Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:51

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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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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
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