Space Shuttle Discovery

[Sky Pilot]

its funny i love watching the space shuttle lanches but the Yanks dont like it . They reckon its boring (remebering a simpsons episode on this). I know the simpsons dont account for people but i have a few friends over there and they also say its boring to watch these lanches now.

Doggie these Americans you refer to would be the ones who watch Oprah as well as the Simpsons. The ones with an IQ higher than a tap washer like the space program because it sticks them out there as leading the world in technology.
Oops - didn't mean to break the thread

[westozfalcon]

I visited the Smithsonian Institution in Virginia and stood next the shuttle Enterprise. Blew me away. The sheer size of it is staggering.

Space Shuttles are much smaller than commercial airliners though.

Do they still use Boeing 747's to piggy-back them home to base after they land?

[Sky Pilot]

I visited the Smithsonian Institution in Virginia and stood next the shuttle Enterprise. Blew me away. The sheer size of it is staggering.

Space Shuttles are much smaller than commercial airliners though.

Do they still use Boeing 747's to piggy-back them home to base after they land?

Yeah they do and you are partially right. The dimensions are differnt and the shuttle is way smaller than an A380 or B747 but to stand at the back end of the shuttle and look up you could just about drive an airbus fuselage up the backside and only have the ecnomy class hanging out

[Bully]

yes they still piggy back the shuttle on a airliner if it lands in california (NASA second landing strip). It the shuttle lands back at cape canavarel in florida where it launches it doesnt need a piggy back odviuosly

[Zelezny Chucks]

its funny i love watching the space shuttle lanches but the Yanks dont like it . They reckon its boring (remebering a simpsons episode on this). I know the simpsons dont account for people but i have a few friends over there and they also say its boring to watch these lanches now.

Doggie these Americans you refer to would be the ones who watch Oprah as well as the Simpsons. The ones with an IQ higher than a tap washer like the space program because it sticks them out there as leading the world in technology.
Oops - didn't mean to break the thread

So we all agree, no one in America watches the launches...

[Bully]

agreed

[Darth Vader]

but they all watch when one blows up. This is like F!. Fans watch hoping to see a stack especially at Monte Carlo where there is no room to move.

[spell_check]

its funny i love watching the space shuttle lanches but the Yanks dont like it . They reckon its boring (remebering a simpsons episode on this). I know the simpsons dont account for people but i have a few friends over there and they also say its boring to watch these lanches now.

"They have been dubbed the three musketeers. There's a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician and a statistician"

[Darth Vader]

And they are all orbiting the earth on the shuttle right?

[Bully]

its funny i love watching the space shuttle lanches but the Yanks dont like it . They reckon its boring (remebering a simpsons episode on this). I know the simpsons dont account for people but i have a few friends over there and they also say its boring to watch these lanches now.

"They have been dubbed the three musketeers. There's a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician and a statistician"

and we laugh ligitimatly.

Hey guys look what i smuggled aboard....
Homer NO...
Careful, there ruffled...
They'll clog the instruments



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