Discover Seattle!

General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on Aug 05 06 06:47

Title: How They Do It
Post by: TehBorken on Aug 05 06 06:47
Ever wonder how they attach the Space Shuttle to the airplane that carts it back from a landing. This is how: a big-ass harness.

(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/image/space-shuttle-harness.jpg)
(Do not stand in the red circle)
 
Title: Re: How They Do It
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 05 06 09:45
That building is creepy. You take a tour and they won't let you within a mile of the giant thing.

  [A href="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/STS-36_rollout.jpg"][img height=600 alt="" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/STS-36_rollout.jpg/750px-STS-36_rollout.jpg" width=750 border=0][/A]