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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Trivia quiz - answers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.190747.29554@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> <C01FHu.Jsu@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:07:47 GMT
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- >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...
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- >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!)
-
- I vaguely remember some of the Mercury launches and many of the Gemini
- launches...I thought Apollo VI never flew, due to a fire in the CM that
- unfortunately killed 3. And, I don't remember an Apollo IV. Oh well...
- (I was born 11/59)
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- -JTT
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