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- From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
- Subject: Re: DC vs Shuttle capabilities
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:18:28 GMT
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- Sorry I'm posting this again, but I missed the answers to these questions
- the last couple of times I posted them. Like I said, my site for some
- reason junks messages in some groups after only a couple of days or so.
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- (And yet talk.bizarre can exceed 450+ new messages with nothing lost :-) Go
- figure!)
-
- Anyway,
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- I had b Could it carry sufficient fuel for a lunar landing plus return
- and landing on Earth? I know one problem might be the placement of an
- airlock for surface EVA's and perhaps the strength of the landing gear on
- rough surfaces. e living area or just the cockput?). I'm assuming that
- the crew seats would be configured vertically to minimiaze G-force effects
- on the crew during launch. Is this correct.
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- Pardon my lack on knowledge on this topic, and I apologize again for
- the repeated posting, but if my site would allow for a user not logging
- on all the time I wouldn't have missed the answers the first time! :-)
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- Simon
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