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Article #6630Re: Saturn lift capabilities
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:58
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:58
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In article <1hsighINNich@mirror.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
> Given the opinion of the science community on ASTP,
> why didn't we have the ASTP mission meet at Skylab? ...
> Was skylabs orbit too low in inclination for them to hit it?
No, the inclination was pretty much compatible... but Skylab's orbit was
simply too high for a standard Soyuz to reach. Having a Soyuz dock to
Skylab (while a US crew was there!) was one of the ideas discussed early
on in the planning for what became ASTP, but it didn't seem feasible,
for altitude and other reasons.
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"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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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Saturn lift capabilities Message-ID: <C03BKr.Dt3@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:58:02 GMT References: <Bzuvrp.9z9@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec29.175754.24170@samba.oit.unc.edu> <72595@cup.portal.com> <1hsighINNich@mirror.digex.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13