When We Left Earth - Inside The Shuttle - #1

The shuttle's uses the world's most powerful rockets to propel it into Earth orbit.

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[tlages]

@carabinieri210 Space toilets on Skylab/Shuttle/Mir/ISS. Before that they either used a diaper or a hose/bag system. Very Very unpleasant.

[EMD645E]

@carabinieri210 It couldn't be easy. I hear they have to be belted to the toilet.

[Lauderish]

@carabinieri210 In a toilet.

[carabinieri210]

HOW DO THEY SHIT IN OUTER SPACE??

[FreedomLiberty21]

@silicon212 last one, sorry :)

I would HIGHLY recommend watching "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions" a Discover Channel HD miniseries that covers NASA's efforts from the first Mercury flights to the assembling of the International Space Station (including all the Apollo Missions). It also goes into detail about the Saturn V.

FYI, if you have Netflix, its available now for instant viewing.

[FreedomLiberty21]

@silicon212 in S-II or stage 2, its J-2 rocket engines produced 1.125 milion lb. of thrust and by this point the Saturn V is accelerating at 15,508 mph.

by any measure, the Saturn V was grander, more powerful and more impressive than any Shuttle rockets.

and why wouldn't it? after all this was the vehicle that took men to the Moon, by necessity it would have to be more powerful and carry a far greater payload than the Shuttle to accomplish its mission.

[FreedomLiberty21]

@silicon212 lets take into account just the first stage of burn on the Saturn V. According to the NASA website, the Saturn V's F-1 engines produced 7.648 million lb. of thrust in S-IC or stage 1 (which lasted two and a half minutes) as the Saturn V was propelled to a height of 42 miles, at a speed of 6,164 miles per hour) For later Apollo missions (15, 16, and 17) the engines were slightly modified and upgraded so that its thrust was 7.823 million lb. in S-IC.

[silicon212]

@FreedomLiberty21 SRBs each produce 3.1 million pounds thrust - more powerful than the F1 engines of the Saturn V by 80% - and there's two of them (6.2 million pounds thrust combined).

[FreedomLiberty21]

hmmm, I'm quite sure the Saturn V rocket is FAR more powerful than any Shuttle rocket (even with the additional fuel tanks)

[ezcomander]

@a4tech357 glad to be of help =)