201280365906: Space shuttle frangible nut

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Topic: 201280365906: Space shuttle frangible nut

Rowland
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Posts: 33
From: England, U.K.
Registered: Jul 2011

posted 02-11-2015 01:24 PM

Can I please ask for your opinions on this eBay auction for a NASA Space Shuttle Flown Frangible Explosive Nut reportedly from the final flight of Atlantis. Thank you.

TR1
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Registered: Feb 2015

posted 02-24-2015 03:32 PM

That is a shuttle 3.5" frangible nut. The listing is incorrect on several points.

These were used to hold the shuttle SRBs to the launch platform prior to launch. Both halves of the nut stayed with the SRB and were then recovered after launch. A slightly different design was used during the last few years of the shuttle program. That nut definitely was not from the last flight of Atlantis.

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