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  • Offline Pete

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Discovery
on: March 04, 2011, 19:21:57 PM
Discovery is on her last flight out into space.


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Key Facts:
- f**king awesome
- 0-60mph in 7.9 seconds
- 17500 miles per hour top speed
- 143 million miles on the clock
- Launch Weight: 2million kg
- 2.2million kgs of thrust from the 2 SRBs
- 450,000 kgs of thrust from the 3 main engines
- First registered 1983
- 1 careful owner
- 39 missions




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Re: Discovery
Reply #1 on: March 04, 2011, 19:58:47 PM
They are all due to have their final flights this year arent they? before being retired & replacement isnt out for a good few years.
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Re: Discovery
Reply #2 on: March 04, 2011, 20:00:18 PM
Would've thought they'd have cleaned it first :disappointed:
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Re: Discovery
Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 20:06:31 PM
What... a... machine!

Id kill for a go in it, despite the poor 0-60 lol
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Re: Discovery
Reply #4 on: March 05, 2011, 03:07:01 AM
 It's like we took a step up the ladder but chickened out.
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Re: Discovery
Reply #5 on: March 05, 2011, 05:52:17 AM
Good way to sell a car that is quicker 0-60 than 7.9

"Hey, my car will outperform the Discovery spaceship 0-60"
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Re: Discovery
Reply #6 on: March 28, 2011, 05:26:29 AM
I still think the Top Gear Reliant version was better!  ;D
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Reply #7 on: March 28, 2011, 14:34:48 PM
Quote from: Serious on March 28, 2011, 05:26:29 AM
I still think the Top Gear Reliant version was better!  ;D

I would love to know if that would have worked if the explosive bolts had fired
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