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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle roll maneuver
Message-ID: <12360@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 5 Nov 89 16:27:34 GMT
References: <1989Oct31.002441.7817@utzoo.uucp> <1758@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <17825@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <17825@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) writes:
> Not to mention the fact that if they turned the whole assembly around on
> the pad, all those news people's cameras would have a wonderful view of
> the back of the ET.  Not nearly as impressive as the view of the the
> orbiter along with the roll maneuver.  I'm not suggesting this was a
> factor in the decision of orbiter placement on the pad

Nah -- did you watch the first shuttle launch?  Poor Dan Rather was
so confused about the orbiter attitude, including when it's in orbit.
``You mean it's flying upside down?  The whole time?''  He kept finding
different ways to repeat the same question; he couldn't seem to grasp
that in orbit, the crew didn't really notice being ``upside down''...