+DamhuisClan Posted January 6, 2012 Author Posted January 6, 2012 I'll go for Q8, since I worked there for a while.
+cincol Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 I'll go for Q8, since I worked there for a while. Cold
+VryBurgers Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 A South African secret weapon program to do with radar perhaps?
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 A large scale industrial complex construction project in South Africa? Mining related?
+cincol Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Gotta be military related. But what? Breaking the sound barrier.
+Wazat Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Mmmm on the right track... But still not right.
+cincol Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Project to fly higher than normal flight - into stratosphere.
+Wazat Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 You guys have the right direction but what did it involve....
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 Getting the Shuttle back off the ground after the Challenger disaster?
+Wazat Posted January 16, 2012 Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Cincol was in a way on the right track, but not the answer I am looking for. Edited January 16, 2012 by Wazat
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Out of space or stratospheric speed record?
+Wazat Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Well there was a speed record broken during the project....
+VryBurgers Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Chuck Yeager's test flight in the X-1 (or something like that)?
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Fastest speed any man has travelled within the atmosphere - in any vehicle type? Or highest g-force ever on a person?
+Wazat Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Gonna give it to you CH.... Project Excelsior was a series of high-altitude parachute jumps made by Colonel (then Captain) Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1959 and 1960 to test the Beaupre multi-stage parachute system. In one of these jumps Kittinger set world records for the highest parachute jump, the longest parachute drogue fall and the fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere, all of which still stand.
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Wow - that should possibly have been known by someone - I'd never heard of it before. OK - let's keep the space theme - but play a number guessing game. How many flights were there on the Shuttle programe (excluding the 5 atmospheric flights by Enterprise)?
+Wazat Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 133 complete flights if you exclude Challenger and Columbia's disasters. STS or Space transport System is the acronym used for the shuttle program with the numbers been for the flights in a sequential order. There were a few where a letter was added to the end for reflights or certain missions etc, I think there were a few STS-51 flights...... But in total there were 135 launches with two none landings... Not bad for the 30 years program, considering they were grounded for almost 5 years after the two disasters.
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 OK - Wazat and Cincol were both correct - 135 (including the 2 losses) - cincol is travelling - so it is first come first served between these 2 now for the next question.
+Wazat Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 OK taking it away, destroyed in 2002, what was Buran famous for? Space related.
+Discombob Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Was he the designer of the Death Star? Otherwise, is it related to the MIR station?
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 That was the name of the Soviet shuttle wasn't it?
+Wazat Posted January 19, 2012 Posted January 19, 2012 First woman to open a Portuguese Resturant in South Africa ?
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 19, 2012 Posted January 19, 2012 "Portugese" is correct - she was very young however - too young to open a restaurant.
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 Another clue - think of the floods in the Kruger Nationl Park and associated areas.
+Wazat Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Is she not the baby that was born in the tree during the floods in Moz a few years back? And rescued by helicopter along with her mother? Edited January 20, 2012 by Wazat
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 Is she not the baby that was born in the tree during the floods in Moz a few years back? And rescued by helicopter along with her mother? Bingo - you're it
+Wazat Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 What did Steven Sasson invent. clue, in the news lately....
+geocacher_coza Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 What did Steven Sasson invent. clue, in the news lately.... Just watch this on Sky news last night! He invented the first digital camera while working for Kodak.
+Wazat Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Had to be easy that one... Go for it geocacher coza...
+geocacher_coza Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 The GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was built between 1973 and 1974, is a deep-sea oil drillship. What makes this drillship famous and diffirent from the rest of drillshipS built and operated?
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