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From: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fire near tail of shuttle after landings.
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.043427.7687@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 04:34:27 GMT
Reply-To: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
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In infra-red, the Shuttle after landing *does* look like an overworked
Soviet tractor (tile heat and APU exhaust, I guess). Since night landings
are becoming common, TV coverage includes a lot of IR images. Perhaps
that's what you saw.
-- 
Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department
Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu    Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu