The story goes like this- the Orbiter is a mock up. The ET is a mock up. The right SRB is real, left one is fake. Seeing as the SRBs ARE reusable, they took the bottom nozzle/engine part of the SRB back, so they could reuse it again and again.
Cost effective, and Columbia incident was totally not related to SRBs.
Perhaps they could just truck the other 2 to Florida and expand the exhibit?;)
No way. They mean too much to the communities, especially in Huntsville, where they were all built and tested.
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Water doesn't go away. Try this experiment at home!
1. Put water in glass
2. Stop paying for water
3. Wait for water to be cut off.
Is the water still in the glass?
The story goes like this- the Orbiter is a mock up. The ET is a mock up. The right SRB is real, left one is fake. Seeing as the SRBs ARE reusable, they took the bottom nozzle/engine part of the SRB back, so they could reuse it again and again. Cost effective, and Columbia incident was totally not related to SRBs.
Perhaps they could just truck the other 2 to Florida and expand the exhibit? ;)
No way. They mean too much to the communities, especially in Huntsville, where they were all built and tested.
Apollo 1, anyone?
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