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- From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: MOL (was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...))
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:14:32 GMT
- Organization: UDSI
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- References: <phfrom.413@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1h2egpINNmk9@mirror.digex.com> <BzMwJK.KKG@zoo.toronto.edu>
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- In article <BzMwJK.KKG@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >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.
- >--
-
-
-
- No, this guy was quite serious. he said that something called "Apollo
- Telescope Mount" was the SOn of MOL. It was my mistaken assumption that
- that meant it had been recycled into the ASTP. Dennis newkirk and i
- have exchanged e-mail on this. I am wondering if he was referring
- to the astronomical section of SKYLAB? he was dead serious about
- this part, i dont think he was having a go with me.
-
- Henry, do you think this was the case? he implied that it had been
- transmorged, but that it still had a lot of MOL-like systems and fixtures.
-
- pat
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