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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: An4ximandros on October 09, 2012, 05:23:58 pm

Title: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: An4ximandros on October 09, 2012, 05:23:58 pm: A rather amusing article about how one could be able to steal the space shuttle while it travels through LA, definitely worthy of a Bond supervillain.

http://jalopnik.com/5949166/how-to-steal-the-space-shuttle-a-step+by+step-guide
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: Nuke on October 09, 2012, 08:10:17 pm: win.

honestly with the money you put into stealing a spacecraft designed in the 70s, you could probibly just build a new state of the art spacecraft instead. you just need to find some nazis (http://xkcd.com/984/).
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: karajorma on October 09, 2012, 08:27:02 pm: But if you already have a Buran, why would you steal Endeavour?
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: An4ximandros on October 09, 2012, 08:32:17 pm: "It's not about the shuttle, it's about sending a message."
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: Goober5000 on October 10, 2012, 02:01:05 am: :wtf: :lol:

That is pretty awesome. I was going to say that they won't be able to launch Endeavour since NASA performed a main-propulsion-system-ectomy on it, but that wouldn't be an issue if they could somehow find an Energia rocket to launch it on. Of course, refurbishment would take quite a lot of work regardless.
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: Nohiki on October 10, 2012, 11:10:29 am: Nice, although i have seen Buran shuttle in Speyer museum, and i gotta give it to the soviets, their machine was better in design. *bricked*. same with TU-144 and concorde. It might be that they jsut improved on stolen blueprints, but hey :D
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: General Battuta on October 10, 2012, 12:13:24 pm: Buran was a better STS than the STS.
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: kev11106 on October 10, 2012, 01:10:35 pm: I'd rather steal a Skylon...
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: Polpolion on October 10, 2012, 01:17:28 pm: Quote from: General Battuta on October 10, 2012, 12:13:24 pm
Buran was a better STS than the STS.

probably. there are always a lot of quirks that you can only find through continued use of the system, and sts's quirks just happened to kill a bunch of people so the bar isn't very high considering what I know about buran. and for whatever it's worth, nasa is usually totally anal about the trls of things they send into space. i just don't know much about how the soviets did things or how the russians do things.

in any case, i'd rather steal the endeavor because it was actually used. i'd just as soon steal the buran as i would the enterprise.
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: StarSlayer on October 10, 2012, 01:32:01 pm: If it was like there submarine program I probably wouldn't.
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: Herra Tohtori on October 10, 2012, 02:11:02 pm: Quote from: StarSlayer on October 10, 2012, 01:32:01 pm
If it was like there submarine program I probably wouldn't.

It was nothing like their submarine program.

For one, it was not powered by a nuclear reactor.
Title: Re: Theft of Endeavour
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 10, 2012, 04:13:31 pm: Quote from: Herra Tohtori on October 10, 2012, 02:11:02 pm
It was nothing like their submarine program.

For one, it was not powered by a nuclear reactor.

That's not much of an endorsement considering some of their diesels.