Reply With QuoteI was in El Paso last month and saw the Super Guppy take off. It flys so slow and it looks like it isn't moving. Amazing aircraft.
Back when NASA use to do stuff.
Was looking through my space pics and saw this one. Kinda depressing. There's 3 X-15s, the HL-10, the M2-F2, the M2-F1, and an F-5 Skylancer in this pic. (Amongst others.)
Last edited by C.Puffs; 03-26-2012 at 09:17 PM.
I was in El Paso last month and saw the Super Guppy take off. It flys so slow and it looks like it isn't moving. Amazing aircraft.
Must have been an amazing sight, quite the impressive plane. Never seen one in person but always loved how the B52 looked like it floated slow in low flight.Originally Posted by ABN MP
Meanwhile back at home.
They still do some cool stuff
^^ Yawn i wana see some sweet futuristic planes. Anybody who's been in their mothers basement for 20 years and plays with Lego Mindstorms can make a robot these days.
Yes robots are cool but NASA isn't what it used to be it seems.
Of course, their current budget is tiny compared to what it used to be during the 60s and 70s
That wheelie helicopter at 6:00 in the first video is epic
If the James Webb Space Telescope doesn't excite you, you either are dead or not a space-fan.
Weighing over six tons and positiond 1.5 million km from earth (four times the distance from earth to moon) and looking like nothing you've seen before, what is there not to like?
Assuming it makes it into space and then into it's location while still functioning. If we get another fvcked up mirror issue like with Hubble there will be no fixing it. And while NASA does have an occassional bright spot (Mars Science Laboratory - assuming it doesn't crash, JWST, etc.) it's a pale shadow of what it once was. Consider that during the time period that initial picture was taken we had Gemini flying, the USAF was working on the X-20 and MOL, NASA was flying the Saturn I & IB and was deep into design of the Saturn V/Apollo. They'd also begun studies of Saturn V's successor (Nova), were producing the F-1 rocket engine and were in hardware development with the even larger M-1. That's just off the top of my head.
I agree partly C.Puffs. But US is still the only Super Power in space and no other nation comes even close. I would love more competition, but I don't really see anyone...
I remember thinking the people at NASA were heroes when I was a kid and expected to be battling Aliens in space ships by now. So much for that. I feel really crappy for my kids who could careless about NASA now. It might as well be the DMV.
The DMV lands robots on Mars all the time.
NASA does amazing things within the confines of their tiny budget.
Yes, we won the Super Bowl, but the Super Bowl was last year, and the players are retired. It's nowhere but down from here on out unless something changes.
If NASA had the budget of the DoD, think of where we could be at today. We could be teleporting to sex parties by now.
I am down with that!
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