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Old 09-24-2012, 05:31 PM   #51
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another really cool pic i was forwarded

gonna try and crop and blow this one up
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Old 09-24-2012, 06:08 PM   #52
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Cool video of the mating of the 747 to the Shuttle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPX3_...ture=endscreen
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Old 09-24-2012, 10:10 PM   #53
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another really cool pic i was forwarded

gonna try and crop and blow this one up
You terrorist.


I wonder what the resistance is for the 747.
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Old 09-24-2012, 10:25 PM   #54
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Old 09-24-2012, 10:26 PM   #55
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If Columbia hadnt been destroyed it would most likely have gone to Houston. If Challenger hadnt been destroyed chances are it would have gone somewhere in the norther midwest, probably somewhere like Chicago.

Houston should have gotten a shuttle, but at the end of the day there were just too few for them to get one. I will fall back on my earlier statement that the Shuttles were given to the locations that would give them maximum exposure in the major population centers in the US.



Houston while a cool place, and also historically important to the shuttle and teh space program as a whole just isnt a large enough population center or tourist destination.
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Old 09-24-2012, 11:27 PM   #56
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I never get tired of looking at those shots...

I can't imagine what kind of havoc having a 2nd plane sitting on top must do to the way that 747 flies.
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