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- From: btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Autoland test cancelled?
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 17:40:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.151601.24638@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> begley%lock.dnet@jesnic.jsc.nasa.gov (Mike Begley) writes:
- >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?
- >
- >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.
-
- They need to test it some time, don't they? How else are they going
- to know how much they can rely on it in an emergency?
-
- >
- >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.
-
- That sounds unrealistically complicated to me. You have to assume in
- planning that one day there will be astronauts who have been on orbit
- long enough that they can't handle a manual landing of the shuttle, but
- that they need to get back down with no other way than the shuttle.
-
- >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! :-)
- >
- >
-
- Brad Banko
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