PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Its not rocket science...or is it?
View Single Post
Old 8th Feb 2008, 12:28
  #18 (permalink)  
Spanner Turner
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Standing at P37
Posts: 187
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
we were watching one of the space shuttle landings when the Station Engineer was heard to say, "Yeah, but it isn't rocket science is it? at which point we all collapsed in a heap!!

Well, to be fair he was correct - no rocket motors are used in the landing phase of a space shuttle - it's all "gliding science" at this stage.

sorry - couldn't help myself.

Spanner Turner is offline