Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle roll maneuver
Message-ID: <1989Nov7.165609.28387@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12360@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1989Oct31.002441.7817@utzoo.uucp> <1758@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <17825@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <20539@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 16:56:09 GMT

In article <20539@ut-emx.UUCP> clyde@ut-emx.UUCP (Clyde W. Hoover) writes:
>I've seen a picture of one of the Soyuz pads which DOES use a turntable to
>adjust the launch azimuth to obviate the need for a roll manuever...

Long March does the same, with sophisticated high technology :-) to do
the adjustment:  an engineer reading a laser measuring gadget and giving
orders to a few husky soldiers turning big handcranks.
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