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| Backyard Ballistics This forum is dedicated to the safe teaching and responsible handling of high and low explosives. You will not find any information on how to make "bombs" or any such device(s) . Backyard ballistics will teach you the science and the art of pyrotechnics and how to manufacture and use explosives/pyrotechnics safely and responsibly. Backyard ballistics is also a haven for rocketry and pneumatic cannons. All information contained within this forum is for educational purposes ONLY. Totse does not accept responsiblity for any incident involving the use of the information contained within this forum. |
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#1
 2003-02-01, 21:16
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Lenin 
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In Response to the Rocket Fuel Post.
I know I know....You can lock this if you want. I was going to post something and when I hit post the thread was locked.Well here is what I was going to say.
Flaming only happens to people who are ignorant and childish. Everyone else is fine.Its just when you are annoying to the community you get annoyed people.And to be more precise it is Chemistry, Not science.
"all i asked is what is space shuttle fuel made up of, you can answer or not, dont flame"
Even though your spelling and grammar are still horrible in this poor excuse for a sentence, I will say that you could easily search for this in 2 seconds.Now you have given yourself and myself a couple of worthless posts.Thanks alot buddy.
(In response for "what kind of fuel does a space shuttle use?") It depends on what you mean by "space shuttle" -- the official name is Space Transportation System (ever wonder what the "STS" stands for in the mission names?). For launch the STS uses 2 systems: the main engines in the orbiter that burn hydrogen and oxygen from the external tank (the great big orange cylinder that the orbiter is attached to for launch); and the SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters) that burn a solid rocket propellant that is a mixture of powdered aluminum and ammonium perchlorate. These are used only for launch. The orbiter (what most people think of as "the Space Shuttle") has two propulsion systems: OMS (Orbital Maneuvering System) used to change orbit and to return to earth, and the RCS (Reaction Control System) used for station- keeping and attitude control. Both systems burn hydrazine with oxygen.
after 2 seconds of searching on yahoo I found this. http://newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1995/environ/ENV165.HTM
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#2
 2003-02-01, 21:18
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DavidThePyro 
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Re: In Response to the Rocket Fuel Post.
Yeah, here's what I was about to post when someone locked it (thanks to copy-paste): " Can it you two, that arguing is going nowhere.
What I know: The shuttle uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the 3 main engines, they use a ammonium perchlorate + Al propellant in the solid boosters. The thrusters (which are small rockets in the orbiter used to point it the right way) use a 2 part hypergolic (the parts ignite on contact) fuel, one part of that is hydrazine, which is toxic. "
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#3
 2003-02-01, 22:32
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Rat_Bastard 
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Re: In Response to the Rocket Fuel Post.
Also remember this was just the space shuttle vehicle, the solid "rockets" were only used during takeoff not re-entry.
Anyways, this is just grounds for flaming, so end topic.
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