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- From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 13:19:14 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >Er, Dean, we did launch the Enterprise from the 747 at altitude.
- >It was quite easy to see, too. I saw it all five times.
- >
- >Having come into this in the middle, maybe I'm misunderstanding what
- >CAPS LOCK means by launch. If it's launching in the sense of going
- >to orbit, you're quite correct; no such capability exists. There's
- >no 747 in the world that can carry the Shuttle with the external
- >tank and SRBs. The empty Shuttle is nicely within the 747's capacity,
- >but adding any of the rest of the stack would exceed it.
- >
- >
- >--
- >Mary Shafer
-
- Trust us on this one, Mary... you DON'T want to know.
-
- Actually, a loaded Shuttle is within the 747s capacity too. Witness
- the ferry flight of Columbia from Edwards to KSC after the STS-32
- mission. The LDEF satellite was still in the payload bay.
-
- However the discussion, very weird discussion, that you dropped
- in upon was about lighting the engines on the back of the 747 and
- going into orbit, a'la 'Moonraker'. Suffice it to say that CAPS LOCK
- seems to have trouble differentiating fact from fiction.
-
- -Brian
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