shot at that yet...
Originally posted by johnlear
It make one wonder how you think it is done in other three man cockpits?
The three crew couches were constructed from hollow steel tubing and covered in a heavy, fireproof cloth, known as Armalon. The leg pans of the two outer couches could be folded in a variety of positions, while the hip pan of the center couch can be disconnected and laid on the aft bulkhead. One rotational and one translation hand controller was installed on the armrests of the commander’s couch. The LM pilot and CM pilot couches had rotational controllers only. The couches rested on eight shock attenuation struts to ease the impact of splashdown.
There are a total of six equipment bays in the cabin:
• The lower equipment bay, which houses the guidance and control telescope, various communications beacons, the SCS gyro assemblies, the command module computer, medical stores, the audio center, the S-band power amplifier, etc.
• The left-hand forward equipment bay, containing four food storage compartments, the cabin heat exchanger, pressure suit connector, potable water supply, and G&N telescope eyepieces.
• The right-hand forward equipment bay, housing two survival kit containers, a data card kit, flight data books and files, and other mission documentation.
• The left hand intermediate equipment bay, housing the oxygen surge tank, the water delivery system, food supplies, the cabin pressure relief valve controls, and the ECS package.
• The right hand intermediate equipment bay, which contained the bio instrument kits, the waste management system, food and sanitary supplies, and a waste storage compartment.
• The aft storage, compartment, behind the crew couches. This housed the 70 mm camera equipment, the astronaut’s garments, tool sets, storage bags, a fire extinguisher, CO2 absorbers, sleep restraint ropes, spacesuit maintenance kits, the 16mm camera equipment, and the contingency lunar sample container.
Originally posted by zorgon
Possibly I just rechecked seems there are conflicting sources on that. I will look some more, but you could be right on this one...
Originally posted by jra
Trust me, the Buran can not carry 100t of cargo.
Buran
Therefore a straight aerodynamic copy of the US space shuttle, was selected as the orbiter configuration on 11 June 1976. MiG was selected as subcontractor to build the orbiter. For this purpose MiG spun off a new design bureau, Molniya, with G E Lozino-Lozinskiy as chief designer. Wind tunnel tests were conducted on a wide range of possible arrangements of rocket stages and orbiter positions. In the end, Buran was moved to the lateral position, as with the US space shuttle. The main engines, for the reasons given earlier, remained in the core vehicle. The liquid boosters were retained, but reduced to four in number. After being re-stressed for the lateral launch loads, the resulting Energia launch vehicle had half the lift-off mass and payload of the Vulkan. This was sufficient to carry the Buran with its required internal payload of 30 metric tons.
Originally posted by defcon5
As to your fruit; fruit is extremely important in space flight. The Zero Gravity leaches vitamins from your body and causes various bone, and muscle loss issues. That is why in extended space flight the crew is required to replenish those vitamins and to exercise.
Originally posted by defcon5
I still cannot find this image your speaking of, I have been through the thread multiple times now, including with the search function. Please just link it here so I can see what you’re talking about.
Originally posted by zorgon
Oops sorry missed this one... Sure no problem
Originally posted by zorgon
BTW I really have to commend you and JRA You have been filling so many pages with standard issue fact sheets on existing old spacecraft that can be found in any text book, wikipedia or website.
Originally posted by undo
Listen, you've been claiming you were giving the facts and nothing but the facts and that everyone else that disagrees with you is giving no facts at all.
Originally posted by undo
Firstly, because there have been plenty of facts, none of which required a blueprint of a fictitious starship.
Originally posted by undo
Folks can read between the lines. Your behavior is very incriminating. We're a pretty savvy crowd.