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Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:21 am

It's the same story but with a little twist. The story goes that the oxygen tank landed on a jackrabbit and we were fined for killing the wildlife and littering.

I just think its funny because they 1. picked the only animal that doesn't exist and 2. the only jackrabbit for miles and a big oxygen tank falls out of the sky and lands on him. Hasn't anybody else heard this story?

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:42 am

Oh, but of course i have heard that one.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:09 am

Figures. I knew somebody had to have heard it. That or I just made it up randomly in my head and decided it was a memory.

Who · Post by **Who** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:06 am

Soccer wrote:regarding the saturn V - I'm not sure if this is true or not, but the story I always heard was that the Sprocket center "stole" it from the smithsonian or NASA... Basically, NASA or the Smithsonian (I don't remember which one lent it to the USSRC) asked for it back, and so the USSRC said they needed trailers to move them. While the trailers were being built, the USSRC went off and had the Saturn V site declared a national landmark. When the trailers were completed, the USSRC said "whoops, sorry, you can't have that back now, because it's a national historic landmark now."
But that's just the story I remember hearing.

The Saturn V is not lent to the USSRC, it OWNS it! Everything you have heard about the Smithsonian is all BS for drama. In reality, Von Braun wanted to created a place where the public could see everything that the space program is doing and the Marshall Space Flight Centers *test* Saturn V was going to be the center piece of the museum.

The reason the Saturn V is a historical monument is that it is the only Saturn V that is made to completely fit together, the rocket was made all at the same time. The other two at Kennendy and Johnson are made of the left over pieces from cancelled Apollos 18, 19 and 20.

Please, if you have any doubts in (anyone) your stories, such as "I can't confirm this", then look it up! Google, Wikipedia, library, whatever.

Reference Artical -- >http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004- ... cket_x.htm

MAYTAG · Post by **MAYTAG** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:51 am

WHAT??????? you dont know the jackrabbit story????????

ahhhhh

well here it goes the story is that the australians fined the us government for killing a jackrabbit after that piece of debris fell onto one

as far as i remember that was all of the story

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:00 pm

Wait... you're telling me

a) The jackrabbit story isn't true?

and

b) The Smithsonian story isn't true?

GAAAAAAAA! Talk about trauma. I've been believing those stories for years. Why the bleep did they lie to me for so many years?

MAYTAG · Post by **MAYTAG** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:48 pm

it's all right things happen your fragile psyche will mend eventually

rycho626 · Post by **rycho626** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:41 pm

ha that jack rabbit story is almost as bad as the story of that guy who charged the Soviet Union for trespassing everytime Sputnik went over his airspace

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:48 am

I never heard that one, rycho.

CampGirlKelly · Post by **CampGirlKelly** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:40 pm

I have to share your disappointment at learning that the jackrabbit story is false! One of my fondest memories of ASA was my team mocking the Aust. and the jackrabbit story.. I even have a picture of a magnetic orbiter landing nose down on a rabbit somebody had drawn on a dry erase board! I know it is not exactly the way the story went, but it was the closest we could get to an O2 tank

Don't hang up your dancing slippers

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:04 pm

I most have missed this discussion on the SR-71/ A-12. I just found out that it is missed labeled.

des · Post by **des** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:59 pm

All this has been fun and I missed the initial post so I read thru everything.

I also remember the flashing temp (I am going to the two worse places in the summer this year-- St. Louis Mo. and Huntsville Ala. July and Aug respectively).

They have urinals in the girl's room, as in the future....

(Yes, I do imagine it is a flexibility in plumbing issue and not "our flexibility, so to speak.) I don't remember this btw.

Oh boy talk about urban myths and the jackrabbit. Remember the one about the Soviets were *really* worried about the Shuttle. As it happens the shuttle's payload bay is exactly big enough to house the old Mir station. That part might be true but getting it in there would be quite a feat!!

--des

1MileCrash · Post by **1MileCrash** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:21 pm

coffeediver wrote:
It is an A-12. The A-12 "Oxcart" is a CIA project and the parent of the SR-71 "Blackbird". The A-12 was deleloved out of a need by the CIA for high altitude, high speed recon in much the same way as the U-2/TR-1. Both are children of Lockheed's infamous "Skunk Works" and interestingly enough were developed around the same time.

don't forget that it was also the precursor to the YF-12 project which never went through.