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bluespace88
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« on: May 11, 2009, 09:04:04 PM »

I visited Kitty Hawk earlier today, and noticed on Window 1 this crack on it.


Any idea where this came from?  I know they did an experiment concerning micrometeorites and windows, but I don't remember them reporting about something this big.  So, was this present during flight, or a result of some postflight problem.
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2009, 02:15:01 PM »

I guess it happened after the flight, but, did you take a picture?
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2009, 04:53:52 PM »

Sorry, didn't notice that orbiter-forum pictures don't show here.  Should be working now.
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2009, 06:38:05 PM »

I think the crack might have happened during a transport of the capsule. The Apollo hardware is about 4 decades old and I sadly have to realize on some photos across the web that obviously it is not always handled very carefully.

While we work on that stuff and recreate it for Orbiter, it actually always is a little bit strange when I think about the fact that those who invented all the Apollo technology (and especially the instrument panels Wink) are mostly between 70 and 80 years old meanwhile and partly even death already. Although on the other hand the technology somehow still is "modern", because nobody traveled to the moon manned with any different technology until today Happy

I wish I could visit the Apollo hardware too some day in the USA. But I fear this is going to happen at a time when most of the former Apollo people will be death already which will turn Apollo into real history. The remaining people/witnesses of that amazing NASA era are going to disappear within the next years...
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2009, 08:20:49 PM »

I wish I could meet the people of that era too.  I got pretty close to meeting Buzz Aldrin at a gala, but at the last minute, he had to bow out, so all we got was a video of him, followed by some boring talk from the then new administrator Michael Griffin...

If you do come down, let me know so we can geek out on the Apollo hardware  Very Happy
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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2009, 10:48:04 AM »

If you do come down, let me know so we can geek out on the Apollo hardware  Very Happy

That would be cool Happy

I only met one real astronaut in my life, but only because he (Thomas Reiter) is a friend of a friend or my parents. They both flew Tornados in the same squadron of the German Air Force. Rather nice and extremely fun-loving persons.
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