Space shuttle Endeavour's massive fuel tank installed for display at California Science Center
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2024
- The assembly of an upright display of the space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center was another step closer to completion, as crews lifted a massive external fuel tank into vertical position and finalized its move into its permanent location. abc7.com/14320796
Glad they're doing this. Seeing the Shuttle is not complete unless seen in all her glory ready to reach the stars.
I can't wait to go there and visit Endeavour in the museum.
Stop saying "Let me tell you..."
Listening to this guy speak was awful.
I wish they'd have treated the Saturn V stack in Houston the same way (although it's still spectacular to see) . . . but perhaps it says something good about our society that we have evolved a bit in our understanding of just how precious and cool this stuff is and now this will be on my bucket list to see in person someday. Thank you to all who donated to make this a reality.
They have the fuel tank and Boosters set up at the KSC, standing next to them is truly something to see!
I was supposed to have seen a space shuttle launch but the year I went to Florida was the year of the challenger accident and they had scrubbed launches. Although I did get to see the inside of the simulator which I thought was the coolest thing ever. I was 9 years old then
Looks awesome!
Let him tell you
“The white rockets…”? Wow. Great reporting.
Stupid Komiefornians.
I mean, he's not wrong. The SSRBs are rockets that are white.
That's a HUGE beach!
Hey!, tried to get laid on your own time. 😜
This is fantastic
In the end, will it be fully enclosed? To protect it from the weather and elements?
If they're following the pictures at the museum, it will be enclosed. They have to get it all set up and then build it around the shuttle.
They are constructing the building around the shuttle stack. It is intended to live their forever. I'm guessing as soon as they have the stack secured they will weather-wrap it just like they did Endeavor to protect it from the elements until the building is complete.
It would have been cool if they added signatures of everyone who ever worked on the shuttle from the Janitors to the NASA command center & astronauts inside the tank through an access hole. For instance they added all of the names of the assembly workers on the frame of the last Ford Crown Victoria that rolled off the assembly line.
yeah but... that was 50 years ago the program started.
What crane company did the pick?
it is not the last tank lift. there is abandoned one setting on the side of the road at some place that was going to show it but cost stopped them
boosters and fuel tanks are stacked now Endeavour herself and the exhibit is complete.
Where is this looks awesome
Looks like I’ll be going California after all
Sweet!
How will this vertical structure withstand earthquakes?
If a fully loaded stack can survive "the Twang", an empty stack can probably handle an earthquake without problem.
@@NeilFraser That's actually exactly the case. NASA and the California Science Center spent years researching and testing designs for this display that could withstand quakes. Hundreds of designs were tested, but it was found that simply using flight ready components themselves was the best option. The only thing different is that the platform the display sits on will have a seismic stabilization system, one that the mobile launch platforms at the cape didn't. For the stack, every component will be the exact same used as when the orbiter was flying.
@@NeilFraserit sways more in event of a launch abort so yeah I'm sure can survive..I heard the design of the base helps to lessen the earthquake energy too..my whole life I have known the shuttle..it's like one last launch attempt being made now😊
Wow that's gonna be really cool
Anybody else get the sense that this is a setup for a disaster movie? Where Endeavour is Earth's only hope in some last second hail mary mission.
It looks like the near side of the moon is the spot to be
You guys need to get your info straight. There are two OTHER tanks still around. One down in Green Cove Springs FL and the other somewhere in storage.
I thought they brought the shuttle back for a mission to Uranus 😮 to really see if the crack was smelly and the landing zone rippled like a red eye
work fast sun fades the color woodpeckers destroy foam insulation
No one left in California to see it…
Leave it like that. Don't spend money on Building a dome over this beautiful artificial marvel. Thanks for the update. Comments: it's fantastic the knowledge we all have only if we share it. Thank you so much for your attention and participation.
They tried that with a Saturn V in Houston. After 30 years out in the open, the metal was rusting through, and wildlife was living inside it. Took millions to fix it up. Better to enclose it from the start.
that's an amazingly selfish thing to say... as Neil called out, this stuff wasn't designed to sit outside exposed to the weather - when you do, they very quickly degrade.
This is meant to be a display for the generations - meaning you MUST have a roof over the thing... that's just the bare minimum, and it's a shame that earlier generations were so careless and wasteful with that hardware... much of which has been lost for good since they were idiots and parked them in a field rather than in a hangar. That's all if would have taken to have them around still... but that was far too much effort for them. We can't risk doing that to a Shuttle stack.
I'd hate to see how much they're going to charge for admission now. 😂
🎉🎉🎉🎉❤😊
Let me tell you..what?
Homie sounds a bit lubed up. Maybe some gin or something
Inspire new kids....
Let me tell ya, how to say let me tell ya at least 10 times when doing a story….
Since nobody knows how to build space shuttle boosters it makes complete sense to use them as a museum for what we used to be capable of.
