Space Shuttle Not Quick Enough
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Just been looking at my log book from the Space Shuttle days (before I bought the sleigh). Only thing I couldn't find was the colour code. Are shuttles Carrera White or Carrara White?
Mine was white with red NASA script. Apparently there are a few white with Blue script and there are rumours that they are quicker. Don't know why that is though.
Mine was white with red NASA script. Apparently there are a few white with Blue script and there are rumours that they are quicker. Don't know why that is though.
Clevers said:
Does anyone know this shuttle ? Saw at a local Indie and its cheaper than anything I've seen NASA dealers recently. Has reconditioned fuel tanks, and has done a thousand or so lightyears, should I be worried ?
Be very careful, i had a look at that one and it turned out to be stolen recovered if it is the one at Universe Salvage! 
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IMI A said:
Hi its Sean Bean here and I race Shuttles in the Nasa Challenge professionally. Shuttles with rear thrusters require experienced tuition and I'm sure you're only getting 70% out of it at the mo. Look me up at my website and tuition with myself, Steve or Mark will get you flying at nearly optimum warp speed.
Hi Sean. Just got your e-mail sent through my profile in which you praised my Saturn 5 and then went on to offer me racing space flight tuition.......but then I realised I would have to pay so I will have to say no thanks.Edited by IMI A on Thursday 11th October 17:55
That's what drives me mad about this place. None of you seems old enough to remember when cars were cars or rockets were rockets. No mention of the Atlas yet. I mean, the Saturn V was great and all, and certainly went well - fair play to those that bought them.... I've no wish to start that whole debate again. But look at the size of it. It was over-heavy, over-complicated, had too many safety-nanny devices, and was the product of a lowest-bid programme that saw marginal quality in places, as Von Braun tried to broaden its appeal and make it all things to all men - or all mankind if you prefer. I mean - they found a spanner lost in the wiring of Apollo 1. You'd hardly fit a spanner in an Atlas - but then, the sort of guys that bought the Saturn were guys like Shepherd that would insist on packing his golf clubs. And what was with the 3 seater design and port-a-SUV moon buggy? The type of guy you'd find in an Atlas would consider travelling with more than one bloke in his cockpit totally bent. And speaking of the cockpit, the Saturns were a bit plasticky and lost a lot of the personality that made the older machine such a fun place to sit. Too many buttons and procedures. Check out the flick Apollo 13. They'd have lost an hour of that if they had cut out Gary Sinise trying to deactivate the traction control without deactivating the ABS, whilst getting the climate and the navigation system 'just so'. True - a few Atlases exploded, but it was that scary reputation that gave the early machines the cachet that the later machines traded on so cynically.
gorisan26 said:
Trouble with the shuttle is soon as you've left the launch pad you've lost 30% of the list price, best bet is to go for pre owned or if you're after a true bargain go for the challenger! it might be cat D but buy cheap sell cheap!
30%! Pah! That's nothing, you accelerate away from the launch pad in the Saturn V and you've lost 90% of her before you see the stars 
I don't know if any of you guys are interested but I'm selling off back issues of 911 & out of this World Magazine. Issue 27 has a fully detailed description of how to change the ball joints on the mk1 and mk2 Space Shuttle. In issue 34 there's an article on `how I replaced all the ceramic tiles` on my mk2 Space Shuttle. It might not be of interest to many of you but it is truly soporific stuff...sends me to sleep anyway.
Also read that a local builder with Russian connections is trying to build a Shuttle. The Trans Vortex Rocket was tested to be the fastest shuttle ever made but broke down on launch!
Seen being recovered onto the back of a 747 going north.
Seen being recovered onto the back of a 747 going north.
Edited by bluesatin on Thursday 11th October 21:17
Sorry to hijack the post but I am having a problem with NASA with respect to a problem with my latest shuttle. I have only had 5 landings and the PCCBs (Planetary Counter Centifugal Balancers) have started to crumble and degrade. NASA said they would be good for 300,000 light years and endless landing but now they are failing they don't want to know.
ANyone else got problems with the PCCBs on their shuttle??
ANyone else got problems with the PCCBs on their shuttle??
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