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Article #451Re: Apollo 8, 9, and 10
From: Johnathan Vail
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 13:49
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 13:49
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In article <4481acbf.b097@shadow.engin.umich.edu> tyg@caen.engin.umich.edu (Tom Galloway) writes: The last was probably a good thing. I remember as a kid thinking that if I was on 10's flight, I would have gotten some printouts before leaving of what information would be needed to land and revendevous later, and gone ahead and landed. So what if I would've been court-martialed....Just imagine what the temptation would have been like if a landing and return had been possible. I remember a documentary about the X-15. There was one pilot that with just a little more pressure on the stick could have been the first into space. He followed the mission and didn't do it. Of course on later a mission a pilot died when his plane re-entered backwards... ____//| O \\| _____ | | Johnathan Vail | tegra!N1DXG@ulowell.edu |Tegra| (508) 663-7435 | N1DXG@145.110-,145.270-,444.2+,448.625- -----
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