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Title: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Fud on September 18, 2012, 05:41:57 PM: NASA/Langley is having an open house this Saturday (9-22) 10 am to 4 pm...
Who's going besides me :D
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: icepac on September 18, 2012, 07:01:04 PM: I used to drop my mom off there to work and had a friend who's mom also worked there.

We used to come back around lunchtime with big gulp cups full of beer and dressed in khakis so we could sit in the courtyard and scope hotties for an hour or so.

There is also an active farm if you follow the signs to the federal highway administration research branch office and then go past it to a cia gate with a camera.

I'm sure it's more secure now and not a good idea to wander around.

They also have a boat dock and a few employees used to row a skull or kayak to work.
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: nrshida on September 19, 2012, 02:38:21 AM: Quote from: icepac on September 18, 2012, 07:01:04 PM
We used to come back around lunchtime with big gulp cups full of beer and dressed in khakis so we could sit in the courtyard and scope hotties for an hour or so.

Is that like bird watching? :old:
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Shuffler on September 19, 2012, 08:59:22 AM: We built parts for up there.
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Fud on September 19, 2012, 09:06:37 PM: and Shida.....photos are permitted!!!!
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: nrshida on September 20, 2012, 01:54:05 AM: Epic, looking forward to some highlights :rock :salute
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Fud on September 22, 2012, 05:24:35 PM: SWEEEEET!!!!!! They did a vertical drop test of the Orion capsule from 25 feet into the hydraulic impact basin to simulate if the capsule had a one of the 3 chutes fail. I was like 100 feet away....video coming soon!
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Fud on September 23, 2012, 02:11:55 PM: Here's the Orion space capsule (This is the test capsule) being drop tested in the Hydro Impact Basin. This was an actual test to collect data if the space capsule came were to come down with only 2 of the 3 chutes deployed.
The capsules always came in at an angle into the water to reduce the G load on the astronauts. I heard an engineer say its only about 2-3 Gs coming down like this.

This test is at the "Gantry" where the Apollo capsules were also tested among other aircraft and vehicles...

BTW the open house was freaking awesome on the geek scale!

Here's the video of the drop test....enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR2jD4AlVsI
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Tupac on September 23, 2012, 04:55:32 PM: Quote from: nrshida on September 19, 2012, 02:38:21 AM
Is that like bird watching? :old:

Cat watching.
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Shuffler on September 24, 2012, 03:35:35 PM: Open house at NASA Houston is pretty cool too. Trying to land the shuttle is a beast for most folks. They don't let visitors on the full scale simulator but they do let you fly the softwareat a station.
Title: Re: NASA/Langley open house!!!
Post by: Fud on September 24, 2012, 07:30:35 PM: It's too bad the open house is every 5 years at Langley...There is too much to see in the mere 6 hours its open..