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From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: A slightly silly thought
Message-ID: <4093@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 9 Nov 90 03:04:38 GMT
References: <1759@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN
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In article <1759@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> francis@cs.adelaide.edu.au writes:
 >
 >This must have occured to someone before but...
 >
 >If the shuttle has to abort its launch and land 
 >on the other side of the Atlantic, does it qualify for
 >the Trans-Atlantic speed record?
 >
 >I suspect that a short venture into space is what would disqualify
 >such a flight.

Most records don't allow parts of the vehicle to be jettisoned
during the flight.  The shuttle tosses-away quite a bit of
stuff.  I don't know if entering space would disqualify the
record, but they certainly would have a separate category for
airborne flight, and ballistic flight.
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