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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!tombaker
- From: tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker)
- Subject: Re: MOL (was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...))
- Message-ID: <Bzp1w6.D3y@world.std.com>
- Organization: Me, at The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <phfrom.413@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1h2egpINNmk9@mirror.digex.com> <BzMwJK.KKG@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:02:29 GMT
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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.
-
- The very first MOL flight (and only one, if I recall correctly)
- was basically a test of the Titan III, on its way to being man-rated.
- (Does anyone remember if the strap-ons were solids?) The MOL was a
- mock-up, just a cylinder the right size and shape. The Gemini capsule
- was a donation to the Air Force from NASA, the former "Gemini 2"
- capsule that had flown unmanned.
-
- I think it all orbited for a few days before burning on reentry. Yes,
- it was certainly unmanned.
-
- tombaker
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