Space Shuttle External Tank – 26.08.09

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Space Shuttle External Tank – 26.08.09

The external tank is the big orange thing you see on the outside of the shuttle.  You know, the one the bat was napping on?  As the name inplies the tank holds the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants.

  1. PlanetaryTV says:

    [..YouTube..] Good information. Look forward to more information. Maybe tomorrow Discovery will have better luck.

  2. PlanetaryTV says:

    Good information. Look forward to more information. Maybe tomorrow Discovery will have better luck.

  3. lestube001 says:

    [..YouTube..] one day there will be no need this tank.a ship that can from a runway to orbit in one peice

  4. lestube001 says:

    one day there will be no need this tank.a ship that can from a runway to orbit in one peice

  5. frag971 says:

    [..YouTube..] can you use kilograms, celcius and liters like the rest of the world? pounds, farenheit and galons are alien concepts :\ (and no im not speaking only for myself, and i dont want to keep a calculator with me everytime anyone says that)

    • Rick Boozer says:

      Frag,

      I’m American born, but I have to agree with you. Metric is much more logical once you get used to it. The people who hate it here are the ones who don’t want to expend the effort to start thinking in that system rather than the old English imperial system that they are taught from childhood. It’s just what they are used to. 12 inches to the foot, 36 inches or 3 feet to the yard, 5280 feet or 1760 yards to the mile: we’re masochists! How much more logical 10 mm to the cm, 10 cm to the dm, 10 dm to the m, 1000 m to the km!

  6. frag971 says:

    can you use kilograms, celcius and liters like the rest of the world? pounds, farenheit and galons are alien concepts :\ (and no im not speaking only for myself, and i dont want to keep a calculator with me everytime anyone says that)

  7. meazle says:

    [..YouTube..] NASA said they never ever going to change to the metric system. Because they have to rewrite all their software… Lame excuse if you ask me.

  8. meazle says:

    NASA said they never ever going to change to the metric system. Because they have to rewrite all their software… Lame excuse if you ask me.

  9. [..YouTube..] Yes, that would be lame. Because in science in America it’s all metric now, and it has beeen for quite some time already. And all instruments, like microscopes or telescopes or lab equipment like bottles and tubes and petrie dishes are metric. Obviously, it would kinda stupid if the reast of the world would have to waste time on interpreting american results into 20th/21st century language, hehe:)

  10. Yes, that would be lame. Because in science in America it’s all metric now, and it has beeen for quite some time already. And all instruments, like microscopes or telescopes or lab equipment like bottles and tubes and petrie dishes are metric. Obviously, it would kinda stupid if the reast of the world would have to waste time on interpreting american results into 20th/21st century language, hehe:)

  11. [..YouTube..] *be kinda stupid* Typo there:)

  12. *be kinda stupid* Typo there:)

  13. frag971 says:

    [..YouTube..] Tbh they should contract google or something to remake all their software. It has only benefits.

  14. frag971 says:

    Tbh they should contract google or something to remake all their software. It has only benefits.

  15. spacevidcast says:

    [..YouTube..] 600 lb (272 kg)
    58,500 lb (26,500 kg)
    1,680,000 lb (760,000 kg)
    395,581.9 US gal (1,497,440 l)
    3234 psi (220230 kPa) (absolute)
    −423 °F (−252.8 °C)

  16. spacevidcast says:

    600 lb (272 kg)
    58,500 lb (26,500 kg)
    1,680,000 lb (760,000 kg)
    395,581.9 US gal (1,497,440 l)
    3234 psi (220230 kPa) (absolute)
    −423 °F (−252.8 °C)

  17. snoopyloopy says:

    [..YouTube..] nasa is becoming obsolete and an optional component of space travel. however, that isn’t a lame excuse considering how much stuff they use the software for. that would be a formidable task and then you have the space craft that nasa communicates with to think about as well.

  18. snoopyloopy says:

    nasa is becoming obsolete and an optional component of space travel. however, that isn’t a lame excuse considering how much stuff they use the software for. that would be a formidable task and then you have the space craft that nasa communicates with to think about as well.

  19. frag971 says:

    [..YouTube..] awesome, now it suddently makes sence

    I guess you wouldn’t add notes on the videos displaying the metric values each time someone says a non-metric value? :D

  20. frag971 says:

    awesome, now it suddently makes sence

    I guess you wouldn’t add notes on the videos displaying the metric values each time someone says a non-metric value? :D

  21. QuarkSpin says:

    Nautical miles downrange? Anyone? Anyone?

  22. Jeph says:

    Quarkspin, it reenters somewhere in the pacific. Not sure how far downrange, but it seems like somewhere near 21,000 miles.

  23. Faztlan says:

    Goes to show the United States never has to change anything to metric. It’s called dominance. The rest of the world will just have to calulate the conversions!