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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Apollo 8, 9, and 10
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Date: 20 Jul 89 13:49:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: tyg@caen.engin.umich.edu's message of 19 Jul 89 05:03:00 GMT

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... 

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