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Article #3741Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2
From: Brian Stuart Thorn
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:41
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:41
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>From my recolection, the Moonraker story was that one of the shuttles that
>the criminal wanted to used needed replaced, so they stole the shuttle from
>the ferry 747 by igniting the engines, but they didn't go into space, just
>to where he was going to launch the other 5 shuttles of people. Was part
>of this crazy story about going into space too???
>
>Vic Canacci, Sverdrup Tech., NASA Lewis Cleveland
Well, the 'Moonraker' did not go into space, but it sure could have
with the amount of energy it expended. The Shuttle was being ferried
from the U.S. to the U.K. Unless it was taking the scenic route, it
was flying across the North Atlantic. Then it ended up in Brazil,
about half a world away.
-Brian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!BrianT From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2 Message-ID: <72669@cup.portal.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 20:41:27 PST Organization: The Portal System (TM) References: <1h3059INNq8n@news.cerf.net> <72440@cup.portal.com> <30DEC199208331121@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> Lines: 21