When We Left Earth - Inside the Shuttle - #2

[professorkingy]

Society can, yet again, thank Richard Feynman for many of the safety and maintenance procedures shown here. Prior to his somewhat scathing report of NASA's admin for distorting probabilities for flight failure in his final findings on the Challenger disaster, turbine blade cracks in high pressure fuel turbopumps was a problem that still required remedy.

[kcoikid]

my parents work(ed) on that thing, and both of them will say that its the most complicated flying machine ever

[ltuomela]

bout time they informed us a little..sheeeeesh i mean after all we the people pay for this shit..which is a great investment to be clear...

[kissmygrittsyall]

@ltuomela

Your tax dollars are mainly going to poorly thought-out wars.

Very little ever reaches NASA.

[RoPWU]

a new series for when we left earth?

when does it come out in the box set?