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- From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
- Subject: Re: MOL (was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.193331.7528@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- References: <phfrom.413@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1h2egpINNmk9@mirror.digex.com> <BzMwJK.KKG@zoo.toronto.edu> <Bzp1w6.D3y@world.std.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:32:34 GMT
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- In article <Bzp1w6.D3y@world.std.com>, tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker) writes...
- >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.
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- Apart from the Gemini B capsule and the dummy MOL, it was an otherwise standard
- Titan 3C (which was designed for man rating, btw). The dummy MOL served as a
- payload shroud for a group of satellites that were deployed after the Gemini
- had been sent on it's reentry course.
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- gary
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