Search Results for '2219'

  1. Return-to-Flight Shuttle redesign, The SRB Bolt Catcher.

    Aug
    28
    2013

    The 113th space shuttle flight (STS-107) launched from the Space Launch Complex at Kennedy Space Center January 16th 2003, on a scientific mission to collect research on several projects. This marked the orbiter Columbia’s 28th launch.   On February 1st 2003, Columbia and her crew were lost on re-entry. The Columbia Accident investigation Board, determined […]

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  2. An Icon of space travel, spurs of a new alloy.

    Aug
    23
    2013

    The Space Shuttle’s iconic, orange colored, external tank originally weighed in at 76,000 pounds. Made of aluminum 2219 alloy, it contained 535,000 gallons of liquid fuel, hydrogen and oxygen. At 154 feet tall, its height dwarfed the Wright Brother’s first flight by over 30 feet. Considered by many to be the structural backbone Shuttle System, […]

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