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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Saturn lift capabilities
- Message-ID: <C03BKr.Dt3@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:58:02 GMT
- References: <Bzuvrp.9z9@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec29.175754.24170@samba.oit.unc.edu> <72595@cup.portal.com> <1hsighINNich@mirror.digex.com>
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- In article <1hsighINNich@mirror.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
- > Given the opinion of the science community on ASTP,
- > why didn't we have the ASTP mission meet at Skylab? ...
- > Was skylabs orbit too low in inclination for them to hit it?
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- No, the inclination was pretty much compatible... but Skylab's orbit was
- simply too high for a standard Soyuz to reach. Having a Soyuz dock to
- Skylab (while a US crew was there!) was one of the ideas discussed early
- on in the planning for what became ASTP, but it didn't seem feasible,
- for altitude and other reasons.
- --
- "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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