Well, going to need more than one Repair EVA for this!

[T.Neo]

Assuming there was no crew onboard at the time then nothing would make me happier than seeing a shuttle blow up. No more talk of extending the shuttle program then, we'd have to concentrate on the future rather than holding on to the past.

You mean the uncertain and potentially unfruitful future in constellation?

Good luck with that future.

 

[Moonwalker]

Assuming there was no crew onboard at the time then nothing would make me happier than seeing a shuttle blow up. No more talk of extending the shuttle program then, we'd have to concentrate on the future rather than holding on to the past.

I did not expect to read that from you at all. It is rather rarely that we both agree to something (), but we both seem to agree to no more talk of extending the shuttle program and concentrating on future programs.

But I don't want to see any vehicle blowing up. There is too much hard work of many people in it to just see something like that blowing up.

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And please, let's not start another useless Constellation bashing discussion. There are enough threads already.

 

[Hielor]

Endeavour toasted again!
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I think this segment holds the record for the most inaccuracies about the Shuttle program (and spaceflight in general) in the shortest period of time.

 

[T.Neo]

I think this segment holds the record for the most inaccuracies about the Shuttle program (and spaceflight in general) in the shortest period of time.

Isn't that title held by Armageddon?

 

[MJR]

Very well made video. You could show this in the morning news and people would believe :speakcool:

Yeah. I bet tons of people would believe it.

 

[Andy44]

I could show a vid of me morphing into a fire truck and people would believe it.

 

[ICBM]

Actually the whole music is from Apollo 13.
The track is called 'The Dark side of the moon', when Apollo 13 flew around the dark side of the moon.

Thanks, I thought I've heard it before, but I didn't remember where from.

 

[TFH]

Thank you all, your comments will help me make better videos.

 

[cinder1992]

on the first vidio, the damage COULD actualy happen, although unlikely. a good hit to the OMS engines, witch would ignite, and if for some stange reason there was frozen fuel in the acent engines, the'd go off as well, and if the payload was a volitile substance... BOOM! and a chain-reacton would ignite the RCS thusters. createing the smaller debis and holes near the RCS.

 

[Urwumpe]

And for some strange reason you have linear shaped charges all over the spacecraft...

Honestly - do you think the Space shuttle is a Hindenburg?

All stuff you are claiming, can be debunked by just throwing physics and chemistry into the room. Even if you would hit both OMS engines with the same silver bullet, you would also have to damage both pressurized tanks in a module and do it in a way, that from both tanks, liquids can leave in high enough amounts and mix. just punching a hole into the tank is not enough for a explosion. If you hit the part which contains only pressurized gas behind the screen inside the tanks, you would just have helium gas venting out, the liquids would either freeze to ice (MMH) or vaporize (N2O4) with the N2O4 gas being able to react with the aluminum before being vented outside. Not a high damage as you have low flow rates.

You also need a mixing of the two liquids in a short time AND have the liquids contained inside a volume that the gases gain enough pressure before leaving the structure. OMS propellants do not detonate, it's characteristic speed is much lower than for example hydrogen+oxygen. You would just get a very violent fire in the OMS pods if this happens.

And for ripping the wings away, remember that the Shuttle survives very high loads during reentry. That is not that easy, a violent fire with the OMS fuel can NOT do that, it would be enough to damage the aft structure before being vacuum inerted automatically.

 

[garyw]

And for ripping the wings away, remember that the Shuttle survives very high loads during reentry. That is not that easy, a violent fire with the OMS fuel can NOT do that, it would be enough to damage the aft structure before being vacuum inerted automatically.

Even with the damage suffered by Columbia it took a while before the wing folded up on itself and was torn from the fuselage