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From: jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Computer Controlled Landing?
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.210230.8265@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 02:02:30 GMT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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Here's an interesting though for this thread :

What if, instead of using an intelligent stand alone computer, you used a
computerized fly by wire flight system that could, in an emergency, be flown
from the ground via computer link.  You could use a preprogrammed re-entry
program (due to the ionization radio blackout) for reentry and pick it up
from there.  I don't think it would not be hard to hook a shuttle simulator to
a computer uplink and attach that to the shuttle's flight systems.

Any thoughts ?

- Jonathan
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