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Topic: Photo of the week 28 (September 6)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 09-06-2005 10:15 AM
   
This is a reconstruction of the Mercury spacecraft that slammed into the water going about 400 miles an hour on July 29, 1960, during the Mercury-Atlas 1 suborbital flight test. A malfunction occured after about one minute of flight, resulting in water impact about 10 miles off Cape Caneveral. Spacecraft systems operated until impact.Ed Hengeveld |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-06-2005 10:32 AM
As bad as it looked back then, it appears to have been more complete then it is today on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center:  |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 09-06-2005 01:33 PM
Very interesting observation. I think my photo may have been taken from the "good" side, or from below, as seen in your photo.Ed |
dss65
Member Posts: 1156
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 09-06-2005 09:17 PM
Good thing Enos wasn't on that one; he'd have REALLY been ****ed!------------------
Don |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 09-06-2005 11:56 PM
Don, quit monkeying around. I didn't know
their was a primate named Ed. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 09-07-2005 03:36 AM
Watch it, you guys!Ed |
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