Posted on 01/06/2018 10:51:31 AM PST by BulletBobCo
OK, but that means he had to smuggle it back out of orbit too.
It would be great if we managed to put a man back on the moon before the last of them leave us.
I don’t see that happening but it would be nice.
I don’t see it happening before I go and I am only 57.
For purposes of argument it is inconsequential.
Can’t just hear the media freak out, should that were ever happen.
I’m surprised that one of the first space shuttle crew men didn’t smugggle up a 3 Musketeers Candy Bar.
John Young grew up in my former home town, Orlando, FL, so he was a hero there. I remember when the local science museum & planetarium were named after him.
I have the autographs of all 12. Going fast...
RIP, space pioneer.
God Speed John Young!
Spicy mustard
That is awesome!
He is travelling far beyond the moon.
He later said, when he took out the sandwich, he knew he had made a big mistake - a thousand tiny breadcrumbs, that were shaken off during the launch, floated all over the cabin, getting stuck in everything.
That would work
Brown mustard, spicy mustard, yellow mustard or Thousand Island for me.
I sometimes combine the mustard with the TI.
RIP.
I was a graduate student at The University of Wisconsin in April 1981 when the Shuttle first went up. I left a class and went to the student union just before the landing to watch the television coverage. The TV room - with an early projection screen TV - was packed to overflowing, I couldn’t even get in the door. I ran about 3 blocks to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, and went to the TV room in the basement - standing room only, as well, but I could see the set. You could hear a pin drop in that crowd, not normally respectful. With all we learned in subsequent missions, STS-1 was no sure bet, there was significant courage involved. I recall the sense of awe in the crowd watching the event with me. I walked out of there ten feet tall, proud of yet another American accomplishment that no other country on earth cold touch.
RIP John Young!
Godspeed, John Young.
John Young and Bob Crippen were two brave men.
Think about this....they flew the first space transportation system (STS) mission. The whole integrated system was never “launched” or tested unmanned prior to STS-1. Every other manned rocket was first tested unmanned.
The STS consisted of an orbiter, an external tank and two solid rocket boosters. They were tested individually and in some limited integrated tests,but there was no test flight prior to STS-1.
The orbiter (Enterprise) underwent many tests including drop tests out in California to test how it would perform during unpowered(no propulsion) landings.
The boosters were test fired in Utah.
One of the few integrated tests that they could do was a main engine firing that tested the external tank and the orbiter’s (Columbia’s) main engines. The tank was fueled and the main engines fired for several seconds while on the launch pad.
The number of processes/events (pyrotechnics for separation of the tank and boosters, software timing, etc) that weren’t or couldn’t be tested as part of an integrated flight is astonishing.
Can you imagine getting into a rocket system that had never had the entire system rung out prior to your first mission?
And to think that he knew all that and much more and yet still wanted to fly that mission....amazing man!
What would be going through your mind as you sat in the orbiter, a few hours prior to launch? What kind of pucker factor would that rate?
Well done, John Young! Thank you for your service!
Godspeed, John Young.
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