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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!torn!utzoo!henry
  3. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  4. Subject: Re: I thinI see our problem. (Was Re: Terminal Velocity of
  5. Message-ID: <Bzr2DG.5HC@zoo.toronto.edu>
  6. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:08:02 GMT
  7. References: <1gt36dINNq3h@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec20.195520.3587@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725060424@convex.convex.com> <!jt240c@rpi.edu> <ewright.725129915@convex.convex.com> <72335@cup.portal.com>
  8. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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  11. In article <72335@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
  12. >>Do you have any idea how many DC-3s are still flying?  After 50
  13. >>years?
  14. >
  15. >        How many Mercury or Vostok are still flying?
  16.  
  17. Vostok-derived unmanned return capsules *are* still flying.  (And apart
  18. from modest changes in upper stages, the boosters that launch them --
  19. also Soyuz, Progress, etc etc etc -- are the same type that launched
  20. Sputnik.)
  21. -- 
  22. "God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  23.        -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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