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The Mystery Traveling Box
- Thread starter Spider
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Thanks... Craig must be overwhelmed!
Trying to decide what to take from the box!!!
Maybe I'll just keep everything and refill it with my stuff.
, would that be cheating or too greedy?
Damn....that as going to be my plan.
Well after about 9 or 10 times of packing, nope that ain't going to close, unpacking, rearranging, nope, unpack, rearrange.......well you get the idea! Some of you have already done this I suspect. Others I suspect your time is coming! I finally got the box to close!
Tapped that sucker shut, put the "Click N Ship label on it. Ready to go to @dangerousdon !
SWMBO said she would take it to PO for me tomorrow so it won't have to sit in my truck all day long at work. Supposed to be in the 90's here again tomorrow.
I'll get the pictures of what I took out of the box, and the "Flat Spider" pictures edited and posted tonight I hope.
OH got to send the "What I put in the box pictures to @Spider too! Busy, busy, busy.
Tapped that sucker shut, put the "Click N Ship label on it. Ready to go to @dangerousdon !
SWMBO said she would take it to PO for me tomorrow so it won't have to sit in my truck all day long at work. Supposed to be in the 90's here again tomorrow.
I'll get the pictures of what I took out of the box, and the "Flat Spider" pictures edited and posted tonight I hope.
OH got to send the "What I put in the box pictures to @Spider too! Busy, busy, busy.
Totally can't wait! Thanks Craig!
Okay here are the pictures of "Flat Spider's" adventure today.
I first took him to one of the Historical Sites on Redstone Arsenal. These areas are not accessible by the general public.
Unless the Space and Rocket Center NASA tour comes here, I'm not sure if they do or not.
Sorry about the picture quality. For some reason my phone's camera focused on "Flat Spider".
This is the Test Bunker were they fired and monitored the rockets from.
The test stand behind the bunker.
The building (tower) in the background is the Saturn V dynamic test stand. It is were the Saturn V rocket and the Space Shuttle were tested prior to the vehicles' first flights. Designated building 4550, it stands 363 feet tall and is 98 feet square. NASA built the test stand in 1964 to conduct mechanical and vibrational tests on the fully assembled Saturn V rocket. Major problems capable of causing failure of the vehicle were discovered and corrected here.
The new building was so tall that in 1966 when the Saturn V first stage was entering, an observer noted, "Fog and clouds hovered around the top of the 360 foot tall test stand most of the day while the 300,000 pounds stage was being lifted from its transporter into place inside the stand, said to be the tallest building in Alabama."
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985.
In addition to the Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, designated SA-500D, two Space Shuttle test vehicles, Pathfinder and Enterprise, were also tested in this facility.
So far as I know you have to have special access to the area were the stand is located.
Next stop on the base was what is called "Rocket Park"
I first took him to one of the Historical Sites on Redstone Arsenal. These areas are not accessible by the general public.
Unless the Space and Rocket Center NASA tour comes here, I'm not sure if they do or not.
Sorry about the picture quality. For some reason my phone's camera focused on "Flat Spider".
This is the Test Bunker were they fired and monitored the rockets from.
The test stand behind the bunker.
The building (tower) in the background is the Saturn V dynamic test stand. It is were the Saturn V rocket and the Space Shuttle were tested prior to the vehicles' first flights. Designated building 4550, it stands 363 feet tall and is 98 feet square. NASA built the test stand in 1964 to conduct mechanical and vibrational tests on the fully assembled Saturn V rocket. Major problems capable of causing failure of the vehicle were discovered and corrected here.
The new building was so tall that in 1966 when the Saturn V first stage was entering, an observer noted, "Fog and clouds hovered around the top of the 360 foot tall test stand most of the day while the 300,000 pounds stage was being lifted from its transporter into place inside the stand, said to be the tallest building in Alabama."
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985.
In addition to the Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, designated SA-500D, two Space Shuttle test vehicles, Pathfinder and Enterprise, were also tested in this facility.
So far as I know you have to have special access to the area were the stand is located.
Next stop on the base was what is called "Rocket Park"
woodpusher
TSC’s International Man of Meh
Now that's just so cool!
Dang. He's just going to see an ambulance when he gets to me. Rockets are way better.
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Then I took "Flat Spider" to the U.S Space and Rocket Center.
Flat Spider and the Full Size Saturn V model that is a well known landmark.
This is one of the actual SR-71 Blackbirds on display in front of the center.
This is the full sized model of the Pathfinder Space Shuttle with booster rockets and external fuel tank.
Flat Spider wanted to attend space camp, but they said his hair would not fit into a space suit helmet.
Flat Spider and the Full Size Saturn V model that is a well known landmark.
This is one of the actual SR-71 Blackbirds on display in front of the center.
This is the full sized model of the Pathfinder Space Shuttle with booster rockets and external fuel tank.
Flat Spider wanted to attend space camp, but they said his hair would not fit into a space suit helmet.
Sorry I couldn't fit any bourbon into the box.