Re: Launch views, Tiles & New book on STS

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From: Greg Titus
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 23:50

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In article <1ikjl2INNl6o@ub.d.umn.edu> cpatters@ub.d.umn.edu (Granma) writes:
>Question:  Some years ago, a popular car magazine (Car & Driver?)
>did a "road test" on the RSS.  (ok, it might not have been the
>RSS, but from reading this, my civilian mind figured the RSS might
>just be the "thaang" in question! :-)  The article was really very
>funny.  If anyone out there in net land knows the name of the 
>magazine and the date, please email me.

Can't tell you the year, but it was almost certainly Road & Track.
The April 1st issue frequently contains a road test of some weird
thing or other.  Sometime in the late 70's they tested a Rose Bowl
float.  It had all the standard stuff: acceleration curves, top
speed, turning radius, etc.

greg
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