Beer Truck Incident

I remember seeing a news story on TV about a beer truck
which had been parked very close to one of the Shuttles,
a picture of which was used in an advertisement. There was
concern that a truck could have been allowed to get so close
to the Shuttle and perhaps even touch it. I think this was
about 10 years ago.

Doing Google searches of both web pages and newsgroup
traffic, I couldn't find any documentation of this incident.
(That seems unusual -- normally even the most trivial subject
produces loads of hits and sometimes entire web sites
devoted to it.)

Does anybody else remember this incident? Have a link
to more information about it? Which Shuttle was involved?

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:04:08 GMT, Mark Thorson
wrote:

I remember seeing a news story on TV about a beer truck
which had been parked very close to one of the Shuttles,
a picture of which was used in an advertisement. There was
concern that a truck could have been allowed to get so close
to the Shuttle and perhaps even touch it. I think this was
about 10 years ago.

Doing Google searches of both web pages and newsgroup
traffic, I couldn't find any documentation of this incident.
(That seems unusual -- normally even the most trivial subject
produces loads of hits and sometimes entire web sites
devoted to it.)

Does anybody else remember this incident? Have a link
to more information about it? Which Shuttle was involved?

Remember it? I saw it being done.

Budweiser truck at Dryden, about when the Budweiser-sponsored land
vehicle was trying to break the land speed record. Anyway, the
Orbiter was in Shuttle Area A and the truck got parked near it and the
photo taken. I'm not even sure if the truck was inside the restricted
area, as the photo was taken with a very long lens.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

It could be done much more easily with a couple of images and a good
computer technician using PhotoShop.

Mary Shafer wrote:

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:04:08 GMT, Mark Thorson
wrote:

I remember seeing a news story on TV about a beer truck
which had been parked very close to one of the Shuttles,
a picture of which was used in an advertisement. There was
concern that a truck could have been allowed to get so close
to the Shuttle and perhaps even touch it. I think this was
about 10 years ago.

Doing Google searches of both web pages and newsgroup
traffic, I couldn't find any documentation of this incident.
(That seems unusual -- normally even the most trivial subject
produces loads of hits and sometimes entire web sites
devoted to it.)

Does anybody else remember this incident? Have a link
to more information about it? Which Shuttle was involved?

Remember it? I saw it being done.

Budweiser truck at Dryden, about when the Budweiser-sponsored land
vehicle was trying to break the land speed record. Anyway, the
Orbiter was in Shuttle Area A and the truck got parked near it and the
photo taken. I'm not even sure if the truck was inside the restricted
area, as the photo was taken with a very long lens.

Any chance this was Columbia?

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:57:21 -0500, RDG wrote:

It could be done much more easily with a couple of images and a good
computer technician using PhotoShop.

They did it easily enough just by driving the truck up and snapping
the photo.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:54:57 GMT, Mark Thorson
wrote:

Mary Shafer wrote:

Budweiser truck at Dryden, about when the Budweiser-sponsored land
vehicle was trying to break the land speed record. Anyway, the
Orbiter was in Shuttle Area A and the truck got parked near it and the
photo taken. I'm not even sure if the truck was inside the restricted
area, as the photo was taken with a very long lens.

Any chance this was Columbia?

Probably either Columbia or Enterprise, but don't bet your lunch money
on it.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer