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Topic: Blooming Saturn
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rocketJoe
Member Posts: 103
From: Huntsville, AL USA
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-26-2008 01:17 PM
   
 Image taken this past Saturday (March 22) from the Huntsville Botanical Gardens near the US Space and Rocket Center (vertical Saturn is a full-scale display). |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-26-2008 01:36 PM
Bloomin' marvellous! |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-26-2008 01:49 PM
Last year at Camp we toured the Gardens, which are absolutely beautiful and serene. I'd been going to camp for a number of years and didn't even know the Gardens existed. Thanks for the great shot!--John |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-26-2008 02:39 PM
Looks like all you have to do is fuel her up and.....3-2-1 |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-26-2008 10:05 PM
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Originally posted by Ejectr: Looks like all you have to do is fuel her up and.....3-2-1
What, and burn all those lovely flowers? |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 03-27-2008 06:30 AM
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Originally posted by FFrench:
What, and burn all those lovely flowers?
So you put a flame trench under the rocket that deflects the exhaust away from the flowers.  |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 03-27-2008 08:39 AM
One of my favorite views is from the opposite side of the rocket -- leaving Marshall, you have the sight of what appears to be a Saturn V in a cowfield. Very Huntsville.------------------
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Mr Meek
Member Posts: 353
From: Chattanooga, TN
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 03-27-2008 09:50 AM
Heh, I love my hometown. Such a bizarre dichotomy of science and, well, rural Alabama. I love coming down 565 west, and seeing the Saturn V off in the distance.Well, that and the golf ball water tower. Heh. |
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