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The Space Shuttle crash

posted 10 years ago by morgant6911
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I'm not sure why a shuttle co-pilot would be carrying a VFR sectional chart of the LA area, but there are about 20 suitable airports within 50 miles of the greater LA area that they could have landed on.

[–] Movie-Bandit 10 years ago

Would you please quit being logical LOL

[–] gabby_bm 9 years ago

too much normal air traffic to make room for a space shuttle landing. Still, isn't the Mojave friggin Desert just about 100 miles away from L.A.? I would think even THAT would be more suitable for a landing than downtown LA

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[–] MadSimian 9 years ago

Even in the real world, the Shuttle is, for lack of a better word, basically a glider when it comes to flight within the atmosphere. A very heavy and cumbersome glider. In fact, within NASA, it has been referred to as a "flying brick". lol

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/unflyable_prt.htm

Not to mention, it has no thrust capability aside from what is used to get it out of the atmosphere in the first place and, even then, it still needs additional boosters to do even that.

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[–] wesperkins 8 years ago

I had a young teen ask me what a space shuttle was the other day.. Good lord it dates me.
Anyway, landing a space shuttle in a ditch may be the most unrealistic part of all the unrealistic things in the movie to me. I watched that scene again, and literally had to ask myself if they expected us to believe that possible without laughing. But then I watched the rest of the movie and realized that yes they did, and maybe it's actually the most realistic part of the movie.