Brass band to trumpet last shuttle external tank rollout The last space shuttle external tank rollout will take place later today in New Orleans, as Endeavour's STS-134 mission fuel beast is waved on its way to Florida by "hundreds of handkerchief-waving" Lockheed Martin Space Systems employees. The ceremony, featuring local brass band the Storyville Stompers, marks the end of an …
A saxophone is a woodwind instrument, not brass, despite it's construction materials.
"Woodwind" and "brass" are technical musical terms that should be used in accordance with their technical definitions when in the context of music. Next you'll be complaining that your computer's RAM doesn't bleat!
"Taller than a 15-story building and more than 27 feet in diameter, the external tank absorbs the 7.8 million pounds of thrust of the three space shuttle main engines and solid rocket boosters during a space shuttle launch. It feeds 145,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and 390,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen to the main engines."
Why does it feed 390K gallons, rather than 290K I would expect? (H2O: 145K x 2 = 290K)
Probably something obvious I haven't thought of, right?
I trust this will be a traditonal New Orleans jazz funeral band. I can only think of what they could play, given the occasion. Perhaps "Saint James Infirmary Blues"? Who knows what for the "second line"?
Pint of Dixie Beer, as I'm sure all those laid-off workers will need many of them.
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