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- themonkeysaid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+180NSF ... re-entry
- wesamel, on 10/10/2007, -9/+166NSFW
- Fascist, on 10/10/2007, -3/+134*faps vigorously*
- kevinmotel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+95in space, no one can hear you fap
- thedarkrabbit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+80That... is actually a really nice shot. And the title wasn't "The Best shot of an upside down Space Shuttle you'll see all day EVER in your life!"
- withoutashovel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43I remember reading that those tiles cost a junkload of money. But seeing as they can be installed with something as inexpensive as caulk, sounds like a fun DIY project. Except that you're in space and can die at any moment.
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+38Her belly is soooo flat. What a hottie!!!
- supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37Awesome. Its my new desktop background. Amazing that NASA can use a caulking gun and a few digital cameras to inspect and repair the shuttle while in orbit.
I hope they can fix those white spots successfully, Endeavor is a great shuttle. The astronauts will be okay if they have to they will wait for a rescue shuttle, but Endeavor will be left attached to the space station and eventually be repaired in orbit or scrapped (burned in re-entry on purpose) - tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -1/+35It looks kind of scorched. Don't they replace all the tiles after each reentry?
- Digitalfilm43, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31That is such an awesome shot!
Great headline too! - UndeadZmobie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28My uncle, Rick Mastracchio, is on this mission. I really hope that there won't be a problem with re-entry.
- endlessoul, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27Anyone else come to this thread thinking "please, be a naked lady... please, be a naked lady..."
- SerifTheRobot, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27Space shuttle. Smashes onto the scene, loved by all, crashes and has it's career neutered. Exposes self on internet. Next up, Lindsey Lohan!
- vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Via NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-118), Flight Day 3, 10 August 2007, ISS015-E-21674
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-118/html/iss015e21674.html - Frosty122, on 10/10/2007, -6/+27nope.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+24It's shopped...it's not as sexy in real life.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19And ironically it actually IS the best shot of an upside down space shuttle you'll see all day ever in your life!
- samcrut, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Cripes! You can make out the duct tape!
- 13B1303, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18That's one hot tail section :o
I just want to ride that thing right to the moon and back at full thrusters!! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14We seriously need to update our shuttles.
- MeMongo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12It's not just regular caulk that you buy from Home Depot. It has to flow in temperatures ranging from -200 C to +200 C and still be strong enough to hold the tiles on during reentry.
- alamandrax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I'd hit it!
CLANG!!!! OW MY BALLS! - vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12@UndeadZmobie, the instant Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off the launchpad, every NASA astronaut aboard became a honorary relative of every family in the United States of America. And we all held are collective breath until Endeavour was safely in orbit. Now that NASA has thankfully found the tile damage -- and it looks serious -- undoubtedly we'll all once again be concerned about the safe return of Endeavour's crew. I say this to let you know that you're far from the only one who's concerned -- we're in this together and that's the way it should be, it must be. Personally, I have every confidence NASA's managers and engineers and scientists will figure this out. They will not permit Space Shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth without assuring, to the best of their considerable abilities, that all aboard will return safely to Terra Firma. So in the meantime we sit, watch, and wait, giving whatever support we can to NASA, and trusting that in the end everything will be alright.
- UndeadZmobie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3501&l=01484&id=507076148
These are from my trip to Florida last week to see the launch. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Oh crap, if it's upside down, how do they keep from falling out?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10***** YOU! MY EYES!!!!
NSFW - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12No.... he's a nerd for referring to a drawing as a hot chick.
- lickmygiggle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Anything not made out of cloth would make the orbiter too heavy to fly.
Plus, if it's made out of cloth, you can't attach any of it to the underide of the orbiter, because you can't have any holes or tiepoints or anything breaching the tiles.
That would mean the cloth would, no matter how tightly you stretched it, hang loose on the underside of the orbiter. If the cloth wasn't destroyed by going WAY past Mach 1, it would certainly create a stupid amount of drag. Also, see the two doors just aft of the two rear landing gear doors? Those are the hatches that, during launch are wide open and thats where the External Fuel Tank (the big red thing) attaches to the orbiter , and pumps Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Hydrogen into the orbiter's main engines. you'd need a hole in this "covering" there at the very least (not to mention the external fuel tank's top pylon support structure) and again, as you can't have any breaches in the tiles on the underside of the orbiter, you can't secure these holes in your covering.
It's a nice idea in theory, but it's just not realistic to do that kind of thing.
I suppose NASA could spend years and billions of dollars outfitting some sort of protection for the orbiter, but the vehicles are scheduled to be retire in the next few years (2010, I believe), so all that time and money would be wasted. - DarkDakota, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10THAT is what we are going into space with? brings new meaning to the term 'Brave Astronauts'
- UndeadZmobie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9They were only taken with my camera phone. Sorry.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Pix plz
- DROWE859, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Mmm... Taco Bell.
- Rocketbird, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7That's a good show! I like watching a nice episode of "OW MY BALLS!" every now and then!
- Xanium4332, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9dude, seek medical attention...
- narc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Wish this shot had some EXIF data :'-(
- rocketengineer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6God speed Endeavour! It will be a sad day to see you and your sisters (Discovery and Atlantis) retire. Until then, we're behind you and the space shuttle team! :D
- Davede70, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Space Nerd Porn is hot. Endeavor you are a sexy bitch.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That's generally how its flying capabilities are described in the atmosphere, interestingly enough.
- ExxonValdeez, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11In Soviet Russia, shuttle faps you! (Sorry, I had to)
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Do you work for a foreign government?
- jpwhitmore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5you can watch the shuttle missions live here http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6These problems you mention seem to stem from things hitting the heat shield. Why don't they put some sort of cover over it until it's ready to re-enter earth's atmosphere?
- alamandrax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5oh yeah? here are some Big-ass fries. ***** You!
- wontstoptalking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5And here you see the bizarre mating ritual of the Endeavour in it's natural habitat: deep space.
- WallnutBoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why do you think he used that title? This is digg. We are all the same.
- lickmygiggle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4While the ill-fated Colombia was still in orbit during its last mission, emails were going around NASA about the damage to the reinforced Carbon-Carbon wing section, and the belief that it could cause a massive failure to the vehicle. The warnings went ignored, and I think you know the results of that.
Now, would you like to be the ***** that ignores more damage to the orbiter. That, and the media almost expects there to be tile damage now, and NASA could lie to them, but that's not what the agency was founded on. In fact, pre-Mercury missions, what would become NASA, and the early NASA were mocked because they were so open about their failures. - CMiYC, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"How do you know that an alloy, composite, or aluminum shield would be impossible to compensate for weight-wise?"
Launch operations are so sensitive to weight, it seem very impractical that ANY material required to span the entire surface area of the bottom of the shuttle would be far too heavy. The boosters can only carry so much fuel. And keep in mind as you add more fuel to compensate for more weight, you are now adding even more weight from the fuel itself.
There is a finite amount of weight the shuttle can carry and a shield as you suggest is just impractical. - BrainRecall, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5They of course, throughly inspect the tiles after each run. Damaged ones or ones who had enough trips are replaced. Thats why you can see the scorched ones right next to the new ones.
- danpat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If someone tiled my bathroom like that I'd be pissed, and my bathroom doesn't have do endure re-entry.
They really need some hi-tech alfoil or something better than foam tiles and crazy glue.
No wonder these things blow up! - Reeses0917, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4No... you're a nerd for having a drawn "hot" chick from Metroid as your background
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