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Topic: 8/7: Discovery's Channel "Dirty Jobs": Space Crawler Maintenance
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42986
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-26-2007 09:52 AM
   
From Florida Today:
TV show host gets down, dirty in crawler quote:
The men who keep the shuttle crawler transport moving crawl under and inside its belly, greasing gears and replacing belts to make sure the monstrous beast that lugs the shuttle to its launch pad stays in top working order.It's a dirty job. They know it, and they let the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe know it by getting him to crawl inside the giant trucks that move the crawler and scrape grease out from the frame. He found out for himself just how dirty a job it is when he visited Kennedy Space Center in January to tape a segment for his dirt-under-the-fingernails show that examines the filthiest, greasiest, most disgusting jobs on Earth. On Aug. 7, the day of the next scheduled shuttle launch, viewers can see for themselves just how dirty a job it is to make sure the shuttle crawler transport keeps moving. The 20-minute "Space Crawler Maintenance" segment is coupled with a segment on a painter for the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan.
For more about the crawler, see: Crawling to the Moon, 40 years laterFor more about "Dirty Jobs", see: Mike Rowe's World |
divemaster
Member Posts: 1376
From: ridgefield, ct
Registered: May 2002
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posted 07-27-2007 03:28 PM
Ooo...can't wait! Dirty Jobs is my favorite show on TV, hands down. Never fails to make me laugh - ever. Mike Rowe is hysterical as host. |
jabon
Member Posts: 21
From: Chattanooga, TN USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 08-07-2007 01:50 PM
Reminder, this airs tonight. |
Wehaveliftoff
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Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 08-08-2007 09:58 AM
It was amazing that they actually let the correspondent drive the thing for a little bit afterwards as well. Funny bit as the main workers were clean in their white cleaning outfits and the corr. was so dirty. |
divemaster
Member Posts: 1376
From: ridgefield, ct
Registered: May 2002
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posted 08-08-2007 10:24 AM
Found it interesting that they use 55 gallons of grease every time they make the trip to the pad.All I could think about is the story that Guenter tells about how it used to run on computer punch cards - and one day they had to unexpectedly move the crawler and the guy with the punch cards had brought them home with him. They had to track him down at a local bar so they could move the crawler.
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Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-10-2007 10:32 AM
Full episodes of "Dirty Jobs are now available on the Web. I just watched the crawler episode.Cliff |
SpaceDust
Member Posts: 115
From: Louisville, Ky USA
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 08-10-2007 04:04 PM
This same show is on again Saturday, 1:00 p.m. Eastern for anyone that missed it. |
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