@alienorificeinvestigation go look up SLS booster. It will blow your mind
Why are we not still exploring with the shuttle. This is crazy to make a monument out of a perfectly good space ship
NASA went into "safe" mode. They cannot manage complex spacecraft so they went back to the Command Module, no wings no wheels no engines! Simple!
@@navelriver how is a space shuttle that complex. We blasted over 130 of them in to space. Not easy but should be routine. Sure your going to have some accidents but thats part of exploring. Thats why were out there. It sounds like money.
@@Harry-fe9ec It is always money but management was not up to it. Management failed to catch design flaws, or rather failed to act on known flaws. Shuttle must fly as ballistic rocket, a spacecraft, and an airplane, each having different stresses and control systems. That is a complex machine.
It was arguably more complex, less safe, and far more expensive. Though regardless it was and still is my favourite spacecraft, and I really really wished it was still flying or that some 2.0 version would replace it. Granted the dreamchaser is like the mini space shuttle and that will be flying in about 1-3 months.
$400 million??? Could be use towards affordable housing.
Go to work and buy some housing.
@@Stevonoles1sure
They can work and still won’t be able to afford a house. Nice
Tho 400 million is less then most small cities make in. A year.
It looks great but to bad that its going to covered!
They should have done this in 1986
They should be progressive and set SLS beside
The shuttle is tiny compared to starship.
That ET is just a tad smaller than the starship upper stage
Dragon is tiny compared to the Shuttle.
@@jameskelly3502most of the shuttle was cargo space
I never voted for this and it benefits California, not my state. California should be writing checks to other states when they use federal tax dollars to fund their pet projects
Im about that big.
This guy
@@Thunderkorn You got that affliction?
The space shuttle launch record not great there were fourteen lives were lost 😢
Depends on what stats your using amount of times it’s flown, how many people it’s flown or how many people it flew overall (137, 355, 857)
But overall the chance of you dying in the shuttle was around 1%
Overall chance of a orbiter being lost was 10% (this is actually on par with the failure rate of most rockets. The shuttle was flawed but wasn’t as deadly as people make it seem,
Raised money but can not and will not house the homeless..😢
Go to work and buy some housing.
@@Stevonoles1 yo mama ain't hoeing enough for me..
He has an annoying voice!
I just said that out loud
How long until it becomes a homeless shelter?
lol thats an inflatable ballon thats why it floats when jettisoned
Wow, ok, no. I'm going to explain the mechanics behind why the tank appears to float, but I have a feeling you won't care...
The long story short is that it floats because it is in space. The forces of gravity are not acting on the tank, which when empty weighs about 33 tons. However gravity begins to act on the tank soon after orbital insertion. The orbiter (Or shuttle) after main engine cutoff and ET-separation is about 70-80 miles above earth, but after main engine cutoff it continues to fly upwards to an altitude of anywhere between 150-400 miles. This is because the shuttles have OMS and RCS engines with fuel housed aboard. The crew fires the RCS and OMS engines after main engine cutoff and takes the shuttles into a higher orbit, and also uses the OMS engines to circularize the orbit (Make it round just like the earth) Circularizing makes the orbit sustainable instead of just smashing back into earth, which is exactly what the ET does.
Ok so now the shuttle and tank are in orbit, how does the tank fall back into earths atmosphere? Well the orbit of about 70-80 miles that the ET is in, is not a circular one like the OMS engines put the shuttle into. It is called a parabolic/ballistic trajectory or eliptical orbit (Shaped like an oval). The oval is not wide enough to clear the earths atmosphere on all sides, so when the tank begins reaching a side that is shorter than it. It slams into the earths atmosphere and burns up. So at first the tank does float, however its orbit is not sustainable and eventually it will run back into earth. The ET works roughly the same way as a ballistic missile, just it is built to burn up and fall into the ocean rather than stay together and strike a desired target.
Wish people would simply just research how stuff happens as opposed to coming up with conclusions that are very wrong by themselves...
@@Amrepdude499 Think you got baited lool
@@ThePurpleSquares1 I really hope, for the sake of our country, that's the case..LOL.
I don't have enough trust with people anymore to tell when it's bait or actually someone who thinks as such.
How lame . Instead of going to mars we get a crappy overpriced overbudget center.
It's really sad because I'll never set foot in that crap hole California.
Thank you.
Okay....
NOW how is it going with rampant crime and homeless problems?
APPEARANCE, APPEARANCE AND AGAIN APPEARANCE. LOOK WHAT WE DID. EWEWW WEEE.
4 yrs . Active duty and 30 yrs as an auto mechanic,, now retired. Went to tech school on my own dime.
This is a historical moment. Grow up. You're like those blacks who were complaining that a fraction of the federal budget was being spent on the Apollo moon program instead of entitlement programs.
Go to work and buy some housing.