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- From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
- Subject: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2
- In-Reply-To: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of Wed, 23 Dec 92 02:22:37 GMT
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- Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:31:28 GMT
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- On Wed, 23 Dec 92 02:22:37 GMT, dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) said:
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- >NO SHUTTLE GROUND LAUNCHES WERE SECRET. LAUNCHES FROM A 747, AT
- >35,000 FEET OR SO, WOULD *NOT* BE EASY TO SEE.
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- Dean> Right, they would be IMPOSSIBLE to see, since NO such capability exists.
-
- Er, Dean, we did launch the Enterprise from the 747 at altitude.
- It was quite easy to see, too. I saw it all five times.
-
- Having come into this in the middle, maybe I'm misunderstanding what
- CAPS LOCK means by launch. If it's launching in the sense of going
- to orbit, you're quite correct; no such capability exists. There's
- no 747 in the world that can carry the Shuttle with the external
- tank and SRBs. The empty Shuttle is nicely within the 747's capacity,
- but adding any of the rest of the stack would exceed it.
-
-
- --
- Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
- shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov Of course I don't speak for NASA
- "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all." Unknown US fighter pilot
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