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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:51:07 GMT
- References: <1h3059INNq8n@news.cerf.net> <1992Dec23.022237.25606@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <SHAFER.92Dec23213122@ra.dfrf.nasa.gov> <72440@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <72440@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
- >>...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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Brian and Mary are talking about two different things. The 747 can, and
- occasionally does, carry an orbiter with a payload in the payload bay.
- Conceivably it might be able to carry one with a full load of consumables,
- although I'd want to check numbers before I started hoisting. It most
- definitely *cannot* carry an orbiter plus even an empty external tank,
- never mind a *full* external tank.
- --
- "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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