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Rear Loader Posted: Thu, Apr 3 2008 9:32 AM

This weeks interesting and testing image from the Flight International space archives 

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rapier replied on Thu, Apr 3 2008 10:10 AM

With all due deference to you, Rear Loader ..... but this is a damn delayed-action April Fool's trick ..... :-)

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Rear Loader replied on Thu, Apr 3 2008 4:10 PM

Sorry to disapoint but this is not a late April Fools but a real image i said this would be a testing one keep guessing?

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rapier replied on Thu, Apr 3 2008 7:50 PM

No disappointment, Rear Loader .....

and I was fully aware this is a real image .....

but, unfortunately, my GPNVD is unsuitable for a certain identification ..... :-)

 

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Ground Crew

Just guessing, but is this a test of an anti-satellite or ant-ICBM system?

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Rear Loader replied on Mon, Apr 7 2008 11:09 AM

I can see why you would think that but sadly it is not the correct answer..............keep guessing !

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exo replied on Mon, Apr 7 2008 1:27 PM

Is it the re-entry of the MIR spacestation?
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angvz replied on Mon, Apr 7 2008 8:10 PM

...yes, it's something speeding along...  very high... in lots of pieces... captured with 60's video technology. 

 


 

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Rear Loader replied on Wed, Apr 9 2008 11:14 AM

"This image shows the atmospheric reentry of NASA's Apollo 13 command module capsule on 17 April 1970"

 
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