Build Your Own Space Shuttle!! Free Parts!!

[300EVIL]

Yeah, If I had the money I'd hire a flatbed to pick up a couple. Talk about a conversation piece! Although you'd need to be Bill Gates to afford 1,000 gallons per second of LOX and hydrogen needed to run them at full throttle.

[clandestiny]

interesting, id take the engines if i could afford the shuttle-

id get those things running on pump case no problem-

[RGbee]

It would be sad to see shuttle end up like Buran, stored out side, beat to death and then sold to a high bidder. Note, Buran is Shuttleski..
Perhaps might have been a improvement in some ways.

Steve

I've been inside Buran. It's on display at the Technical Museum in Speyer (Germany)
http://speyer.technik-museum.de/node/649
It's housed in a massive air monitored hangar on the site, and i have to say it's bloody enormous.
The steps lead you up the back and into what looks like the sub-section of a loading bay. Definately well worth a visit

[mixedgas]

I've been inside Buran. It's on display at the Technical Museum in Speyer (Germany)
http://speyer.technik-museum.de/node/649
It's housed in a massive air monitored hangar on the site, and i have to say it's bloody enormous.
The steps lead you up the back and into what looks like the sub-section of a loading bay. Definately well worth a visit

Nice to see her in a good place. Shes a test bird, evidently the flight bird was destroyed in a hanger collapse.

The one stuck in a park outside was a disgrace the last time I saw a pic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program

Its a shame, since they have one БУРАН that has never flown. Wonder how hard it would be to set it to match the US booster.

Steve

[sugeek]

I know that Evergreen Air Venture Museum was working on getting, there was an article awhile ago. I would love to see a space shuttle next to the spruce goose and the titan 2. It is silly that they are going backwards rather than forwards though in manned space flight. -Adam

[mccarrot]

And what the fuck are you going to do with them???

add DMX control to the engines and build a bigger version of these:

[buffo]

You bring the shuttle main engine, I'll bring the hot dogs! (Or the marshmallows, if you prefer.)

Who's gonna bring the LOX and LH2 though? (You need an olympic-sized swimming pool to store enough fuel and oxidizer for a 60 second run...)

Adam

[dream beamz]

great, now i can finally do this

http://www.break.com/index/guys-star...et-engine.html