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- From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Making Orbit 93 - The Delta Clipper Program
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:56:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <20004@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- Regarding my posting in which I related the Delta Clipper landing sequence
- as:
- 1) start engines
- 2) flip to base-first attitude
-
-
- > Larry Wall writes:
- > How do they guarantee they don't get upside-down-spraycan syndrome?
-
-
-
- I checked my notes again, and the notes give the start engines, then flip
- sequence. It is possible that I misheard the speaker (Gaubatz from McDonnell
- Douglas). I expect the most likely explanation is that I have
- mis-interpreted the sequence. An alternate possibility is that the "engines"
- started are the RCS thrusters, which run on gaseous hydrogen and gaseous
- oxygen.
- --
- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
-