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From: skywalker@dino.qci.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu (Timothy B. Reynolds)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Throttle up to 104%
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Date: 4 Jun 90 19:37:21 GMT
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Organization: X-Ray Crystallography / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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On all the shuttle flights @ around 50 + MET into
the flight, Houston gives the command to go at throttle up
to 104%. My question is how can you throttle up past 100% ???
ALso what is MAX-Q

Someone please explain....
 
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     Timothy B. Reynolds               :             VAX Systems Manager
Howard Hughes Medical Institute        :         Structural Biology Laboratory
  Baylor College of Medicine           :               Houston, Texas
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