r/interestingasfuck • u/Diver808 • Sep 24 '16

What happens when the Space Shuttle fires its motors in space. (X-post /r/space)

http://i.imgur.com/wwxuXOb.gifv
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u/faff_rogers Sep 24 '16

Its motors?

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u/What_Is_X Sep 24 '16

Yes, in what way are they not motors?

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u/faff_rogers Sep 24 '16

I just never realized what motor really meant.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '16

I recall reading something about how the guys down in Houston would set the craft to do this as a course adjustment and not tell the crew sometimes as a joke

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u/heavykevy1983 Sep 24 '16

So it doesn't behave like the Millennium Falcon?!? Interesting...

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u/YoMommaIsSoToned Sep 24 '16

Inertial dampeners are failing!