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fourfords · 06-03-2015, 01:18 AM

I heard somewhere back in the Apollo days of space flight, one of the many top secret missions into space was to test this theory of "Crank bending". Many scientists agreed that outside the Earth's gravitational pull, the effects were drastically diminished. This of course led to the Skylab project and eventually the International Space Station. Many of the Countries who historically had Ford manufacturing signed on. Since the payload to get a reasonable amount of cranks into space was high, NASA deployed the Space Shuttle to ferry the cranks into space where a cache of cranks currently are stored and unbent for future V8 hobbyist needs. Shortly thereafter as we all know,the Space Shuttle program was retired.

06-03-2015, 01:18 AM	#94
fourfords Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Lake Elsinore, CA. Posts: 414	Re: Gravity bends a crank? I heard somewhere back in the Apollo days of space flight, one of the many top secret missions into space was to test this theory of "Crank bending". Many scientists agreed that outside the Earth's gravitational pull, the effects were drastically diminished. This of course led to the Skylab project and eventually the International Space Station. Many of the Countries who historically had Ford manufacturing signed on. Since the payload to get a reasonable amount of cranks into space was high, NASA deployed the Space Shuttle to ferry the cranks into space where a cache of cranks currently are stored and unbent for future V8 hobbyist needs. Shortly thereafter as we all know,the Space Shuttle program was retired.