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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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  3. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  4. Subject: Re: STS-1 DISASTER/COVERUPy
  5. Message-ID: <C0G325.FoD@zoo.toronto.edu>
  6. Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:22:52 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec15.205959.2845@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Dec19.090259.2203@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <18330@bcars664.bnr.ca> <1993Jan5.234659.7819@ee.ubc.ca>
  8. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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  11. In article <1993Jan5.234659.7819@ee.ubc.ca> davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson) writes:
  12. >>Plus the 747 airframe, crew, and modifications.  One could not expect
  13. >>the carrier aircraft to survive a launch of orbiter from its back.
  14. >
  15. >Even the X-15 didn't light its engine until *after* separation from the
  16. >carrier aircraft.      
  17.  
  18. There are missiles which fly off their launch rails under power, rather
  19. than delaying ignition until after separation.  Admittedly, a delay is
  20. usually considered safer.
  21. -- 
  22. "God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  23.        -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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