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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: MOL (was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...))
- Message-ID: <BzMwJK.KKG@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:11:40 GMT
- References: <h0l2prg@rpi.edu> <ewright.724543661@convex.convex.com> <phfrom.413@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1h2egpINNmk9@mirror.digex.com>
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- In article <1h2egpINNmk9@mirror.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
- >>>You heard wrong. One MOL flew (unmanned).
- >>Could somebody provide data ?
- >
- >According to a friend of mine who was a MOL engineer. One MOL flew
- >Manned. only it was called ASTP.
-
- He's pulling your leg. ASTP involved one Apollo, one Soyuz, and a docking
- module. The docking module might perhaps have inherited a bit of technology
- from MOL, but no way was it a MOL. For one thing, it was a fraction of the
- size.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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