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From: pgt@hpfipgt.HP.COM (Paul Tobin)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: How do they get it pointing up?
Message-ID: <19500001@hpfipgt.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 19:47:46 GMT
References: <1146@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: ummmmm  am I where I was yesterday?
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| I assume that one of the reasons that shuttle's engines start before the
| solid boosters is to help counteract the tendency of the whole thing to
| fall on the orbiter's back?

I think you're right.  Without the shuttle's engines, the weight of
the orbiter would pull the whole works over on it's side after
lift-off.

> -- 
> A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
> megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Great signature!  I know plenty of people in other groups who could
learn alot from this.

	Paul