Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
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Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
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#2Very cool!
And, if you like this, you'd probably also enjoy learning about the Plutonium Pit storage areas at the Pantex plant:
http://cryptome.org/pantex-nukes.htm
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#3I'm not sure if it's the camera or the lighting, but these images all look suspiciously raytraced to me.
Re: Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
#4I'm not sure if it's the camera or the lighting, but these images all look suspiciously raytraced to me.
There are other photos by other photographers of these same rooms -- http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-s...
Edit: Same room at the other launch pad, 39A vs 39B. Both had identical blast rooms per the article.
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#5I think this is the end part of the "Emergency Egress System" which included a slide-wire basket from the top of the vehicle support structure/gantry.
Some of the images at http://history.nasa.gov/ap10fj/as10-image-library.htm do look a lot like the arched solid concrete room entrances, and there are a few of the wire system as well.
I recall (on HN I think) a while back there was an article about the slide part of the system and the crazy specifications required to attain some level of plausible survivability.
Edit: some more images at http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum40/HTML/000164.html including the armoured personnel carrier as a last hope contingency.
Edit 2: Found it! http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/how_t...
Re: Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
#6Very cool! And, if you like this, you'd probably also enjoy learning about the Plutonium Pit storage areas at the Pantex plant: http://cryptome.org/pantex-nukes.htm http://www.texasradiation.org/pantex.html http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9320/932010.PDF
From your second link:
On February 2, warning lights on a radiation warning system failed due to
previous software modifications to the fail-safe system. It was discovered
that no records of the revisions to the software were ever required or
maintained, so the direct cause of the malfunction was unclear.
Re: Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
#7I'm not sure if it's the camera or the lighting, but these images all look suspiciously raytraced to me.
There are other photos by other photographers of these same rooms -- http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-s... Edit: Same room at the other launch pad, 39A vs 39B. Both had identical blast rooms per the article.
Looking at those just makes me even more suspicious.
Compare http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptu... to http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d1...
Perhaps things were repainted, but then why does the handle on the door work in the opposite direction?
EDIT: Also, the "emergency egress route" has changed direction? In the Atlantic image, it is pointing "up" the door, indicating that people walk through it towards the camera (when the door is closed). In the Scriptunas image, it points to the left, which doesn't even make sense when the door is closed.
Re: Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
#8Very cool! And, if you like this, you'd probably also enjoy learning about the Plutonium Pit storage areas at the Pantex plant: http://cryptome.org/pantex-nukes.htm http://www.texasradiation.org/pantex.html http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9320/932010.PDF
From your second link: On February 2, warning lights on a radiation warning system failed due to previous software modifications to the fail-safe system. It was discovered that no records of the revisions to the software were ever required or maintained, so the direct cause of the malfunction was unclear. I have no words.
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Re: Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
#9Very cool! And, if you like this, you'd probably also enjoy learning about the Plutonium Pit storage areas at the Pantex plant: http://cryptome.org/pantex-nukes.htm http://www.texasradiation.org/pantex.html http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9320/932010.PDF
"A study by the DOE Plutonium Vulnerability Working Group concluded that the storage containers used to store pits do not provide an effective containment barrier, and that the effects of aging on the pits, such as corrosion and cracking, are unknown."
Lovely. Glad to see they are taking the necessary precautions to protect the 12k+ pits of plutonium at the Pantex site
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are other photos by other photographers of these same rooms -- http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-s... Edit: Same room at the other launch pad, 39A vs 39B. Both had identical blast rooms per the article.
Looking at those just makes me even more suspicious. Compare http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptu... to http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d1... Perhaps things were repainted, but then why does the handle on the door work in the opposite direction? EDIT: Also, the "emergency egress route" has changed direction? In the Atlantic image, it is pointing "up" the door, indicat…
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