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There are other photos by other photographers of these same rooms -- http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-space-shuttle-program/100045/#im

There are other photos by other photographers of these same rooms -- http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-space-shuttle-program/100045/#img13 http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-s... Edit: Same room at the other launch pad, 39A vs 39B. Both had identical blast rooms per the article.

jstanley 14y ago
Looking at those just makes me even more suspicious. Compare http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptunasii_rubberroom-9330.jpg http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptu... to http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d15_20104664.jpg http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d1... Perhaps things were repainted, but then why does the handle on the door work in the opposite direction? EDIT: Also, the "emergency egress route" has changed direction? In the Atlantic image, it is pointing "up" the door, indicating that people walk through it towards the camera (when the door is closed). In the Scriptunas image, it points to the left, which doesn't even make sense when the door is closed.
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- majormajor 14y ago
  My reading is that when the door's closed you don't need the sign at all since if you can see it, you're already in the blast room. The left-pointing arrow seems like the better way to do it to me, when viewing the open door from the hall (though either is probably perfectly clear). The two sites being built by different contractors seems enough to cover the differences in painting/finishing touches (unless there's a standard open/close direction for vault doors, I wouldn't know :) ). But then, "raytraced" never occured to me looking at the photos, just "taken by an actual good camera, not a phone, with a fast lens so that it can take good indoors photos without flash."
- DanBC 14y ago
  Those are different doors. Thus, one one door the emergency egress is "open this door and keep going" and on the other is "go left, through this door which is already open". As for the door locking or opening by spinning the wheel in different directions - one is inside the room looking out, and the other is outside the room looking in.

jstanley 14y ago

Looking at those just makes me even more suspicious. Compare http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptunasii_rubberroom-9330.jpg http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptu... to http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d15_20104664.jpg http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d1... Perhaps things were repainted, but then why does the handle on the door work in the opposite direction? EDIT: Also, the "emergency egress route" has changed direction? In the Atlantic image, it is pointing "up" the door, indicating that people walk through it towards the camera (when the door is closed). In the Scriptunas image, it points to the left, which doesn't even make sense when the door is closed.

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majormajor 14y ago
My reading is that when the door's closed you don't need the sign at all since if you can see it, you're already in the blast room. The left-pointing arrow seems like the better way to do it to me, when viewing the open door from the hall (though either is probably perfectly clear). The two sites being built by different contractors seems enough to cover the differences in painting/finishing touches (unless there's a standard open/close direction for vault doors, I wouldn't know :) ). But then, "raytraced" never occured to me looking at the photos, just "taken by an actual good camera, not a phone, with a fast lens so that it can take good indoors photos without flash."
DanBC 14y ago
Those are different doors. Thus, one one door the emergency egress is "open this door and keep going" and on the other is "go left, through this door which is already open". As for the door locking or opening by spinning the wheel in different directions - one is inside the room looking out, and the other is outside the room looking in.