Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Drag chutes for Shuttle braking Message-ID: <1990Apr6.155114.7023@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Apr3.170358.121@utzoo.uucp> <261a51ce.358b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 15:51:14 GMT In article <261a51ce.358b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> mhuang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU ( * * * Hunter * * * ) writes: >>>...possibility that NASA could install a drag chute... >>Already planned. Endeavour will have one, and the rest of the orbiters will >>get it as a retrofit eventually. > >What other improvements are planned for the Endeavour that will be retrofitted >to existing shuttles? ... A bunch of little things, the details of which I don't remember. Better nosewheel steering, I think, and the latest revision of the thermal protection materials. The drag chute was the only really new thing. -- Apollo @ 8yrs: one small step.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Space station @ 8yrs: .| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu