“A remote controlled plane with a camera flies over the US Space Center in Huntsville. You can see a bunch of current and past space craft including the Saturn V.”
I don’t know what’s cooler, the space center or the plane. I reeeeally want one of those.
http://www.break.com/index/rc-plane-flies-over-us-space-center.html
I’ll tell you what’s cooler: the world’s largest RC model aircraft, from that same site. Wow! A 460-pound RC plane! Four 160cc engines. I’ve ridden motorcycles with less than 160cc.
But not the largest RC plane (at least by wingspan) Helios is much bigger
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/Helios/index.html
Brian
Technically, Helious isn’t a ‘model airplane’ though.
that is why I said “Largest RC plane” and did NOT put “model” anywher in my post.
Brian
Could they fly one of those over top secret stuff?
That is so cool. If I had a bajillion and a half dollars, I’d get one.
Wait, there’s a Space Center in Huntsville? I thought the only thing in Huntsville was the bigass statue of President Sam Houston along the highway. Do they mean the space center in Houston? The two cities are more or less in the same region, but they’re quite a drive away from each other.
EDIT: Whoops, wrong Huntsville.
This is just Space Camp…I know because I went there when I was in Junior High. There’s nothing “Top Secret” here, it’s just the camp for kids.
Google Map Link - Proof
Right, it’s the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, a tourist attraction like Space Center Houston or the Visitors Center at Kennedy Space Center. Except that those other places actually send up or control rockets, and Huntsville is not directly involved in space operations, AFAIK.
But nothing top secret.
there is Marshall Space Flight Center This where the Main Engines are tested, I was there in the late eighties as a kid and did a tour on the grounds at Marshall/Redstone Arsenal where they had mockups of Space Station Freedom.
I think all the suport for space station experiments happens out of Marshall, alot of the design work happens there as well.
Oh and I also attended Space camp while in Jr. High, it was cool!
Not directly involved in space operations? I beg to differ. The Space Center is a museum, but NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is in Huntsville. Von Braun and his team developed the Saturn rockets here. There is still a ton of work being done here for the space program.
Aren’t they working on plasma drives at Marshall? The video sounds cool; have to look when I get home.
You beat me to it, Skipper.
That video looks to be several weeks old. They’ve finished moving the real Saturn V into the the building now, which is all glass on one side, so there’s a nice view of it when you drive by on I-565, with the full-scale upright model standing right beside it.
Here’s a vid of a 70% scale plane with a single 1000cc engine.
That must be the largest ‘commercial’ RC craft. Here’s the biggest of them all.
Nope…
Well, I meant no disrespect to your fine community, but even though I was using “Huntsville” in my post as a synonym for the Rocket Center, in the broader sense, IIRC, the space facilities and industries in the Huntsville area do not directly participate, as KSC and Houston do, in launching or controlling space missions. That’s how I was using the term “space operations.”
Yeah, you make them and test them, but you don’t fly them.