If you are into space, and Blue Origin, I thought you might find this interesting. Also interesting if interested in moving big things.
Last week, this "vessel" arrived in the Huron River in Huron, Ohio. (Pictures lifted off FB)
The vessel is a barge pushed by a tug boat. That is five, 40ft shipping containers stacked double high on each side. The ends are capped by what appears to be a roll-up garage door on each side. The whole area is then covered by some sort of plastic/fiberglass roof. The second tug boat is pushing a second barge that has the crane onboard.
Days later, what came out was these two "buildings", but each building is its own trailer.
What I understand is that these contain blue origin engines to be tested at the local NASA Glenn Research Center.
Road closures were announced for today and yesterday to move these to the test facility. I pulled these pics and videos off FB:
FB Video #1
FB Video #2
This is the roughly 10 mile journey they will be making via road. It's my understanding that the barge departed from Port Canaveral, FL.
Cool!
However, based on your title, I was certain that large pieces of space junk had crashed to Earth in your backyard.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
I guess they call that "click bait." As much as I hate that style myself, I guess I too have been exposed to so much that I'm doing it subconsciously.
I am impressed with the ingenuity of the shipping company. They built a modular building that is ~ 200' long, 17' wide and has an interior width of ~35' out of 20 used containers which probably cost ~$4k ea. Sure there is some other bits but shipping containers have great structural capabilities.
Thanks for the share.
How many trees did they need to cut down ?
When the Space shuttle was moved from near LAX airport to the Space museum near USC , they did not take the wings off the Shuttle (if that was even possible) and they cut down hundreds of trees along the way so they had a wide enough path.
In reply to John Welsh :
I'm a bit surprised they didn't bring the engines over to Stennis for testing, since it seems like a much shorter trip.
I was invited to bid on a platform and room assembly inside the wind tunnel at that research station. When i saw the engineers had tolerances of 1/16" and they wanted it built with framing lumber, I declined.
Hopefully those pieces don't come to your town by falling out of the sky! :)
