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From: brody@eos.UUCP (Adam R. Brody)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Liftoff Question
Message-ID: <7269@eos.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 21:59:23 GMT
References: <36104@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <SHAFER.90Sep14154432@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <7082@alvin.mcnc.org> <1990Sep16.012312.9303@chinet.chi.il.us> <37261@ut-emx>
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clyde@emx.utexas.edu (Clyde W. Hoover) writes:
>2. The Saturn V did perform a 'roll' manuever after launch - but being a
>   symmetric vechile, did not actually have to rotate.  The Shuttle is not
>   symmetric, and thusly has to rotate around the X (I think that's the right
>   one) axis to achive the proper azimuth.

>	-Clyde Hoover
How does one perform a roll without actually rotating?