What do You think this is?

Question

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/ventrahighway/whatisitMarsherIvan.jpg

incorrect Mercury2 pls try again

Does it look like the thing shown on Star Trek in this vid.
http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/ventrahighway/?action=view¤t=M4V20020.flv

The photo was adoard one the spaceshuttles run by NASA around the 1997. admittally the image could be better, however it does show reinforcements on the outside of this object suggesting that whatever is inside is held at very low pressures The person who can really answer this question is astro-person Ivan Marshall of NASA. Best answer goes to one who is correct.

Mercury2 is warnest

Answer 1

naw, could it actually be a satellite?
TSS-1R --- I thought it was a microgravity crystal growth chamber but the crew that got to that launched in 1996 and they look like this http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Shuttle/STS-75/media/photo/crew_7.jpg
I guess they like vodka


no clue..... Ivan Marshall doesn't work for nasa.
oh marshall space center


AHAHA!!!
http://quest.nasa.gov/smore/photos/images/gyro1.jpg
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/smore/photos/images/gyro2.jpg
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/smore/photos/images/battery.jpg


could that be it???? I called a gyroscope earlier
but its a gyrodyne .transfered from atlantis to mir in 1997 along with 4 tons of other "shtuff" only to end up crashing into the South Pacific Ocean in March, 2001

http://www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_sovietique/mir/mir%20gyrodyne.JPG

Answer 2

Looks like a blurry picture of a soccer player holding a huge trophy.
The trophy is NOT upright but positioned over on its side.
The silver portion is the "cup" and the portion being held under his arm is the base pedestal of the trophy.

Answer 3

Your family at the craps table and dad is trying to bet grandmas ashes and the urn ..

Answer 4

Some sort of out of this world Sound System :-)