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From: kclenden@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Mate-Demate Facility
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Date: 11 Jan 90 05:08:06 GMT
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In article <675@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>In any case, there's an opportunity here for some alert
>psychologist to do an experiment to test people's understanding
>of engineering principles: ask them how the shuttle is 
>placed on the 747.  It's unlikely that they've seen the
>photo, so they won't =know= how it's done, but it's a 
>=problem= they can understand, having (most likely) seen
>many pictures of the completed result. I myself imagined
>a mobile crane, picking up the shuttle and moving on wheels
>to the 747.


Well, I don't know how they do it, but the shuttle is awfully 
heavy to be carried by a mobile crane.  My guess would be that
a stationary crane, or one that was effectively stationary,
lifts the shuttle up, and then the 747 is moved underneath
the shuttle.  Once this is done, then the crane lowers the
shuttle onto the 747.
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