Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!genbank!agate!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!erci18
From: erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: How do they get it pointing up?
Message-ID: <1146@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Nov 89 14:57:20 GMT
Reply-To: erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
Lines: 15


	I was sitting with my SO watching a programme which included some
shuttle footage when my SO turned and asked me "How do they get it
pointing up for launch?" I mumbled something about large cranes. Later I
was asked "How do they get it on the back of the 747?" I muutered more
about even bigger cranes and asked why it was that someone with an
economics degree was so interested in shuttle mechanics. Anyway to cut a
long story short can anyone provide a better explanation of how you
manipulate something as big as a shuttle?
		Ta,
		  Tony
-- 
Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk

	"If the thunder don't get ya then the lightnin' will."