Space Shuttle Main Engine

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Comment count is 9

Diogenes

- 2008-08-22

SUCK ON THAT, GRAVITY

ProfessorChaos

- 2008-08-22

Hell yes.

kiint - 2008-08-22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdk9M5BGMw

real time

Xenocide

- 2008-08-22

HELL YES.

Say what you will about humanity, but for all we may have gotten and will continue to get wrong, we've been to goddamn space.

dancingshadow

- 2008-08-23

So they light the rockets like we used to light bunsen burners in 10th grade ?

NASA's lame.

kiint - 2008-08-23

no.

read the YouTube comments:

* The "sparks" are igniters meant to burn off excess hydrogen gas during engine start but before mainstage (full power) operation. Without these, a large cloud of explosive hydrogen and air could form under the Shuttle. If it exploded, it could damage the Shuttle structure or knock off tiles. These sparks DO NOT "ignite" the rocket engines. Engine ignition is accomplished by an internal "blowtorch" of fuel and oxidizer in each engine, which is ignited with sparkplugs!

j lzrd / swift idiot

- 2008-08-23

LIFTED IN DEFIANCE OF GRAVITY or however that quote goes around here.

Scrotum H. Vainglorious

- 2008-08-23

I guess you wouldn't want to stand under that.

RockBolt

- 2008-08-23

Need to find one that captures that weird, almost scream, that the main engines make when they start

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