Re: I thinI see our problem. (Was Re: Terminal Velocity of

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:08

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In article <72335@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
>>Do you have any idea how many DC-3s are still flying?  After 50
>>years?
>
>        How many Mercury or Vostok are still flying?

Vostok-derived unmanned return capsules *are* still flying.  (And apart
from modest changes in upper stages, the boosters that launch them --
also Soyuz, Progress, etc etc etc -- are the same type that launched
Sputnik.)
-- 
"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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Subject: Re: I thinI see our problem. (Was Re: Terminal Velocity of
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