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- From: begley%lock.dnet@jesnic.jsc.nasa.gov (Mike Begley)
- Subject: Re: Autoland test cancelled?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.151601.24638@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Lockheed Engineering (Houston, TX)
- References: <1992Sep15.130410.21532@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:16:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.130410.21532@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- doane@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Kent Doane) writes:
- >I just heard the Autoland test set for STS-53 has been cancelled. Is this
- true,
- >and if it is, what's the scoop as to why?
- >
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- I have the impression that crew opposition and opposition from
- General Pearson (?) led to its cancellation. The General's
- feelings were that it would be okay for an emergency, but the
- crew should handle any nominal landing, the opposite of what the
- system was designed for.
-
- I also heard a proposition that fresh pilots might be flown up to
- Freedom to fly back an orbiter which had been docked to SSF for
- 90 days. That would involve 2 orbiters in space at the same time.
- This would eliminate the worry of having a pilot who has been in
- wieghtlessness for 3 months have to handle the landing. I suppose
- that in an emergency, an ACRV would have to have ... AUTOLAND! :-)
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