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- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (david michelson)
- Subject: Re: is this the 50th space shuttle launch?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.200320.8885@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <BuDHzK.6q8@unx.sas.com> <phfrom.283@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <564@rml.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:03:20 GMT
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- In article <564@rml.UUCP>, Jack Hagerty writes:
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- >GT-6 was originally an Agena rendezvous mission that was aborted
- >at T+1 seconds due to an umbilical that came out early (auto shutdown
- >after engine start). It took nerves of steel on the part of Tom
- >Stafford not to hit the ejection button while sitting on top of
- >all those hpergolic propellants!
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- > Jack
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- Actually, Wally Schirra was command pilot, not Tom Stafford.
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- Also, the correct expression would be "pull the D-ring" not hit
- the ejection button" although the effect is the same!!
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- Dave Michelson
- davem@ee.ubc.ca
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