Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 09/13/89 -a question-(Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.161649.29424@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <31816@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <21679@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 16:16:49 GMT

In article <21679@sequent.UUCP> cliffw@crg1.UUCP (Cliff White) writes:
>Please pardon a (possibly) stupid question-but why is the crew practicing
>tank driving? How does this relate to space work?

Emergency escape procedures for things like pad fires involve going down
slide wires from the tower and then piling into an armored personnel
carrier -- not technically a tank but close enough for the media -- and
driving away.
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