Test your Space Shuttle knowledge

[Mad Doug Biker]

I travelled all the way to Stansted to see one. Can't remember which one it was but it was riding piggyback on the 747. It had been to the Paris air show and stopped for a couple of days. The apron it parked on was opened so you could walk around and under the plane. The day it left for home it came out over Stevenage so we had a good view of it making a very slow and steady climb. I have some pictures somewhere, if i can find them i'll scan them and post them.

The original one, Enterprise?

 

[on the road]

I got 5/7, only one was a guess, the total distance I worked out from the fact that the shuttle takes 90 minutes to orbit the earth, so 16 orbits in a day multiplied 10 days in orbit (rough guess) multiplied by 134 shuttle missions multiplied by 40075 km for the circumference of the earth, I wasn't far off (no pun intended).

 

[summerdays]

On another note the Challenger explosion is one of those 'always remember where you were' moments for me..

I was about to have my evening meal in hall at Uni ... but decided to watch the launch first in the room next door.

I got 4!