Shuttle Manual

[Clausius2]

Anybody knows where can I download the Space Shuttle Reference Manual in PDF version?.

Any helps welcomed.

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The Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Forum might give you better replies.

[Nenad]

try google

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Search the NASA site, I remember some general info on the JPL
site too.

Be careful man, the SS has many alarm systems and there're
few buyers to take it off you hands... :wink: :biggrin:

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Be careful man, the SS has many alarm systems and there're
few buyers to take it off you hands... :wink: :biggrin:

I wonder what the bluebook value of a slightly used (~100,000,000 km) but totally overhauled, early 80s model shuttle orbiter is. :tongue2:

[Clausius2]

try google

What a brainwave!!. But it was the first thing I did. It only showed me some sites with an online manual, and I would want to have it in paper.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

[red_fox77]

Got a copy of the payload canister system, but hardcopy only.

[Clausius2]

Thanks for your reply, but I think I'm going to keep on searching the complete one.

[cepheid]

Honest question here...is this sort of information on the space shuttle really so widely available to just anybody ? I mean, sure it's not new technology. But if I can't find out the specs on a fighter jet (I'm assuming and hoping fervently that one can't), why should I be able to for the space shuttle?

[Clausius2]

Arianespace post in their web the user's manual for Soyuz/TM and Ariane rockets, with a lot of technical information free to download. This kind of information is available depending on the politeness of the company. Perhaps in Europe we are less rude than NASA' secrets.

[enigma]

Boeing and Lockheed both have payload planner's guides available online for the Delta 4-Heavy and Atlas-5 respectively. I think NASA may have pulled theirs because the Shuttle's future isn't known yet.

I have looked extensively over the last year and the best I found was the 1988 News Reference Manual (http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsref-toc.html) online. It's not .pdf, but it does have a good deal of information.

[Clausius2]

Thank you, sir.

[red_fox77]

But if I can't find out the specs on a fighter jet (I'm assuming and hoping fervently that one can't), why should I be able to for the space shuttle?

Depends. Some of the older jets like the F-16 you can learn the specs, but it depends on the spec. Max range/speed, stealth, things like that are still classified. But you can, if you have a reason to know (like you are designing a widget to attach to the jet) be givin the specs.