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Old 10-29-2014, 03:57 PM
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Orbital Sciences stock is down 17% today. NASA is going to make them jump through a bunch of hoops on their accident investigation of this.
Ouch, that's going to leave a mark.

Have you been down to see the Shuttle at the Smithsonian Pat? The Air and Space museum in LA has an extra main shuttle engine on display here.

I need to edit all the pics I took when we took the tour recently.
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Old 10-29-2014, 04:04 PM
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Ouch, that's going to leave a mark.

Have you been down to see the Shuttle at the Smithsonian Pat? The Air and Space museum in LA has an extra main shuttle engine on display here.

I need to edit all the pics I took when we took the tour recently.
Yep. The Smithsonian annex at Dulles, the Udvar-Hazy Center, is feckin' awesome. In addition to the shuttle, they have an SR-71 Blackbird, the Enola Gay, a Concorde, and hundreds of other interesting aircraft. It's an immense facility.
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Yep. The Smithsonian annex at Dulles, the Udvar-Hazy Center, is feckin' awesome. In addition to the shuttle, they have an SR-71 Blackbird, the Enola Gay, a Concorde, and hundreds of other interesting aircraft. It's an immense facility.
Our little museum is on track to build a new $250 million dollar structure to house the Endeavor. Ours will have the full set up, SRBs and fuel tank included. The plans call for it to be upright with the cargo bay doors open showing the spacelab mounted inside.

The Udvar-Hazy is top of my bucket list.

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Our little museum is on track to build a new $250 million dollar structure to house the Endeavor. Ours will have the full set up, SRBs and fuel tank included. The plans call for it to be upright with the cargo bay doors open showing the spacelab mounted inside.

The Udvar-Hazy is top of my bucket list.
The only thing I've seen to compare to the Udvar-Hazy is the Museum of the Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton.
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