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From: andre@cix.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of SRB's
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Date: 18 Mar 90 04:32:05 GMT
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>   launch now!) you will here the comment "1 engine PRESTEMCO"
>   and "2 engine PRESTEMCO". These signify the point at which
>   the orbiter could safely make it to a stable orbit (once
>   around or even a full orbit) if 1 or 2 engines failed.

Surely that should read "Press to MECO" ...? Where MECO refers to the
Main Engine Cut Off point? (ie: Shuttle is now high enough to press on to
the normal Main Engine cutoff point with only 2 or 1 engines working -
before that come the various abort landing sites at Kennedy, Africa, etc.)

Perhaps someone could confirm this? Being from the UK I don't get to see
too many shuttle launches ... :-) (Did get to see one, though, when on hols in
Flordia last May. Wow!)

Andre