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Re: Atlantis is home!

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From: shafer
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 14:56
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In article <4453@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:

> In article <9090001@hp-lsd.HP.COM> paulc@hp-lsd.HP.COM (Paul Carroll) writes:

>  }By the way, can anyone inform me as to why there are 2 sonic
>  }booms, and not just one, from the shuttle?  ...

>   One from the Shuttle, one from the chase plane.

There are no chase planes, since the Shuttle is "operational."  I don't think
the chases were supersonic anyway.  I've loaned my SETP proceedings with
the paper about chasing the Shuttle.  When it comes back, I'll let you
know.

One boom is from the nose, one is from the wings.
--

M F Shafer
NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility
shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov or shafer@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov

NASA management doesn't know what I'm doing and I don't know what they're
doing, and everybody's happy this way.
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Subject: Re: Atlantis is home!
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Date: 18 May 89 14:56:35 GMT
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