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Article #6100Boat vs. 747 (was Re^2: Hawaii as a launching site)
From: Steve Jay
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 05:05
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 05:05
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carl@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu (Captain Carl) writes: > Just exactly how feasable would that be, putting the Shuttle on a Boat > to send across the ocean. Compared to putting it on the back of a 747, you think a boat sounds infeasible!!?? I suspect the first person to suggest that a 747 could carry a shuttle on its back got some mighty strange looks. A boat sounds eminently reasonable. Anyone know the history of how NASA came up with the idea of using the 747? Even as a logical extension of a bomber carrying an experimental plane (B29 & X1, B52 & X15, etc.), it must have sounded pretty outlandish. Steve Jay Ultra Network Technologies Domain: shj@ultra.com 101 Dagget Drive Internet: ultra!shj@ames.arc.nasa.gov San Jose, CA 95134 uucp: ...ames!ultra!shj (408) 922-0100
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ultra!shj From: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Boat vs. 747 (was Re^2: Hawaii as a launching site) Message-ID: <1989Dec21.050541.293@ultra.com> Date: 21 Dec 89 05:05:41 GMT References: <IA80024.89352200552@MAINE.BITNET> <3831@orion.cf.uci.edu> <9222@elsie.UUCP> <771@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> Organization: Ultra Network Technologies Lines: 18