home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
- From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Message-ID: <By31np.F2q.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- X-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest
- Sender: news+@cs.cmu.edu
- Organization: [via International Space University]
- Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:16:06 GMT
- Approved: bboard-news_gateway
- Lines: 18
-
- > That means all it needs for the second launch is to be re-fueled.
- >
-
-
- Well, I'll pick a rather important nit: No pilot in their right mind
- gets behind the wheel/stick without doing a careful walkaround
- pre-flight. I expect that an operational DC1 vehicle will put the
- pilot back into the loop in a way they never were or could be on the
- Shuttle. With aviation style operations and complexity comes aviation
- style checklists and hands on pilot responsibility. And a hearty amen
- to that, brother.
-
- a former almost-pilot
- priced out of the air
- by lawyers and bureaucrats,
-
- Dale Amon
-
-