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- From: rkolker@nuchat.sccsi.com (Rich Kolker)
- Subject: Re: Trivia quiz - answers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.042035.20784@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> <C01FHu.Jsu@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:20:35 GMT
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- In article <C01FHu.Jsu@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> oliver@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >>30. How many Saturn V's flew?
- >> Thirteen - Apollos 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Skylab
- >> 1...
- >
- >If you really want to be picky, you can argue that the count was 12.6666...,
- >since the Skylab 1 launcher was only the first two stages of a Saturn V.
- >(The counterargument is that most of the payload was a rebuilt third
- >stage, of course!)
- >--
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- Of course, third stages flew to KSC on a SuperGuppy, so it could be said
- they flew twice! :-)
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