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August 29, 2005 12:04 AM
Broken: Duct tape on shuttle heater
Adam Gostenik asks, "Is it just me, or does something seem wrong with this photo? I didn't realize that NASA used duct tape to fix stuff."
The MSNBC photo (photo 15 here) has the caption:
Workers take a look at the newly installed liquid hydrogen bellows heater on Discovery's external tank.
im not sure what that is a photo of, but no flight hardware is treated like that - especially not ET foam. you can see from the photos before and after that on the MSNBC site that the personel working with the mated shuttle have propper work attire and badging. not only that, but whatever lab that guy is in is not the MLP or the VAB. looks like a KSC ET lab photo that has been mislabeled as a stacked/mated sts-114 photo...
Most people don't realize that the first space shuttle was actually made from a 1974 Dodge Dart (Swinger). I know because I took it over some sweet jumps.
I really don't know why this pic suggest or better yet proves this is the Shuttle. I think the person providing and accusing NASA of this needs a better case.
NASA used an adapter made from a plastic bag, cardboard, a sock, and duct tape to connect incompatible filters during Apollo 13.
Well, first of all, if it has duct tape on it, by definition it's not broken, because duct tape fixes everything. (And what duct tape doesn't fix, WD-40 will.)
But seriously, if you look at the rest of the slide show, this pic really does look out of place among all the other carefully-posed, artsy-hi-tech publicity-type shots. And the expression of the guy holding the light doesn't really inspire confidence either! I do wonder if it was slipped in accidentally on purpose, if you know what I mean.
but the real question w/ Apollo 13 is why the filters werent designed to be compatible in the first place! BROKEN. even if theyre not from the same company, NASA, of all organizations, should have been able to request/demand compatible filters
168,000 mile-per-hour tape? Heh!
Is there nothing duct tape can't do?
Seriously, forget your American Express card--you're nuts if you go into space without your duct tape...Don't leave home without it!
Actually if you look at pic 15 and then pic 16 the foam appears to be the same color and they appear to be in the same location. I beileve the duct tape is holding on the white cardboard temporarily and will be removed prior to launch, but since I'm not a rocket scientist, I really have no idea.
1. That looks nothing like NASA, the shuttle, or anything more than a broken window for that matter.
2. It may be there covering something up that people aren't supposed to see. There is plenty of junk that is marked as classified and therefore some of the people that work around the shuttle aren't allowed to see it.
3. It could be holding something there temporarally. I.E. someone took something out to do something to it and they put that there in the meantime to make sure that crap doesn't get into where they took the origional thing out.
asdfsadf - actually the orange/yellow color is the color of the ET, and its walls are ribbed as the photo shows. i have no problem believing that this is a picture of at least a section of the external tank, but this is not a shot from inside the verticle assembly building or on the mobile launch platform. its more likely that the MSNBC reporter got a tour of one of the labs where the engineering units (non-flight) are kept, but even so - im not sure what they would be doing with all this duct tape like that. once a the shuttle is stacked and mated, you arent allowed to touch it... especially not the ET foam.
Nothing with duct tape can be broken. Ask an engineer, you can fix ANYTHING with duct tape. My car bumper is taped on and it passed inspection last week.
This reminds me of a story I heard about Submarine ducttabe that is as strong as HY80 steel (steel that can take 80,000 pounds of pressure per square inch at a certain thickness), and was used for underwater hull repairs. Anyway, there were reports of green taped "mummies" wandering around amongst missile tubes, etc. I suppose they're better than gremlins. . .
That's pretty cool. I remember when we got rearended and the bumper was kind of hanging off and the cops would glare at us all the time because we couldn't pass inspection. Then we moved to Florida, where they don't have inspection.
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FIRST! HA!
Well, remember the foam incident?
Posted by: Tricky at August 29, 2005 12:29 AM