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Nice pics! Orange-ya-happy about that color😍As a North Merritt Island resident for years, my backyard has been front row seating to all this man made space progress!
I'm trying to picture a Saturn V next to this thing. What are the specs (thrust, etc.) One of the most visually impressive things I personally have seen was a night lunar mission launch with an overcast. I was about 70 miles from the Cape and when the engines started it was like somebody had thrown a switch to a large city over the horizon and the clouds were lit up on the underside. I was able to follow it with the unaided eye and watch first stage separation and second stage ignition. Amazing!
Just heard that Michael Collins, Command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission, passed away at age 90. So much for the theory that radiation is bad for you. RIP.
Michael Collins unfortunately passed from cancer. No way to tell the reason, but space certainly could have contributed. The safest place is in a US nuclear submarine. Reactor is shielded from the crew and the ocean shields personnel from surface radiation. The opposite is true for airline employees.
Let's just remember his inspiring words, "Exploration is not a choice, really, it's an imperative." Sort of like owning a C8 Game Changer. 🚀
Michael Collins unfortunately passed from cancer. No way to tell the reason, but space certainly could have contributed. The safest place is in a US nuclear submarine. Reactor is shielded from the crew and the ocean shields personnel from surface radiation. The opposite is true for airline employees.
Let's just remember his inspiring words, "Exploration is not a choice, really, it's an imperative." Sort of like owning a C8 Game Changer. 🚀
My remark about radiation was meant to be in jest. Guys like Collins voluntarily take huge risks and if he was brave enough to strap on a 7.5 million pound thrust rocket, he probably didn't give radiation much thought. It was an incremental increase in risk.
A guy that I worked with said he was doing a tour of the Air and Space museum and they came upon an airplane that he'd flown in the Navy. He started getting nostalgic and started telling sea-stories about his time flying off aircraft carriers. One of the people there was listening intently to the stories but didn't have much to say; he just listened. Only later did my co-worker find out that he was Michel Collins, NASA astronaut! He was so embarrassed. He said, "Collins probably had more time in space than I have flying."
So, he was a humble hero, which moves him u a notch in my book.
I'll take it in jest. He was something special. They all were and still are.
I'll get the Saturn V's picture one day. It's inside now, not in the parking lot anymore. If y'all get the chance, the visor center has a great exhibition of the actual shuttle Atlantis. It's too awesome to describe.
I can't believed they parked those things when they did. I almost got to fly the simulator but the only one that was operational at the time was occupied by VIP's. But I did get a cockpit familiarization. My impression today was the huge size of the circuit breaker panel. Seemed to go on forever.
Provides perspective of how big that building actually is considering the size of that first stage.
At an astonishing 160 meters (525 feet) tall, 218 meters (716 feet) long, and 158 meters (518 feet) wide, the VAB covers an area of eight acres and encloses a volume of about 3,665,000 cubic meters (129,428,000 cubic feet).
For orientation, view is looking north. The Atlantic ocean is to the right and a portion of the SLS (runway) may be viewed in the upper left.
Rocket Meets Rocket!
