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From: jpainter@tjp.East.Sun.COM (John Painter - Sun BOS Hardware)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing anomaly
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Date: 21 Aug 89 22:49:59 GMT
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>> On the video of the landing I saw on the news that night, I did not notice
>> if the nose was high, but I thought that the nose wheel hit unusually hard.
>> Maybe they had a hard time getting the nose down and over-corrected.
>> Anybody else notice anything?
>> -=-
>> Hal McMillan                          |    
>> mcmillan@cis.ohio-state.edu           |   "Open the pod bay doors, HAL".
>> CompuServe 72627,642                  |

Remember that the DOD has avolume in the nose of the shuttle that *WE*
aren't supposed to question/know the contents of.  perhaps the alternate
payload stored here was heavy.  

Any photometrics people care to make a prediction?


/Tjp 
-disclaimer (It's not my fault. ... (Hans Solo ... The Empire Strikes Back)